Gets up on one knee

[mario_ragucci]

It's been a little over a month since my drop from nursing year. Since I work with great people, everyone is supportive of me to be an RN. Thats what makes it so hard to accept failing over paperwork.

I spoke about depression and am curious about chemicals and emotions. Over the last month my neuro-chemicals got a massive burst of saddness. I not depressed; I feel intensely sad because of this set-back. I ws so on track with everything, including financial aid. Help me with any tips or advice with how to get back on track.

The school that droppped me says I can come back next year. It's not garenteed, and I have to consider worst case with them. So that means I can attempt to get into science classes that are really full, as I remember. I want to take chemistry, as it is required by another nursing school I want to attend.

I am super-duper motivated to get on with doing the work to be an RN and take the big NCLEX. I am willing to relocate, but that would mean forgetting the seat I probably will have at the program I failed clinicals at.

There are other schools in the area, but I am wanting to get on with my dream now, and other schools are swamped. Someone mentioned an on-line way to receive RN. I have a job as an RN as soon as I become one. Help me if you can with some way to be an RN, or LPN on line. For me, it's not a question of if I can do it. It's a question of getting there. I have a hard time finding information to become an LPN. I would love to be an LPN if the opportunity for me to learn to become one is there.

I appreciate all the help so many people gave me after I sang the blues hard. I remain positive and am coming out of the blues and want to start marching to my goal again. Is there a way to go to RN online? Or to relocate to an intense training school?

[scrubs70]

mario, as a male in this same so called female biased environment, i too have been faced with certain gender biases but so too are many of the women by male doctors and the upward trend of male nurses, but we deal with it and move on. As an RN you will have to deal with many gender biased people in dr's, nurses and patients and some who are not gender biased but just arrogant.

Welcome to the real world and remember what does not kill us can only make us stronger. Personally, the more hurdles i encounter during my training the better equipped i feel i will be when moving into the nursing workforce.

[mario_ragucci]

Thank you very kindly for the excellent advice. I don't have much to say I guess. With allnurses.com I have been a complete person and presented to you myself. I'm sorry for going through a bad time and asking to discuss my feelings. No one likes to be jeered and I appreciate you help always.

BTW, when I put in lol, that is just to lighten thnks up and start a dialog. Also, I did not ask to be critisized to the bone. If you aren't somebody, you are nobody.

[baseline]

Originally posted by mario_ragucci

Thank you very kindly for the excellent advice. I don't have much to say I guess. With allnurses.com I have been a complete person and presented to you myself. I'm sorry for going through a bad time and asking to discuss my feelings. No one likes to be jeered and I appreciate you help always.

BTW, when I put in lol, that is just to lighten thnks up and start a dialog. Also, I did not ask to be critisized to the bone. If you aren't somebody, you are nobody.

Mario, it doesn't sound to me like you are being "ciritisized to the bone".....lol.

You have been given good advice, which you simply have not wanted to listen to in the past and do not want to listen to now.

You only want dialog that goes your direction and says what you want to hear. No one here has been mean to you. Dialog means exchanging thoughts and ideas. You have asked for advice, and rejected anything that was not what you wanted to hear. That is not dialog. :)

[OBNURSEHEATHER]

(pssst... baseline.... there's a cuervo with your name on it at the bar)

[Hardknox]

Mario--you got the boot from nursing school because you gave medication without your instructor and your papers were not passed in on time. Make a sign with these words on it and put it on your mirror and look at it every day.

You want to be a nurse? Apply to a new school , get a clean start and look at the sign and DON'T DO these things again or you'll never be a nurse.

We have beaten this subject to death. You've gotten advice from nearly every regular poster on the board, but you won't OWN you errors. Anyone who doesn't say "Poor Mario" or "Gender Bias" is harsh in your mind. Don't keep asking for advice if you don't want to hear it. I think you've had people bend over backwards here. There is real wisdom in many of these posts.

