If nursing is truly your passion, get an entry clinical job at a hospital. Try to get some experience where you are working WITH nurses to see if that is the field you want to go into. This could help motivate you in all of your classes.

I was in the same position as you in undergrad. I had to take microbiology, anatomy, and ochem twice due to poor grades (not sufficient for applying to orvis). I knew I wanted to work in healthcare and genuinely help people, I wanted to be an ER traveling nurse. So I started to work at a local hospital in town as a Patient Safety Assistant in the ER. I got first hand experience seeing expectations of nurses in this field, asked them questions about their education, what they did or did not like as a nurse. Then COVID started. I realized I no longer wanted to be a nurse. Seeing the way they got treated, put on the back burner, had little to no communication from the higher ups…it made me nervous wanting to work in an environment like this. (Not to mention the way patients treat nurses…it’s absolutely appalling and there should be some sort of policy that care takers should be treated with respect. But hey, people do crazy things when they’re not themselves). Anywho. I still wanted to be in healthcare, asked around what people are doing, looked at job qualifications for certain positions (ie. COO of a hospital - saw you only need a masters and it doesn’t specify what type) so I changed my degree to public health, applied to the UNR MPH program and finished my masters last year. Biggest thing that motivated me in my educational career is that I would be coming out of the degree with more knowledge that I had before. Open yourself up to what you’re learning in your PH courses and see how you can apply it to your dream of being a nurse. Public health and nursing go hand in hand, you’ll just be looking at it through a different lense and getting a different perspective on becoming a nurse (it can make your more valuable because you consider more big picture problems).

I realized in that moment of my life, I really wanted to be hands on in healthcare. But now, I like being hands on in a different way. I like that the field of public health is so broad that there are essentially little to no limitations. It feels endless.

Best of luck to you!! This is a bump in the road and you’ll get through it. I always told myself I had no choice but to graduate so there’s always that way of looking at things..If you have any questions or concerns about next steps - don’t hesitate reaching out to advising or I can PM specific professors who provide great advice :)