so i just finished the first 7.5 week of nursing school and passed all 3 classes with B's. The only thing I had left to do to was pass the dosage calculations math test before i can proceed to clinicals. Unfortunately my school used to require students to get 90% on the test with 3 tries. They now require us to get 100% with only 2 tries. I got a 95% both tries so was told that I cannot proceed to clinicals.
Of course I cried for 3 days straight and just as I was coming to terms with it and the fact that I would have to do math remediation and be held back a semester I find out from my fellow classmates on the first day of clinicals that there were at least 4 people who had also gotten a 95% on their math tests and were allowed to slide through to clinicals. I was outraged at the nursing office at making exceptions for certain students and not allowing others who were on the same boat to not proceed to clinicals.
For 2 days I tried to speak to someone in the nursing office but my calls and emails were ignored so I decided to go up there with 3 other students who had also gotten 95's and were upset that they hadn't made it to clinicals yet exceptions were made for certain students. Nobody would come out and speak to us but we caught the Dean walking down a hallway and spoke to her. She completely denied everything and said she didn't know what we were talking about. I have the names of 4 students who i know for a fact were able to slide through after crying and complaining to certain faculty members.
What should i do? Should I just let it go? I am so upset as the nursing faculty is always preachign honesty and integrity to us yet they can't practice it themselves. I am also upset because when I get to start clinicals after re-taking the math test in the fall and hopefully passing I get to choose from whatever clinical sites are left over after the new fall class has chosen theres. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!
Man, this sounds like my old school. They were reorganizing the program so they changed rules every semester. One semester, they kicked students out for low scores. Another semester, they kept all the students even they had low scores.
They were trying to have no more than 20 students in 4th semester. (It's because they don't have enough hospital w/ preceptors to put students in) So it wasn't really about the score more than the number of students who will be in 4th semester.
We couldn't do anything about it. Some students c/o to the board but nothing really happened.
I know it's suck. Just hang in there. Good luck with your nursing school.
Specializes in pediatrics, geriatric, developmentally d.
the same thing sort of happened at the school i attended with a girl who didnt pass a test and couldnt go on to the next level. come to find out something fishy was going on and she basically told them she had an attorney on deck. and literally THE NEXT DAY she comes and with a grin from ear to ear telling me supposedly (sp) they made a mistake and she was able to go on to the next level...who knows if you mentioning a lawyer will fix this...maybe it will just hurt those student who did slide right by..you just never know.
not.done.yet is correct. i have been asked to help in a situation like that, and once you find that the faculty has done their homework, crossed their t's and dotted their i's, the attorney won't take it.
LovedRN, BSN, RN
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Man, this sounds like my old school. They were reorganizing the program so they changed rules every semester. One semester, they kicked students out for low scores. Another semester, they kept all the students even they had low scores.
They were trying to have no more than 20 students in 4th semester. (It's because they don't have enough hospital w/ preceptors to put students in) So it wasn't really about the score more than the number of students who will be in 4th semester.
We couldn't do anything about it. Some students c/o to the board but nothing really happened.
I know it's suck. Just hang in there. Good luck with your nursing school.