How Many Lpn Students Made It Out Of Your Class

celticwoman3 · Apr 13, 2008

We are in our second term. We started with 15. One left after Christmas break (only 3 weeks in) in the first term. Then 3 failed first term classes and one transferred to another school, we also added one this term who failed a class second term. So now we have 10. At least two of the students who moved on with us from 1st term will likely be gone after this term. They barely skimmed by and they are pretty lost and confused this term. One of our instructors who we have for almost all of our classes told us that "you people need to step it up, right now out of the students in this class I only see 6 of them moving on to the third term". Yikkes. She didn't specify she was just general but I am studying my butt off to make sure it is me that moves on. I have definatly found that the ones who show up on time, take it seriously, complete all homework, and have high class participation are the ones doing well.

DelanaRN, MSN, APRN, NP · Apr 14, 2008

We started with 27 and are down to 18. 10 weeks until graduation!! I hope I make it! :nurse: :bowingpur:bugeyes:

rbaez4 · Apr 15, 2008

I am in an Lpn program In Miami as well, we started with a class of 15 , I had to drop because of health reasons , I start again with Pharm in May/June I still have not been given an exact date. Anyway the class now is down to 11. I still keep in touch with everyone there.

A little advice is study habits are extremely important in order to get passed your tests. Adjusting to all this was tuff for me, I study at least a good 3-4 hours a day when I am in school. More the night before a test.

Good Luck.....

sweetpeanurse · Apr 16, 2008

We started in August with 42 students, had some drop, some fail out. After Christmas we lost about 5 just to Pharm grades. Not many talking about coming back. We have one now that has left clinicals last semester b/c she was tired and this semester broke the HIPPA law, but somehow still with us. But in all we are down to 27, with 1 from last semester, and 1 transfer which gives us the total of 28.

sweetpeanurse · Apr 16, 2008

We have 4 classes Mon., Tue, 3 hrs each and then clinicals wed. and Thursday with clinicals on the computer on Friday. Paperwork from clinicals, care plans and studing leaves no time.

pagandeva2000, LPN · Apr 18, 2008

We started with 26 and ended with 9.

My class started with 50 students. As classes progressed people failed or dropped out. Once we made it to first clinicals, people started dropping like flies!!! We graduated with 10. I work with 3 of my former classmates, and keep in close touch with the others.
Wendy
LPN

I started the program with 40 students...Only 15 of us actually graduated. The half that didn't graduate failed the classes.

I started with 12 and and 8 of us graduated. Most nursing students bond a bit whether trying or not, just because you are going through such a life changing experience together. I am still friends with one - 16 years later. :nuke:

Those are some ROUGH numbers to lose, but I am not surprized. My class didn't fare so badly, we started out with 35, 28 graduated, 5 dropped out the first semester and 2 of them did not make it at the end, because they failed Anatomy 2, but passed the nursing courses. Out of the 28 graduates, there are at least 5 (we graduated in 2006) that either didn't take or pass the boards. I think we were that fortunate because we were the first class, and the instructors did all that they could to get as many as possible to graduate.

I am only in touch with about 3 students. I wasn't that friendly with them because it was a wild class and I was glad to get away from them.

lil' girl, LPN · Apr 19, 2008

We started with 30 but only 19 made it through. Ours was the largest graduating class in SEVERAL years, they usually run about 12 or 13 finishing.

rbaez4 · Apr 19, 2008

I heard when we started Anatomy that the class before us started with 30 into anatomy and ended up with only 12 students finishng anatomy. I do have to say of all the classes I have had yet , Anatomy was intense b/c of the mount of time they gave us, only 4 weeks.....

Faeriewand, ASN, RN · Apr 20, 2008

We started out with 60 students and ended up with 53 graduating. Every student passed anatomy but during the first few weeks a few were asked to leave because their test scores were too low to take the anatomy final.

We had more students drop out and others from the previous class com into our class so more than 53 did not make it. A few finished the entire first semester but decided not to continue on to second semester. We have not seen them go into the next class either.

The next class had 10 people fail out of anatomy and were asked to leave and 10 failed nutrition. But for nutrition they were told to make it up during the summer months by taking a class at the community college or they wouldn't be able to graduate.

nicolita3 · Apr 22, 2008

We started out with 30 and now a month until graduation we are down to 13.

studentnurse2175 · Apr 25, 2008

I'm graduating in about a 2 weeks and around 50-55% of the original students failed out. We have a policy that if you fail out the previous semester you can come back which is why we are graduating with a full class. The class previous to us statred with 23 and graduated 7, after this the school changd its policy, where you can re-test to make up your lowest grade in each segment/class/section. Without this re-test policy I would guess the failure rate would have been around 75-80%.

Faeriewand, ASN, RN · Apr 25, 2008

I used to wish that our school would fail out the people who were getting just below passing scores on a test or what not. It seemed like the school made it too easy for everyone to get thru therefore I didn't have to try as hard to be really good. If I had been up against a different system where I knew that if I got below 75% on that test I would have studied each subject harder.

My school just counted the cumulative scores so if you did good on one thing and bad in another it all evened out. Therefore at the end if you were a good student you didn't care about the last test in whatever subject because you were going to pass anyway.