Stupid Things that get you kicked out of nursing school

[IvoryLena]

During my first semester one of my peers was kicked out for not passing a calculations test. She already was working in home health and a high A on all of her test and did great in clinical. The only thing she failed was a single calculations test which was the first calculations test we ever took. Come to find out prior semester students were allowed to retake the test and get tutoring by instructors. She just needed a little help with the math but instead they failed her at the very end of the semester after she had done all the work for funds! I really felt quite bad for her, she would have had a better grade than I did!

Second semester, One of my fellow peers who had been a bad teen was kicked out for have a criminal record as a minor. Instead of telling him they werent going to let him go to clinicals and pass meds they let him get all the way through fundamentals and then in adult one said sorry your out of the program. An he talked to the nursing dean about his record before entering the program and she had no problems!:angryfire

[Shanna349]

Wow. I feel so fortunate after reading these horror stories.

Med calc was easy. Miss no more than 3. Retries were accepted. Clinicals have been a wonderful experience. They dont even care if your shoes are white or not. We wear green scrubs with our school logo and name embroidered on the front unless the hospital has a different policy. Everything has been a great experince and we have lost none to anything unreasonable. The instructors take suggestions and try their best to accomidate.

Is this rare for a nursing school?

Dec '05 Grad

[Super_RN, BSN, RN]

OK you wanted to hear about stupid things that get you kicked out of nursing school. These are some stupid things some of my classmates did.

1. Going to lunch and having a margarita without removing your school name badges and someone calls the school before you get back to class.

2. At clinicals discussing patients or hospital staff in the elevator, again with your namebadge boldly stating your school and name.

3. Leaving clinicals to run a quick errand thinking nobody will miss you.

4. Stealing someones careplan and using it as your own and letting two of your friends copy the same identical careplan. HELLO!

5. Getting caught with the doc in the stairwell with his pants unzipped while his wife the DON is talking to your instructor.

6. Talking smart to a patient that happens to be the president of the facilities niece during clinicals.

7. Not showing up for your groups community assessment and thinking they will just write your name on the project.

8. Making your ex mad and he turns you in for child abuse and you get arrested during clinicals. This takes about 6 monthes and many parenting classes to clear up. Seems that when the child tells the truth they decide the child might be protecting you.

9. Not showing up for clinicals and they realize that your house has burned down every clinical, and your grandmother has died several times as well.

10. Pushing or administering any med the school has forbidden you to give like insulin just because the nurse told you go ahead it will be alright I will watch you, and it ends up being a med error.

11. Cussing out your ex's girlfriend while talking on your cellphone in the cafeteria.

12. Chit Chatting with the nurses during clinicals and telling them how much your school SUCKS!

13. Using the hospital computer to look at records of interesting people in the hospital that you are not assigned to.

14. During clinicals you confronting one of your fellow classmates and trying to start a fight in the parking lot. They charge you with intimidation and the school decides for their safety you can not come back to school until the person you intimidated graduates.

15. Your freshman year you get a new clinical patient and you tell her you can't turn and reposition her because she is too heavy and there is not enough staff there to move her rear and the patient turns out to be a Senior Instructor that has cancer and is too weak to take care of herself. She did make a full recovery and you were remembered.

These are just a few of the things I witnessed when I was in school that got people removed from school.

Oh my gosh! The ignorance of some people! I have to admit, some of those made me laugh!

[Fun2, BSN, RN]

I doubt it is rare, but I'm happy you found one that is a good one. I hope my future RN classes/clinicals are just as pleasant! :)

Please tell me you are in the DallasCCCD! LOL

Wow. I feel so fortunate after reading these horror stories.

Med calc was easy. Miss no more than 3. Retries were accepted. Clinicals have been a wonderful experience. They dont even care if your shoes are white or not. We wear green scrubs with our school logo and name embroidered on the front unless the hospital has a different policy. Everything has been a great experince and we have lost none to anything unreasonable. The instructors take suggestions and try their best to accomidate.

