Failed nursing school

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Very devastating when you open up your final grades and realize you have failed your maximum 2 course failure which means you are going bye-bye! Testing in nursing school is nothing related to general testing like A&P or Micro. I learned their ways, I mastered nursing school tests, but it was too late! My first 2 test grades in these 2 courses were terrible! But my last 2 were awesome, unfortunately not awesome enough when final grades were added!

This threw my self-esteem, self-confidence, self-everything out the window! It sucks!

Especially when I have 2 kids, including a 6 year-old who was so proud of her mom being in nursing school she made sure the whole world knew about it!

ENOUGH! Anyone have any ideas or suggestions on applying to other places? Being the first one in the entire family to go to a university really puts a blindfold on me!

Anyone who ever became an RN after failing nursing school?

Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

In the current atmosphere - with high levels of competition for admission to nursing programs - it is going to be extremely difficult to gain admission after failing out of a previous RN program. I believe the best way to overcome this will be via the same circuitous route already proven to be successful by PPs on this thread .. LPN first then bridge to RN.

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Specializes in Operating Room.

I didn't fail out entirely but I did have to repeat my psych nursing semester after I failed that class by 2 points. It was an ADN program and I felt like I was never going to finish it. Well I did, graduated in December 2012, passed NCLEX the first time, got my BSN in May 2015, and am starting an OR job next month.

I agree with the LPN then LPN-RN route. That's your best bet. Best wishes!

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Thank you so much for this. I got accepted into El Centro's Northlake campus and Im more ready and determined than ever!

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