Scared of failing first year.

Hi all I’m coming towards the end of first year and I don’t know why but I’m just in such a flap. I’ve not done anything wrong and have had really good feedback so far on all my placements but I’m just so worried I’m not going to pass first year.
I’ve had 3 sets of absences two were due to my son being unwell and one was I had covid (recorded on epad and have already made up the hours). I was supposed to have part of my end point today with my assessor and academic assessor but my assessor has had to cancel. I’ve only got 3 weeks left and I’m in a right tiz about it all. Any words of wisdom? Am I worrying for no reason?

is this a mandatory placement? I’ve had many absences but everything turned out fine in the end

Hi all I’m coming towards the end of first year and I don’t know why but I’m just in such a flap. I’ve not done anything wrong and have had really good feedback so far on all my placements but I’m just so worried I’m not going to pass first year.
I’ve had 3 sets of absences two were due to my son being unwell and one was I had covid (recorded on epad and have already made up the hours). I was supposed to have part of my end point today with my assessor and academic assessor but my assessor has had to cancel. I’ve only got 3 weeks left and I’m in a right tiz about it all. Any words of wisdom? Am I worrying for no reason?

Hi

If you are short of placement hours then you'll be able to do those either during any holidays or time when you are not either at university or on current placement. If not you'll have to do them next academic term with you discussing this matter with your university course leader and placement officer as they will have to arrange things for you to do those hours you are short.

Your university studies if you have missed any of these then you should have been offered by your university course leader option of doing those online while you were absent but you can still ask for them to do those still and you just have to make sure you do those ok as otherwise they might fail you.

Placements are unfortunately mandatory.

Hope you get this sorted out soon as possible okay.


Then start to look forward to starting second year.


Newly qualified adult nurse 😉

Hey thanks for the reply! I’ll definitely meet all my hours for the placement. After this week I only need to meet just under 24hrs but I’m doing it part time. I guess I was just worried some nasty surprise might crop up and that I’d fail on that. I spoke to my practice assessor with uni earlier and she’s given lots of reassurance. I guess I’m just more worried about this one as it’s the final one for the year!
All good with the written work too thankfully just have the end of module assessment to do (I’m an OU student) thank you so much for your reply!

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Hi all I’m coming towards the end of first year and I don’t know why but I’m just in such a flap. I’ve not done anything wrong and have had really good feedback so far on all my placements but I’m just so worried I’m not going to pass first year.
I’ve had 3 sets of absences two were due to my son being unwell and one was I had covid (recorded on epad and have already made up the hours). I was supposed to have part of my end point today with my assessor and academic assessor but my assessor has had to cancel. I’ve only got 3 weeks left and I’m in a right tiz about it all. Any words of wisdom? Am I worrying for no reason?

Hi all I’m coming towards the end of first year and I don’t know why but I’m just in such a flap. I’ve not done anything wrong and have had really good feedback so far on all my placements but I’m just so worried I’m not going to pass first year.
I’ve had 3 sets of absences two were due to my son being unwell and one was I had covid (recorded on epad and have already made up the hours). I was supposed to have part of my end point today with my assessor and academic assessor but my assessor has had to cancel. I’ve only got 3 weeks left and I’m in a right tiz about it all. Any words of wisdom? Am I worrying for no reason?

Registered nurse and experienced practice assessor here.

From what you've said, you're 100% overthinking things.

- Missing 45 hours (for good reason) in a year isn't a reason to fail a student. Even if you've missed 45 hours in a year, that's only (less than) 6% of the hours you need for the whole of 1st year and you've already made that up. It's 2300 practice hours in total which is 767 per year.
- One of your assessors (practice or academic) having to cancel a meeting isn't your fault and isn't a reason for you to fail.
- If you've had nothing but good feedback, and nothing has been raised as an issue at midway, then the placement area can't fail you.

You'll be absolutely fine.

Hi

If you are short of placement hours then you'll be able to do those either during any holidays or time when you are not either at university or on current placement. If not you'll have to do them next academic term with you discussing this matter with your university course leader and placement officer as they will have to arrange things for you to do those hours you are short.

Your university studies if you have missed any of these then you should have been offered by your university course leader option of doing those online while you were absent but you can still ask for them to do those still and you just have to make sure you do those ok as otherwise they might fail you.

Placements are unfortunately mandatory.

Hope you get this sorted out soon as possible okay.


Then start to look forward to starting second year.


Newly qualified adult nurse 😉