Is this rare for a nursing school?

Dec '05 Grad

[Shanna349]

I doubt it is rare, but I'm happy you found one that is a good one. I hope my future RN classes/clinicals are just as pleasant! :)

Please tell me you are in the DallasCCCD! LOL

I AM! I'm a Brookhaven senior. No GPA contest, no long waiting list. I know I can't mention any names here, but all I will say is that our school is the best ADN program I know of in DFW. I'm a little biased...hehe

[Fun2, BSN, RN]

I AM! I'm a Brookhaven senior. No GPA contest, no long waiting list. I know I can't mention any names here, but all I will say is that our school is the best ADN program I know of in DFW. I'm a little biased...hehe

Ooops, I replied to your PM before I read this. lol

Congrats! :) If I don't get in to NLC/ECC for Spring '06, and "IF" I can manage to pass chemistry 1411 that I am taking right now, then I may be applying to BHC for Fall as well as NCL & ECC again.

I'd be a little worried about the interview section.

After I get in: Have extra stethoscope, shoes, bandage scissors, pens, & calculator (you never know). lol Anything else?

Any other tips to remember in order to not get kicked out for stupid reasons? ...things in my control?

[elizabells, BSN, RN]

We had one med calc test during orientation - which was postponed bc originally it was a pop quiz and everyone freaked out - we had been told to buy the book over the spring and study on our own, and that we would be tested - but OOOOH, we only got a couple of hours notice, so a stink was raised. I'm honestly not sure what score you had to get, or what score I did get - they just said if you didn't do "well" you'd get an email from the director to come in for extra help. The lesson? The more fancypants the school is (I'm at an Ivy League), the more they accomodate you, bc they aren't about to lose your 60K/yr tuition!!!

My motto: Just because something sucks doesn't make it unfair, and it doesn't mean someone is deliberately screwing you over.

[mattsmom81]

Oh my gosh! The ignorance of some people! I have to admit, some of those made me laugh!

Yup me too...

[Hoosiernurse, ADN, RN]

My school has a nice approach to med tests. We get to take it three times. If we don't pass the third time, they tutor each student individually and let them take it a fourth time. Basically, they will work with you until you learn it. They said after the post-tutor failure, they might start to talk with you about if nursing is a good fit.

I'm glad I don't live in some your states! Our school has three math tests and you must pass each of them with at least an 85%, and you get three tries on each of them. I do not agree that not having 100% is some kind of indication that you would mess up a bunch of doses on the floor. On a test, I just have to cough up the info or blow it. In real life I'd have a calculator, notes about the formulas in case I forgot, people I could check with to make sure my dosage was correct, and lots of resources to make sure what I was doing was safe. I'm glad our state understands that, and maybe from now on I won't whine so much about how hard our program is!

AND, we also don't have to test out of each skill. We have four skills in this first class we have to pass in two tries or we're out. The rest we have to pass, but we get several chances (in the earnest hope we won't take more than two tries on anything). Tomorrow I am redoing my bed bath because the first time I walked away from a bed in the up position. VERY UPSETTING! Today I passed the first time on my repositioning skill :roll

Cara

[gwt]

In my program, by the time they give us algebra, stats, gen chem and phys chem, we were doing dimensional analysis in our sleep. We have Henkes Med Math that follows us through the rest of school. :)

G

[lake girl]

What I cannot understand is that they expect a student to be without humor. They also expect a student to know everything without being taught. In clinical they just treat you like you should know things before they even teach you.

[morningland]

In our program, year one students have to get a 90% on the med tests and you have three strikes then you fail. In the second year, you have to get a 100% but your get three strikes.

[vegas2009]

In our program, year one students have to get a 90% on the med tests and you have three strikes then you fail. In the second year, you have to get a 100% but your get three strikes.

Interesting, what school is this? Or what state is the school in?