Our department tutor, who is also in the RN program and highly intelligent, just failed Med/surg II(our srping semester) with a 78%. There were no greviences that he could file, no student reps to talk to and the dept. chair basically said:to bad so sad. If you can't pass our tests, then you can't be in our program.
The reason I am upset is because not only is he a good friend, but also I believe that the system they have at my school is kind of messed up. So I am wondering if all nursing programs are like this:
Must have an 80% to pass. There will be no extra credit given, Clinicals do not count as a grade, so even if you are a fantastic "on the floor student", you still are SOL if you get anything lower than an 80%
Right from the beginning, our questions are N-CLEX style, which makes them more difficult than usual. In fact our instructors make them "harder" than NCLEX questions so that they have a high pass rate. Our school is known for it's pass rate of 98% on the NCLEX, but at what cost? By that time, good nurses have failed the program. Typically, out of 120 students only 20-30 are left to take the NCLEX anyhow, the rest have already failed out,
8-16 chapters on 1 test with only 1-2 weeks study time.
Our clinicals are back to back, we have from the time we leave the first clinical to the time we start the next morning to fill out our 14 page assessment forms, write a 12 page case study, write a diagnostic card, memorize, prepare and label drug cards for ALL drugs given to the client, fill out a lab sheet and write a minimum 1 page, per abnormal lab. Usually we have about 12 hours to do all of that! It;s exhausting!
There is probably a bunch of other stuff I could talk about as well, but I won't go on!
Our department tutor, who is also in the RN program and highly intelligent, just failed Med/surg II(our srping semester) with a 78%. There were no greviences that he could file, no student reps to talk to and the dept. chair basically said:to bad so sad. If you can't pass our tests, then you can't be in our program.
The reason I am upset is because not only is he a good friend, but also I believe that the system they have at my school is kind of messed up. So I am wondering if all nursing programs are like this:
Must have an 80% to pass. There will be no extra credit given, Clinicals do not count as a grade, so even if you are a fantastic "on the floor student", you still are SOL if you get anything lower than an 80%
Right from the beginning, our questions are N-CLEX style, which makes them more difficult than usual. In fact our instructors make them "harder" than NCLEX questions so that they have a high pass rate. Our school is known for it's pass rate of 98% on the NCLEX, but at what cost? By that time, good nurses have failed the program. Typically, out of 120 students only 20-30 are left to take the NCLEX anyhow, the rest have already failed out,
8-16 chapters on 1 test with only 1-2 weeks study time.
Our clinicals are back to back, we have from the time we leave the first clinical to the time we start the next morning to fill out our 14 page assessment forms, write a 12 page case study, write a diagnostic card, memorize, prepare and label drug cards for ALL drugs given to the client, fill out a lab sheet and write a minimum 1 page, per abnormal lab. Usually we have about 12 hours to do all of that! It;s exhausting!
There is probably a bunch of other stuff I could talk about as well, but I won't go on!