Flunked out of School!

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To make a long story short, I flunked out of nursing school, a BSN program, and I am finding that other schools do not even want you to apply after that has happened. They require you to be in good standing with your previous school but I am not since I got an academic dismissal. It may be like this everywhere but the school I went to only allowed you to make below 77 on two nusring courses and your'e out.

My BIG question is: has anyone failed out and gotten accepted into another program somewhere else? How did you do it? What did you do? Also, if I become an LPN and want to apply for an online LPN to RN or LPN to BSN, will they have the same restrictions, even if I start from being an LPN, or will some of them accept my credits from my old school?

I really appreciate any help you may have. I have searched this forum and found similar questions but I have never found anyone who said they flunked out of an RN program and was accepted into another one. That is my main question.

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I don't know the answer to your question, but I did want to say I'm sorry. You must feel like poop. Hang in there.

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Specializes in Neuro.

Hi,

I also do not know the answer to your question, but like Suesquatch, I wanted to say that I am sorry about what happened.

I am sure that somewhere on here are other threads from people in your same postition that have had responses. Do a search and check arounnd on here to find them. There are some great people on here who have some wonderful suggestions and helps.

Good luck in whatever you do~

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You may have to go back to school and pick up non nursing credits or work on a non nursing degree. In addition, are your prereq courses in good standing? Did you pass psychology, A&P, math, English, etc? If not, you may want to take a year retaking all of these courses or possibly obtain a non nursing degree. (Biology or Chemistry)

You may want to assess the reasons you failed. I understand you must feel bad; however, you failed to meet the standards. You need to undestand why you failed and what you need to do to imrove your future performance. In addition, you may want to think about your choice of profession. Many of the people who failed out of my class were smart people; however, nursing was not for them. Better to find that out early.

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I do not have the heart to start completely from scratch at another school. I am 49 yers old. I did fine in all my Gen-Ed classes but I have no idea if they will transfer to another school now. The last class I failed about 50% of the entire class failed. It was a 6 week course. We had three tests the last week and they totaled 55% of our grade! If half of the people fail a class that tells me that it is not just a problem with the students. I know about alternative routes, for example, becoming an LPN first and then continuing on and I am looking into that. But has anyone flunked out and gotten accpeted somewhere else. I have search this site and cannot find an answer yet. Thanks for your replies so far.

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Well i would tend to agree with you that a 50% failure rate is NOT necessarily a reflection on your ability to learn.

School is not always a place to learn. Sometimes it's an obstacle course that needs to be traversed so you can get to where you need to be. I went to school when i was in my 50s and I did fine with the course work but the actual job was a tough nut for me to learn. I had to lose my first job before finding a place that would allow me the time to acclimate to the nursing environment.

I think your best bet at this point would be to go to various schools in the area and talk to an advisor and see what they have to say to you. You might find someone who can show you a back door you can get into but as someone else suggested it could still mean you'd have to at least retake the coures(s) you didn't make it thru.

All the best....

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Specializes in peds and med/surg.

There was a girl in my class that failed in the first semester....she just finished with her LPN and will do a bridge at a later date. You could do that. My school wouldn't allow anything below a 77...EVER!

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Sorry to the OP for this being ot. Edison girl I just saw that you graduated from Edison in FT myers. I just started the program at the charlotte campus. If you could PM me that would be nice tons of questions.

thanks

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So sorry to hear what happened to you... one of my very good friends was academically dismissed from our BSN program during our senior year. She is now an LPN working on her RN. How far along were you? Are your pre-reqs completed/in good standing? Hang in there and please don't give up, nursing school is pretty tough without factoring in all of the pressure of a passing grade. Search for some more options and I am sure you will find the answers you need. Take care and all the best.

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if you don't mid my asking what went wrong?

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Oncology/Telemetry/ICU.

Yup, that happened to me. I started at one school and had to finish at another school. It was my fault, though, cause I wasn't applying myself and didn't want to do nursing back then (I was a music major trying to make my parents happy:uhoh3:). Then when I wanted it, it was too late!

It can be done, though, cause I did it!:)

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Specializes in ER OB NICU.

In our state, anybody that has a highschool diploma or GED can go to a Junior college, that has an ADN program, After first year you are a LPN and then RN after second year. All they would do is transfer the credits that you had taken that fit into their program requireents, usually general ed, speech history, math , psychology sociology, Micro A&P, etc. Unfortunately, the program would still take 2 years as it is set up that year, but then your schedule would be like nutrition, Med Surg, Peds and OB, pharmacology, etc. I am not sure as I had only planned to teach in one of these programs. You might check into it. The closest to our town accepts LPN from the progarm in our town, but it has none of the pre req. and the A&_P,Nutrition,does not transfer.Therefor, it takes almost 2 years anyway. It is much quicker to take the whole program, than do one year here, and have to go there and do 2 more.

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