Student review [#68108] for Nursing
at Vancouver Island University - VIU

3.8 rating? Out of 10 maybe. 90% of all students that seek advocacy are nursing students. 7 of 28 students from the LON Program graduated and not many more are expected to this year. It’s not because the students are not 100% dedicated or intelligent enough, the prerequisites alone to apply for the program are steep enough. It’s the demands above the required curriculum that are out on the students and the complete lack of support, encouragement, or just plain decent humanity towards another that causes students who would be great nurses to fail or leave the program. Not all the instruction is horrible, but there is zero accountability for staff to follow or meet protocol, they do what they want, but the students are at their mercy to pass and so, so many have left completely exhausted, discouraged, and broken. It’s completely unnecessary for this to happen. With such a shortage of Healthcare Providers, you’d think they would be doing everything they could to provide a solid, supported environment for learning.