My Support Group is Dropping Out, Help!

[lilgop]

Hi Everyone,

I just started my first semester of nursing earlier this year. I'm doing fine. My grades are good, and I feel pretty good about NS so far. I came into NS with quite a few friends. All of us had been through a lot of pre-reqs together. We studied together, and we all made good grades in our pre-reqs.

But now they are not doing so well, and I know some of them will not be able to make it unless they make high 90s on the rest of the tests. I'm really sad, and I don't know what to do with out my study group!

Has anyone had experience with this?

Thanks!

[unicoRNurse]

The two people with whom I quickly became close in my first semester both left the program -- one left during the first semester, and the other didn't come back for second semester. I study independently, so it didn't affect me in that regard, but it was a bummer. After that, I just naturally became closer to other people in the program as I got to know them better, usually by working with them in clinical. If nothing else, nursing school will teach you to adapt. Hang in there.

[LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN]

The two people with whom I quickly became close in my first semester both left the program -- one left during the first semester, and the other didn't come back for second semester. I study independently, so it didn't affect me in that regard, but it was a bummer. After that, I just naturally became closer to other people in the program as I got to know them better, usually by working with them in clinical. If nothing else, nursing school will teach you to adapt. Hang in there.

This.

Similar situation; I had gotten close to the people who were in my first clincials and I ended up completing the program first; two a semester later-we ended up graduating together-and one a year later.

I gotten to know fellow "independent" people who studied, and are close to them as much as my first clinical cohorts.