Help! I failed nursing school.. What should I do?

[Rheab35]

I am reaching out today because I don't know what to do. I am 20 years old and I am currently attending my University for my BSN. Last year I failed my Med-Surg class in the Spring and gotten the chance to repeat it this fall. Unfortunately, I did not pass by 3 points on the final exam therefore I am kicked out of the program. I can't believe I failed two times, I feel like I am a huge failure. I am trying not to give up hope but I don't know what to do and I am trying to find ways to continue my nursing career. I really want to pursue nursing. Has anybody failed nursing school and got into another school/program? I am planning to transfer to community college to try to get my ADN at least and continue to do RN-BSN in the future. Has anybody transferred to community college? I am afraid I won't get accepted even into an ADN program because my GPA is lower than 2.5 because of my nursing courses. Is it possible for me to transfer just my pre-req credits into an ADN program? If anyone knows how that works please let me know or any helpful suggestions that I can continue my nursing career. 

[londonflo]

On 5/3/2021 at 11:17 AM, May 2014 said:

I said you learn by doing not rote memorization without explanation.

Before you can do something, you have to have knowledge of what you are doing, how and why. We cannot in this day and age have students perform every skill on a patient through a "talk through".  

On 5/2/2021 at 7:53 PM, May 2014 said:

You don't fail someone a whole semester because they score 87.9% and they need 88% to pass.

What would you set as the passing rate? Does this number float from passing to not passing? Actually your example is unreal. Most schools do round to from .5 to .9. But you felt you had to make your point...

A final course score usually indicates a student not seeking help at the "first red flag". 

On 1/1/2021 at 10:31 AM, Darp7288 said:

but you can finish very quickly try azure college and international college of health science  both are in Florida

With very bad passing rates although you still need to pay the remaining tuition. Click on this site, scroll down until you find the school you are looking for. For Azure College have many students passed beyond 25%  NCLEX pass rate happened? Look up the International College of Health Sciences here too.

[Hannahbanana, BSN, MSN]

If you’re not happy c your program and don’t feel it’s cost-effective,  perhaps you ought to have done more research into other ones. As it is, do the best you can c this one, feel free to learn more than the minimum, and take a good hard look at all of your classmates and try to figure out how in the heck anybody is going to make “compassionate and competent” nurses out of all them. 
I wish you well. 

[londonflo]

15 hours ago, FiremedicMike said:

A=B, B=C, A=C.. I’m paying for my professors to create good content.

Edited 15 hours ago by FiremedicMike

I can relate to this...I wish we could have programs delineated by applicants past achievements, experience and licensure. In my career I have had EMTs and Fire Science students along with 18-19 year old high school grads. One time in my career I was able to 'group' the LPN students together (this was in the 80s before LPN to RN programs). It was an exhilarating clinical! We were able to tackle tougher subjects and discuss clinical cases more in depth. Hopefully, if education really responds to applying learners previous knowledge to a new setting, colleges will look at this as valuable. Right now we have found we need to get the most qualified students through the program to meet our communities' demands. And the community is funded by tax dollars from citizens to want the needed RNs.

Sometimes I read these boards and read about Johns Hopkins, Yale and other nursing programs that can be very selective and are not responsible to a community edict. What a thrill that must be but...then I have the experience of breaking my hip or having an incarcerated  hernia happen and I am happy to see our local nurses at my bedside. Yes, I see that EMT to RN in the ER and know there were clinical days that were boring for him/her. But their work is benefitting our little city!

[londonflo]

On 5/12/2021 at 9:16 AM, FiremedicMike said:

Then of course, there's the grading scheme that is allowed to be more difficult than the hosting college

Meant to add this: When I was involved starting a new nursing program, we shared the same grading scale as the rest of the college did: 70=C, 80=B etc.

When we went to the BON for approval, they dictated the scale needed to be higher "because students would slip thorough". OK, we all know you can just make questions tougher (with a lower scale) but we had to give in.

When I moved to teaching to a community college, we looked at the awarding of scholarships and most were based on GPA. We took this to the nursing faculty to decrease the A from a 93 to a 90. What a lot of discussion which ended up with us moving it to 91. (heartbreaking)