WillLPN

Can the education departments in our state boards of nursing really be so dumb as to let this continue. Or is it they just dont care. This seams so easy to fix. If the state boards evaluated the schools on the number of students who completed the course, start thru passing boards rather than just the minority who were allowed to take the boards and passed then the schools would have to improve their teaching. There would be a lot more qualified nurses and a lot less inadequate instructors.

This is all to familar. An no it doesn't necerssarly get better in the RN program. At least ours didn't. Midway through our LPN year we found out out school was on accidemic probation, and had been since 2000. The reason low board pass rate. They fixed that in 2005 they failed almost half the class. Aparently fed up half the instructors left for what ever reason. After scrambling to find instructors for the fall 2005 semester it began only to finish with a full third less that they started with. The ADN course equally lacking in instructors failed almost half of the class. I couldn't believe they could keep any kind of reputation with this quality of teaching. So I called the state board of nursing, the people who originally place them on probation. Funny thing, there rating is based on the number of people who pass the board not the number who start or graduate from the class. In other words the can graduate the top one percent of the class, allow them to go on to boards, and they end up with a 100% pass rate. And what happens to the other 99% of the class. Too bad they are out of luck. a year later and a few thousand poorer they might get to try again if they haven't upset anyone on the selection board. This appears to be all to common and it doesnt look like our state boards are willing to anything about it. I would imagine that the majority of us keep quiet and just dont say anything for fear of ramifications in the hopes that we will get that slim chance of making it thru next year.