Drop out rate

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Out of curiosity what would you say your programs drop out rate would be. Ie 100 students in the behining 43 graduate equalling a 67% drop out rate

Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.
Good examples I want to know more reasons people drop out and percentage wise. Like is it more likely someone will drop out due to failing or for health and family reasons. From what you've all seen

Of the people who left the program (I don't like to say 'dropped out' because it makes it sound like a voluntary choice), I'd say it's about 20% family reasons (including pregnancy) and 80% failing a class.

I'd guess that so far in my program, ~10% failed fundamentals, ~15% failed Med-Surg I, 0% failed OB/Peds, ~15% Med-Surg II. These are very estimated numbers, because I don't always know for sure if someone failed or dropped, nor do I always know if someone was in my original cohort of 80 or if they joined up somewhere along the way.

In my program, I put the high failure rate in Med-Surg II on the instructor rather than the coursework. The class itself wasn't necessarily that much harder than Med-Surg I, but the instruction was very sub-standard, IMO. If the instructor who taught Med-Surg I had also taught Med-Surg II, I think the failure rate would have been

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This is exactly ehat I wanted I feel as if your school is very strict what would be failing in your school anything under what number

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Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.
This is exactly ehat I wanted I feel as if your school is very strict what would be failing in your school anything under what number

Our pass/fail percentage is 78.0% -- if you get a 77.999%, you fail the course.

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Brutal!

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Specializes in Nursing Education, CVICU, Float Pool.

Well we accepted 52, but only 47 actually started FAll 2011. Currently, there are 23 of us, we lost one this past week.

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What happened to your classmates

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Specializes in Nursing Education, CVICU, Float Pool.

Some of them about 3 or 4 just felt they couldn't do it or decided that nursing wasn't for them. The rest were done out by test grades or clinical issues.

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Specializes in Nursing Education, CVICU, Float Pool.
Our pass/fail percentage is 78.0% -- if you get a 77.999%, you fail the course.

Ours is 80%. You must have a semester testing average of 80% just to take the final exam. If you don't have that 80% testing average going into the final, you are dismissed. Whatever you make on the final, at this point, doesn't truly matter, as long as it doesn't drop your overall class average below 80%. If your class average drops below 80% after the final, you are dismissed.

Our program director and instructors are considering implementing the policy that you must also make and 80% on the final exam in order to stay in the program. Ughhhh! Most people tend to do better on finals though, so I guess it's not that bad.

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Specializes in Peds PACU & Peds Psych.

My school seems to average about 50% (that drop out of flunk out).

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=\ weeding out I guess

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Specializes in ICU.

My class started with 66; 22 of us graduated. A passing grade was 84% or above; any score of 83 or less was automatic failure. If you failed, you had to wait one year to get back in.

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That's terrible

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