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Hey! I'm joining late, but I was accepted recently as well! Would you please add me to the FB page? Sara Ilkenhans

I am torn between talking about my failed nursing school experience in my application for new nursing schools. A part of me feels like the experience will help me the second time around, but then I feel like the programs won't want someone who already failed a program once. Does anyone have any advice or thoughts on this? Thanks so much.

I applied to 2 schools over and over while trying to complete the prerequisites with good grades. My dream nursing school was just too hard to get into so I finally got into the community college after 2 or 3 cycles (basically one each semester). I couldn't really support myself so I relied on the schools at home so I could stay at home with my parents. I was accepted and started Fall 2013. 7 years after I graduated high school! I never quit going to school until I reached a point where I had no more classes to take. I completed one whole year and a summer clinical. I reached the following fall semester after having been conferenced and put on probation in the spring. I was not retaining the skills I was learning and I was so tired it showed when doing clinicals in the hospitals. That fall of 2014 I was kicked out of nursing school because I made the same type of error 3 times and because of the type of error, I can't go through that program again. I was absolutely devastated. I went from working 20 hours a week to working 40 hours just to keep my mind off of it, but it didn't help much. After letting the hurt subside a bit, I looked into other nursing schools, but nothing was really helpful for my situation. I ended up going to see an advisor at my dream nursing school that I never got into and they suggested a different degree and then pursuing a 2nd degree BSN or an accelerated BSN. I had so many classes that transferred. I chose a degree called Health Promotion. It is similar to Public Health, but a bit different. It wasn't the most interesting degree, but I felt like maybe this was a better route to take than trying another ADN program. This summer I am graduating with a degree in Health Promotion after only pursuing this degree for a year. Maybe you could look into what degree(s) will accept the most classes that you already have and set a timeline out to see how long it will take. Enlist an advisor to help you with that. I am 9 years out of high school and barely getting a degree I don't really care for, but it could help in the long run. Now I am applying to 5 different programs, because I am just tired of waiting to be a nurse. Not to mention I want to be a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner which is even more school. My dilemma now is, do I tell them I was in nursing school previously? Will this help because of experience? Or hurt because I failed? I know it's hard, but don't give up. Someone once told me, "some people get to take the straight forward path and some people have to take a more indirect path, but in the end they all get to the same place."