Does your So. Cal. school do Clinical Testing- pass/fail basis?

[daizee9796]

If you are attending an LVN school in Southern California- does your school require you to pass clinical testing on site at your school? My school requires that you perform what ever designated skill at the end of each term, before the instructors. They either pass or fail you based on your performance. If you happen to fail, you are required to again perform your skill (Foley, Wound Care, IM Injection etc.), plus an additional 9 MORE! You must then pass all ten! What the??? If you don't pass, your future in continuing your education with the school is questionable. Forget all the hard work you've done in theory to maintain your 75%. Doesn't matter.

I am just curious because I've heard (you all know how stuff flies around) that not all schools do this... they don't even do clinical testing- period. Skills are taught and aquired, but students are never tested on them with a REQUIREMENT of passing (per the individual insturctor's preference- and they all differ). Why can't these schools be regulated somehow to operate more similarly? They seem to do what they wanna, how they wanna. Their methods change as they please. I know, I know- they're all very different BUSINESSES (notice I didn't write schools).

Seems like a ploy to fail you out of the term you're in, and then push you to reenroll (for a hefty fee of course) and start at the beginning of your most recent term.

Please comment on this practice if anyone would. I'd love to be enlightened.

[caliotter3]

Well, as you said, they are businesses. As are the state supported schools, even though they enjoy a better reputation as "institutions of higher learning".

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

I attended an LVN program in southern CA about 5 years ago. We simply attended clinical rotations and received a score on a scale of 1 to 4 based on how the instructor felt we performed. 4 was outstanding, 3 was good, 2 was satisfactory, and 1 was failing. We were not passed or failed on any individual skills.

[LVN2010M]

I Graduated my SoCal LVN course 2/08. and also had clinical training it was based on a pass/fail buut never had to do an additional 9. We had to do clinical make-ups on the provided days if we failed.