LPN44yrs

What great feed back! I am really looking forward to returning to school now. Reading these posts, I realize that my poor grades had more to do with the emotional state I was in at those times. When I became a nurse I was very disapointed over the patient overload and there was a small voice in the back of my head whispering "Do you really want to live with this stress for the rest of your life?" After reading theses posts and doing some soul searching I realized that I had some unresolved doubts about my new career that greatly interfered with my focus in the classroom. Thank you so much for your feedback. I really don't want to give up on being an RN and now I am pointed in the right direction to obtain my goal.

I have been an LPN for four years. I did very well in nursing school having kept a B average. Most of my pre reqs for RN are done and I recieved an A in all of them. Until....I reached A&P1and it all went down hill. I recieved my first F in college on the first and second test AND another F on the first quiz. So I took a year off from school under the assumption that I was just burnt out and took the class a second time. Again more Fs and I attributed it to too many work hours and down sized my life to make more room for studying and took the class a third time and still got an F on the first and second test. I dropped out feeling that I'm not so smart after all. This is a shame because I feel that I'm a very good nurse and have recieved multiple compliments from co-workers such as "You were born to be a nurse" and "You should keep going to ARNP" I haven't been in school now for two years and I feel like I may just not be smart enough to be an RN.

Not sure if I should give up dream of becoming an RN