Sadly I need advice, I am feeling like I have been treated unfairly- please advice

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Hi I have been hospitalized for 2 weeks after a grueling gallbladder surgery, it was not done laporascopic. However I have a huge incision right from my epigastric region all the way past my navel to just above the pubic hair line. I missed two midterms while I was hospitalized. And the Dean of nursing said that I cannot write the exam.

I honestly don't think I will be able to pass. I feel like I am drowning. Please I need some friendly advice. Should I leave the program, and reapply? What would my chances be of getting in? I am a student that does homework religiously as well as rarely missed school.

What do you think of my situation?:cry:

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

as someone who has had their abdomen filleted open three times i speak with some experience here. two weeks of being in the hospital is a long hospitalization for any reason. you are not going to be able to just get back to class and clinicals. you need to resign yourself to that. your health comes first. you need time to recuperate. i had my gallbladder surgery back in 1975 before they even did laparoscopies and i was off my rn job for 6 weeks by doctor's orders. it took that long for my gi system to get back up and running again. and, if you've got a midline incision going down to the pubis, they did a lot more than just tinker around with your gallbladder, so you need healing time. there is no way you are going to be able to perform the clinicals that are required of you as a student. you can't lift or turn patients.

basically, you should be asking the school for a medical leave of absence and to be able to re-enter the nursing program when the doctor gives you clearance. you should ask if you would be given a priority spot on the entrance list. the school, unless they are heartless devils, should accommodate you as long as you follow their procedure for this.

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So are you saying that I should withdraw from the program? another program does not start up until 2011 at the school where I am attending now, and it is a really good school and hate to apply elsewhere? Is that what you mean by a leave of absence?

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Specializes in Ortho, Neuro, Detox, Tele.

No...I think what daytonite is telling you to do....is

A) contact the dean and student services requesting a medical leave of absence.

B) Talk to them about being readmitted to the same spot where you are this year when next year rolls around.

C) resigning yourself to the fact that it takes time to get better, and missing 2 midterms....(although, if you gave them notice about it, does seem unfair), will probably put you so far behind, that you can't pass....

D)Go talk to your school!!!!!

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We have a girl in our program now that was in the program 2 years ago. She got sick and had to take a medical leave. The school allowed her into our class at the point where she left off. So our class has one extra. Now she did have one teacher really go to bat for her. Offering to take her into her clinicals. (She ended up with 12 students) which is really a lot for one instructor, but she is a great teacher and she took care of all of us.

I hope your school will allow you to take this medical leave and come back into the program.

Best regards,

Jean

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Most schools in the states have a procedure for taking a medical leave - I've never heard of one that didn't, but I don't know anyone who went to school in Canada. At my school there's a lot of paperwork involved, but when you come back you should be able to just join the class behind you and take this semester over. You'll have to pay for it again, that's the only negative. At least where I am, people leave each semester for a variety of reasons, academic and otherwise. There's always room for people to join from the semester before if need be. Since you have a valid medical excuse, you shouldn't face any academic penalties.

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This is basically like withdrawing the program, until a new program starts up, I passed first semester, and would request starting in second semester, is that what most of you are saying?

What would you honestly do in this circumstance?

Would you leave the program? Or would you do your best and carry on and hope that you can pass the remaining exams at 85% each?

Let me know your input is really appreciated,

Thank you

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Exactly right. After your leave you would start again the 2nd semester.

Go talk to your school Dean of Nursing.

Best of luck to you.

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You wouldn't be leaving the program though, you'd be taking a medical withdrawal. You are currently in semester 2, yes? You withdraw from all of your classes, and if it's for a medical reason it doesn't negatively impact your GPA or academic standing as long as you go through all the proper channels, get all the forms signed, etc. Is there a class behind you that started in January, or do they only start in the fall? If there isn't a semester 2 class that starts in summer or fall, you would wind up sitting out until next January. If that's the case, you might consider other schools in your area, if they accept transfer students and if they will give you credit for first semester and let you jump into sem 2 in the fall. That's tough to do though, with the wide variety in nursing curricula from school to school.

I know that in my school, I wouldn't have a choice - if I miss two clinicals in one semester, for any reason, I either fail or take a medical withdrawal and repeat w/o penalty. If you're allowed to stay in, what happens if you fail? In my program, if you fail two classes you're out for good. That means that even if you have a choice, if it's going to be difficult to catch up due to classes missed and feeling like crap, you're still better off taking the withdrawal. Don't think of it as giving up or dropping out - shoot happens, and you have to take care of yourself first.

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I agree that you should request a medical leave of absence. By refusing to allow you to make up work, the director has set you up for failure. Do not allow her to do this to you. You don't need to be in school now with two zeros for grades. You might be able to circumvent the director by going to the next person in the chain of command with your request. Something tells me that she will try to deny your request. If all else fails, then withdraw from the program and apply elsewhere. Something similar happened to me and I wish that I had been able to withdraw and salvage my grades. I know it is a disappointment, but it won't do you any good to continue with school and fail out of the program and ruin your health at the same time. Get back your good health first. If you can't reenter this program, then at least you will have decent grades to enter another program. Good luck.

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:cry:Hi I was recently hospitalized for 2 weeks, and have a terrible huge incision in the abdomen, while in the hospital I have missed 1 exam and was not feeling well enough to write 2 other exams, shortly after I was discharged from the hospital.

Due to this I have gotten 3 zeros for each subject that I missed the exam in.

We have another exam booked for the 6 of may, which has been moved to May 9th, our instructor asked if anyone had a problem with the change in date,

No one objected but one person, they said that they could not be there for the exam. The instructor excused her from the exam and is letting her write it on a saturday,

do you feel this is fair, should I acknowledge her about it? What should I do?

I feel that this has a bit to do with favoritism, and feel like she has set me up for failure, while the other girl get a chance to pass.

I can cry because of the frustration and feeling like I am being unfairly treated.

Please I await to hear back for your advice.

:crying2:

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According to our syllabi, you cannot change an exam date without 100% of the class agreeing to it. If that instructor wanted to change a date, she would have been required by my school to accomodate every single person who disagreed either by allowing them to take it at the originally scheduled time with no penalty or by letting them sit for it at another mutually agreed upon time. You're the same student that posted your situation a few weeks ago right? It's too bad that you had to have surgery and that you needed time to recover, but unfortunately no school has to accomodate that. They do have to allow you to take a medical withdrawal if your physician signs off on all the right forms, at least here in the states. That's they way you get to retake the semester without academic jeopardy. So no, I don't think you were treated unfairly, I'm sorry. It's too bad, and I feel for you, but they school is just following the policy that's pretty set in stone at every school I've attended. It really doesn't sound like favoritism to me, just following the rules. It's a crappy situation to be in, since you didn't pick to get sick or to have an operation in the middle of the semester. It's just that most schools, mine included, don't want to have to decide which people's excuses are valid and which are not. They just don't accept any. I'm sorry that you're in this situation though, and I really hope you feel better and can return to school soon!

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