Nursing Students Achieve Perfection
April 23, 2020
Dr. Lori Goodstone
FSC nursing students are perfect.
How does a 100% pass-rate sound? That was the 1st quarter achievement for FSC nurses-to-be who took the NCLEX RN exam.
“FSC nursing continues to strive for and achieve excellence as evidenced by continued first-time 100% pass rates on the NCLEX-RN licensing exam,” says Dr. Lori Goodstone, chair and professor in the Nursing Department. “Our devoted faculty work closely with our students to not only prepare them to take their licensing exam, but to enter a challenging and fulfilling profession.”
The NCLEX exam is a standardized exam that each state board of nursing uses to determine whether or not a candidate that has successfully completed an accredited nursing degree is prepared for entry-level nursing practice. First-time pass rate is critical for nursing programs, since it is the statistic that both NYSED and CCNE, the program’s accrediting body, use to evaluate the quality of those programs. Prospective students use the information to make a decision about where they will study nursing.
Adds Dr. Goodstone: “As this current pandemic has highlighted, nurses are essential front-line workers who selflessly work to care for patients in their greatest time of need, often sacrificing their own health and family life to do so. We have always said that ‘nursing is a calling,’ but at no time in my lifetime has it ever been more evident.”
