How Many Did You Lose?

Gravysgal · Apr 5, 2008

We started out with a little over 100 students, and now it's down to 78.

momtojosh · Apr 5, 2008

we start with 32 and we are now at 25.........and perhaps one more when we return by monday.......but she is fighting it all the way.......we get 3 trys to pass a med assessment test...we pass PO meds and have to calculate a dosage or 2 in our lab......can not do one thing wrong......i guess she failed on her 3rd try as well........says she gets nervous one on one in front of the instructor and that they should take that and her good grades and her clinical evaluations into consideration.........not sure what they will come too...should be interesting though.......you bend for one and what next right?

sneakymom2011 · Apr 5, 2008

I doubt they worked so hard as they did in Nursing school for their grades. I've found that all the classes I got A's in were curved and I didn't even have to try. The only class I EARNED my A was General Psych...my teacher was a PhD and demanded we learn it right. But the curve helped. I now have Microbiology and I'm working my BUTT off for a B and she doesn't curve. Period. She says she does it this way to teach us how its going to be in Nursing school. I'm getting pummeled weekly in that class! I study roughly 20hrs a week for Micro...sad. Also the retention is around 30%...we started with around 28 and we now have 8. We all know each other pretty well. I guess she's teaching us about retention rates in NS too!
So if you are making an A in NS, then you are doing an awesome job!:bowingpur Send me your notes! :chuckle

I ran into my A&P teacher a couple of nights ago. I had just finished the dosage calc exam (that I have to take again). She asked me how school was going. I said to her that A&P was a piece of cake compared to NS :lol2:

She laughed. Then she said "The only reason that I push students the way that I do during my class is because I know how hard NS is, and I want them to be prepared for it."

That made me think differently about her. While I was in her class, she drove me NUTS. I could never follow any of her lectures, and when you went into her office- I was amazed that she could find anything! But I have to admit, she did push her students that she knew were applying to the nursing program.

lainith · Apr 5, 2008

I already suspect, looking at the people in my pre-req classes who I know are accepted, that we'll lose a large # of people. I just found out that three single girls in my A&PII class are pregnant and I don't know how many of them will be able to handle classes, clinicals, and a newborn on top of their daily demands outside of school and children. Judging from the gaggle of 16-18 year old girls who giggle and talk and text on their phones throughout class, I wonder how many of them will buckle down or drop out. It's really hard to say. Life can get in the way sometimes so there are a lot of reasons that people don't make it. I just hope that I won't be one of the ones who doesn't.

shock-me-sane · Apr 5, 2008

It's hard to figure out exactly how many we lost because we keep picking up people from the class ahead that didn't pass. We started out at 80, have 63. But I would say that in total we have lost ~25

ffweste · Apr 6, 2008

We started our ABSN program with 32, went down to 26, had a girl transfer from the same program but different town, so back to 27. We could potentially lose one more before this semester is over.

lucy64 · Apr 6, 2008

We started with about 120 or so in August of 2006. We are down to 54 now and have 3 weeks until graduation. I know we lost 19 between third and fourth semester, which is a huge amount. Plus I know a lot of my classmates are close to failing now. I don't know how many of us will actually make it to graduation.

COLPN · Apr 7, 2008

We started out with 39 and we are now down to 25. A couple borderline people so we still might drop down.