I am curious about how many years it took you to complete nursing school. Please include the type of education (diploma, certificate, ADN, LPN, BSN, DNP, MSN, etc..) and the number of years to complete.
I am currently in my 6th year of college for my BSN. I enrolled into college Fall 2011 straight out of high school. The first three years I had to complete my pre-req classes and even repeated AP 2, Chemistry, and Microbiology. In Spring 2014 I did not make it into the nursing program of my first college so I had to transfer to a private 4 year college in Fall 2014. Fall 2016 I failed my first nursing class (Med-Surg 2) and I cannot retake the class until Fall 2017 because at my private college certain classes are only available during certain semesters. Instead of graduating in Spring 2018, I am now a year behind and will be graduating Spring 2019. At my new college you can only fail 2 classes, if you fail the same class twice that is the same as failing two classes and you are removed from the program.
Have any of you been through something like this and still had the motivation during your time off from a clinical class to study? What kind of study tools and techniques did you use?
I currently bought three Demystified series books (pharmacology, med-surg, and assessment). Has anyone used these books and were able to better understand the material and pass a class the second time around?
Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this post and respond.
I am somewhat in your same situation. I am in a Diploma program that takes 16 months to complete to get your RN. I failed a class this spring. Their policy is you must sit out a semester after failing, then return. So I was supposed to graduate this December but now I can't graduate until August 2018. I'm off this summer now and will return in the fail to complete the class I failed. So this time off has been very annoying because I just want to be in class. I've taken it upon myself to go back through my anatomy book, kind of reread it, find some online quizzes and keep that information in the front of my mind. I also have all of the ATI books that I plan on looking through soon. Also, with this time off I have been going through my previous nursing classes notes to keep that information fresh as well.
I finished my prerequisites in 1.5 years and I start the program in January 2018, after all said and done I should have my BSN after four years of college total. Don't feel discouraged everyone finishes at their own pace whether it's 15 months or 4+ years just keep it in mind what you are working so hard for and go for it with your all. Good luck!
went to school at sxu in chicago. took 4 1/2 years. failed 1 class by 0.2% (broke my heart lmao). but i wasn't good at med surg so i was glad i retook it.
i just turned 23. have my bachelors and just sat for the nclex yesterday.
Hi! I was enrolled at ITT Tech Nursing school March of 2015 anticipated graduation March 2017 - which didn't work. My nursing school there closed 6 months shy of graduation. Now, I'm at a different, better school getting my BSN, halfway through and I failed a class by a few half points on an exam (norm scores are no bueno) so feeling depressed and just flat out awful is not foreign to me. I need to be a nurse meaning that I crave it. I was knocked down once, get back up, knocked down twice, I'm getting back up. Pray for me y'all.
Went to a 12 month Accelerated BSN program, started in August 2016 and graduated August 2017. I took the prereqs (AP 1, AP 2 and Micro) in May, June, July 2016, right before I started the program. I had not taken any kind of nursing or anything before that.
I just passed my NCLEX-RN this month, first time at 75 questions.
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I am somewhat in your same situation. I am in a Diploma program that takes 16 months to complete to get your RN. I failed a class this spring. Their policy is you must sit out a semester after failing, then return. So I was supposed to graduate this December but now I can't graduate until August 2018. I'm off this summer now and will return in the fail to complete the class I failed. So this time off has been very annoying because I just want to be in class. I've taken it upon myself to go back through my anatomy book, kind of reread it, find some online quizzes and keep that information in the front of my mind. I also have all of the ATI books that I plan on looking through soon. Also, with this time off I have been going through my previous nursing classes notes to keep that information fresh as well.
Don't give up! We're so close.