Enough already!!

[RNinICU]

Originally posted by Hardknox

Mario--you got the boot from nursing school because you gave medication without your instructor and your papers were not passed in on time. Make a sign with these words on it and put it on your mirror and look at it every day.

You want to be a nurse? Apply to a new school , get a clean start and look at the sign and DON'T DO these things again or you'll never be a nurse.

We have beaten this subject to death. You've gotten advice from nearly every regular poster on the board, but you won't OWN you errors. Anyone who doesn't say "Poor Mario" or "Gender Bias" is harsh in your mind. Don't keep asking for advice if you don't want to hear it. I think you've had people bend over backwards here. There is real wisdom in many of these posts.

Enough already!!

Some people never learn.

[Lausana]

Thanks Hardknox! No matter how many times the story gets brought up it's not going to change

I guess I'm not following why going into an LPN program will be different than the RN. Do what you want. Either program still requires you to do your work. Perhaps I wasn't following the logic??

[scrubs70]

Originally posted by mario_ragucci

Thank you very kindly for the excellent advice. I don't have much to say I guess. With allnurses.com I have been a complete person and presented to you myself. I'm sorry for going through a bad time and asking to discuss my feelings. No one likes to be jeered and I appreciate you help always.

BTW, when I put in lol, that is just to lighten thnks up and start a dialog. Also, I did not ask to be critisized to the bone. If you aren't somebody, you are nobody.

Mario, whether you are somebody or nobody depends entirely on you and your outlook on life, we are all somebody if we chose to be, our worthiness is judged by ourself alone, what other people think of us makes us no less a person, but self pity certainly does

[FullMoonMadness]

Mario,in one post you say that you don't want preferential treatment,yet in another post you say that you should get slack on your paperwork because you had to work. You say that you failed because you are male and the instructor was anti-male. Make up your mind.

[Mattigan, RN]

Originally posted by mario_ragucci

Thank you very kindly for the excellent advice. I don't have much to say I guess. With allnurses.com I have been a complete person and presented to you myself. I'm sorry for going through a bad time and asking to discuss my feelings. No one likes to be jeered and I appreciate you help always.

BTW, when I put in lol, that is just to lighten thnks up and start a dialog. Also, I did not ask to be critisized to the bone. If you aren't somebody, you are nobody.

Oh come on... the bad time you went through was brought on by you - you did it to yourself. You made the choices to give meds without an instructor and to turn in late papers. Now, accept the responsibility for your own choices.Until you can learn from this and accept responsibility for your own actions and stop blaming others you should not (IMO) go to ANY nursing school. Nothing about you is any more special than any of the other students- you should not expect "Rules for others and rules for Mario".

Listen to people. This has nothing to do with gender bashing. You are being your own worst enemy.

[nightingale, RN]

I do want to remind posters to keep it light... I have worked very hard on my own wording to not seem like I was bashing; I am not saying anyone is, exactly, at this time. I do want to emphasis caution in being reasonable and appropriate.

Mario is not obligated to answer to these posts. I can understand the posters feelings in not being acknowledged but let's keep it factual and light hearted.

[JMP]

Light hearted? Meaning... opposite of heavy hearted?

I feel many on this board have gone out of their way to give Mario honest and factual representations of the REAL nursing world.

Considering what this is all about, nursing student failed nursing school for failure to do some basic things, like have meds checked and have paper work on time, I think we have been, if anything, light on this guy.

I think some of my irritation comes from Mario's continued request for input and then scoffing of remarks when made in good faith and coming from valid, experienced posters.

However, I think the thing that has bothered many of us is his "not taking ownership" for what he claims happened.

I frankly see nothing light hearted about any of this.

All of this, of course, is just my own honest opinion. However I would say almost ALL of us, certainly myself, worked all through nursing school ( I worked evenings and weekends and went to school during the day) and managed to do it.

I think we have been fair, especially considering the topic.