i need some sound advice about my situation. i completed 3.5 semesters of an acelerated bsn program in the boston area and was dismissed due to a clinical failure 3 weeks from graduation. i had excellent grades, and even made the dean's list a few times. (and for the record, i did not put a patient in any harms way. it was strickly a political/personality situation, and unfortunately i have no recourse so i need to move forward.)
i've looked into a few other schools, but they do not transfer upper lever [color=#ae04e8]nursing courses which means i'd have to re-take nearly all of the classes i already passed. (that is if they accept me because of my clinical failure!!) this is a really tough pill to swallow, and i'm not getting any younger.
i can't fathom starting over from scratch again, so i'm looking to anyone in this forum who may have some reliable advice. (i was told from one school that they would accept two classes, but that was about it. they also have a board you can petition, but that is a time consuming process and it's not always a guarantee.)
will i be forced to watch all my hard-earned credits drift out to sea??? it's just heart-breaking.
i'm so close to finishing.....i need some realistic ideas about other options. are there any schools in the boston area that will tranfer my hard-earned upper-level nursing credits??? unfortunately, relocating is not an option for me at this time.
praying for a response(s) that will set me on a new track so i can finish what i started.
This is starting to smell (between your post here, and the one you replied to with said post) a tad narcissistic.
You're both saying that these incompetent, jealous nursing instructors are so intimidated by someone with an existing degree in another field and/or "life experience" that they have decided, after the first week of classes, and chatting with you, that you pose such a threat, that they must then find or manufacture an excuse kick you out??
Seems mildly paranoid.
I think the OP did something fairly egregious, IMO, and is reluctant to share it. Fine, that is her right, but like some wise poster earlier remarked- if you only spill half the story, you only get half the help.
I have no way of knowing the details of the OP's situation. There are a number of reasons that sharing specific details would be unwise. Not sharing details, in and of itself, is not necessarily an indication of some egregious wrongdoing on the part of the OP. Nursing schools, like all organizations are only as good as the people operating them. Like other organizations, they can forget their mission or purpose. Like any other organization, they can be poorly managed and those doing the mis-managing can engage in extreme measures to make a situation or person go away when the heat is on them. In all areas of work and business, there are instances of the average person (through no fault of his own) getting chewed up and spit out by an organization. It happens with government entities, corporate entities, you name it.
I have lived long enough and seen enough to recognize that bad things can happen to good people. I choose to accept the OP's account of the OP's situation and offer some validation to the OP based on a lifetime's observation. If one chooses to deem that "a tad narcissistic" and "mildly paranoid," that's fine with me. I am not diminished in any way. Peace.
Have you looked into the Excelsior program? I don't know anything about it but I think they accept nursing classes as a transfer. If you go to the student tab and go to distance learning, there are discussions under there...or just Google them. Good luck!
Careful, I heard excelsior was terrible. A friend of mine is a 25+yr paramedic and did the excelsior program. They jacked him around and took his money, without graduating him. For no reason. This dude, as a paramedic, works circles around most RNs and MDs. Just, if u consider excelsior, please research it and be careful.
Careful, I heard excelsior was terrible. A friend of mine is a 25+yr paramedic and did the excelsior program. They jacked him around and took his money, without graduating him. For no reason. This dude, as a paramedic, works circles around most RNs and MDs. Just, if u consider excelsior, please research it and be careful.
There had to be some reason(s). Even if he is your friend. Not that he was necessarily the one at fault. But there had to be some reason.
Before you move forward too far, I would petition not only the director of the Nursing school, but also the Dean, the VP of Students etc. on up the chain of command till you get satisfaction. Don't give up too soon. Sometimes persistence pays off. I know here in Houston, a particular persons persistence at Houston Baptist University School of Nursing ended up changing the culture of failing students for the smallest inconsequential things to a much more positive environment that fostered learning and progress. Faculty changes were made and now the schools' graduation rates from the nursing school are higher.
I cannot believe u would have to re-do nearly the whole course. How absolutely ridiculous. I would be complaining very loudly to the Dean of the school, & trying to negotiate ANY WAY I could to fin your study.
Look overseas at external courses. You can get ur credits transferred. Many oversease student do clinical where they live & study abroad EXTERNALLY.
www.cdu.edu.au Charles Darwin University, in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Both will transfer credits from other schools, then u can work out what subjects u need to finish. U organise ur clinical thru the coordinator of the course. How that will go getting u jobs where u live, I have no idea, but it should help.
No sound practical advice here, sorry. But if you were dismissed for reasons you believe are unjust, then it's hard to believe you've truly exhausted all of your options for recourse. I'm not doubting or questioning the reason, I don't care, but you've obviously worked very hard, and throwing up your hands shouldn't be an option. There is a principle here. I would be willing to sacrifice a lot to clear my good name rather than resigning myself to "moving on", which will no doubt mean taking more than a few steps backwards. It's a little sickening - of course I don't need to tell you that. But I'm having flashbacks to when, for similar sounding reasons, I was almost unable to graduate my first nursing program. Without getting into detail, I believe I expressed my intentions to not allow this to occur to the Dean in an effective and convincing way. I didn't threaten to burn the school down or anything, but if they actually took away all the hard work and sacrifice of not only myself but my family, I don't know what I would have done. I wholeheartedly concur with some of what other posters have written about the nursing school instructor/administration culture. The people who take issue with these statements should appreciate the experience/opinions of others instead of finding fault or defending their own. I'm overtired and don't have the time or the ability to frame my thoughts in an organized manner, but all I know is: If you truly believe you have been treated unfairly, don't allow this to happen. If you f*cked up, own it & move on.
Make topic asking for sound and specific advice to help you through your situation.
Refuses to go into details of incident and remains vague.
Expects to receive good answers.
All Nurses.
Wrong. And obnoxious.
OP asked one simple question:
"Are there any schools in the Boston area that will tranfer my hard-earned upper-level nursing credits??? "
Some posters have attempted to go further than that basic question and (a) inquire as to details that very obviously should not be disclosed on a public forum, and (b) answer questions that were not asked.
There had to be some reason(s). Even if he is your friend. Not that he was necessarily the one at fault. But there had to be some reason.
That is exactly the point some posters are making about the OP. Why can you see it here but stress conspiracy there? Without naming names, dates & locations, the OP can give the gist of the info & still remain unidentified. In addition, with 3 weeks till graduation left, the average student if they really felt wronged, would come here in complete outrage & spill all.
"Are there any schools in the Boston area that will tranfer my hard-earned upper-level nursing credits??? "
Some posters have attempted to go further than that basic question and (a) inquire as to details that very obviously should not be disclosed on a public forum, and (b) answer questions that were not asked.
That is not the fault of the OP.
Her first sentence was, "I need some sound advice about my situation." She then goes on to question whether or not she will be accepted @ another school due to her "clinical failure". How are we going further?
dishes, BSN, RN
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If your only option is to retake the classes, retake them, it shows you learned from your mistake(s) and have moved on.