Failed nursing school

mindofmidwifery, ADN · Dec 8, 2015

I'm sorry, that really sucks. Alternatively, I'd go to a community college. Unless your grades are good and you can get accepted into another university?

203bravo, MSN, APRN · Dec 8, 2015

OMG -- sorry -- I'm gutted for you.. hang in there and surely something good will come.

fc89 · Dec 8, 2015

Very devastating when you open up your final grades and realize you have failed your maximum 2 course failure which means you are going bye-bye! Testing in nursing school is nothing related to general testing like A&P or Micro. I learned their ways, I mastered nursing school tests, but it was too late! My first 2 test grades in these 2 courses were terrible! But my last 2 were awesome, unfortunately not awesome enough when final grades were added!
This threw my self-esteem, self-confidence, self-everything out the window! It sucks!
Especially when I have 2 kids, including a 6 year-old who was so proud of her mom being in nursing school she made sure the whole world knew about it!
ENOUGH! Anyone have any ideas or suggestions on applying to other places? Being the first one in the entire family to go to a university really puts a blindfold on me!
Anyone who ever became an RN after failing nursing school?

I became an RN after failing nursing school.

I was attending nursing school in 2011 and failed out by 2 points during my first 2 months. That school was tough and I guess I wasn't prepared for it. Fortunately I had a happy ending....after crying for a whole week, I decided that it wasn't my time to quit. I needed to do something to gain some experience and decided to go to school for my CNA. I worked my butt off as a CNA for and started to apply again. I was rejected from all schools in my first round. The second round was a miracle. I was an alternative for just one of the 4 nursing schools I had apply to the second time. Guess what!? I was accepted! After almost 4 years of the ups and downs, I have become an RN. I graduated in Dec. '14 and took boards in May '15. Passed the NCLEX the first time and here I am now working as an RN â˜º. Everything is possible when you put your mind and efforts to your goal. Don't give up!

TheCommuter, BSN, RN · Dec 8, 2015

One of our frequent posters, LadyFree28, failed out of an associate degree nursing program before returning to another school to complete an LPN program. After working as an LPN for a few years, she completed an LPN-to-BSN program and is now an RN.

NurseEmmy · Dec 8, 2015

It happens. Some are able to recover self esteem wise and try again at another school. Others let if defeat them and give up. Only you can decide your path. Don't worry about being embarrassed or worry about what others think of you. You were accepted which is better than a whole heck of a lot of people who apply. You made an effort and it didn't pan out this time. If it really is your passion than try again at another school. It isn't going to be easy to get accepted, and I would work on study tips/NCLEX question answering in the meantime. Good luck to you whatever you choose. Nursing is not for everyone, but your future in it does not have to stop here.

FL_Nurse92 · Dec 9, 2015

Can you appeal your grades? I have seen appeals go through in instances similar to yours where it took a student a tad too long to figure out how to test as a nursing student. The fact that their grades improved made a case for them. It was not that they didn't know the material, they just weren't good test takers. Also the above posts list great alternatives! CNA school, LPN school, etc.

quiltynurse56, LPN, LVN · Dec 9, 2015

I failed out of nursing school. The last one was the last class for ADN. Yep, that close. Long story there. Anyway, I checked out other schools and was accepted as an advanced placement at another one. Well, there were a lot of family issues going on so I withdrew from the ADN and earned my LPN. I am now working on the ADN.

Hello:) · Dec 9, 2015

My grades were Pharmacology 71

Assessments 70.5

I already sent some e-mails to other community colleges but I'm really hoping UTA can take me in.

Hello:) · Dec 9, 2015

Thank you all for the input! I'm definitely going to keep pushing forward, I have 2 kids that look up to me and I want to show them giving up should never be an option!

CelticGoddess, BSN, RN · Dec 10, 2015

I'm sorry, that really sucks. Alternatively, I'd go to a community college. Unless your grades are good and you can get accepted into another university?

Just want to point out that it was easier for me to get into Uni for nursing school than it was for me to get into a community college program. The only reason I went the cc route was cost. The cc program is much more competitive than some of the university programs.

To the OP: I failed out of nursing school and eventually I did go back. Granted, I had a long break but I did get back. If I had lived in the same community that I do now, I probably would have gone back sooner. But, I did go back and got my ADN. I now have my BSN. It is very doable. Does the program you failed out of have a policy about failures. Like must sit out for x number of years before re-applying/ Check that out.

akulahawkRN, ADN, RN, EMT-P · Dec 10, 2015

I also failed out of nursing school. Since my school has a re-entry policy that covered my situation, I did the steps that I needed to do to keep that option open/alive. By doing so, I was eventually granted a roll-back into another class. I ended up graduating a year after I was originally scheduled to and repeated a couple semesters because the program changed content between my original cohort and my new one. The end result is that I went from a generally OK student to one of the leaders of the new class. I also earned the respect of the faculty as well, having come back from such a blow to being a class leader.

The point is that even though you may be "down" for now, you may actually not be entirely "out." Check your student handbook, do all the required exit interviews and the like and you may be able to appeal the dismissal IF you are able to show that you have a plan that addresses whatever it was that caused you to fail those courses. If you're granted readmission, be fully prepared to repeat entire semesters and do it cheerfully. You'll also be under a microscope if you get there...