How many people who start NS finish?

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Hello everybody. I was just wondering. How many people actually finish nursing school? Or more specifically, how many drop?

I know at my college they let in 150 people into the program each year (50 people Fall, Winter and Spring Quarters). There are many who drop out of my math classes and science classes who told me they were doing nursing. It seems that a LOT of people go there for nursing but most seem to quit that goal after only 1-2 quarters. Does anybody have any statistics?

Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
As for the NCLEX style questions:

These tests are multiple choice but there are usually 2 to 3 answers that all could be correct, you have to be able to choose the most correct answer. There was a thread that had a joke NCLEX style question.

Which of the following is red?

a. Blue

b. dark red

c. light red

d. red

Of course this was a joke, but at the same time there is some truth to it.

Yup its about picking the mostest rightest one.

:lol2:

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Specializes in Neurovascular, Ortho, Community Health.

A LOT of people are 'weaned out' during the prereq's b/c the science courses can be pretty difficult, especially in a b.s.n./rn program. I think this also continues with basic med-surg. You get blitzed with information and I think a lot of people realize that nursing isn't the slice of cutesie pie they thought it might be. Hey, you actually have to have brains! lol

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Well, we lost 7 today! We have one last test left before the final and who knows how many will make it to that point. Our school adopted a 76 test average to be able to take the final, plus maintaining that 76 test average after the final. The final is cumulative, 28 chapters I believe, in a 100 question test. They add all the other graded materials AFTER the tests are evaluated. Our tests cover anywhere from 3-5 chapters and have between 30-45 questions per test. So, sometimes even missing 3-4 can be a royal problem. We have 8 tests total in a 12 week period. Our clinicals and skills tests are pass/fail.

It is doable but you have to find what works for you studying and retaining the information. You should find at LEAST 1 other person who is like-minded to study with. Study groups, who are like-minded and challenge one another, seem to be the way to go. We have a few who isolate and study alone and are doing fine too.

I have to say that with our schedule even 1 test can cause some serious concern regarding test averages.

The "hard" part is getting out of the "black and white" answering system most of us are accustomed to in "regular" classes. The majority of the questions and answers are not black and white but are a result of you knowing the basic information presented in class and in your text and being able to apply that to "real world" scenarios in the form of test questions. There are a lot of new questions that you must choose all that apply, sounds easy until you really start to analyze the information and feel a sudden sense of dread, LOL, I HATE those questions!

Any way, it is possible, like I said earlier people do it all the time, but the reality is a lot of people don't, can't and won't make it thru. You have to decide how badly you want it, what you are willing to do and be without, what you are willing to exchange for your normal recreation time to account for study time, and most of all, you HAVE to have the desire to pick yourself up, dust off, and move forward everyday. If you want it bad enough, you can make it happen!

Wow! Lots of responses. I really hope I'm simply not taking this whole thing too lightly because up until this point I seen it as a very 'doable' task. I say doable because I sure as heck wouldn't say easy but I didn't think it would be super hard either.

By doable I mean I think that is something I can accomplish with lots of study and focus and get by with decent grades not up late nights thinking "OH OH GOD OH GOD I'M GOING TO FAIL THAT TEST TOMORROW AND GET KICKED OUT!!!!"

I mean, I know it is going to be very challenging. But it isn't going to be something where everybody is struggling to get just a passing grade is it?:banghead:

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we started with about 300, now, im doing my last semester, they are 18 of us:(

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That's ridiculous! A nursing program that graduates less than 10% of it's students should be investigated. Nursing school isn't easy but how can it be that 282 people fail?

we started with about 300, now, im doing my last semester, they are 18 of us:(
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many people quit, many didnt pass, its tough......and i dont think everyone will pass the last semester ( there are additional 40 students in the evening, but im not sure how many they started with).....there is no waiting list, so everyone who has decent gpa can get it...

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Specializes in Urgent Care NP, Emergency Nursing, Camp Nursing.

If you want to know the admission and graduation rates for schools in your area, go to your state's Board of Nursing website. They should have and post the statistics.

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
Hello everybody. I was just wondering. How many people actually finish nursing school? Or more specifically, how many drop?

I know at my college they let in 150 people into the program each year (50 people Fall, Winter and Spring Quarters). There are many who drop out of my math classes and science classes who told me they were doing nursing. It seems that a LOT of people go there for nursing but most seem to quit that goal after only 1-2 quarters. Does anybody have any statistics?

Nobody has quit our program this far, but we have lost a few, first semester we lost I think it was 7 or 8. We started with 50. Today was our final for the first half of the semester and so far I know of 4 that didn't make it to continue on with our second half of the semester, and we lost 1 a few weeks ago from them working for the hospital and got fired and it must have been on bad terms because the hospital said they couldn't do clinicals there either. We have 2 hospital companies here but our OB and Mental Clinicals are only at this one companies so there is no way they could continue in our program.

Will know over the next day if anymore then the 4 didn't pass this class because we just got grades after school today and the exam was this morning.

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Specializes in acute care.

Started with ~170 (PTs and FTs, maybe ~ 35 were PTs)...ending with less than 50 of the original FTs

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Specializes in SNU/SNF/MedSurg, SPCU Ortho/Neuro/Spine.

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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

I don't have general statistics, but my school personally has a 90% retention rate and 95% NCLEX pass rate within 60 days of graduation.

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After three semesters, my BSN cohort has lost 33% of its starting students.

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