Have decided to go a different route...encouraging advice needed

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After a lot of stressing over if I'll ever be able to get into a nursing program, I have finally decided that I think it's best I go into a different program. I have chosen radiology and have just started classes for my pre-reqs. This program is a lot easier to get into and it's in the medical field. Radiology has always been my second, but I still am pretty bummed that nursing is not my path right now. My friend just got her first nursing job and honestly I'm a little jealous, but I know that everything happens for a reason and that for right now this is what my path is meant to be. I wish my gpa wasn't so low from my old school so I could still have a chance, but I have to own up to my mistakes and fight and claw my way into the nursing profession somehow. Does anyone have any advice or encouraging stories to help me through my pre-reqs?

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Specializes in Maternal Child, Home Health, Med/Surg.

I don't have any encouraging stories, but my best advice is to study study study. I don't know what the pre reqs look like for your program, but where I'm at it's extremely difficult. More so than the nursing program.

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Good for you for hanging in there! I'm curious, what are your pre-reqs? Best of luck to you in your new field! :)

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No offense but I think the fact that your GPA was too low to get into the nursing programs you applied for should be encouragement enough to get you through your pre reqs. Even though you decided to take a different path that may be easier, you still need to excel in your remaining classes to make up for the poor performance in past classes. Best of luck to you :)

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Specializes in Psychiatry.

Not to mention radiology is not booming with job openings. You may end up doing all that work for nothing.

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"When God closes a door, he always opens a window." The Abbess in The Sound of Music (I think.)

If you can retake prereqs and get your gpa up, maybe it's not time to give up on your nursing dream.

Or maybe there's a way around the issue: like doing an LPN program, and then bridging to RN Later.

OR...

If neither of those is a possibility, maybe there is another path that is meant for you, and this disappointment will become meaningful in hindsight.

Whatever happens, I wish you all the best!

You never know what the future holds... that will make you go WOW!

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Thanks for the replies. Right after I posted this I found a school that's 2 hrs away, same school ill go to for radiology, just a different campus that will be a possibility. I have decided to go for it. Nursing is in my heart and I'm going to do everything possible to make the best grades I can to get in. I have a family and the reason I went with radiology is because I didn't want to work so hard for a year and still not get in. Now that I have options I know I can and will do it. If its meant to be its meant to be. My family is the reason I'm doing this and I need to make them proud!

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Radiology also considers your GPA as well and can be just as competitive as nursing. I have done some extensive research for my area between the two fields. There just isn't enough radiology tech jobs in my area. I found 1 job opening in one of our major healthcare systems. I refuse to get a degree for nothing.

If it was me I would look into retaking your classes you scored low in to get a better grade to raise your GPA. Another option to do the LPN route and bridge to a RN or BSN program. You will still need to have your pre reqs done to get in but some people find it easier to get in that way.

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At our CC, radiology is even more competitive than nursing..nursing accepts 80 students per year & radiology accepts 12.

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