Devastated after recent assignment grade

[cookderosa]

I'm in the EC nursing ADN program and finished my first week of nursing core classes on Sunday. I received my first assignment grade back and got a 68.5. I'm crushed and feeling defeated like I haven't felt in a long time.
How do I recover from such an emotional defeat and move on to be successful? It feels like if I can't get something like this right maybe I should try a different career at this point.

Wow, what a kick in the gut.
I considered dropping out of TESU when I failed a DSST exam. Seriously, it was such a blow to my psyche that I thought "I knew I wasn't smart enough to get a college degree! I should just quit."

Obviously I didn't quit- but it was more damaging than I expected, and even now writing you about it I can still feel those butterflies.

I can only tell you that you're going to have other blows - if not from your writing, then from some a-hole nurse manager or a doctor or a <gasp> patient who challenges your whatever - knowledge, professionalism, judgment. It's going to happen again.

If I had any advice, it would be to work on ways to build your resilience, because even if you stopped pursuing nursing, you will still need to build this muscle. (which is something that I'm still not great at btw)