All,

As a student in the RN program at Florida State College at Jacksonville, I feel our insanely high failure rates don't say as much about the students as it does about the program. As soon-to-be Nurses, we will hold other people's lives in our hands. I think it's crucial for us students to be able to discuss what questions we missed on our tests and why, for how can we learn from the mistakes if we don't know what mistakes are being made, to begin with? Lots of questions on Nursing exams repeat as the course goes on and if I keep choosing the wrong answer for that one repeat question because no one let me discuss why my answer, I will continue to miss that question on future exams. This would also allow for us to check behind our instructors as far as grading. There have been several times where teachers have counted correct answers as wrong by accident and it wasn't caught until the student caught it. To be responsible for the lives of others, we have to be confident in our scope of practice, and this can only be achieved through transparency and awareness of what mistakes we made, and how to correct them. This begins with allowing us to discuss missed questions on the tests with our instructors.