People are dropping like flies

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I have started the last year of my ASN program, we had lost maybe 2-3 people in the first year but in the last six weeks we have lost 5 people in our class. Has anyone else had this happen? It has made me very nervous about my standing in the class.

We lost 15 last semester (3rd semester). No one really gets dropped until after the final. Since the points are cummulative, you really can't "fail" until after you take the final unless you were down 100 points at that time. In our program you get one more chance to repeat a semester and then you are out.

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I'm in my third semester. We started out with 50 (in first semester) and are down to about 30. And every semester you hear about how many people in fourth semester are told to go home from clinical- meaning they've failed. This time six people were told to go home from clinical within a few weeks.

Other instructors say that the fourth semester instructors get irritated that the students are not comfortable with their nursing skills. It sounds like a catch-22. Students only have so much clinical time and instructors assign the patients. I have practiced so many of my skills again recently on my own time, and will be practicing again over xmas break, but doing it in the lab is still very different from your skills on patients.

I've actually been lucky lately. I've been getting heavy-needs patients while other students are done with their assessments and bored. But then again, I've upset a few of my clinical instructors so maybe they were trying to weed me out-kudos to them because I'm still here and getting better at my care and judgement!

My advice is to help other students and RNs. Ask to watch, ask the clinical instructor for a heavier-needs patient or tell her that you haven't worked with xyz so if she could assign you an appropriate patient. A student really needs to be his or her own advocate in the clinical setting and be nosy as heck to see as much as he/she can see.

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I am in my last semester of nursing school with only a month and 1/2 to go. We still have a test and a final left. I have always done well, but if my average moves 3 percent I will fail. I am so stressed. Financially, I won't be able to do the semester over. I already have a job lined up so I would lose that of course. A teacher has confirmed that over 1/2 our class is currently failing. All these people made it this far to fail in the last month?

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Specializes in ICU.

getting2work,

I'm curious...what classes do you have in the last semester that are so daunting?

Thanks and good luck!

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We have issues and trends which I have 100% in and our last nursing class. For some reason the teacher that does this class is making the tests significantly harder than the others we have had in the past semesters So much so that the majority of the class fails the tests. Looks like most of our class will not be graduating sadly.

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Specializes in ICU-Adult Medical.

It is nice to hear other programs have their issues. We started with 102 people plus 15 part time students. The part time class is down to 11 and the full time program is down about 20% and there will probably be less then that next week when we take our 5th exam. If they don't have a 76 they will be unable to sit for the final. We have Head to Toe competency and a full care plan that must be passed at 76% or we cannot sit for the final no matter what our lecture grade is. They keep telling us NO pressure. YEAH SURE!

We can do this! We had what it takes to get here and we will succeed. The hardest part is making relationships with people in your clinical rotation and class only to see them not make the tests and I almost feel guilty because I did But, that's life we were not all meant to be nurses.

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