Strugglebus101

Thank you so much for your encouraging words it means a lot

Here in the states some programs do allow you to bridge but my license is single state which means I'd mainly only be able to do it in that state and I've had trouble getting into schools so I'm deciding to just start over. Also, I'm sorry you're going through that I hope everything works out for you and yes! Sometimes I feel like they try to weed us out through nursing school with how hard they make it.

I don't feel my post was read correctly, I didn't challenge anyone. My instructor and I had a phone call where I was told to ask the preceptor if she wanted me to leave in which she said yes. The next day even the DON at the school said that I handled it correctly so that she would place me with another preceptor. The problem came in when the DON for the facility lied for her nurse and wrote a nasty email and as a desperate nursing student and mom of 4 who sacrificed everything I had to become a nurse the answer is yes, I met with HR in hopes I could get my hours to graduate. I suffer from a fear of emesis but I'm working through that which I never kept it a secret from day 1. This is what I love, this is what I will stick to even if it requires me to start over. I'm already a nurse and already in the career but I sat and decided to continue this journey well after this post but thank you for your input.

So I started nursing school back in 2021 and did well up until 2022 in which I failed a course. After failing I then had to prove competency by testing into each course that I had previously failed in order to restart where I left off in fall of 2023. I came back and everything was fine I passed fall semester. I then started Spring semester which was my last semester of nursing school. We had preceptorship and clinicals but they were separated so I did the second half of the semester preceptorship. Before beginning my preceptorship I had a meeting with my preceptor and explained that I suffered from emetophobia but that I would try to push through if she worked with me. Some time passes and everything is going well but one night my preceptor seemed "off" and not in a good mood. She argued with me over a patient because she asked me to go into a room where a patient was vomiting and I told her I'd feel more comfortable if she came with me in which as a student that was her job anyways. (I know I'll be exposed to vomit I know what comes with the job but this is a mental disease not just something I feel is "gross" but I'm willing to work through it to become a nurse). After that happened another nurse asked if I'd like to get practice with NG tube placement and I told her I'd have to ask for permission from my preceptor. Once I approached my preceptor with the offer she stated "you can just go be with that nurse because this'll probably be the last night I precept you" After the incident I called my instructor who was over the program and let her know what happened. She instructed me to ask the preceptor if she wanted me to leave so I did just that and the preceptor said "yes" so I left and called my instructor. That night the nurse and I both explained what happened separately and the next day I received a call from the DON at the school in which she told me I did nothing wrong and I handled it like I was supposed to so that they would just find me another preceptor. Well the next day the DON at the facility I precepted at wrote a nasty email with lies which could only come from the nurse in which leaded to me getting in trouble. I had ti meet with the board and was placed on probation but I also no longer had anywhere to precept and get my hours because the DON at the facility made it to where I couldn't precept there but she said I could do clinicals which went the same. I was lost so I met with HR at the hospital and explained everything with hopes she could help me and she said she could, it seemed as if the meeting went well until the next day she emailed the school and said I couldn't return to the facility and that I was "disruptive" to the point she had to leave a meeting and basically calm me down in which I can promise you that was a lie. After that I was removed from the program in the last week with only a final left, the day I found out I was being kicked out my instructor whom I called the night everything took place at the facility asked me if I had spoken poorly of her in which I said no. This same instructor works at that facility, she also was an instructor to the nurse who precepted me and is now her coworker. It was very strange the way it happened. Well luckily when I failed out I challenged the board of nursing and got my LPN license but it's only single state and now I have no idea what to do. I can't find a program in the state I reside in to accept me because I'm licensed in another state. I've looked for LPN-RN classes and I've even tried to transfer my nursing classes. Every way I turn I'm stopped and this is all I know and all I have ever wanted to be. I don't know what else I can do I feel like such a failure right now.

My school is TORTURE we had to do work to get into class and the work was graded BUT we didn't get the grade until we passed the semester. So yes, torture. I've worked different places as an LPN including ED, LTC, etc and nothing compares to what that school is like.

I got my LPN license through my RN when I first failed out but the problem is that it's single state and unfortunately it was the president that made this decision. He had absolutely no reason for it and even implied that in our conversation when asked. It's discouraging because this was my 2nd time in the program and starting over would add more years of school

So there was an incident that led to me being dismissed from my program with only ONE day left which was the final test. I showed proof and appealed the decision but because the hospital has contracts with the organization they sided with them instead of me. The problem now is that I'm unable to find a program that'll let me transfer all of my ADN classes over so I'd have to start completely over. I've been in the ADN program for 3 years because I failed out and had to wait in order to retake the class. I'm honestly not sure if I can handle going through all of this torture again for another 2 years and then I considered getting my BSN but that's even longer. Should I just switch careers? I've tried to go back to the school and even find lawyers but I haven't been able to so I'm SOL with the program I was weeks away from graduating from.

Hi! I'm having a dilemma, I have 2 job opportunities one being in the pulmonary step-down unit which also has ventilator patients or cardiac step-down which has drips at a large teaching hospital. I would like to eventually go into the ICU and potentially start working my way towards CRNA. I'm unsure of which unit would be more beneficial. I was told that the cardiac step-down nurses haven't been offered ICU positions but that those who work with chronic heart problems on other floors have. I'm a new grad and I don't really know where to start.

Hi, so I'm currently a 2nd year student in my ADN program and I am failing horribly. We have 2 semesters combined and in 1 I'm doing okay in but the other I now need a 91 on the final to pass. Is this even possible? I can't afford to fail and it's so close to the end I don't know what to do. I've spoken with the instructors, students who are passing, and changed my study techniques. Things got a little better but not where the need to be in order for me to pass.