In my program we have a dosage calculation test on the first day of each semester. You must get 100% to pass, but you are allowed 3 attempts to do so. Each semester the questions are progressively more difficult.
I am now in fourth semester and about to graduate in May. We just lost 3 people from my class because they failed to achieve the 100% standard.
To be clear, none of these people failed for serious calculation errors, they failed for things like not circling their answers or in one case a labeling mistake.
I understand the point of the 100% standard but...I feel like all of this testing should have been completed by the end of second semester.
The people who are failing out are only 8 weeks from graduation and it just seems so unfair.
~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN
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We do too. On almost everyone, I love it, it's free points!