How much of your cohort did you "lose"?

[LoriRNCM]

So my school has two campuses, small community college, and we have about 85 people between the two campuses who are part of the ADN class of 2015. People have told me that nursing school loses sometimes 25% or more of the cohort before the first semester ends! Is this true? Did you experience this in your class? I just don't understand how that happens. You work so hard to get in, you pay so much, and you don't see it through. Why does this happen? I'm not judging anyone who this happened to, I'm just trying to understand the phenomena. Opinions?

[ambitiousBSN]

This makes me wonder how many of our group (there are said to be 48 of us starting our BSN program) will progress next spring. But as long as people study and do well and reach out to the professors, it shouldn't be a problem of progressing.

[runsalot]

This makes me wonder how many of our group (there are said to be 48 of us starting our BSN program) will progress next spring. But as long as people study and do well and reach out to the professors it shouldn't be a problem of progressing.[/quote']

Optimist. The reason people fail or leave are more complex than just not studying. It's not adapting. With ns you have to not just study but learn to think like a nurse. Aka. Critical think. And pass skills. Nursing school is like nothing else.

[Nurse Kyles, BSN, RN]

I am not sure how many we lost, but it was a lot. Not all people were "lost", but many of them were delayed by a semester or two. There were eight people including myself in my first clinical. Two others and me were the only ones to graduate on time. That is only 37.5%!!! In my third semester clinical with 8 students only 4 of 8 progressed to fourth semester as planned. Most people failed pharmacology first semester and either complex health alterations or mental health third semester.

[BacktotheBeach, ADN, BSN, RN]

My ADN program at a community college started with 110 students. We only graduated 52 at the end!!! I believe the school was weeding out so we would have a great NCLEX pass rate. Only 1 student out of the 52 did not pass on the first try.

A few voluntarily left, but mainly people failed out/were weeded out. Had to have 75% to pass each class, had to pass a dosage test each quarter, some didn't make it with satisfatory results in clinicals, etc. If you didn't achieve that, you were out of the program and had to reapply and wait list again.

[schnookimz]

Started with 28, graduated with 9 of the original class.

[melizerd, ASN, RN]

Optimist. The reason people fail or leave are more complex than just not studying. It's not adapting. With ns you have to not just study but learn to think like a nurse. Aka. Critical think. And pass skills. Nursing school is like nothing else.

That! I'm an optimist too, and the people we lost are wonderful and very intelligent. There are so many reasons someone doesn't graduate with their cohort.

My Grandpa died the week of finals in my second semester. I passed them and progressed but it very well could have set me back, and honestly I'm not sure how I pulled it off. My study group really pulled me through! One girl had to retake pharm (the most retaken class there is) and now she's doing wonderfully, but she'll graduate a semester behind our starting group. We require an 80% to pass each class.

My school right now has had the last 160 students (from the beginning of 2012 til this week) pass NCLEX on the first try, so we have a tough program but it's worth it in the end. A 100% NCLEX pass rate is awesome and a lot of pressure. Everyone worries they'll be the one to break the streak LOL! It's an ADN program from a public technical college and we're getting hired at higher rates than many of the BSN programs in our area too.

[Morganalefey]

I have an ASN, and graduated in 2011.

At my very first Fundamentals class, there were 19 of us. 4 of us graduated on time. Most went on and graduated eventually. A few dropped/failed out permanently.

[ShesAcuteNurse, ADN, LPN]

We started off with about 30 people and I'm in my last semester and we have about 11 of the 30 left.

[NSALVADORE]

We started with 40 graduated with 17!

[mmc51264, BSN, MSN, RN]

We started with 59, graduated 31 (32?) ADN program.

[AmberHopefulRN]

We're about to finish up our first semester (final is tomorrow!). We started with 61, lost 2 (one dropped the 2nd day of classes) and added 1, so we are currently at 60. After talking with the cohort a year ahead of us, they had only lost 2 as well.

[nuse2b]

LPN school started with 43, graduated 14

RN school we lost 4 after our first semester, started with 30. I hear we pick up students as we go.