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PARTNERING FOR STUDENT SUCCESS
"There's a great sense of approachability," says Dr. St. Clair. "If I need something I can call and get a good and an honest answer. It has not always been what I wanted to hear, but if you truly want to move your program, you have to accept the hard answers. Working with Judi and the team gave me a sense of relief and confidence we were on right road."
Navigating through the storm to success
“Traditionally in nursing,
you go through the curriculum, then intensive review and hope you can
get it in students' heads enough to remember. The ATI approach is to assess them continuously and remediate in the areas they don't know before the”y move forward. It's a different approach, much more beneficial for
students.
THE ATI COMPLETE
PARTNERSHIP
Jean St. Clair, PhD, RN,
from ATI, they were treated as "add-ons" to the curriculum, rather than being fully integrated, which lessened their
effectiveness. Additionally, the available analytics and data on student progress which could have helped the faculty
anticipate the 2014 results, weren't understood or utilized fully.
"I spent that summer looking for common themes," says Jean St. Clair, PhD, RN, dean, Health Sciences
and Human Performance and professor of Nursing. "It was clear we should have been paying attention
to the ATI (proctored assessment) scores, which were indicators of how our students were going
to do. Those scores should have been a red flag for us."
Dean, Health Sciences and Human Performance and Professor of Nursing Lynchburg College
It was a perfect storm, recalls Jenna Lloyd, DNP, Director and Assistant Professor of Nursing for Lynchburg College; a confluence of events that resulted in an NCLEX pass rate of 67 percent among the nursing school's 2014 graduates -- a historic
low for a program that routinely achieved 100 percent or close to it.
"It certainly wasn't what I anticipated," says Dr. Lloyd, new to her position at
the time. "Looking back, there were a lot of factors impacting our NCLEX performance; leadership transition, faculty turnover, and the NCLEX test had
changed the year before.
"Our scores weren't acceptable to the college, so we immediately began working on a NCLEX success plan. "
Around that time, in the fall of 2014, Lloyd received a visit from two members of her ATI Nursing Education team, Craig Foley and Erick
Herrmann, who gave her a grounding in ATI's portfolio of capabilities. Although the school had been using various products