What nursing class at your school has the most failure rate?

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Hi, I'm trying to find out at different nursing schools what nursing class has the most people to fail. At my school, there is a high failure rate in med-surg I. Most people at my school do not pass med-surg I the first time.

Specializes in Peds, PICU, Home health, Dialysis.

If a nursing school has a failure rate as high as 25%+, I seriously question that nursing school and their intentions. It seems as if so many nursing schools intentionally try to get students to fail. I am quite happy with our nursing program -- they really want us to succeed and do everything in their power to help us do that! We had an incredibly low fail rate (out of 50 entering students, they predict 5 or 6 of us will fail). Our school also has a very high pass rate for the boards, so they must be doing something right.

I would stay clear of those schools where half the class fails the first semester in fundamentals.

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Specializes in NICU.

for our class it was the maternity/newborn class for sure

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Our class was pathophysiology II but the class before us had 9 students out of 70 fail adult health II clinicals. Which was nutz

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Seems like in every class (except OB and Psyc) we have lost 5 students by the end of each class. Out of the original 50, we are down to about 35. We are entering our last semester this fall and we will be taking the last 2 levels of med-surg. The students before us lost half of the class after these last 2 levels of med-surg.

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1st semester we had fundamentals, 2nd Med Surg I, 3rd Med Surg II and 4th OB & Peds.

Most Failures & withdraws = 3rd semester hands down

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Specializes in RN CRRN.

we started with 60 and 15 graduated on time - I think our worst class was OB/MAT/ Of course we 15 that went on class to class had pp who had to retake classes join our group so we 15 always had new pp to meet. We still had 30 of those 60 halfway thru program but they kept whittling us down. :uhoh3:

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Specializes in Medical/Surgical.

I think a lot of students also ask for help from the instructors once it's too late. The same sort of thing happens at my school and the instructors stand by the fact that if we ask for help, they are more than willing, but you can't come to them after you've failed a test and expect it to help your grade.

I know there are some instructors that are less than helpful, but if my passing depended on it...I would just go to another instructor for guidance...at least then you know you tried everything...

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Adult (Med-Surg) II is our hardest class of the 4.5 yr curriculum. The girl w/the highest class average in our class (a very good student as I do know her) did not pass it the 1st time.

This is of concern to me as I will have this class in the fall. UGH! I'm actually beginning to go over the material now.

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Advanced med/surg. (cardiac and renal are the big issues for people and not doing well in clinical).

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Specializes in Oncology, Emergency Department.

We had people fail in (1) Fundamentals, (2) Med/Surg both I and II. We started with approximately 75 students in my BSN program and going into senior year we are left with 55. Our school is notorious for "weeding" people out and they are successful at what they do.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, ER, Peds ER-CPEN.

we started with 24, lost one first semester to Pharm, and one second semester to Med/Surg I (this one we almost lost 1st semester to Fundamentals so while it sucked cuz I was her friend, I don't think she was taking the whole program seriously which to me is scary) in Aug we'll pick up the 12 transition students (the clas ahead of us only lost 1 the entire 2 years and that was a transition to Med/Surg II) I think the 22 of use left are in good form to finish out no one bordering that fine line of pass/fail

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, ER, Peds ER-CPEN.
We had people fail in (1) Fundamentals, (2) Med/Surg both I and II. We started with approximately 75 students in my BSN program and going into senior year we are left with 55. Our school is notorious for "weeding" people out and they are successful at what they do.

Our director swears she can do this with a list of NLN scores, and personal references, she also requests your attendence in all classes, not just the grades :uhoh21: this is the first year our college has admitted 24, usually incomming ADN is a class of 12 out of the average applicant pool that's probably equal to your entire starting class, gotta love small town USA :lol2:

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