I was supposed to take an exam at 8:30 am in the morning today, but my phone which was fully charged and plugged in decided to completely die over night, how? I have no idea.
I woke up at around 10:00 am and noticed how bright my room was, I quickly tried looking at my phone to see the time and noticed it was off. Yep, I have missed a nursing exam! I felt sick to my stomach and started panicking.
The very thing I immediately did was explain my situation honestly to my instructor and what happened. Our Syllabus policy states that we are able to make up an exam with a VALID excuse before the test, but I of course decided to be honest, and well, guess what? I was denied my exam and got a big fat 0.
So I pretty much lost a letter grade.
Anyway, I know the instructors will tell you to be honest all the time, but in situations like mine, you should lie.
She even encouraged me drop out of nursing school, even though I got A's on my last two exams. I can still make a B if I worked hard, but I can't believe she would encourage that.
I can...there is far MORE information that we don't know...we don't know the grades of poster, nor what his interactions are in his program.
Nor do we know the exact message passed on by the instructor. Perhaps she said "you options at this point are...," one of which was to drop out and reapply...this then became the instructor "encouraging" the OP to drop out.
Extremely well put. Hence the reason I said to lie, creatively if able to better your case. I didn't say it would work for all, but if your know as a decent, hard working student they *might* believe you.
Right...
tell the truth, get a zero on the exam, and still manage to pass the course and move on...
In a sense, it is a false dilemma--you may end up with the middle ground (i.e. lie and pass), however, it is a distinct possibility that the student would lie, get caught, and get expelled. At least the student knows that if you tell the truth, he/she won't be immediately expelled, even though the student will likely have a significant uphill climb ahead of him/her. If you lie it remains one of the possibilities. You can't assume the best possible outcome.
People with attitudes like that are precisely why many instructors make it simple... no make-ups... period.
There will always be a subset of people who choose to lie, cheat, and steal to get ahead... and it works for some... but thankfully, their true colors usually are revealed in time.
People with attitudes like that are precisely why many instructors make it simple... no make-ups... period.
There will always be a subset of people who choose to lie, cheat, and steal to get ahead... and it works for some... but thankfully, their true colors usually are revealed in time.
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This advice bothers me. I'm not saying that the original poster doesn't have to deal with the consequences of what happened; but life happens. Alarm clocks don't work sometimes; keys get locked out of cars, etc. I have less than a month of nursing school left and it is very disheartening how nursing students can be treated sometimes. Nursing is supposed to be a caring and compassionate profession! Granted, yes, it is a profession so we have to own up when we make mistakes but the compassion is so often lost!
Original poster: this is a hard situation you are in now because of what happened; but don't give up. Try your best. It is better to have tried than to just give up because of ONE mistake.
Nurses don't corner the market on compassion! We're caring and compassionate toward our patients, but our colleagues get just as much caring and compassion as one's colleagues do in any other profession. Imagine how you'd feel about having to stay two hours late after a night shift because your relief overslept. Nursing students -- the OP included -- are being treated like adults.
LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN
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I can...there is far MORE information that we don't know...we don't know the grades of poster, nor what his interactions are in his program.