....as i'm new here. I thought about posting this in the pre-nursing student forum but I wanted anwsers and maybe some advice from pretty much everyone.
I am so discouraged. I've wanted to become a nurse ever since I was small. I would go into more details but i'm trying to keep it to a minimum.... My first 2 years at EKU I was a single mom, working full time, going to school full time and trying to take care of my daughter who was a year old at the time. Needless to say I didn't do too well..I am not saying it is my daughter's fault or my work..but it's my fault for never asking for help when I really needed it. I wanted to take care of everything myself. (Not to mention I only had 1 family member who lived near me) So now that's out of the way....
I screwed up. I got D's in classes I shouldn't have because I wanted to be the perfect mom and spend all my free time with her. So I have all this on my transcript and i'm working on bettering my GPA as it obviously suffered. It is now a 2.67 I just know that isn't enough for me to get accepted into our program here. Not to mention admission into the program is VERY competetive. I am so screwed.
My advisor says I should just write a letter explaining my mishaps. Have any of you done this? I'm just so scared and thinking maybe I should just give it up. I have ALL my gen ed's for a BSN. All i'm needing is the 40 some credits left of complete nursing classes...
Does anyone have any advice? I have thought about just getting an associates in medical assisting...but my heart is in nursing.