Are you graded on your clinicals?

[Bonny619]

It sounds like some of you are, or im just not understanding the lingo.

We are given a grade for the nursing course, but the clinical is just pass or fail.

Is this common?

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

Pass/Fail, with a mid-term assessment of your standing given so you can improve if necessary. An unsatisfactory standing in any area by the end of that clinical assignment means you fail the course. Paperwork is also a pass/fail for clinicals, and subject to the same mid-term assessment.

[texas2007, BSN, RN]

Ours clinicals are all graded A/B/C etc. Our only pass/fail classes are the skills classes. At the beginning of clinical, they actually hand around a sheet of paper with "A" behavior, "B" behavior, "C" behavior etc listed. I personally find the sheet meaningless because I don't think anybody is 100% "A" or 100% "B" etc. One problem I had with it was that even though they had this sheet with a grading standard, it seemed that there were still differences between the different instructors when the final grades were assigned. Sure, it's stressful but I think I end up making myself learn more because of it.

[Annabelle57]

Every clinical we have has a counterpart lecture course to go with it - the lecture course gets a letter grade, the clinical gets a pass/fail. But a lot of the work that gets graded in our clinicals gets factored into our lecture grade, so even though the clinical may say "pass" or "fail", the lecture grade is sort of a blend between the two.

[luvmy2angels]

Our clinicals were also pass or fail.

[DorkyStudentNurse]

Every clinical we have has a counterpart lecture course to go with it - the lecture course gets a letter grade, the clinical gets a pass/fail. But a lot of the work that gets graded in our clinicals gets factored into our lecture grade, so even though the clinical may say "pass" or "fail", the lecture grade is sort of a blend between the two.

Ditto at my school.