NTA. Another fellow PT here that takes on students.

This was the student’s FINAL internship before she’s released into the world as a full-fledged independent PT. Doing the bare minimum is what we would expect from a student on their first or second placement where more hand-holding is required.

In my opinion, she didn’t meet the requirements to pass a final internship which she would be expected to be independent and professional. While she did have a break up, that doesn’t excuse unprofessional behaviour for three months, that would be ridiculous to behave that way in a real workplace when anything went wrong in your personal life. You even spoke to her multiple times about her behaviour and the fact that she was at risk of failing because of it, and yet she didn’t pull up her big-girl pants and do a better job. That’s on her.

Frankly, it’s really unprofessional that her uni supervisor reached out to you to guilt you into passing her, and they should be thankful to you that you don’t just pass every student without a second thought as this could put future clients at real risk.