ifixowies2

I know exactly what you mean. The school I go to/went to has a nursing GPA expectancy of 85%. I've taken patho. now twice and failed it by 5 points. This isn't even a required class at some schools but so many students can only get a c+ in the class. If you fail it twice you're out of the program. That's where I am now. My husband and three kids were really counting on me becoming a nurse so we could have a better life and now I am feeling like someone is telling me to give up the career I've always wanted. With the fail rate so high in nursing school shouldn't someone be looking at the professors and what they are teaching. How can so many students enter the nursing program as A, B students and then fail out of the program?! Someone needs to be looking at these programs and the way the material is getting through or not getting through to the students. With the RN shortage what it is....it's only getting worse by having teachers basically making the students teach themselves and expecting the students to meet higher and higher standards.