Dismissal - can I go back?

What were the reasons the director gave for failing you? Have you confronted and overcome those things? If not, going back into nursing may not be the best thing to do right now. First take on those issues that caused you to fail in the first place, then if nursing is still your dream go for it. When you speak with nursing programs you wish to attend. Explain what happened previously and what you have done to overcome those weak spots. Good luck.

You really need to talk to the school(s) you would be applying to and find out what their policy is.

What you're talking about is certainly not unheard of, though. Hell, in the LPN program I'm in right now, I'm one of a very, very few students who are in a nursing program for the first time--most of the rest of them failed out of my school's ADN program and were allowed to enter the PN program.

Sweetie you and I are in the same boat. I fail out of two nursing program. One an ADN program and one a BSN program. After failing out of these two programs, I felt like I have no future left, like I was the dumbest girl in the world, that college wasn't for me, like I had a fish brain and didn't have the brains to be anything more than a high school graduate. I was so much ashamed of myself that I didn't tell my family being that education was so important in my culture. I even went as far as not speaking to my family for over a year because I knew they would question me about school and I would have to lie to them about it. So instead I just distanced myself completely from the entire family. All because of SHAME. A friend of my told me about the LPN program and at first I looked down on it like "me an LPN?, NEVER." But eventually I thought about it and went for it anyway. Throughout the program I got nothing but A's and B's. I was one of the top students in the program. And I would say to myself "wow, I have a brain afterall." I felt good about myself again. Passed the NCLEX-PN on the first try and now I'm an LPN for 6 months now. At least now I know I'm a nurse. Although I'm not an RN, but I'm still a NURSE and going back this fall for my RN with God's help.So please sweetie don't let a dismissal set you back. If its LPN you want to go for.... go for it. Study hard. Even try different study techniques. Use tape recorders if allowed and listen to the lecture over and over again till it clicks. I'm not going to lie to you, even the LPN is hard. If your not on top of your game...it's easy to slip. But the advantage is, you already have a background, you have advantage over most people. Good luck

Your very welcome sweetie. I'm glade my story helped.

It may have been clinicals for some of them, but for most I think it was tests. One of my favorite classmates did get dismissed from our PN program for an incident in clinical this semester, though. My school fails people left and right (in both the ADN and PN programs); I think less than half the nursing students who start the programs end up actually finishing. From reading these forums, that seems to be pretty typical for community college nursing programs; I suspect that's why they usually have the highest NCLEX pass rates.

I'm not trying to scare you or anything, but since I'm watching several of my classmates blowing their second chance as we speak, I just wanted to advise you to approach any PN program you enter with the same diligence and determination that you would apply toward an RN program.