Nursing school is too easy!

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I know I shouldn't be upset about this, but I really think our school is trying hard to NOT have anyone fail out. This last term was really bad. Basically we had a review before the tests...and the review consisted of paraphrasing the actual test itself. The instructors would not go over every question, so there were still a few surprises. But all we had to do was listen well on the review and it was easy to get an A. We took some very critical classes too, like Pharm II, OB/Peds and health assessment. The results of making things so easy for us was 1. the lazy people still did bad, because they are lazy. 2. For those of us who care, we really did not have to study at all and all got A's. And we had the same "easy" instructor for pharm I, and now many of us feel we don't know jack crap about meds.

In many ways I feel I'm being cheated out of an education because they are catering to the lazy stupid people in class. But on the other hand part of me says I should just put the blinders on, get through school with an easy 4.0GPA and don't worry about it.

Nursing school is easy? You've got to be kidding me. My nursing program is suicidal.

Really, I think the key question that needs to be answered before we can judge your program fairly is, what is their NCLEX pass rate? If they have a high pass rate they must be doing something right, regardless of how you feel about the level of difficulty for the course.

Tests do teach you in as much as you tend to remember the correct answer for things you got wrong, after the fact. I don't agree with teaching to a test, however if the review is going over the key ideas to focus on because those are the most important things, I don't necessarily have a problem with it.

My advice, if you think it is too easy, is to push yourself. Do more than necessary. Test yourself with other tests available out there. That should give you a pretty good idea of how good a job your school is doing.

Just out of curiosity, what type of program and what semester are you in, OP?

I just want to ditto this- we had a pharm teacher who was frequently getting push back from the administration about how she needed to make the class harder, but those of us who had her as a teacher did *really* well as a whole on the pharm HESI. Maybe you're learning more than you realize?

And maybe you're just really smart- it's been known to happen ;)

Thanks for all the feedback. Let me shed some further light. The program is accelerated AASN program. I just started term five out of six. I know that my post is somewhat whiny, and that's OK. I mostly read on here about how other programs and instructors are super hard, and that's why I wanted to share my thoughts. I think that I'm probably learning much more than I'm giving myself credit for, and all-in-all the school is not a complete cake walk. I do still have to do homework and study, and maybe it just comes a little easy for me. The school, overall, has a pretty high NCLEX pass rate. However the last term to test was the worst they've had in a long time @ 65%. It was a combination of many things including a bunch of lazy students who didn't do the remediation from the ATI's, but also the school had changed a lot of things right towards the end which effected that group.

I am a little surprised that no one has ever posted that school was too easy. I can't be that big of a jerk, can I?

I actually feel the same way about my school so far. But I'm in my first semester. I just find it sooo basic right now and that they're not trying to weed anyone out at all. But I don't know, I'm only 6 weeks in... so I guess I can't really judge that much yet. But I have a full schedule and I work and still have an active social life and I feel like I still have ample time to spare... and I've had 3 tests so far and gotten 98, 99 and 99% on them... the average for all of the nursing students right now is 89% and the lowest average is 60%... I dunno, I guess I'll see how it progresses... maybe it'll get harder. I've just heard so many times that your first semester is the worst.

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What is "pretty high" NCLEX pass rate? I'm pretty uneasy reading that their last term was 65%. That is horrible. I've actually never heard of a school that has ever gotten that low of a passing rate. If it is easy for you, great, study up on NCLEX and you should be good to go.

than i would say you dont go to a very good nursing school. why dont you look into their nclex passing rate. unless you are one of those people that can read the book once or hear it once and understand and be able to apply it. either way the reading and assignments alone are time consuming.

I dislike my school for the opposite reason. They try to fail you out so they can keep their 100% pass rate that they advertise. However, we are all so scared to make a mistake we learn nothing about being a nurse only survivng clinicals. I just study the heck out of my NCLEX books when I have a spare minute. I really like the ones that break it down into sections so that it correlates with what I'm learning that week. Best of luck to you!

My nursing school is the same exact way - 100% NCLEX pass rate for three years straight. The rumor is that each class starts with 100-110 students and by the time the students get their RN - there are only 30-40 students left graduating.

This reminds me - I gotta get off this computer and go study. =D

What school are you in, Maghunter?

I wish I could just have ONE day of easy. This has been harder than I could EVER imagine and I am so tired.

Your post blows me away.

My nursing school is the same exact way - 100% NCLEX pass rate for three years straight. The rumor is that each class starts with 100-110 students and by the time the students get their RN - there are only 30-40 students left graduating.

High pass rates are what keep nursing programs in business, and accredited.

OP: it sounds like your school is working on some damage-control strategies for that low pass rate. I would think they'd be going the opposite way; making it tougher, using the "weeding out method" (BTW, I hate that expression), therefore increasing their pass rate. They are likely under careful scrutiny right now.

Maghunter I don't believe what you are saying and I'm pretty sure is not true. If it's true as you claiming what is the name of your school then?

You know this thread is from 2010, right? :whistling:

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