South Plains College Nursing

[Joemama1]

Hi everyone! Just want to share some thoughts on the ADN program at SPC. I'll start off with good words. In terms of academics/clinicals, this program is great, you learn A LOT. IF you finish this program, you will start your career having excellent clinical skills.

But let me warn you!!! AVOID THIS PROGRAM if at all possible! If you're from the Lubbock area I'm sure you've heard of rumors about the program.... and let me tell you, they're true and so much worse!!!!! Not a day goes by for a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th semester student where they wonder "will I make it through the program this week?" Students are CONSTANTLY STRESSED and wonder if they'll make it through, and this is something that TTUHSC and CSCON students do not go through!

The instructors LOVE, I repeat, LOVE to have students removed from the program!!!! They live to weed out students!!! As one instructor put it, they have an "old school" philosophy; to make nursing school as difficult as possible, this instructor said this to me in confidence "they'll go out of their way to get students removed from the program, whereas at Tech or Amarillo they go out of their way to retain students." They ask for perfection from the get go, you record your clinical skills and the instructors review them, if you make a small mistake, you fail and only get 2 more chances. They're not "hands on" when it comes to teaching skills, they demonstrate, let you practice and then you record your skill. There are different techniques on performing one clinical skill, and they will insist on you using the specific technique they teach you.

The instructors are also given a lot of freedom to grade you on clinicals and clinical paperwork, some instructors will "pass" you on your clinical paperwork or clinical skills whereas another will fail you for the same exact work. You are at the luck of the draw with this. And if you you complain about it, you're better of pounding sand b.c you'll get nowhere. You only get ONE clinical paperwork and/or clinical fail before you are removed from the program. NO OTHER nursing program does this!!!

It does not matter if you are an A student, once you enter the Nazi School of Nursing.... Whoops..... I mean the SPC Nursing Program, you are at the mercy of the instructors. Many A & B students have bitten the dust at SPC, and many C students have finished. It really just depends on what instructor you get for clinicals and who grades your paperwork on any given day. It is typical of this program to only graduate 30% of the students that were initially admitted. They'll hoot and holler over having high NCLEX pass rates, but well....... DUGH.....they're only graduating 30 to 40% of their students.

So to sum it up, there's no standard in grading clinical paperwork or clinicals, you're at the mercy of the instructor. There's also no continuity in skills/techniques taught from one semester to the next, they'll say "forget what you learned last semester about XZY, were gonna do it different." You are at the mercy of the instructor, this is a place where students' dreams die. Stay the F*#@K AWAY!!!

If at all possible, consider other programs, there's plenty of programs in the area.... TTUHSC, CSCON, and programs in NM as well. Look these programs up and apply to as many as possible.

[fashionablylayt]

I hate to tell you this but TTUHSC is pretty much the same way, if not worse in some areas. They claim to help students stay in the program but that's not entirely accurate either. This comes from a former TTUHSC student who failed.

However, this is kind of nursing school in general. Not just Tech or SPC. These are not easy programs, they are intended to challenge us to our core. If nursing school was easy there would never be a shortage in the field.

Regroup. Study harder. Learn from the bad experience.

Try again if it is your desire.

3 years later I'm still brushing dirt and hurt off from TTUHSC, but I am going try again through AC (Amarillo College). Don't let it ruin you.