My wife has been working for several years her ADN, she is currently taking Advanced Medical-Surgical class.
Last year was her second year of the ADN program, and she had to retake Advanced Concepts of Pharmacology, she has missed two questions on a pharmacology calculation test and they were required to pass missing only 1 question.
So even though she has a 90% in the class they failed her. They made her retake then entire class, and told her she could not continue on with the advanced med surg class, the second time she passed the test 100%. This delayed her program by an entire year.
Now she is back into class and is struggling. She gets has anxiety issue when it comes to test taking and just failed her first test in the class. She got caught up on several question and did not finish her test. I told her she needed to skip the question if it was taking too long and go onto other questions.. She said she knew that but just forgot her test taking skills. She has a three more tests to take in the class and needs to get a 77% average on all the tests... If she does not pass this class she is done and cannot go back into the program. After this class, she would have only two more classes to complete her degree.
At this point she is questioning weather or not she should continue at all. I don't know what to tell her, she is only 3 classes away from completing her degree but it seems she is struggling soo much. She knows the material really well, but just chokes on the tests. Her teacher suggested speaking with her schools instructional support office as they may be able to get her help. She is studying from sun up to sundown or even longer, and now she is questioning if she even wants this as her career...
Perhaps she could take the transition to LPN course and go work as an LPN for a while, and then come back to the RN degree. I'm not sure she can even go back into the program ever is she doesn't pass this class... If she drops the class now we cannot get the tuition back so I'm telling her she should try her best and continue on to the end...
cursedandblessed
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congrats to the both of you.
sewing?? hubby?? i just finally got mine to use the microwave.