peanut25

I'm in (what's designed to be) a 2 year ASN program. I finished my first semester (Fundamentals) without a problem. My second semester (Adult Med/Surg) was definitely more challenging but I understood the material and did great on the exams. In the last couple weeks of school, I made a huge mistake at clinical. The clinical instructor and course coordinator felt that since there wasn't enough time for me to redeem myself, I had to repeat the course. I withdrew from the course with only a week to go and now have to repeat it this fall. I'm SO incredibly ashamed of myself. I know that I deserved to fail after the mistake I made and I know that nurses can't afford to say "I just wasn't thinking". I left the class with my tail between my legs and I've only told people very close to me. I've always been a great student academically so this is foreign territory. I don't know how to act when I go back and I'm so uncertain of my skills now. Has anyone been in a situation where they needed to retake a nursing course because of failing clinical? I hear of people who aren't great in the course component all the time but I've never met anyone who failed clinical before. This makes me so sad and I think about it all the time. :zzzzz