Nine Month Wait List to retake class

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I failed my Med Surg class with a 78%. Along with 60% of the other students including two other Med Surg classes. In fact so many failed this semester the Nursing department cancelled one of the next level classes to combine due to lack of students. However, because of so many students reapplying for admission I am on a waiting list to retake the Med Surg class for NINE months. Is this normal? Has any one had to wait a long time to retake a Nursing class and if so did you pass?

My instructors tell me I will make a great nurse, I did really well in my clinical, and scored really high on my HESI (the highest in the class), Teas, and all of my prereqs. I am scared that waiting nine months will ensure another failure. I understand nursing school is difficult and that a lot of people don't make it but when is the time to give up?

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I imagine there are a lot of schools that only offer a class once each academic year, so that is probably not out of the norm. I would make the most of this time to go back and study the material on your own. Use different resources, plenty of repetition, any strategy you can think of to get an understanding before the class starts. Best wishes.

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It happened to a student in my class. She failed Med-Surg in the Fall and has to retake it. This coming Spring the class is full and now she has to wait until this Fall to take the class. I don't think this is the time to give up. Just curious...what is the passing score at your school? 80%? If so then you were really close. 9 months is a long time to wait, but use this time to brush up on your skills and study the topics you didn't do so well in.

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Specializes in Emergency / Disaster.

I don't know if you have another school close to you where this could even be an option, but look into being a transient student. Basically you take a course at a neighboring school with permission from both schools. I'm doing A&P this way because its saving me an entire year. My school has a pre-req to A&PI that I would take this semester and then they only offer A&PI during Fall so I would have to wait until Spring to take A&P2. The way I have it now - I'm taking A&PI at the other school and I'll take A&P2 this summer at my school. It took A LOT of help from my school's staff to get it all worked out (this other school just sucks), but since its saving me a year - I'm not going to complain. Most of the issue was due to lack of policy set up at the other school. Everyday there was a new hoop we had to jump through because a different person answered the phone.

I don't know if its even possible with this type of class, but it couldn't hurt to ask. I didn't know this stuff existed until my nursing program coordinator told me about it.

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It seems that only about 35-40% of students end up with a nursing degree once they start. In all the schools i know of, you have to wait till the class comes back around again, you can't just pick up on the next semester. In the mean time, you can work on classes that can put you in line to get a bsn, so take some nutrition and sociology classes. Or maybe branch off and take some classes that put you in line to become a teacher or something. It would be awesome to end up teaching health science at a high school. You may can work on an lpn degree in the mean time too.

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Specializes in Neuro.

Having to wait a full academic year for that particular nursing school block to restart is pretty common, at least where I am from.

The fact that so many students failed is questionable to me.

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