Cheating in the Classroom

**VickyRN** · Aug 04, 2009, 12:43 PM

Re: Cheating in the Classroom

Originally Posted by Moogie

I'm concerned about cheating in prerequisites as well as in nursing courses. Seems to me that the extreme competitiveness of many programs may tempt a lot of students to cheat. How can someone be a successful nursing student if he/she cheated on the prereqs?

I'm not discounting the difficulty of some science prereq or co-req courses (such as anatomy or organic chemistry), but because of grade inflation it is a whole lot easier to get an "A" in most college-level courses than it used to be. Then, when the student is finally admitted into a nursing program, what a shock! A "C" truly is average, and "As" are rare.

*Moogie* · Aug 04, 2009, 04:24 PM

Re: Cheating in the Classroom

Originally Posted by VickyRN

I'm not discounting the difficulty of some science prereq or co-req courses (such as anatomy or organic chemistry), but because of grade inflation it is a whole lot easier to get an "A" in most college-level courses than it used to be. Then, when the student is finally admitted into a nursing program, what a shock! A "C" truly is average, and "As" are rare.

That's a really good point. Was talking to the head of a graduate program once who said that if the high GPAs that are required for admission today were required back when he was a pre-nursing student, he doubts he would have ever gotten into a program. But back in the day, an A WAS an A and a C was average in pre-reqs as well as in nursing courses.

LenaLoo · Aug 05, 2009, 05:09 PM

Re: Cheating in the Classroom

There were girls in my class that cheated. They didn't pass the NCLEX.

jdethman · Sep 06, 2009, 11:13 AM

Re: Cheating in the Classroom

I don't want to be defending cheaters, but its up to the instructors to prevent it. I never cheated in nursing school, but was never in a position where their was a high probability that I was going to fail. Many nursing students are weak students. They have gambled all their money, job, family respect their whole lives on this thing we call nursing school. Nursing school that has more in common with USMC boot camp that college (I have been through both). Many posters on this site are elite nurses and I would bet many where exceptional students so of course we didn't cheat. I am not saying that cheaters should not be kicked out and never be aloud to return. I think they should. What we should avoid it long winded diatribes of the lack of integrity in students, when we should be talking about lack of security of testing in the class room. I understand the argument if the cheat they will be bad nurses, but there are plenty of lazy unreliable nurses that never cheated.

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Cheating in the Classroom

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