I am OUT!!

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:crying2: I posted last week that I would update my test results but i been so upset I have not been able to till now..I re took the math test and I missed the 80 cut off score by 4 points...I got a 76:crying2: so that means I am out of the nursing program and I am so upset!!:bluecry1: I feel like a complete failure, I feel like all the work I have done for the past 5 yrs was all in vain.

I was preparing to go to clinicals...we had to buy our uniforms in advance at the beginning of ther semester. I am out of maybe around $ 800 + for the uniforms, books, equipment and the medical bags we had to pay out of pocket:banghead:

I cry everyday around the time class would have started and I just feel miserable. The things that got me were the ratio/proportion and converting temps from Celsius to Fahrenheit. The really hard dosage word problems I was able to do but not the simple things that knocked me out. It is a hard pill to swallow...You wake up one morning an 2008 ADN Nursing student and then after 12:00 that day you find out on the computer that you are no longer a Nursing student( the instructors did not even tell us face to face:cry:)

Has anyone else ever had to go through this dissapointment..if so did you reapply the next year..I really need some advice here.

(the retake test...6 people had to take it...5 did not pass )

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Specializes in LTC.

Sorry you didn't pass, but this is no reason to give up. Defeat is never an option. The best thing in life takes time to receive. My mother failed the LPN program twice before passing. She failed the RN program once before passing. Its hurts, but you must get up, dust yourself off, and keep going. My drug calc. test is in a few weeks and I'm petrified ! I've already prepared my self for if I fail, and I made up in my mind that if I do, I'm just going to have to keep going, and never give up. God is still good, and will give me the strength to move on. Please stay encourage ! You can do !

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hey, sorry it didn't work out. Listen, no matter what you choose to do in life there will always be obstacles. School, home, job, love everything. So even though right now it feels in vain and a big waste of time you can only allow yourself to dwell on for so long. Take a couple of days and be miserable, then start planning your next move.

When I crapped out of medsurg the first time I wallowed in self pity for like two weeks feeling like the entire world was laughing at me. Turns out the world wasn't and most people I knew told me to get my but right back to the admissions office. I re-applied and before I knew if I was getting back in I spent the summer reviewing everything I messed up on the first time. When I got the reacceptance letter I knew everything (as cliched as it sounds) happened for a reason. it wasn't my time last semester and I wasn't ready. Now I am and I'm all guns blazing.

One more thing. I had an old DI friend from the Marines who always said that when it comes to obstacles you can always find a way: you can go over, go under or around. Or you can drop your shoulder and run right through the SOB.

I recommend the last part. All the best.

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I'm so sorry you are out of the program. You gave it your best, and there is certainly no reason you should not reapply again next year. If you really want to be a nurse, just keep cracking away at it. I too am sitting on a bubble at the moment. If I do not pass my health assessment test out in lab on Saturday, I am out of my ADN program. I'm totally stressing, and crying and just generally freaking out about it. If I do fail, it's not going to stop me from becoming a nurse. I'll keep going back for more.

Chin up. Eyes set on the future! You'll make it!

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i was in your shoes in june of this year. it was the worst thing i ever had to face in my life...but if you really want it bad enough, keep trying. i think my misery came more from thinking about my family and how they would feel and react. they were very supportive so that is how i got through it all. i'm not going to tell you that i still don't cry about it because i do and i made some really good friends while there and to know they will be graduating in less that 8 months really makes me sad but i will be starting back in january 09 and this time i hope to be successful.

good luck with whatever you decide to do.

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Thank you so much for everyone's support & encouragment!!! I contacted the dean of nursing to see if I could do anything to get back into the program this year but there is not...so I will just make sure I take the dosage calculation class spring semester and reply for Fall 2009 and cross my fingers. MATH will NEVER be my downfall again!!!

For those about to take the math part...please study your conversion tables..burn them in your brain because that is what got me!!! Good luck!!!:heartbeat

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Thank you so much for everyone's support & encouragment!!! I contacted the dean of nursing to see if I could do anything to get back into the program this year but there is not...so I will just make sure I take the dosage calculation class spring semester and reply for Fall 2009 and cross my fingers. MATH will NEVER be my downfall again!!!

