Switched my major

[joanna62094]

Well I just recently switched my major from Nursing to Public Health. I was in my junior year of nursing school in my UDC 1 first clinical rotation, and I was MISERABLE. I literally would dread getting up and going to school, even though I enjoyed the hospital, I just hated the exams. Day in and day out, all I would do was study and I wasn't getting good grades. I kept getting 70's on the exams, (need a 74.5 to pass without a strike) and I just couldn't take it. I made it to the end of the semester ended up doing fine in three classes with C's, but my UDC 1 clinical class even though I passed everything throughout the semester, I failed the Hesi. We had to get a 750 to get a 60%, anything under that was an automatic 0 for the 10% of our grade. Therefore, since my average was a 76, I lost 10 points off my grade and ended up with a D IN THE CLASS. I have never in my entire life, ever gotten a D. I feel appalled and shameful, I feel like all the hard work I put into this was just thrown out the window. Now, I feel lost and switched my major to PH because I know I like the health field. I just am very sad, any advise about my new major would be good.

[na-na]

I just want you to know that you are not alone. I failed the maternity/ob Hesi in my school and now I am out of the program and have to retake the class. Initially, I was dissappointed, angry, and cried for two weeks. I think what hurt me the most is the fact that I was passing OB/PEDS, so it's not like I do not know the material, its just that I do not know how to study/pass the HESI. Since we are on our christmas break, I have purchased the HESI comprehensive book and have been studying form that, if your school uses Evolve you can use that to study as well. If nursing is what you want to, keep striving to achieve your goal but if you feel miserable in school or clinicals and find that you don't like nursing then it would be best to change your major and study something you will enjoy doing. For, me I motivate myself by telling myself that I have just 2 classes left and I will accomplish my dream of becoming a nurse. I have to keep going. We can all motivate each other because nursing is not easy.

[FutureNurseInfo]

Hi there,

I am so sorry to hear you had tough times in your first semester. I am in my initial stages of becoming a nurse (taking some pre-reqs), and everything is still ahead, but I just hope that by switching to PH you made the right decision. Have you thought this through? Are you sure you will not regret this decision in a few days/weeks/months? If this was your first fail, did you consider retaking the course, if at all possible?

[joanna62094]

Thanks so much for your reply! Yes I could have been pushed back another 6 months and retaken the whole class, but it's just not worth it for me. It's a whole life of studying that I don't want anymore, I thought I did. But I am more of a laid back person, I don't want to have a stressful job. Some of these girls in the program are such Type A personalities, and I couldn't be around them anymore. I mean they don't have a life, they study 24 7, and I can't do that. I need a major that's going to be in the health care profession, but something where I can enjoy it more and not be stressed out everyday. I mean I have such bad anxiety as it is, so maybe nursing just wasn't for me. It turned me into an awful person, and I feel like a weight has been lifted off my chest since I switched majors.