School Not Allowing Us to Take NCLEX

[JDS]

I know this might sound made up but it is the absolute truth.

To give this context, I am letting you know the school is on probation for low NCLEX success rate.

Last course to graduate is a course called Role Transition. Traditionally you work in an hospital for at least 140 hours. You take an exit exam and you are done. For my cohort., they added a 4 hour classroom instruction to this course with ATI testing weekly. In addition to the exit exam, two ATI comprehensive exams was required as well as Clinical Competency Exam. The first ATI exam was a predictor of NCLEX success. I passed with a 99% prediction to pass NCLEX. I scored 92% on the second ATI exam, one of 8 students out of over 90 until score was curved yielding about 20 students that passed. I also passed the exit exam and had 86.1% for the class, a B. I failed the CCE, this is another story in itself. Course syllabus stated if you failed ATI exams, you would go through 3 weeks of bootcamp.

3 weeks before graduation, we were told there would be no bootcamp for those that failed the ATI exams but 3 week NurseThink program (which is grueling) after which you take another exam and if you failed you would continue for another 3 weeks. I figured I was safe since I passed both exams. I would have to retake the CCE as a remediation. We were given incompletes and allowed to graduate and I attended the graduation ceremony.

School then decided that if you failed the CCE but passed the ATI exams, you would only need to participate in the NurseThink program but if you passed the ATI exams but failed CCE you would have to go through both NurseThink and retake CCE. So at this point ATI results show that I have 99% chance of passing NCLEX and I was one of 20 students to pass second ATI exam and I have already graduated but I have to now go into NurseThink and take another exam. This is clearly unfair. All e-mails to the school requesting meeting went unanswered. 3 weeks of NurseThink and we couldn't take exam because school server crashed, exam rescheduled.

School sends out e-mail that if remediation CCE is failed, a meeting will be held with student to decide the next course of action. Before we could take the rescheduled NurseThink exam, we did CCE exam and most of us failed again. We got an e-mail saying we would not be allowed to take the reschedule NurseThink exam and our grades changed to an F from Incomplete. All e-mails to school went unanswered. That was it. Seems the school is hellbent on putting forward the least number graduates for NCLEX to boost their success rate and get off probation and damn the students and consequences.

So after spending 52K and 20 months in school and graduating, I can't take NCLEX and the school is not responding. About 10 of us decided to hire a lawyer but the lawyer who had the most experience dealing with this school wants $385 from each student for consultation even though this would be a class action lawsuit if it moves forward and he would be meeting with us at the same time, so $3850 and you can see where this is going. There is something wrong with the NCLEX system if things like this is happening. Please advise.

[kbrn2002, ADN, RN]

41 minutes ago, chare said:

.. We were given incompletes and allowed to graduate and I attended the graduation ceremony.

Ahh, well that makes a little more sense I guess. The whole situation is still very strange though. Never heard of school that allows students to graduate and attend the graduation ceremony with an incomplete on their record.  Odd policy, that one! 

[SJ324]

@JDSHello, I have reason to believe the school you are referring to is my current school and we are in a similar dumpster fire situation. Would you be willing to chat? Thanks!

[chare]

On 6/8/2022 at 3:20 PM, kbrn2002 said:

On 6/8/2022 at 2:35 PM, chare said:

.. We were given incompletes and allowed to graduate and I attended the graduation ceremony.

Ahh, well that makes a little more sense I guess. The whole situation is still very strange though. Never heard of school that allows students to graduate and attend the graduation ceremony with an incomplete on their record.  Odd policy, that one! 

While it shows that you quoted me, this was actually posted by @JDS.  And I think this is where the confusion arises.  While he or she was allowed to participate in the commencement ceremony, I doubt that they were allowed to "graduate" with an incomplete; and as they haven't graduated the program can't release their transcripts to the BON. 

And while I agree it appears that situation is a first class goat rope, I suspect that the only path to licensure is to complete whatever requirements the school has set.

[londonflo]

Any news or resolution?

[londonflo]

On 6/6/2022 at 11:03 AM, JDS said:

End-of-clinical evaluation reflects passing achievement of professional behavior, knowledge, and skills.

This may be how the school is preventing you from graduating. Some of these Florida schools know that a poor NCLEX score ( which may be attributed to a  poor curriculum 'where students teach themselves') is going to be the school's downfall.