Nursing board scores at the FAMU School of Nursing have plummeted to 63 percent for the 93 test takers from the schools bachelor's degree program in 2019 records show. This is a 19 point drop from 2018, and well short of the school's internal goal of a 85 percent pass rate for 2019. The national benchmark for 2019 was 91 percent.
FAMU's nursing board scores were 64 percent in 2017 and 76 percent in 2016. The School of Nursing was placed on accreditation probation in April 2018 by the state Board or Nursing following two consecutive years of low passing rates on the license exam.
The program must remain on probationary status until it achieves a graduate passage rate that equals or exceeds the required passage rate for any one calendar year. Seventeen other nursing programs in Florida also were placed on probation for low passage rates.
Just last week, a FAMUAN articled pointed to concerns by nursing students over the schools' future. FAMU's baccalaureate nursing programs is one of the oldest continuing programs of its kind in the nation.