Dismissal from nursing school without failing any course

[Beebee18]

I am supposed to enter my senior year in a BSN program by August, i already completed 3 semesters in the program. I just found out my nursing program sent my a dismissal letter for what they tagged "unprofessional" behavior. These behavior includes calling my teacher less than one hour to a lab class to get permission to be absent due to sick health, waking up late due to a sickness and could not attend a 6:30am clinical which i already made up, not being able to review my nursing exam afterwards because i wad having serious anxiety attack, etc. The point is that look for every opportunity yo write me up because I'm one if their best and the only black.

They already told me at the last disciplinary meeting that i have one chance before being kicked out and i have not used that last chance and they sent me a letter of dismissal when I'm already away for break.

My questions:

1) Can i appeal this successfully?

2) Can another school accept me if i choose to transfer?

3) Is it advisable to make this a court case and will it have any effect on finding a job here afterwards?

Note: I am an international student on an F1 visa for now.

[Sierra Nurse]

As a last ditch effort, I would try writing to the Dean if you haven't done so. It would be helpful if you have correspondence or email chains that you can forward to state your case, as opposed to "he said/she said." Remember to keep it professional and stick to the facts. Good luck!

[nursel56]

....not being able to review my nursing exam afterwards because i wad having serious anxiety attack, etc.

Having a serious anxiety attack isn't an acceptable reason for poor performance, a missed exam, or a valid point while explaining reasons for prior unprofessional behavior. Anxiety-provoking scenarios happen pretty frequently in nursing.

The reality is that anxiety that is so incapacitating it interferes with your ability to fulfill basic requirements as a student or as a nurse is reason enough all by itself.

The only thing I can see in your post that you can perhaps work with is the supposedly missed "one more chance" provision given at your last disciplinary meeting.

[MiladyMalarkey, ASN, BSN]

I hear excuses for unprofessional behavior. I get it, life happens but you think a future employer will excuse multiple absences without proper notification or because you're having an anxiety attack? You have to get yourself together if you want to succeed.

I do believe there is racial bias in the world but your attendance & disciplinary issues completely negated that argument.

[KalipsoRed21, BSN, RN]

I think you should appeal because trying a different school means you will start all over again. But understand that everything you are finding 'unfair' or 'unreasonable' is pretty much the experience at any nursing school. I am white and went through something similar. Despite what everyone is saying, I had one nice humane teacher the 2 years I was in the nursing program. The rest were ball busting ******* that I, to this day, have very little respect for. You should also know that at least half of all your future managers will behave in this same manner. So if you think this is terrible and unreasonable don't finish your nursing program. Go in to a different field.

[CanadianAbroad]

Stop acting as if your race has anything to do with you being dropped. By doing so, it truly undermines the plight of those being marginalized through racist behavior and makes people ignore the rest of your message. Secondly, your actions are what caused your dismissal. You would have been fired if this was the working world. Don't try and peg this on the school, when obviously there have been previous issues due to meetings about your behavior earlier in the program.

[allegra78]

Sorry girl. You dug your own grave with this one. You could try to appeal with the dean but I dont think you will have much success. Take this as a lesson learned. As for the other posters before you start griping about the race card, have you ever experienced race discrimination? Please believe if you experience it you wi definitely recognize it so please refrain from dismissing the feelings of OP. Makes you sound real ignorant.

[Kallie3006, ADN]

You should have received a policy handbook prior to, or at the beginning of the nursing program, which should have in there the expectations you are required to uphold and the infractions possible if standards are not upheld. Most programs, not only provide that material to their students, there is a page the student signs verifying this was received, understood, and agreed to follow the rules set forth. Nursing school not only sets the fundamental foundation for future nurses, it also helps weed out the rogue students who think the rules don't apply to them. Does the disciplinary marks leading to your dismissal get addressed in the handbook you received?

Colleges programs that work on the clock hours system, as nursing schools do, only a lot for "X" amount of hours to be "excused" before the student can be expelled. The programs mandate that "X" amount of hours must be completed before the student is considered "completed" in that area and can either move forward, get the degree in progress, or sit for national/ state license exams. Are you over your limit with your missed hours?

If you are unable to review exams due to high anxiety or what not, I would HIGHLY advise looking into another field of study. Nursing is high stress, fast paced, mentally and physically exhausting. You literally have someone's life in your hands, it is not a job for the faint at heart, nor is it a job for someone that is unable to take accountability for his or her actions.

Lastly most US states are an at will employment. This means you can get fired for just about anything and there is not much you can do about it. Your program seemed to give you a lot more chances than you would have received if you was in the working world with the listed infractions.

It doesn't matter if you are the top, middle, or bottom of the class; you are purple with 2 heads and no arms; the rules apply to everyone.

[planetgreennnRN, ADN, BSN]

Hi!

So, what I'm getting is you had 2 absences, and they said you had one left. You didn't use it but they dismissed you, anyway.

Anyone upset that you made your race a factor, obviously isn't black and has no clue of our everyday experiences. My sister and I were in the same nursing program. She was #1 and I was #2. The director and a couple of classmates tried to make it hell for us.

Back to you being dismissed, I've not heard of a nursing program dismissing a student for two absences. When you're sick, you're sick. I think it would be worth a shot to appeal it. If you didn't have that third absence, that is wrong.

[lorias]

Maybe you and sister had a bad attitude. If you have the mindset that every non black person is racist than that's what you'll see. And it's not only black people that have difficult everyday experiences. Get off your pitty pot. White people .cant blame racism on their failures but rather on performance. So should you.

[lorias]

Maybe you and sister had a bad attitude. If you have the mindset that every non black person is racist than that's what you'll see. And it's not only black people that have difficult everyday experiences. Get off your pitty pot. White people .cant blame racism on their failures but rather on performance. So should you.

[Wiggly Litchi]

have you ever experienced race discrimination?

Many times.

[planetgreennnRN, ADN, BSN]

Why do you assume that we were the issue? Our discussions with the Director never had anything to do with "attitude."

Everything else that follows that first sentence are things you made up. They were never said by me. Reading that was exhausting. Stretch next time before you reach like that.

You mentioning pity is especially interesting given your posts are for the sole purpose of garnering pity. Falsifying information and asking if you should still be a nurse just so someone will tell you "We all do it." Complaining about a teacher being rude but shifting blame from yourself for invading someone's privacy.

You can't diminish a group of people's experience simply because of what you THINK. Unfortunately, you may be someone's nurse in the future. And I pray that you don't allow your ego and ignorance interfere with your care.