moonlite48

At my age the meat is pretty tough so lunch wouldn't be good anyway! :rotfl: Screw Starbucks! ..........I want it bad enough! I'll find a way.

I wrote a few weeks ago with a similar problem. I followed the appeal process with no luck. Just last week I e-mailed the director and asked her for a list of reasons why I failed clinical because I am not clear what they are. The response I received was one sentence,"you have all your papers". I find it amazing that some of you mention in your letters that a student shouldn't know everything. Every question I asked during clinical was answered "you should know that by now". I quit asking because I thought I would flunk out for not knowing, so I looked everything up or asked one of the friendly nurses on the floor so I wouldn't have to ask the instructor. I worked so hard and at 57 yrs old every month counts as far as going to another school, fighting etc. I have a family to support also, and I can't afford a lawyer. Keep us posted. Any answer you find may help me or someone else....I will pray for you.

I guess I was too upset when I wrote my post. My title was misleading and I didn't explain a couple things. Clinical is pass/fail and my grades don't matter. I took it to the director and she said the teacher has been with them many years and they trust her judgment. I put the reasons I was given in person, and in writing in my letter, but I see I didn't fully explain. I was told that I am disorganized and that she could never see me traking care of six patients. I was told that I don't know the nursing process,and that she doesn't have confidence that I will be able to pass meds competently. I left an air bubble when I set up an injection twice. I get extremely nervous when being watched. When I prepare an injection on my own and then have it checked I have been fine. When I do a sterile procedure I get very nervous when preparing for it especially when family and other students are allowed in the patients room watching. I go through a lot of gloves because when I am nervous I have six thumbs on each hand. I have never ruined a whole kit though. When it gets down to the actual procedure I do OK because my mind is then on the patient instead of my "nerves". My patients seem to like me and my instructor had no complaint in that area. So what it boils down to is that yes I do know why, because I was told those reasons, but I don't know why because they don't seem valid. I have wanted to be a nurse since I was 15 years old. I have spent all these years reading medical articles on my own. My brother always jokingly called me "Dr. Kildare" (for those of you old enogh to know who he was!) This is really breaking my heart. I have been disabled and unable to work for 14 years. I had to work at a nursing home full time for a year to prove to my Dr. that I could do it before he would sign the necessary papers for me to go to nursing school. I have now been working for two years and have made it through to the end of nursing school.

I just finished almost the whole nursing program and was failed in one of my clinicals. I don't really know why and I don't know what to do. My grades have been very good, I have lots of past experience as a CNA, an d I have even passed meds error free for many years. I made no drastic mistakes in clinical, but do get pretty nervous when being watched. I was told that I am disorganized even though I do not feel that I am and past employers have always complimented me on organization. I was told I don't know the nursing process, but my grades are 3.5 and my NLN's on this portion were 98 percentile and my class averaged 58 percentile. I am 57 years old and waiting another year to repeat my clinical is major at this age. I feel I am being discrimimnated against and don't know what to do. Can anyone help me? Is there another way to pass clinical or take the NCLEX? Thanks

I have suffered from fibro and CFIDS since the late 1980's, and would like to say some thing about the use of antiepileptics for treating fibro pain. Last summer I had a bout with trigeminal neuralgia and was put on Topamax for the pain. It turned out to be a miracle for me for my fibro and CFIDS pain symptoms. With so much less pain my depression,activity level, and so many other things in my life have made major improvements. My maintenance dose is 50MG HS.