Failing Nursing School

[VeniHope23]

I failed my first semester of nursing school 2 months ago. When I failed I thought it was over like there was nothing left to give and I didn't understand why. After seeing my instructor we spoke about me moving forward. When summer came I tried taking my last general class but soon dropped the class. I became depressed and got sick. Eventually I found a way to move forward. I began to exercise, work more, and open the book to the class I failed. Fast forwarding to now, I am only taking the class I failed and doing much better and there are only 6 weeks left. I kept getting sick and decided to leave my job, once I saved up enough, and to focus on what I always wanted to do, school. When I say sick I mean my hair began to fall out in chunks, my body became weak, my weight went up and down, and I began to get these awful headaches. I've even started to developed a bald spot on my head. Now I am focusing on doing what makes me happy and taking care of my health. As I am doing that I am also practicing lab skills, seeing a tutor for pharmacology, and hoping I can get a job as a PCT/CNA as soon as I finish this semester and do what needs to be done to land a job in the healthcare field. I just wanted to share a little bit of what happened to me and what I am doing now. I would like to read about others and what they did.

[SqrB3ar, BSN, RN]

Well, since no one else is willing to splurge then I will. I failed a class, two classes in my life - one in community college (Poli-Sci THE MOST BORINGEST CLASS EVER; I literally would fall asleep in that class, pulled off an A the next time around). And unfortunately I bombed a nursing class by 0.5% literally one question could have spared me. Do I regret it? No way! I needed that to wake myself up!

In my personal life, my mind was SO preoccupied on my ex-boyfriend trying to maintain a long distance relationship which should have ended before he went back home to Europe. It was then that I realized I couldn't handle a relationship and school at the same time. I sobbed in my car, I felt it was the end of the world, I felt alone and stupid especially knowing that I had changed my answer on a test to a repeat question and if I hadn't done that, I would have moved on! That CHF question haunted me. It was a patho class. But guess what, next time around I got an A.

I'm a much stronger student for that failure. Too many people have no clue what it's like to fail. I'm even on my way to Magna Cum Laud for graduation, can you believe that? I'm one of the top students in my class. I like my cohort better because no one splits themselves up into little cliques, they don't leave anyone behind. And although we've lost some students in our cohort, I am always there to support them like I will with you and anyone who needs it. The feeling sucks, I get that. But it doesn't matter, as long as you're still in the game ready to win. Your failure doesn't define you.

Make sure you keep going strong ... keep up healthy habits and give yourself a pat on the back, smile. You're still here. :) You want to be a nurse right? GRIND!