Nursing School dilemma

[Nightingale11]

I need help with a dilemma.

You've heard of the HESI I'm sure.

At the tech college I'm attending now, every quarter you take the HESI and HAVE to make 850 or greater. You get 2 attempts. If you don't pass after the 2nd attempt then you fail the class. You can only fail 2 classes before you can't attend nursing school for 5 yrs and must then do LPN and bridge to RN.

I've failed Med/Surg once, had an 82 in the class overall and the HESI couldn't pass because we weren't taught the material through the quarter.

824 first try, 751 second try.

I'm thinking of transferring college. The other college I want to attend is on the semester system. They do have HESI's every semester but it isn't pass or fail. It's 850 or greater 100% and below 850 is 70%, just calculated into your average and as long as you have a 70 including tests/HESI you're good to go.

If I transferred I'd have to start all over. I need to take 3 core classes and then retake Fundmentals and Health Assessment and Med/surg.

I am going to go ahead and take Med/Surg starting October 5th and see how it goes. In the tech college I'm at, I have 8 more HESI's to take and pass, one mistake and I'm done for 5 yrs.

I'm applying for the May class which I'm assuming is Pharm, Fundamentals and even though the college is in another city an hour away, the classes and clinicals are in my town. I'll take my 3 core classes in January. I have a part time job also.

What would you do?

[CaliforniaRNnow]

Can you BELIEVE these nursing schools? I swear...... everybody wants us to fail. NO WONDER there's a shortage of nurses. And people act like they're surprised...

I'm in a school where you don't HAVE to pass the HESI every semester. It's just extra points if you do pass. And guess what, I took 3 and never passed any of them. It's absurd for schools to REQUIRE you to pass them or you completely fail the class. MAKES NO SENSE. Sorry but the way nursing schools are nowadays really irritates me.

I say apply to that other school, and if you fail the class you're in now, atleast you have that other school open for you right then and there. And you can be a transfer student if you've already took some classes at another nursing school. You don't necessarily have to start all over.

Ugh, the 5 year rule is ridiculous.