During nursing school, how many of you had to retake a class ?

husker_rn, RN · Dec 5, 2009

We had a similar situation in school during our junior year. Even the 4.0's were failing. We went as a group to the dean and talked to her about it; asked how we all got that far and were now failing. She investigated, had a committee of teachers take the tests we had taken. They all failed and the course was revised. Have you as a class discussed your situation/frustration to administrators ? Our situation was resolved partially because we did not focus on finger pointing, but rather on resolving a serious issue. Good luck !! You can do this.

smarti15 · Dec 5, 2009

I had to repeat my second semester. At first I was very depressed, and moped around the house, but now that I am almost done with my third semester, I am so thankful that I repeated. I know it sounds silly, but when I took second semester again, I felt like everything really clicked. Because of that, I have had an easier time than most of my fellow students.

The reason I had to repeat was because I missed a clinical day d/t strep, and couldn't make it up, then missed an entire week d/t a ruptured eardrum. I was doing great in my theory portion.

My best advice for you is to try as hard as possible to not let it get you down, realize that there is not much you can do now except study, and don't give up. You might find that you grow as a professional and a person. I know I did.

Good luck,

Starla

proudnurseRN · Dec 5, 2009

Never had to retake a class because of a fail, but did volunteeringly drop a class and retake it because it was a hard class and I was a new mommy. I sorta had to rearrange my priorities, but it all worked out. When I retook the class I aced it, and it but me with a better group of students, IMO.

We have had others that have had to fail and retake, and it's lousy, but it is what it is. I always did have the theory that a professor wouldn't fail the whole class. So even when the whole class was doing badly SOMETHING would come up...extra credit, bonus points on the next test, teacher offering a study session. I came to found out even the hardest professor would only end up failing about 10% of the class. But that's just my experience, at my school. Definately nothing to count on.

Bortaz, MSN, RN · Dec 5, 2009

I was failed in my last semester advance med/surg class due to missing too many clinical days when my father had an MI and stroke. I was told I wouldn't be able to graduate ON THE LAST DAY of the semester, about a week before pinning.

I almost quit. Almost. If not for the support of my wife and a couple of close friends from the program, I most certainly would not be an RN right now.

It was humiliating (and still is, when I see people from my original class). I was a very good, high GPA student prior to this, and it was very difficult on my ego.

However. Today, I'm an RN in the NICU...my dream job. I just got there a semester later than I had originally planned.