I realize that this will be different for every school, and even different with every class. At my school you can fail in the following ways (which I start next semester in clinicals).
1. You can fail to achieve at least 78% on the Exams (quizzes cannot be used to get you over this percentage).
2. You can fail by not passing a clinical, "checkoff" competency THREE times (all of the three tests will be over approximately a two week period).
3. You could fail by not passing the math tests after three attempts.
4. You can fail by not passing the final head to toe accessment at the end of the first semester (for the Nursing Accessment Class). You only get one attempt and it doesn't matter what your grade is going in.
5. You can also fail by not being able to complete the five nursing skills chosen for the final in the other first semester nursing class (these are five of the skills that you will have already passed checkoff's on).
6. You can fail by not being satifactory in your clinicals.
Overall the school said that the FIRST semester failure/drop out rate was around 25%! However, they were not able to give a "breakdown" of where most people were having trouble. In your experience when people "fail" what tends to be the biggests problems? I've already invested alot of time and money towards being a nurse so I want to have as much information as possible going into the thing.
