I failed.

DOn't worry, it happens. When I took it with my class, out of the 9 of us, 4 failed. And it's usually doing something silly because of nerves.

In mine, we were allowed to make 3 or 4 small mistakes, as long as they weren't the bolded steps and as long as we corrected them after they mentioned we made a mistake...I only had one strike left at the end, I was sure I was going to mess up on something silly and fail!

Let us know when you retest and how it goes.

I failed the clinical exam for the RN my first time. Nailed it the second.

So will you.

Yeah, I would be upset, too.
While of course it isn't her responsibility to correct you during the test, I really like Indiana's approach to it.

When we took it, the tester would kind of lead us through, asking questions. For example, if my skill was dressing someone with an affected side, when I was getting ready to start that skill she'd say "Alright, so what do you do first?", and I'd get my things ready and drape the resident, then she'd ask "which side do you dress first?", etc. Not giving us the answers, but having her ASK helped to jog the memory.

Also, as we were doing things, if we missed a step or made a mistake that would count as a "strike", she would tell us immediately afterwards that we'd made a mistake and it was a strike. I thought it was a good way to do it.

I'm sorry yours didn't go as well as you liked, but hey, next time you should breeze through it! And at least you know what to expect,so you'll have fewer nerves.

It happens. A few in my class did so poorly on the written test that they didn't even make it to the clinical portion. The skills that i had to do were feeding, showering, dressing. If you have ever showered a combative resident with alzheimers you know how difficult it was. Just go slow and think before you do. You will do great.