Do you ever get the feeling your professors are trying to weed you out?

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Nurse SMS, MSN, RN

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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

Yep, here too. It is frankly a bit infuriating when you know of people who desperately tried to get in, deserved it in terms of their work ethic and didn't....and then someone else gets in, doesn't do what it takes to make it and wants everyone else to help carry their load and "nurse" them along. I don't shed tears for someone who wastes the opportunity they have been handed.

Specializes in Pediatrics.
I know nursing schools have their policies. But, for me and most people... those policies don't really "sink" in 'til it happens to me/us. I'm just glad that their policy happened during my first semester and NOT last semester -- now, that would've been a LOT more painful.

I think this is so true. Everyone thinks the policies do not apply to them, b/c it's not going to happen to them. A word of advice: know your policies, and don't go running to them at the last minute, to see if there is a loophole after you have failed :nono:

I really enjoy reading threads like this, to see the perspective of the students. I have worked in 2 different schools/programs, and have NEVER been told that the numbers in my classes need to decrease by semesters' end. There are only 2 criteria for failing: being unsafe/unsatisfactory in clinical, and/or not maintaining a passing average in theory. While I've never seen a class that started and ended with the same numbers (from start to finish), I have seen many a class where no one has failed. This usually comes in later (senior) semesters, after the ones who weren't cut out for nursing have failed.

kgkarma

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How do you combat that feeling knowing you are stuck with them for months longer?

Your attitude is all you have when you begin to feel insecure no matter what the reason. You must have the type of attitude where failing is not an option. There is generally one instructor that is willing to help if you can form a relationship with them. Ask for additional help in the areas where you are struggling and just hang in there.

In nursing school if you fail a semester don't give up and just be determined to come back the next opportunity. In my graduating class there were many of the graduates that not only failed a semester at my school but had also failed in another school but they persevered. When I went to nursing school I was insecure many times but refused to be defeated. I formed a relationship with one instructor that when times got tough I could just go knock on her door and talk. I remember when I was struggling in clinical after her clinical class she told me to come after our class was over and she showed to what to do.

You can handle this and make sure you're there for any additional labs or training whether it's before or after class. If a 65 year old high school drop out and do this so can you.

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