Failing out of a nursing program twice?

[Nursetobe25]

If you fail out of a nursing program twice, I know most schools you will not get another chance and will be banned from reapplying to the nursing program.

Is there an indefinite amount of time this ban is in effect. After a certain amount of years does your record becoming invalid or wiped out and you can apply again?

[OCNRN63, RN]

That is dependent on the policies of the individual schools.

PS- Friendly reminder that we are not supposed to clutter up forums with duplicate threads. :)

[Nursetobe25]

Can you ever go back to that nursing school again or are you banned for life?

[roser13, ASN, RN]

Every school has its own policy.

Personally, I would take the opportunity to re-evaluate your choice of career. Is there another career path, perhaps still in the healthcare field, that is attractive to you? I don't know your strengths and weaknesses in your educational path but you could look hard at the classes that you most enjoyed and perhaps excelled at. Those subjects might indicate a new direction for you.

[NICU Guy, BSN, RN]

Most schools have a petition process if you had an extenuating circumstance that caused you to fail (death in the family, illness, abusive ex-boyfriend) plus very good grades prior to that semester. Otherwise, most have a 5 yr re-application policy.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

As mentioned previously, each school of nursing has its own unique policies and procedures regarding readmission of students who once failed nursing-related coursework. In a nutshell, some schools will readmit you, but the majority will not.

In addition, if the student who failed wanted to start over at another school, failure of two nursing-related courses will automatically disqualify a student from admission at most other nursing programs.

Your best bet is the private for-profit nursing programs (Chamberlain, ITT Tech, Brown Mackie, Everest, West Coast University, Fortis, Concorde, etc). Although the tuition is exorbitantly high and the reputations are shady, these schools tend to not care about prior coursework failures since they want your tuition money.

[BSNbeauty, BSN, RN]

I agree with the previous poster, this totally depends on the school. For example, at my community college if you fail the RN program twice, you have to do the LPN program ( successfully passed and retrieve a license) before you can reapply to the RN program.

Otherwise, I guess you'd have to start over at another school.

[Ruas61, BSN, RN]

If you fail twice, you should be looking into why it is occurring.