How many don't make it out?

AmyLiz · Jun 12, 2006

This quarter we lost a lot. Still have 4 quarters left in the program, so I can't give you final numbers, but...

There were 80 students to begin this quarter...8 class sections with 10 per class. In my class, which just ended last week, only 5 out of 10 passed. Thank God I was one of them!

NurseyTonyaLPN · Jun 12, 2006

In my LPN program, only about 1/3 made it to the end. About half failed, the rest got pregnant or had family emergencies or such that took them out of school. A lot of the ones that failed didn't take it seriously enough, though. I think that was more of the problem than just not being able to do the work/pass the tests.

TRINI_RN · Jun 13, 2006

my program's retention rate is 75% (they accept 80 per semester), and NCLEX pass rate is 98.5%

guest64485 · Jun 13, 2006

wow mala, that's pretty severe. For my program, we start out with 70-75 accepted per semester and somewhere in the 20s graduate.

BeccaznRN, RN · Jun 13, 2006

I would be safe in saying about ten students from our class will not be graduating with us. We have about 40-45 students in our BSN program right now. However, out of those ten students, probably about 8 of them just fell behind a semester (dropped/failed one of our courses) and are still in the program. Only a few dropped out of the program completely! :)

TallGirlAni · Jun 13, 2006

It was very competitive to get in to the program at my school. I think the minimum gpa that got in was about a 3.0 or a 3.2.

Out of about 120 students, I think only about 3 or 4 did not make it to the end. The faculty seemed to be always instilling fear into us, especially during the skills tests. Most people were so scared. We lived in fear. Finally, I stopped being in fear, safe with the knowledge that almost all the previous classes made it to the end, mostly intact. I passed this advice to my friends who were a semester or two behind me. The fear of not passing was always rampant in my school and the stress created by it was not something that I wanted to carry with me.

ragincajunstudent · Jun 13, 2006

i just finished my first semester of clinicals and we started out with 113 and i would say we are less than 65 now.

bananimal · Jun 14, 2006

My class dropped by almost 50% just after the first semester of Anatomy & Physiology. After the second semester, another large chunk. We haven't even STARTED Nursing courses yet. It's ridiculous. Students either realize they don't like it, can't pass it, or move onto a new career trend. I can't name one person I've met in my class who is serious about Nursing-- and it's really sad

I'm not sure how many were in our class to begin with.. but I know it was somewhat over 100.. I wouldn't be surprised if less than 20 graduate, from the original class-- not counting anyone who transfers in.

mom2michael, MSN, RN, NP · Jun 14, 2006

We lost a lot our 1st semester just d/t people figuring out nursing wasn't for them. Very few our 1st year actually failed. We lost the most amount of students last semester for grades. We have 1 semester left to go and in the history of the school, no one has ever failed their last semester d/t grades, so unless someone drops the program, we should end up with 47 total graduating, 34 of us are from the original class, 13 will be LPN's. That would make our retention rate around 70%.

Our NCLEX pass rate was 94-97% but we had a class last year that struggled, so our pass rates have fallen now below 80%. That is another reason why we lost so many d/t grades. The revamped our program attempting to make us more prepared from NCLEX.

LadyStar42, LPN · Jun 14, 2006

We started with 50 and are down to 11 original students (not counting those who transferred in) in our final semester. A handful decided nursing wasn't for them. One busted a drug test, 3 failed 2 clinical rotations and the rest failed classes. About 10 or so are in the classes behind me now. Ours is recognized as the toughest course around, but we are also known to put out the best nurses.

luvmy2angels · Jun 14, 2006

We started with 29 (evening program) and graduated with 19. One student transfered from daytime one joined us in the 2nd level. We were told to expect to lose half of our classmate by the end of level one, and that was pretty accurate.

JNogueira95 · Jun 14, 2006

We started with 80 and we are down to 43 I beleive. Starting senior yr this fall. Lot of them dropped after first semester sophmopre yr either by failing or changing majors. From there, we lost a couple here and there due to failing, but they are behind a yr, not out of the program. They give you 2 fails then ur out. (MA)