nursing school graduation rate

AmyJean · Oct 22, 2009

I'm in my first year right now and we review a lot of A&P and a lot of what you do requires you to remember the basics of A&P. Definitely know your stuff, it provides clues about what could be going in with your patient. He may be trying to scare you into learning more? Not sure what tactic he is going for. People fail out of nursing school because it's ridiculously hard and they have high standards...as they should.

thejoebear · Oct 22, 2009

I have spoken to two different nursing schools and a buddy that just retired from nursing as well as teaching nursing about this exact topic. They all said about the same thing; up to 50% of new nursing students fail by end of first semester and by final graduation add at least 10% more to that number.

Do the absolute best you can in A&P and try your best to get every class you can get finished and out of the way before you apply to nursing school if you can! Doing so will make nursing school that much less stressful for you and improve your chances of graduation.

Free advise, do not trust anybody but the 3 or more nursing schools you plan to apply to for the correct pre-req.'s to get into those schools. I learned this the hard way!

Nursing schools can choose to dock you points if you retake certain classes to get a better final grade. If you are at a "C" or worse in a class, consider dropping the class before the drop-date deadline and then retaking the class for a higher grade; instead of getting a "D" lets say, and then retaking the class again and ending up with an "A" grade in the same class. That "A" grade in many schools is now CONSIDERED WORTHLESS AND WILL VOID YOU FROM EVER APPLYING TO THEIR NURSING PROGRAM BECAUSE YOU ONCE GOT A "D" IN A SPECIFIC CLASS!!!! (Usually science basics)

There are many little rules for nursing schools admissions most community college advisors just do not have a clue about! Trust me!

Nursing schools can give points towards admission for some of your classes and some they do not. Between the 3 schools I applied to, I was rated anywhere from a high "B" GPA to a high "C" GPA even though I had taken all the same classes.

The whole nursing school application process is a mind bending and confusing process that has aspects built into it to make a certain percent of students just give up and go away in frustration.

When some schools have a 10 to 1 ratio of qualified students to openings the school can do what ever the hell it wants to do because there will all ways be another body to fill the gap left by the last person.

If I were to do it all again I would go to my three nursing school orientation meetings to hear their pre-req.'s FIRST! and then I would go get the needed classes and then apply to those schools. (Keep an ear open to the nursing schools because they do change or modify req.'s all the time though.)

Good luck!...All most into a nursing school here myself.................

Wish me luck on the final steps of admission!

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Music in My Heart · Oct 24, 2009

It all depends on the program...

I've heard that some programs do have attrition rates near 50%... ours was 20%... and it wasn't so simple nor cut-and-dried as "they didn't know their stuff."

Rednights · Oct 24, 2009

Forget it, in the end it only matters if YOU pass. You're not taking the test for your peers and they aren't taking it for you. Don't get hung up on end %s, it's completely irrelevant to your success, it's what you do now through the end that really matters.