F's and W will i be able to get a job in nursing?

[Confusedstudent30]

Hi everyone! Registered here coz I'm so confused and needed some advise. So I'm in my prereq to get into the nursing program but i really did bad on A&P 1. I had dropped it and got F's and passed the 4th time . Now, the A and P 2. I'm passing the lab but not the lecture. My instructor advised me to consider other option in medical field and go back to nursing whenever I'm ready. But what makes me sad is I only needed this class and microbiology and I'm done with my prereq. What should I do? Should I drop? If I don't would I be able to get a job in the future with my messed up transcript? All advises will be appreciated. Thank you very much.

[joe a.]

Don't worry about a job - I doubt you will get into nursing school at all with F's on your transcript. Nursing schools are very competitive and there are people with 3.5 or higher GPAs who don't get in or get waitlisted. I think you should look at what you are struggling with and take some time to correct that. Is it your life situation? Do you have a learning disorder (maybe undiagnosed)? Are you bad at time management? If it has taken you 4 times to pass a prerequisite course, you're going to struggle in actual nursing school.

Not true. I have F's, W's, incompletes, D's, you name it, I've earned it. Anyone can do whatever they want. Try at least. It isn't for me to say otherwise. After retiring from nursing, I was a instructor at a for profit college. Everything is possible. Every minute is more than reality, they are potentials.

[joe a.]

You name it, I 've earned it. D,F,Withdrawal, incomplete, . Doesn't mean you can't fulfill your dream. They said I would never be a nurse. They wouldn't let me take care of thier mother. My chances were nil to zilch. I proved them naysayers wrong. That wasn't my intention, it just turned out that way. Follow your dreams and your heart. No one can stop you.

[windsurfer8, BSN, RN]

Bro you made the change to get through. That is my point. If someone says they are "doing the best they can" and they are getting Fs..then they either ARE doing the best they can and they are not capable of passing the class..or they are NOT doing the best they can and they need to study more. It

"following your dreams" ?? If I dream of being an astronaut but I am physically unable it won't matter if my "dream" is to be an astronaut. You busted your rear to pass...that is what I would think this student needs to do. Good work man.

[joe a.]

Not so. Your point is well taken. This may not be a good nursing candidate. You really have no way of knowing for sure. I'm not saying your wrong. I'm saying you might be mistaken. I am this person in some ways. ALL the patients I cared for in 28 years, most anyway, think I was one heck of a nurse. It happened once, it could happen again. Cut him a little slack.

[BBboy]

i think its important to find out why OP has failed these courses so many times. When I took pre-reqs the majority of the people were broken into: those that didn't care to study and did bad, those that studied but just didn't get it or "tried to study" but just wasn't enough, and the ones who just got it and succeeded (whether It be a combo of smarts or hard work or one or the other). Im willing to bet OP is in the middle group, although taking a class 4 times and only just passing on the 4th try raises some suspicion, life problems or not. I'm guessing that each try was during a quarter system, normally a quarter being 3 months. That's literally a year worth of retakes, I've met some people so mentally impaired (from depression) that they weren't able to pass the state CNA skills test which is only a single try at a time before you have to retake the course, but if you have 12 months to digest the same material over and over and you can't put a great grade out of it at the end? Nursing might just not be for them.