Help! School won't release us for NCLEX

Check with your state board of nursing. They should have an action plan with the BoN to increase student performance. I know in NJ this type of behavior was recently prohibited by the BoN.

Ok thank you, I will check. I completely understand not releasing those who are struggling with ati and have not completed this. It's really frustrating for those of us with high scores though. I can promise we didn't get them without devoting at least 10 hours a week to an ati study plan!

Well, you haven't graduated from the program yet and, as far as they're concerned, you haven't completed the requirements of the program because they added another requirement that you did not complete.

I would do whatever they ask with the hope that at the end of their program you are still allowed to take the boards. It sounds like this school is about to loose all their accreditations and close down which means starting over for their students

Thanks. School policy states that they can't change the syllabus/Redistribute weights on assignments once they are two weeks into the semester. They said that is why this isn't counted as a grade and will not affect our graduation. The syllabus states that of we do not pass our comprehensive predictor with a 94% likelihood of passing nclex on the 1st attempt. we can graduate if all other requirements are met, but will not be released to take boards until we do remediation and obtain that test score. I made a 99%, would have to get below a 40 on my finals to not pass any classes, and have met all the other requirements. I have actually been working the online ati modules too. I just didn't do them in the order that my coach said because I used them to study for the ATI tests and focused mostly on the areas I needed to pass those, so my coach isn't counting them. I guess I just didn't realize that they could add an assignment this close to graduation that isn't graded, doesn't affect our average, and while they told us they wanted us to spend 10 hours a week on them, didn't mention that this would be the consequence, and then withhold our ability to test....especially for those of us who have spent 10+ hours weekly on ati and have high scores because we didn't do it in the order of our coach's plan. I will do whatever I need to if it comes down to it but would like to at least explain all this.

And also, we lost our national accreditation but are not in immediate danger of having our regional accreditation revoked or our testing privileges with the bon taken away. There are a few more steps/semesters before that is a possibility, but they are trying to get the national accreditation reinstated.

Also our instructor is meeting with the dean and is backing those of us in my shoes (not the ones who didn't do it but still have low scores) because she was under the impression that we would be given individualized study plans based on our weak areas from previous ati tests. When that wasn't the case a lot of us made our own plan and chose to work on the content we actually needed rather than to follow a generic plan that just starts at the beginning. According to her that is ok, but the Dean says that they have to show that the (apparently) 20k they spent for us to do this wasn't wasted and the fact that we got results with our own plans doesn't do that. I hope that makes more sense as to why i am upset. I feel like this is taking all the excitement out of our upcoming graduation when we should be ecstatic.