Ready to just implode on myself

So, do you have your results on your finals yet?

Here's hoping that you did better than you think!!!

Any word yet?

I'm a first semester nursing who just finished his finals and think that I failed my Pharmoclogy class and Nursing Technologies class. This really is the single most devastating thing that's ever happened to me and I just wanted to ask if anyone was ever im my shoes. I love the profession and am proud to say that I did great in the clinical setting. I did great as far as performance and comprehension goes, but I found myself lacking in the actual course work. My professor even expressed her concern because my grades in class were not correlating with my performance in the hospital.

I really do love Nursing and find helping people to be one of the greatest joys out there, I just hope that people in my school see that and let my redeem myself.

I'm a freaked out 20 year old and am hoping that some of you wonderful Nurses/ Nursing Students can impart some words of wisdom.

If you did fail, then worst case scenario is - generally speaking - that you would have to simply re-start the program next year.

As overwhelmingly depressing as that probably sounds, it's not the end of the line my friend. Don't give up just yet.

I'm finishing up my first semester as well. My own entry into the nursing program actually did get delayed for a year, because there was a mix-up in communication between several academic advisors at my school regarding the processing of my transcripts. (Long story.) This happened after I'd already spent a year and a half taking pre-reqs and working full time. I was informed of the circumstances in May of that year (06), right before the application deadline - and believe me, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I spent a whole year trying not to be miserable as I took some unnecessary electives to correct a clerical error. It's been hard, and of course school isn't over yet, but yeah...

Actually a coworker at a former job once told me that it took her 24 years to complete her bachelors. She had to drop out at one point b/c family and life events kept pushing school out of the picture. After that, she kept trying to get back into school, but things kept coming up. But she never lost sight of her goal, and eventually did go back and finish. If that's not determination, I don't know what is.

Hope this helps, man. Keep us posted...