CRNE February 2012

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Hi everyone, Im an Irish nurse preparing for the CRNEs for February 2012 in Toronto. Didnt see any thread for this exam in February, so thought id start one. How is everyone preparing? Im using the CRNE prep guide doing Qs and studying the competencies. Any tips/advice? Happy studying!!

Iam totally agree with you ngup.. iam also want to go there and talk about that ...this is better to make a unity who want to complain and go togheter in my view.... just I want to know where you are live.

hi Acadiana,

Congrats on your passing the crne and thanks for applauding our stances to advocate.

It is good to hear that you have read test taking strategies text book before the exam and you applied the techniques frequently. But remember that your exam wasn't in Toronto and you were not in that situation, so you can't say if your technique will really work in our situation. I did read books many times, but the techniques didn't work

at all since the firm alarm kept ringing for few minutes and i couldn't concentrated at all. And I bet people who are affected might have used their techniques with no benefits.

Whether contacting CNO about this situation before or after the results is depend on us and we have the reason to say to them. So, please do not underestimate this situation without experiencing yourself.

hi anzi,

I live in Toronto and you?

Iam totally agree with you ngup.. iam also want to go there and talk about that ...this is better to make a unity who want to complain and go togheter in my view.... just I want to know where you are live.

Iam brampton....this is my 3rd and i could not get so sad....

Can we contact each other?

hi KAL1970,

Whether it is affected to you or not, but it surely did to me and some other students who were writing the exam. You can't compare yourself to others. Anyway, every individual is different when it comes to writing the exam. It is hard to believe your statement, which is "Really I don't think that alarm caused any disturbance to us". How can you say that any disturbance? Were you really in the Toronto Exam HAll? It is hard to imagine that you didn't get any disturbance. I believe everyone in the exam hall has some disturbance, but may be not to that extend like us (we could not focus well after the Fire Alarm). Whether we report now or before, it is up to us. We have things to say when it comes to that so focus on yourself!

did you get yours already?

hi Anzi,

We can meet when we have lots of people to voice this situation. But for now, I think we should call CNO on Monday and tell them everything that has affected us.

thanks.... sure just we inform every who want to complain about that....we need more voice...u know what iam beside elevator so light reflation from glass also make me distraction.

Too much hard to contact cno ..I called on friday and waiting more then hour....then hang up byself.

With all due respect ngup, my previous post was not meant to undermine your experience or those of anyone else at the Toronto site of the CRNE. It was merely to provide plausible arguments as to how CNO might respond to your concerns, as I think the situation and actions taken should be approached with an open mind. I wish you all the best of luck.

Throughout my past 2 degrees, I have been placed in a number of "do or die" situations where I was offered the opportunity to write certification, and final examinations only once. There was no possibility to re-write or dispute the results or testing environment, regardless of the circumstances. On one occasion, a fire alarm sounded for 20 minutes straight during the first hour of a 3-hour examination. Was it disruptive? Yes. Did it provoke anxiety for my peers and I? Yes. But not much could be done about it. A false fire alarm coincidentally went off during an important, potentially future-altering exam. As difficult as it was, we took the situation into perspective, used various coping strategies and techniques to regain our concentration, and moved forward.

Just my two cents.

Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.

I might be just a little sleep deprived and stressed after working back to back 12 hour day shifts in my very noisy ICU (there were 11 Code Blue or met team calls, which are announced following a claxon sounding to get people's attention, today alone, never mind the usual alarms) but I'm not understanding how CNO can be held accountable for something totally beyond their control, such as a false fire alarm. I agree with the poster who remarked that registered nurses work in extremely distracting environments and are expected to be able to focus despite these distractions. Your CRNE is no different from the working world in that respect. If you must have complete silence, perfect lighting, perfect ambient air temperature, a comfortable seat and no other potential distractions to be able to concentrate on the exam, you'll have a very difficult time in the workplace where you may have only seconds to assess a situation, decide what to do and act. After which you're expected to return to what you were doing before as if nothing out of the ordinary has happened. As someone else also remarked, there were many others in the same room who passed the exam despite the fire alarm. And as yet another poster commented, to wait until 5 weeks after the fact and then only make a complaint about it after finding out one has failed suggests the complainant is seeking an excuse and preferential treatment. Personal accountability is a cornerstone of professionalism in the nursing world. By all means, lodge a complaint with CNO if it will make you feel better, but my educated guess is that there will be no concessions made for this.

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