Am I cut out for the job?

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I was taking Microbiology this summer and dropped out because of a couple different reasons one of which I needed to up my hours at work because my husband will be loosing his job next month and I just couldn't keep up this summer. I was going to school and work at night and I was so exhausted I was physically sick. ONe had to go and that was Micro. I felt so bad about it because I would have started my clinicals in the Fall semester had I passed that with a "C". It was within reach and I let it go until Spring.

I had to change some of my Fall classes and my advisor and I had a meeting. I was told that I had to take it in the Fall. I requested that I not have the same professor because of the way she teached. She had her notes one power point and they was her own notes not from the book. I couldn't understand her notes but I fully understand the book. If her test was over the information in the book I would have been fine but it wasn't. I told my advisor this and she said that if I want to be a nurse that alot of the nursing courses aren't out of the book asnd that I might think about doing something else. I don't want to do something else, this is my dream.

Should I take her advise and do something else?

I agree with everyone above. If they tell me I cant, then I DO!

It's you against your advisor.... YOU Alone hold your destiny in your hands, dont let an advisor tell you what you CANT do, PROVE HER Wrong!

As a rule of thumb here, we take what ever the advisor says w/a grain of salt... After they give us their pro opinion, we go get another one! Seriously. Way to many of my college friends *including me* have been given the screws from one.

Hon, if you want to be a NURSE, then be the best one you can be. You need to live LIFE now, that means working more hours to survive. You can take Micro another time!

Specializes in LTC, ER, ICU,.

decide what is best for you. you can do it!

Thanks for the advise that everyone has given to me. It's good to know there are people pulling for you!

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