Given he Glut of threads I have encountered lately about people failing their nursing course once or multiple times, I decided to submit a poll. My main motivation stems from the obligatory post from someone responding to these threads with "Don't give up! I knew someone who failed 30 times, failed NCLEX 6 times and is the best nurse I know! Never give up on your dreeeeaams!!!!!!!!" (Insert sparkles, rainbows, and unicorns vomiting up glitter)
So ladies and gents, here's my question: Did you fail any of your nursing courses? To keep it as simple as possible, let's limit this particular poll to:
1. RNs
2. Only the actual nursing courses, not the science pre-reqs
3. Licensed RNs only please
I would certainly like to see variations of this, LPNs, the science courses, etc. But for now, lets limit it to the above
No failures. I had student loans and living on my own at 31, so I couldn't afford to fail. Passed my licensing exam on the first attempt also, since my employment depended on it.
I've withdrawn from a handful of general ed classes, within the first couple of weeks when it became apparent that I had too much on my plate. I didn't want to pass, I wanted A's; I got them in most of my classes. In my nursing program, 78% or higher was passing for every exam, every final grade. We could fail one time. Two classmates had to repeat the final semester; one because of her performance in clinicals, the other for her approx. 75% grade in Advanced Nursing (lecture). Hopefully they passed their second try...I didn't stay in the state and graduated before the advent of Facebook so am not sure.
Never failed a nursing course. Failing meant scoring below a 75% and it also meant getting kicked out of the program. I also passed NCLEX on the first attempt with 75 questions.
went in with a 4.0 in pre-reqs, graduated with a 3.5. Never failed or dropped anything. Passed NCLEX in 75 first time...but...I failed my ACLS written exam!
Never failed a nursing course. Failing meant scoring below a 75% and it also meant getting kicked out of the program. I also passed NCLEX on the first attempt with 75 questions.
Sheesh! Failing score for us was 78%. Had to get a 94% for a freakin "A"
Failed the second quarter of our 6 quarter program. Mentally I was in a fog, couldn't concentrate, etc. Went to my doc, turned out I had sleep apnea with anxiety (I had gained a good 15-20 pounds since starting my pre-requs part time while working full time, food was my best friend:)). With a cpap machine and a glorious scrip for welbutrin in hand I was able to soldier on through the rest and pass the NCLEX on the first try with 140 questions (it was a nail-biter!). I later learned that about half our class was on some kind of med for depression, anxiety, etc., lol.
Farawyn
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No. If you failed a class you pretty much got kicked out. And passing was 70, not 65. If you were a low 70, "they" looked for a way to weed you out.
I passed my boards the only time I sat as well.