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As nursing students that began nursing school during the COVID-19 pandemic, we chose to start our future careers in the healthcare industry by joining the Felician University ABSN Program. This hybrid program allowed many students with difficult work and life schedules to handle and manage their studies on their own time, and be able to take exams remotely from our home using remote monitoring. The aspect of being able to do things remotely has always been a welcoming relief for many students, but now that COVID-19 regulations are starting to lift in NJ starting September 2021, our remote test taking is being changed to onsite. This change affects many students, whether it is in relation to scheduling, financial, or traveling difficulties, since many students live in a different state or over 2 hours away. Many students have to travel far distances to the campus that require tolls within New Jersey and New York. In addition, the inflation of current gas prices can significantly cause financial difficulties for nursing students. The accommodation of gas and toll prices for nursing students can be challenging as many of us either have to work or rely on loans to upkeep the daily expenses.
As we enter our last semester and begin to focus greatly on our upcoming NCLEX, we should be allowed to continue with remote proctored test taking. It is not fair to change the way we have been able to manage our studies and exams in the last year, since this hybrid program emphasized its “do-it-on-your-own-pace”, which was a huge appealing aspect of this program. Allowing us to continue with home proctored exams will help us finish our last semester on a good note, as well as allowing us to maintain our greatest focus on our future NCLEX exam, so that we may join the nursing healthcare workforce.
Please sign if you agree with the above statements.
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8 Comments
With covid variants ramping up, many of us working in hospitals, and new guidelines stating to wear masks indoors again, it is simply unsafe to ask us to gather in one large room and share laptops with other cohorts. Even if all students are vaccinated, our families, roommates, and loved one may not be vaccinated for any number reasons and this puts them in danger as we could still carry the virus. Wearing masks and possibly face shields during exams will be distracting and make a stressful time even harder. We knew nursing school would push us to our limits, we knew it would be hard, but why is the administration making it unnecessarily harder.
gas prices are way too high right now to be driving back and forth for these exams. please let us finish how we started.
I can’t agree more on the concerns that have already been listed above and I would like to elaborate. I joined Felician’s Hybrid ABSN program for a multitude of reasons. I am a hard worker and dedicated student that does the best I can to make the ends meet. I am proud of myself to say the least and I feel as if this accomplishment is not weighed in the many decisions and announcements that have been made only 6 months into the program. I work in between exam times and other strictly scheduled events like lab and clinical hours. I also help take care of my two elderly grandparents to help my family since we cannot afford private aids. Not to mention, the rise in COVID-19 cases again. Aren’t we trying to diminish the virus and make our environments safe and comfortable again? Going into the site to take exams together, even with masks and face shields, will hinder the success we have made and this has extreme potential to become detrimental to our nursing school success and the achievements we have made in our communities. On behalf of all Felician University ABSN students, I please ask you to carefully reconsider this change in exams with the humility and respect that you claim to have. I chose this program for a reason and have multiple friends of mine starting the program in the fall because of my high regards to the program. I would hate my opinion of this program to tarnish the reputation that you have worked so hard on.
this change now makes it difficult for childcare.
It is a long commute for many students
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As nursing students that began nursing school during the COVID-19 pandemic, we chose to start our future careers in the healthcare industry by joining the Felician University ABSN Program. This hybrid program allowed many students with difficult work and life schedules to handle and manage their studies on their own time, and be able to take exams remotely from our home using remote monitoring. The aspect of being able to do things remotely has always been a welcoming relief for many students, but now that COVID-19 regulations are starting to lift in NJ starting September 2021, our remote test taking is being changed to onsite. This change affects many students, whether it is in relation to scheduling, financial, or traveling difficulties, since many students live in a different state or over 2 hours away. Many students have to travel far distances to the campus that require tolls within New Jersey and New York. In addition, the inflation of current gas prices can significantly cause financial difficulties for nursing students. The accommodation of gas and toll prices for nursing students can be challenging as many of us either have to work or rely on loans to upkeep the daily expenses.
As we enter our last semester and begin to focus greatly on our upcoming NCLEX, we should be allowed to continue with remote proctored test taking. It is not fair to change the way we have been able to manage our studies and exams in the last year, since this hybrid program emphasized its “do-it-on-your-own-pace”, which was a huge appealing aspect of this program. Allowing us to continue with home proctored exams will help us finish our last semester on a good note, as well as allowing us to maintain our greatest focus on our future NCLEX exam, so that we may join the nursing healthcare workforce.
Please sign if you agree with the above statements.
8 Comments
I agree with this petition wholeheartedly. Changing things in our last semester does seem right, we have been accustomed to remote proctoring for the last 3 semesters, so why change in the end. The understanding I had when I started this program was that it was hybrid, being that we go in person for labs and clinical, but everything else will be remote/ do it at our own pace.
With covid variants ramping up, many of us working in hospitals, and new guidelines stating to wear masks indoors again, it is simply unsafe to ask us to gather in one large room and share laptops with other cohorts. Even if all students are vaccinated, our families, roommates, and loved one may not be vaccinated for any number reasons and this puts them in danger as we could still carry the virus. Wearing masks and possibly face shields during exams will be distracting and make a stressful time even harder. We knew nursing school would push us to our limits, we knew it would be hard, but why is the administration making it unnecessarily harder.
gas prices are way too high right now to be driving back and forth for these exams. please let us finish how we started.
I can’t agree more on the concerns that have already been listed above and I would like to elaborate. I joined Felician’s Hybrid ABSN program for a multitude of reasons. I am a hard worker and dedicated student that does the best I can to make the ends meet. I am proud of myself to say the least and I feel as if this accomplishment is not weighed in the many decisions and announcements that have been made only 6 months into the program. I work in between exam times and other strictly scheduled events like lab and clinical hours. I also help take care of my two elderly grandparents to help my family since we cannot afford private aids. Not to mention, the rise in COVID-19 cases again. Aren’t we trying to diminish the virus and make our environments safe and comfortable again? Going into the site to take exams together, even with masks and face shields, will hinder the success we have made and this has extreme potential to become detrimental to our nursing school success and the achievements we have made in our communities. On behalf of all Felician University ABSN students, I please ask you to carefully reconsider this change in exams with the humility and respect that you claim to have. I chose this program for a reason and have multiple friends of mine starting the program in the fall because of my high regards to the program. I would hate my opinion of this program to tarnish the reputation that you have worked so hard on.
this change now makes it difficult for childcare.
It is a long commute for many students
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I agree with this petition wholeheartedly. Changing things in our last semester does seem right, we have been accustomed to remote proctoring for the last 3 semesters, so why change in the end. The understanding I had when I started this program was that it was hybrid, being that we go in person for labs and clinical, but everything else will be remote/ do it at our own pace.