ADN Program Failure rate

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Hi,

I am currently in an ADN program which lasts 2 years. I have noticed that the failure rate at my school is about 50% or even more. Is this a normal nursing school statistics or did I join hell??????

Specializes in Emergency; med-surg; mat-child.

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Why is this the case? What is it that brings these students down? If you're in the nursing program you have already completed A&P and other rigorous courses...so you are not a total dunce.

I just worry, I did really well in my prereqs....I would hate to find myself flunking out of nursing school!

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Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.
Why is this the case? What is it that brings these students down? If you're in the nursing program you have already completed A&P and other rigorous courses...so you are not a total dunce.

I just worry, I did really well in my prereqs....I would hate to find myself flunking out of nursing school!

I've heard from an instructor in my program that nationally getting a B+ in A&P is a good indicator of ability to successfully complete a nursing program. My school, being a community college with a bent towards "inclusion" of all, allows a minimum of a B-(80%) in those classes as a pre-req for applying to the nursing program. But then you get into the nursing program (which has a different grading scale than the rest of the school) and an 80% is a high C rather than a B-, and the cutoff for passing any nursing course is a 78.0% (low C), and it's often those who scraped by with a B- in A&P who aren't making the cut in nursing classes.

As long as you did well in your pre-reqs, I wouldn't worry too much. But if you scraped by in earlier classes, nursing classes are likely to be even more difficult.

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Specializes in Electrophysiology, Medical-Surgical ICU.

i got c's in both a&p's and get A's in B's iin all my nursing courses(graduate in May 2012)...a&p was hard everthing else wasnt really i even pulled an A in micro...everyone that gets a C in a&p is not waste of a spot in NS maybe they just found it harder than everything else...i know lots of people that got better than i did in a&p and they they dont have grades as good as mine!

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