Nursing Student dilemma

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Hello,

I am a student, but much older than most at 49. I went back to school with the intention to use the degree to get into an area such as insurance or nurse triage. I have past and current experience in long term care and also have a business degree, and many years of office experience, with customer service mixed in.

I began my first semester of nursing at this tech. school, and in one of the courses for skills the checkers (who are people with MSN or RN degrees) are being very rude and even yelling at me, although I know in practice I am doing the skill well as everyone else. A checker once said hurry up, I have other people to see, when I entered the check off room. (we are each allowed 30 min. I am not slow and just entered the room). I am an A-B student and by no means slow! I work out and don't even move slow. The checker was just being rude to me. The check off people are assigned and you are not allowed to switch. When my checker changed to a new one the next one was also rude.

With this (bad) experience I have a gut feel to leave this school. It makes me sick to even think about attending any longer.

If I left this school tomorrow, and did not complete my courses receiving an F, in each of them (3) that I need to complete, could I drop this and just pick up my schooling elsewhere for Nursing? All of my pre-req's were transfered in and the 4 Nursing courses I took were the only thing I ever took at this school. If I switch schools to a new program, is it dishonest not to report that this happened and I started elsewhere but left, if I do not plan to transfer any of the work in? Would I have to switch into LPN instead then at a new school? Or could I just start over into an RN program?

I had a bad experience at this school when I was taking some sciences earlier, so I went to another school for those thinking it was maybe just the general ed. department. Now I am seeing its the entire school instructors.

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13 hours ago, PupilNursing said:

If I left this school tomorrow, and did not complete my courses receiving an F, in each of them (3) that I need to complete, could I drop this and just pick up my schooling elsewhere for Nursing? All of my pre-req's were transfered in and the 4 Nursing courses I took were the only thing I ever took at this school.

Sorry you had this experience.

If you quit, you will have to apply to a new nursing program. Hopefully your pre=reqs will all transfer, but you would start over in the nursing program Day 1, first semester.

Consider withdrawing rather than quitting if possible, as failing will affect your GPA.

Good luck!

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Thanks, like I said I only took 4 courses at this school all of my other pre-req's were at another, so if I have a failing average it's only at that school. To me, its worth it to get out of there, and keep my sanity. No instructor should be rude to a student, and detract them from the program. I had the rude check off people but then also a couple other instructors doing other things. Maybe its my age or something about me, or maybe its what they do there it could be either or both.

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I believe that most schools want transcripts from all institutions attended. Even if you withdraw. I think that a withdraw of courses would look better than an F, but you are most likely going to have to be open about this either way. If you withdraw, it won't hurt your GPA. Plus anywhere else that you apply will see that the problem was at this school, and that you did well elsewhere.

It seems that some schools are very accepting of situations like this, but it may depend on how hard it is to get into RN/LPN programs near you.

If you think that you want to withdraw, maybe you can stick it out for a few weeks and learn what you can/see how it goes. May as well pick up a few things if you're going to receive a "W" grade anyway. And the tuition is already paid. Maybe you'll even decide to stay, or earn a good grade in some classes that can be transferred to another school. Food for thought ?

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I beleive most courses offered have a withdraw date and you must withdraw before then, or you need instructor permission. There are just a couple weeks left in the semester so I decided to finish, if I do receive an F or two, then I will just explain or not transfer the classes.

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11 hours ago, PupilNursing said:

I beleive most courses offered have a withdraw date and you must withdraw before then, or you need instructor permission. There are just a couple weeks left in the semester so I decided to finish, if I do receive an F or two, then I will just explain or not transfer the classes.

For all of the schools I have ever seen, if they ask for your transcripts, you can't just not transfer classes. The failures will be there, they just won't count in your favor. Also, failures or completely passing, my school asked on the application if you have ever attended a nursing school prior. Good luck!

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Have you asked these people why they are rude to you?

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On 5/9/2019 at 9:54 PM, PupilNursing said:

I beleive most courses offered have a withdraw date and you must withdraw before then, or you need instructor permission. There are just a couple weeks left in the semester so I decided to finish, if I do receive an F or two, then I will just explain or not transfer the classes.

That doesn't work as every school demands a copy of a transcript from any schools attended thus it will show your F grades. Hope you can pull it out and pass!

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