I wanted to find out if any other students have felt unsupported at university whilst studying nursing or other healthcare degrees?
I was studying a degree as an Operating Department Practitioner with Bournemouth University and was on placement at Southampton General Hospital. I reported what I felt was serious concerns with three surgeons and what I had witnessed. As I had been taught on my degree to do, particularly in my Human Factors lectures which were my favourite, I reported it to my lecturer. I was greeted with silence down the phone and no further action was taken. No investigation. No conversation. Nothing. I was later forced to step off my degree after being stalked and receiving threats to kill my family through my social media which I reported to the police.
Obviously I am not saying the stalking and threats were linked but I felt very disappointed in Bournemouth University and in my own personal opinion it felt like total hypocrisy on their part. Teaching one thing and in reality responding very differently. I found it frightening and I stepped off my degree at the start of the second year losing both financially, emotionally and mentally, not to mention the devastation of finding out what I was being taught was not how I should really respond. It was confusing and left me feeling very vulnerable.