For those about to take the math part...please study your conversion tables..burn them in your brain because that is what got me!!! Good luck!!!:heartbeat

Good for you!! :yeah: I'm glad you checked into it and have a plan to get back at your nursing education!

Don't ever give up!

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i am so sorry :cry: are you sure that there is nothing you can do? maybe take the med calc class soewhere else or take a clep exam and transfer it in? most colleges except clep and it is a one day test. i am not trying to get your hopes up but i know sometimes there are solutions but our emotions get in the way of seeing them. if there is not a sloution i would take it up with the school even if you need to go over the dean of nursing to get a refund on any materials that you bought and are never got to use. at my college the bookstore has a 3 day return policy but someone had to leave the program 2 weeks in and after talking to the right people, he was able to get his money back for all of his books, his clinical uniforms he never had the chance to use, and his nursing kit. $800 is $800 and who knows if you will be able to use that next year. if this happened to me i dont think i would want to go back to that same school if there were other options. i know schools have to have policies but in real life there are always exceptions to the rules and this school doesnt seem to offer much support from the little you have said about it. anyway, good luck with everything and keep your chin up! :D

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I've been in your position. I failed med-surg by a point and cried like the world was ending for about a month, but you get over it eventually and it is really devestating and I try to look at it as I'll have a little more experience when I retake it in January. Unlucky for me.. my nursing school only offers each class one time per year so I have been waiting almost a year to retake it. Good luck to you!

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I'm right with you here! I failed my math comp test by 2 pts and I have to wait until next Fall to start again b/c of the way the classes run. My biggest sorrow was everyone I went to school with is leaving me behind. I would have graduated in May 09 so I will be with no one I know when I go back...however I am going back. I have pored to much blood, sweat, and tears into this program to get this close and give up, it just isn't in me to quit...I want it too badly! I agree with you about conversions burn them in your head, I got all the hard problems right on our test but I forgot how many mLs were in a tsp and that messed up about four problems for me. I also messed one up when I added the number of the problem into the equation and freaked when I couldn't get it right!(it was 2550g = Xlbs and it was problem # 10...so I was doing 10.2550g = Xlbs; Argh!) I was just blinded by test anxiety and couldn't unscramble my brain! I find it funny that after the test I came home and that night I answered a bunch of math questions on here for people! I have discovered that being dropped has not killed me, I'm still here and all is right with my life outside NS so I will go back next Fall fighting! We can do this!!!:nurse:

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KUDOS to all of us!!!! i to failed nur.101 in 2002 by two pts. and lets not talk about the math portion. there were so many people who had to take the math 3 times and still could not pass. they were made to take a saturday math class. i passed on my 2nd try. i was devestated (hope i spelled that right) i remember trying to reapply, but i don't really remember what happened. i do know i just gave up. but i've always wanted to do this, so in 2007 i applied again, and guess what, i wasn't accepted becuz now all of a sudden my 2.5gpa that got me in in the first place was not good enough anymore. i took 4 c classes over, it took me a year,because i work full time with 2 kids. so now i am waiting for an acceptance for spring 09. so the morale of the story is don't give up, study study study, i am doing that now so i will be better prepared. it was a godsend to find this site because i felt like the dumbest person by failing by 2 pts. and i even saw some of the graduates on the wall at school and felt even worst. Don't give up!!! please let us all know how everything turns out because we've all been there and lets continue to be there for one another until we are all Nurses!!!:up::yeah:

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I was also in your shoes last year. I was about 7 months into the nursing program and the simple math got to me!!! :( !! I was sad for about 3 months ,even my husband told me to take my books out of the trunk of my car but i was to up set to really look at reality !! I'm happy to say I'm back into the program today actually is my 3rd day and I'm prepared to face my obstacle I will not let it defeat me this time:D!! Go back !! Do not let it stop you from your DREAM!!! :nurse: Best of luck!!!

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