my teacher failed me in clinicals in cardiac. i had a needlestick the last day of clinicals, but she said that wasn't why she failed me. i called her after going to get my needlestick checked out, and she said i was going to fail clinicals. she said that she had other things on me. i took the last test plus the final after that. i knew i had to take the course again, and i wanted to learn as much as i could. my written and computer test grades were all passing (above 80%). i applied for reinstatement and i got a letter stating:
"the nursing resinstatement committee has reviewed your petition for reinstatement into nursing 222. the committee has determined that you are ineligible to reinstate and have been dismissed from the nursing program."
it goes on to say that i can contact career planning and placement for assistance in selecting other occupations. there wasn't even a signature on the letter. it just said "nursing reinstatement committee".
i could tell from the first day of class that the teacher definitely did not like me. one day in clinicals she said i made her nervous.
if i can take cardiac over, i only have four (5.5 week) classes and one 11 week class after that to finish. there are 2 other teachers that teach this class. people who fail theory are given 2 tries and sometimes 3 tries to pass the same class. there are some nursing students that have failed 2 or 3 different nursing classes and are still in the rn program. i have never come close to failing a class before. i have excellent grades. i have worked as a pct in a hospital on weekends since september so i am getting more hands on experience all the time . i am waiting for the appeals process form to be e-mailed to me so i can fill it out. if i don't get reinstated, the nursing department will have a long battle to fight. i have received much verbal support from other students and rn graduates. if i have to go outside of the school, i have already checked into some organizations that are willing to help me.
i plan on taking a phlebotomy course, in the meantime, until i can get reinstated. this requires 25 hours of clinical experience. i think this will help strengthen my clinical skills.
Do I have to start all over again in another program, assuming I can even get into another local program? Do I tell them I went to this other school?
I don't live anywhere near you, but I'm thinking most schools think alike, and IMO, the likelihood of you getting into another program looks rather slim. If you want to transfer any of your credits, you need to tell them, because they will ask- you can't have all but your last semester's credits transferred, and your 4.0 GPA and a dismissal from the program will certainly raise questions, and red flags. So you basically can't tell them, IMO, but then you lose all of your credits.
I would be contacting an attorney as well as finding out EXACTLY why you were failed.
Being told, "Oh, the needle stick isn't why I failed you, there are other things".
Then, what other things were so bad, that you not only failed, but couldn't be re-admitted to the program at all when others had?
If you are that in the dark, then that sounds like an instructor has fabricated information and that is why you need an attorney. I refuse to believe that anyone is so dumb that they can pass those difficult tests and then fail the clinical portion...I just don't see it happening!!! I can see passing the clinicals and failing the tests, but not the other way around.
You have nothing to lose at this point and everything to gain.
my teacher failed me in clinicals in cardiac. i had a needlestick the last day of clinicals, but she said that wasn't why she failed me. i called her after going to get my needlestick checked out, and she said i was going to fail clinicals. she said that she had other things on me. i took the last test plus the final after that. i knew i had to take the course again, and i wanted to learn as much as i could. my written and computer test grades were all passing (above 80%). i applied for reinstatement and i got a letter stating:
"the nursing resinstatement committee has reviewed your petition for reinstatement into nursing 222. the committee has determined that you are ineligible to reinstate and have been dismissed from the nursing program."
it goes on to say that i can contact career planning and placement for assistance in selecting other occupations. there wasn't even a signature on the letter. it just said "nursing reinstatement committee".
i could tell from the first day of class that the teacher definitely did not like me. one day in clinicals she said i made her nervous.
if i can take cardiac over, i only have four (5.5 week) classes and one 11 week class after that to finish. there are 2 other teachers that teach this class. people who fail theory are given 2 tries and sometimes 3 tries to pass the same class. there are some nursing students that have failed 2 or 3 different nursing classes and are still in the rn program. i have never come close to failing a class before. i have excellent grades. i have worked as a pct in a hospital on weekends since september so i am getting more hands on experience all the time . i am waiting for the appeals process form to be e-mailed to me so i can fill it out. if i don't get reinstated, the nursing department will have a long battle to fight. i have received much verbal support from other students and rn graduates. if i have to go outside of the school, i have already checked into some organizations that are willing to help me.
i plan on taking a phlebotomy course, in the meantime, until i can get reinstated. this requires 25 hours of clinical experience. i think this will help strengthen my clinical skills.
please give me your input.
bev
monday of this week i went and talked with the chair of the nursing dept. she showed me my clinical evaluation for my 5.5 week cardiac clinical. she said i had already seen this, but i told her i had not seen it before. the only written feed back that i received from my teacher, previously, was on my 3 (45 pages) process tool and care plan forms. we were supposed to be required to turn in weekly clinical journals. i did that. the teacher is supposed to reply back on these each week. she never did.
i know that i need to stay positive and focus on what i did right during clinicls. i am also learning a lot on my job as a pct at a hospital that i started in sept. of 2007.
my school is a large 2 year community college. the chair said that about half of the students, that are dismissed from the rn nursing program, get reinstated.
when i get back from vacation next week, i am going to write my reinstatement letter to the allied health division reinstatement committee.the chair of the nursing dept. said that she would look at my reinstatement letter and advise me on anything that needs to be changed before i submit it.
Specializes in ED, ICU, MS/MT, PCU, CM, House Sup, Frontline mgr.
This is awful... did they prove their side that your broke the "contract"??? Or does the "contract" have nothing to do with why they are giving you the boot? I agree with the others... contact a Lawyer if this so-called contract was not proven to be broken.
Hi, I wasn't able to proceed to fourth semester this January and offered to retake 3rd. Today I was told by my clinical instructor that she doesn't think I'm ready for 4th. I feel like a target, everything I do is wrong, I talk to the other students and they are making the same mistakes, but don't get any grief. I'm transferring to another school.
I feel your pain. I have an adjunct who apparently has put a target on my back, she threatens to fail me every week, and this week I'm about at the end of my rope. I have two clinicals to go, and it's to the point I'm debating withdrawing.
Thank you for your response. My gut instinct in January was to transfer, but no, I decided to stay. Big mistake. I've worked with 4th semester students in skills lab, sim man, etc, and I'm at the same level. I don't understand it. Maybe its my age? I'm 50.
Big thing to me is I'm not a whiner, I don't bring my personal life to clinical. I accept things for what they are and don't usually start DRAMA. I had one bad day and I was totally physically and mentally exhausted from studying for the BIG test of which I'm 1 out the 20 who passed it. Our CI is a bigwig at this hospital, uses us as free labor, does not help us do anything, spends her time doing her scheduled bigwig work, and only occasionally comes out to torture one of us.
Found my diary of what I'd done during clnical this rotation. My midterm review only had one problem which has nothing to do with clinical skills, mostly my southern drawl. in a week I can say more but suffice it to say these last few weeks have been nothing short of torture and pain.
ReinventingMyselfAgain, MSN, RN
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I don't live anywhere near you, but I'm thinking most schools think alike, and IMO, the likelihood of you getting into another program looks rather slim. If you want to transfer any of your credits, you need to tell them, because they will ask- you can't have all but your last semester's credits transferred, and your 4.0 GPA and a dismissal from the program will certainly raise questions, and red flags. So you basically can't tell them, IMO, but then you lose all of your credits.