NCLEX Pass Rates in OK

U.S.A. Oklahoma

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Well, for the past week I've been doing what I need to do in order to take that first step to get into nursing school: I've been doing a CNA class taught at Dream Maker for Health Care Aides. They are one of the best. Several hospitals know their work because they do clinicals in a few Tulsa hospitals (hospitals, and NOT nursing homes!! :).

It's been a great class this week because there's only 2 in the class (they normally take 10) and we are at the same level knowledge-wise. Both of us want to be nurses (I would like to become an RN, the other gal wants to be an LPN) and that helps, we aren't held back going over stuff several times because one person does not "get it" and ends up asking very basic questions over and over again.

I asked the instructor about what the pass rates were in 2004, and she gave me a sheet with all of the RN programs in OK, the percentages of students who pass the NCLEX-RN the first time.

There was something that I was amazed about. I was SHOCKED to see that the Univ. of Tulsa had a 53.33% pass rate for 2004!!! There were 15 students taking the test, so it wasn't a situation in which there were 2 people in the class and one failed. That's pretty bad, and considering how much TU wants for their RN programs. Good thing that I was never considering TU for my RN...

BTW, if you are curious, I still have the list of pass rates, please feel free to ask me about how students from a particular school did on the NCLEX-RN.

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Well, for the past week I've been doing what I need to do in order to take that first step to get into nursing school: I've been doing a CNA class taught at Dream Maker for Health Care Aides. They are one of the best. Several hospitals know their work because they do clinicals in a few Tulsa hospitals (hospitals, and NOT nursing homes!! :).

It's been a great class this week because there's only 2 in the class (they normally take 10) and we are at the same level knowledge-wise. Both of us want to be nurses (I would like to become an RN, the other gal wants to be an LPN) and that helps, we aren't held back going over stuff several times because one person does not "get it" and ends up asking very basic questions over and over again.

I asked the instructor about what the pass rates were in 2004, and she gave me a sheet with all of the RN programs in OK, the percentages of students who pass the NCLEX-RN the first time.

There was something that I was amazed about. I was SHOCKED to see that the Univ. of Tulsa had a 53.33% pass rate for 2004!!! There were 15 students taking the test, so it wasn't a situation in which there were 2 people in the class and one failed. That's pretty bad, and considering how much TU wants for their RN programs. Good thing that I was never considering TU for my RN...

BTW, if you are curious, I still have the list of pass rates, please feel free to ask me about how students from a particular school did on the NCLEX-RN.

How did OU-Tulsa and Tulsa Community do?

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....Several hospitals know their work because they do clinicals in a few Tulsa hospitals (hospitals, and NOT nursing homes!! :).

NCLEX-RN.

God forbid you should learn something from a LTC facility. Everyone knows that LTC nurses don't know a thing :angryfire :angryfire

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God forbid you should learn something from a LTC facility. Everyone knows that LTC nurses don't know a thing :angryfire :angryfire

I got my CNA and we did 3 days of clinicals in a LTC facility and I absolutely learned the most from that experience. The nurses there were very helpful.

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Well, for the past week I've been doing what I need to do in order to take that first step to get into nursing school: I've been doing a CNA class taught at Dream Maker for Health Care Aides. They are one of the best. Several hospitals know their work because they do clinicals in a few Tulsa hospitals (hospitals, and NOT nursing homes!! :).

It's been a great class this week because there's only 2 in the class (they normally take 10) and we are at the same level knowledge-wise. Both of us want to be nurses (I would like to become an RN, the other gal wants to be an LPN) and that helps, we aren't held back going over stuff several times because one person does not "get it" and ends up asking very basic questions over and over again.

I asked the instructor about what the pass rates were in 2004, and she gave me a sheet with all of the RN programs in OK, the percentages of students who pass the NCLEX-RN the first time.

There was something that I was amazed about. I was SHOCKED to see that the Univ. of Tulsa had a 53.33% pass rate for 2004!!! There were 15 students taking the test, so it wasn't a situation in which there were 2 people in the class and one failed. That's pretty bad, and considering how much TU wants for their RN programs. Good thing that I was never considering TU for my RN...

BTW, if you are curious, I still have the list of pass rates, please feel free to ask me about how students from a particular school did on the NCLEX-RN.

How did UCO and OU's nursing programs do?

Marilyn

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OK, let me paraphrase: We did our rotations in a SNF. Geez, I'm not saying that someone can't learn something from LTC. THAT'S NOT what I was trying to say or IMPLY!!! I'm so darn sick of hearing people say that aides don't learn anything from LTC programs and one it doesn't prepare one for hospital work.

Like they say, darned if you do, darned if you don't. There's just no pleasing someone.:angryfire

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