Kicked out of nursing school. Now what?!

[HWG312]

I was recently dismissed from the adn program at my cc for falsifying information during my first clinical. It has been devastating for me. I would still like to pursue the healthcare field, but not sure where to begin. Anyone have any suggestions on what might be another medical field. I have a bachelor's degree and have taken a lot of science pre-reqs. Thanks!

[homes300]

What??!!!!!! I would love to have a chance in anybody program!! Its hard to get antwhere they didn't put you out..you put yourself out...

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

You are likely not going to like the answers you get here. No nursing school will take you with dishonesty/falsifying a medical document in your history. I would think no medical oriented school would frankly, not just nursing. I have no idea what to say. Your foolishness cost you big time and that is just sad.

I wish you luck as you figure out where you go from here. I hope you learned from this poor choice.

[watersamy]

I'm not going to judge. For now, what's done is done. Why don't you try a radiology program?

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

Radiology still requires access to and documenting in medical records. I honestly do not think anything involving confidential information, accurate legal documentation or a strong sense of personal ethics is going to be an option in terms of who will give the OP a chance. That is one bridge once burned tends to stay burned.

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

Let's not crucify someone for one mistake........

[classicdame, MSN, EdD]

may depend on how much info the ADN program shares with other programs. Radiology, lab, EMS----lots of choices. And if your work record stays good, and nursing is your passion, you might reapply in the future.

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

Not trying to crucify as much as be realistic and honest. With people falling over one another to get into programs, there is no reason for them to hand out second chances. KWIM?

[crazytonurse]

I just don't understand where you come off? Seriously, I was not aware that you were the only person that mattered when it came to admittance to any healthcare related school.

[ParkerBC,MSN,RN, PhD, RN]

Let's not crucify someone for one mistake........

I agree. I would get a copy of your transcript. Take a look at it and see if the school has made a statement about expelling you. I think you will find it increasingly difficult to get accepted into another program, but not impossible. As much as I hate to admit this, the majority of the for-profit schools will overlook your indiscretion providing you submit evidence that you learned from the mistake and that it will never happen again.

I know there are nurses on the floor who chart that they did their hourly rounding when in fact it wasn’t done. This too is falsifying documentation. Should we start firing all of them??? I am not saying it is right. I don’t do it in fear of something happening to one of my patients and me not catching it during the hourly rounding. I don’t support the other nurses decision, but I also will not crucify them.

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

Nor was I. :vlin:

I gave an opinion. You are free, of course, to disagree with it.

[mazy]

Why oh why did you do that?

We all make foolish mistakes, and most of the time we do no significant harm and can bounce back. But this was a massive foolish mistake, and sometimes it's not possible to come back from those to where we were when we started out.

Maybe take some time to think all of this through and kind of reassess yourself, your goals, and how the wires got so horribly crossed there and come at this from a different angle. I'm not sure if that angle will involve continuing to work in health care in the way you want, though.