For the fiscal year 2024, the Jefferson Regional School of Nursing had a 100% pass rate on tests administered by the Arkansas State Board of Nursing.
For this year, the rate is 90.7 percent which is still above both the state and national average, and Michelle Powell said Thursday the rate is actually 100 percent because students who don’t pass the test the first time take it again and pass it then. The state requires a pass rate of 75% for state supported schools.
Powell and Michelle Newton appeared on the Oldies 1013 Morning Show and Powell explained that the school is a separate division of Jefferson Regional Hospital.
She then talked about the seven requisite classes prospective students have to have before entering the nursing school.
Morning Show host Greg Horne asked Newton what students are doing for those 17 months and she answered this way.
Horne also asked if graduates have to stay at Jefferson Regional Hospital when they complete the course.
