How are you doing guys. Happy Newyear to everyone!
I am researching about schools in connecticut.I used to live in Massachussets and Currently I am living in downsouth and I have finished all my prereq's except micro and am planning to move back upnorth and I am reasearching on nursing schools upnorth. Since admission and graduation requirement plus grading policy are vital criteria to consider in choosing school, i based my reaearch on those criterias.
I already applied to the CT communuty college system'a RN program for fall 2009. Goodwin college is also one of the schools I am also trying to add to my application but when I was reading on there website, I realized that they have this -
"A student is not considered a graduate until (s)he scores at least
"103" on the National League for Nursing Exit Exam. The exam may be attempted twice. If the student is not successful (s)he must
work with faculty and achieve an 80 percent on three (3) practice National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) exams. These students
may then re-attempt the exam twice. If they still do not achieve the desired score, they will have failed out of the program.
This seems to be the requirement we have to meet at the end of program. What surprise me though, after all those works and rigorous five semseters,if any student fails to score the required scores, that means , the student failed out and he/she will not be graduating.Anyway what do you think, I am thinking that condition is kind of too harsh.What do u think.
My research also had shown that there are more options for nursing school in Mass, NY, than CT. I do not want to move to NY because commuting can be a very hard one.
Overall I will like to apply to any of the three states which will offer me the mobility and different options to complete my nursing education, eventhough if I start with LPN, i don't mind.
Wow, LPN on CT are very expensive except of state technical schools that can be very hard to get into.
Thanks,any advice will be gretly appreciated.:nuke:
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