r/NursingStudents

I am devastated. I currently finishing up my first semester in nursing school. My classmates and I were preparing for our final exam today and we received an email from the dean saying the school will be closing its doors on may 4, 2026. I feel so uncertain, I just transferred to this school from a community college and I was finally starting to feel like a part of a community and making friends. It is a very small private college and i loved it. Everyone knew each other and the classes were so small. My school has partnered with one of the major universities in my state and they are accepting all 1,400 undergraduate students at my school, including the nursing students. They are guaranteeing acceptance as long as we are passing and waiving all application fees. I am grateful this university is taken us in but i’m so scared. I was just starting to feel stable and I already have to start at a giant university that is so different from my current school. Does anyone know the legal stuff behind this? Like how does this all work? We just found out a couple hours ago so everything is still developing but I do know it’s a “teach out” program, what does that mean?

Hello

I am looking for advice on how to handle a student in our cohort who is likely cheating on their exams. Everyone in our small cohort has noticed a repeating pattern: this student always uses the bathroom during the exam and finishes in record time. For our last exam, she finished a 95-question exam in under 30 minutes. This exam involved complex medical math with many conversions (she did not use a calculator or paper), matching, dropdown boxes, multiple-choice, and SATA questions. This has been ongoing all year, and some students speculate she is using a paid service to override the lockdown browser. I do know some people read fast and are good at taking exams when they know the material.

The other problem is this student's performance in OSCEs and clinicals. They have failed every OSCE and had to retake them. Our last OSCE was on IV meds, and she was given three attempts. There have been multiple absences from labs and clinicals; we have a 10% attendance rate and 2 attempts on osces. We have the same clinical instructor for our labs this year and feel that this person has manipulated the instructor into feeling sorry her. She received the highest mark in clinical dispite having the most absences, not engaging and not having the foggist idea on sterlie techniques or any skills we have learned this year.

A part of me thinks leave it alone she won't be able to fake 3rd and 4th year. But this has been very demoralizing for students who struggle put in the work. Plus if anything is going to be said this last test is the one to mention concerns. The proff is very strict and records our exams over zoom so she can review it, as well as a in person proctor. There was already increase intervention with the proctor including our student advisor coming up checking the bathroom while we were writing.

I am very much the let them make their own bed and lay in it type of person but my big fear is if she F**** up during our next clinical, and there has been blatant favoritism towards this student, is someone else going to get caught in the cross fire from there mistake.

I was looking into Jersey college Lpn program in teterboro Nj , can anyone tell me how’s the school and the entrance exam ? I was also looking into Lincoln tech in Nj . Anyone went to either school ?

So im starting my nursing classes (fundamentals) and was wondering if chat gpt or other ai tools is a good tool to add on to help with studying such as making study guides and practice questions. Has anyone else tried using this and does it correlate with ATI and help with your test?

I'm going to the Washington State University College of Nursing in August. I was wondering what laptops or other devices could be good. I have seen people talking about a MacBook with an iPad, but I have also heard that the iPad idea is not good. I have been looking at the MacBook Air M5 or the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura. ideas, opinions, comments?

I have an old Microsoft laptop with 80/128gb full with just windows installed, and it takes 2 mins to load word.