Need advice

[ferny00145]

I was currently a student at West Coast University. I had failed a second course and was academically dismissed. The first course I had failed was due to a back surgery and the University rejecting my application for medical leave. I tried to appeal the University's decision however my appeal was rejected. I only had 5 courses remaining to graduate including retaking the course. I have been searching other Universities but most want me to complete more prerequisites just to get into their Nursing program. I am now searching online for Universities for transfer however they all do not accept any of the core subjects such as Mental Health, Pharmacology, Nursing Research, Epidemiology, Nutrition, Physical Assessment, Issues and Trends in Nursing, Medical Ethics and Issues, Introduction to Professional Nursing etc. These classes took me over a year and a half. I had written numerous papers and attended over three hundred clinical hours. I dont think its fair they all go to waste including the forty thousand I spent taking them. Does anyone have any suggestions? Oh yeah not to mention I paid cash for my classes and I have been an LVN for four years already and was attending their LVN to BSN program. I became IV certified, EKG certified, Nursing Manager certification, and ACLS certified.

[roser13, ASN, RN]

I have never heard of any schools that will issue a diploma based upon only a few hours' credit from their institution. Understandably, a school wants its graduates to have done most if not all of their work with them.

Unfortunately, private, for-profit schools tend to have bad reputations for taking students' money (outrageous amounts) and not living up to their end of the bargain. Yet another reason why your credits likely will not transfer.

[NICU Guy, BSN, RN]

It would be very difficult for any core nursing classes to transfer to another school regardless of the type of school you got those credits from (state university, CC, private, for-profit). The state requires certain content must be included in a school's nursing program. It is up to the school to determine how and when to include that content. Nursing programs are a set of classes that are designed to fulfill the state's requirements. The classes are not designed to be able to substitute with another school's classes like the pre-reqs are.

[HouTx, BSN, MSN, EdD]

I am so sorry that you are caught up in such a difficult situation. The unfortunate truth is - clinical courses just don't transfer from program to program unless the schools are part of a formal consortium (e.g., LPN->ADN->BSN). This is because there is no standardization of clinical courses - accreditation 'rules' dictate what content must be included, but not HOW it is arranged. For instance, some schools may have a separate pharmacology course while others integrate the content into each clinical area. Some schools may offer "credit by examination" for a few topics but these are usually very limited.

In my experience, schools limit transfer credits to no more than half of the total credits required for a degree. This is pretty standard. Your only alternative may be to start from scratch & find a school that will allow credit by examination for some of the courses. Although it is usually very challenging to gain admission to another program after failing out, conversations with my academic colleagues has indicated that they are much more 'understanding' in cases where the previous program was a very expensive commercial one because they realize that the environments are not the same ..... just sayin'