I am currently a junior at my college. This fall semester, the Nursing Department implemented a rule change that had not applied to previous classes. Previous classes were not doing well on their first NCLEX attempt. This made the school look bad (obviously). So in summer 2016, the Nursing Department implemented a new rule. Going forward, students needed to pass their HESI exams with a score of at least an 850, or be dismissed from the program. This rule was applied to all incoming classes, as well the current freshmen, sophomore, junior and senior classes.
My question is whether or not they have a right / are allowed to hold current classes to this rule, especially since it was changed in the middle of our careers. It was not a rule when we first began at this University, so I believe we should have been grandfathered in. My other question for you fine people is if you know of any cases like this, and whether or not there is anything we can do to change this rule.
If you need any clarification or have any questions that will help you understand, feel free to ask.
Any policy that nominally attempts to improve the quality of the educational product (the student) is a good thing.
The only problem is that doing this by trying to draw an absolute correlation between HESI scores and NCLEX pass rates is just another example of nurses in general not being very good at simple math and downright pathetic at statistical analysis as this analysis relates to weighing the most meaningful variables when evaluating whether or not a school fulfills its mission to graduate qualified cohort members in sufficient quantities to justify its exsistence.
If you look at the rapidly failing South University and others you will see that their NCLEX pass rates are good. But with graduation and retention rates at sub-pathetic, NYCLEX rates are a meaningless parameter of quality.
So if the BONs desire to evaluate nursing schools based on reality they need to stop the magical thinking and identify those schools that don't perform.
But the day that happens is the day capital no longer calls the tune.
You are not in the middle of your career, you're a student. You have no "right" to be grandfathered. Programs that get feedback (via NCLEX pass results, for example) that they need to make changes, make them. It won't be the first time in your "career" that you'll be expected to conform to a policy change, the decision for which you will have no expectation of participation or control.
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Any policy that nominally attempts to improve the quality of the educational product (the student) is a good thing.
The only problem is that doing this by trying to draw an absolute correlation between HESI scores and NCLEX pass rates is just another example of nurses in general not being very good at simple math and downright pathetic at statistical analysis as this analysis relates to weighing the most meaningful variables when evaluating whether or not a school fulfills its mission to graduate qualified cohort members in sufficient quantities to justify its exsistence.
If you look at the rapidly failing South University and others you will see that their NCLEX pass rates are good. But with graduation and retention rates at sub-pathetic, NYCLEX rates are a meaningless parameter of quality.
So if the BONs desire to evaluate nursing schools based on reality they need to stop the magical thinking and identify those schools that don't perform.
But the day that happens is the day capital no longer calls the tune.