I just needed to share this with you guys because right now i feel so discouraged. Maybe hearing from people that have been through the same situation might help me feel a little less miserable.
I have been doing well up until now. PEDS surprised me. I was expecting it to be so easy, and it is not that bad actually but its totally different from med-surg, where you can apply the same concept for everything...anyway, i studied every single day, took notes, did practice questions, read each chapter 100 times and guess what? I am failing. My average is so low that it is almost impossible to pass at this point, unless i get a 88 on the next exam and a 84 on the final, and its too late to the drop the course. My gpa is good so i could repeat the class next year in jan but i've never failed before and it feels horrible, especially because i tried my best. I have just 1 semester left after i finish this one but if i have to repeat this class, they break for summer, so i will be graduating in december of 2011 instead of may, basicaly another year. I just wish it was over already, Im about to turn 22, it is taking FOREVER!!!
I feel like Iam the only one. If you have ever failed a nursing course, please share your experience with me
Now, I'm gonna shoot from the hip... Are you kidding me??? 22 and you're complaining!! Have you looked around your classroom (or on this forum)? Unless you win the lottery 9or find some other source of independent wealth), you'll be working for 40 years! Six months more will make absolutely no difference in the grand scheme of things.
I agree! I failed OB when I was 25 I think. It didnt really hit home for me though until I saw all my classmates that I had been through so many semesters with graduate. That is when it finally dawned on me that I should be up there with them. It sounds like you are almost there and just need to tweak a few things and you will be fine. Attitude about how you are going to take it the second time ( or even pass this time you still have a chance ) is critical
Keep trying... at our school we have 5 terms and your done with the program. I was on my fifth term with a week to go to graduation and it all came down to my final exam. I was a smidge above passing....and I failed the exam with 80%. It was all over....2 years of my life wasted I thought, I was completely mortified. I have never failed at anything like this before.
At that time the new Mylie Cryus song "Climb" that pretty much summed it up for me from there
If you haven't heard the song listen to it......it was very inspirational for me !!!
Now I am back in school taking that one class over and as much as it kills me I WILL MAKE IT THIS TIME.....Now I have a 93% in the class with 3 weeks left until graduation.
Well, I thought I was the only one. I actually failed one course in my first year and now I just failed my second course in my second year. At least you get to take it in Jan. I have to wait a whole year to get back in. I wasn't even failing the course, I missed the final exam by 4 points. I am so ****** I don't think I am thinking clearly at all. But, now they are telling me I will have to wait a year and that's only IF they have space for me. I started in Aug 2008 and I will graduate in 2012. It will have taken me 4 years to get a 2 year degree. I feel ya. It feels like ****, but I keep trying to tell myself everything happens for a reason, but I am just not seeing that right now. Good luck in the future, pick yourself up and try again. I did. And I screwed it up.
It feels so disappointing!! I failed my first semester of nursing school (Fall '09) by just 0.1 points! I was sooo mad, but i decided to just plow on through and apply the next year. I got in this fall and I am doing so much better this time around. I am 22 also and it feels like I have been working towards my RN forever but I know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel (May 2012!) and that I just have to take it one semester at a time. Just know that if you don't make it through the first time that life goes on and you have to try again! Hope all goes well for you and keep your head up!
I was sooo mad, but i decided to just plow on through and apply the next year. I got in this fall and I am doing so much better this time around. I am 22 also and it feels like I have been working towards my RN forever but I know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel (May 2012!) and that I just have to take it one semester at a time. Just know that if you don't make it through the first time that life goes on and you have to try again! Hope all goes well for you and keep your head up!
That Guy, BSN, RN, EMT-B
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I agree! I failed OB when I was 25 I think. It didnt really hit home for me though until I saw all my classmates that I had been through so many semesters with graduate. That is when it finally dawned on me that I should be up there with them. It sounds like you are almost there and just need to tweak a few things and you will be fine. Attitude about how you are going to take it the second time ( or even pass this time you still have a chance ) is critical