Failed NCLEX 5 Times! Am I The Only One Who . . .

[Ruby Vee]

Am I the only one who is concerned about someone who has failed multiple times, finally passes and then wants to share their experience with everyone else? Am I the only one who is concerned about working with nurses who finally pass on their eighth try? Granted, I'm so experienced that I took my licensing exam on paper eons ago when it was offered only twice a year, everyone answered all the questions over a two day period and it took six weeks to get the results. In those days, you only got two tries. That was it. So I could be someone biased and/or out of touch. I just wonder, though, about the knowledge base and learning capacity of a nurse that took the exam eight times to pass. Although perserverence is a virtue, and those folks obviously have plenty of that. Is nursing so different now that it's OK to take eight tries to get your license? Or is this a development of the "everyone gets a trophy" mentality? Keep trying and everyone gets a license?

[Fiona59]

Well let me just say that I would not want any of you taking care of me or my family. You have no compassion. And that's one of the biggest qualities in a nurse. Not just skills. I cannot believe half of you are nurses. Being a dancer or pro baseball player is a little far fetched to used that as an example of a dream. Do you people not REMEMBER what you sacrificed to get through your nursing program?? Just to quit after 3 times taking NCLEX is terrible advice. There should be remediation classes yes, but to just quit is absolutely absurd. Im not saying put incompetent nurses on the floor, BUT WORK WITH THEM. Take a class or 5. Dont quit! I hope one of these days your heart grows a little bigger.

Uhm, You obviously have no idea of how hard it is to make it through the auditions for the National Ballet School, the years of training and mental preparation. It was my dream and the dream of many others, so who are you to call it far fetched. I grew five inches that summer in height and that put paid to it.

Are you also saying that the Canadian Nurses Association is wrong? Three strikes at either of our nursing registration exams and you're out. It's required to go back and have remedial education and then they just might reconsider and permit you to have another try.

Compassion? Do you want the nurse who will say, "now, now, it'll pass" or the nurse who figures out what to do with you and your ng tube that is filling up faster than the price of gas at the pumps.

[wooh, BSN, RN]

Nursing will never get the respect it deserves until nurses themselves start realizing that intelligence and knowledge are AT LEAST as important as compassion and caring.

[Purple_Scrubs, BSN, RN]

Well let me just say that I would not want any of you taking care of me or my family.

Deal. When you or your loved one is coding, we'll have all the smart, capable, skilled nurses who you deem not compassionate step aside and we will let the super compassionate nurse with sketchy critical thinking skills who barely passed the NCLEX on the 5th try run the code. Good luck.

[AgentBeast, BSN, RN]

Nursing will never get the respect it deserves until nurses themselves start realizing that intelligence and knowledge are AT LEAST as important as compassion and caring.

[sarcasm]So wait it's not enough to be able to hold someone's hand as you slowly kill them?[/sarcasm]

[fortheloveofpink]

The computerized nclex, from what we've been told, IS adaptive. *shudder* :-)

[leslie :-D]

Nursing will never get the respect it deserves until nurses themselves start realizing that intelligence and knowledge are AT LEAST as important as compassion and caring.

i'd like to take compassion/caring out of it completely.

as long as they remain requirements, it's no wonder we get treated as we do.

fwiw, people by nature, are generally compassionate.

it needn't be a criteria for nursing -

and all that talk about it, only serves to diminish what we really do.

(oh i just wanna spit nails when i hear about "caring", "compassion".)

leslie

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

well let me just say that i would not want any of you taking care of me or my family. you have no compassion. and that's one of the biggest qualities in a nurse. not just skills. i cannot believe half of you are nurses. being a dancer or pro baseball player is a little far fetched to used that as an example of a dream. do you people not remember what you sacrificed to get through your nursing program?? just to quit after 3 times taking nclex is terrible advice. there should be remediation classes yes, but to just quit is absolutely absurd. im not saying put incompetent nurses on the floor, but work with them. take a class or 5. dont quit! i hope one of these days your heart grows a little bigger.

i'm not entirely sure this is a serious post, but here goes:

compassion is just one aspect of what it takes to be a nurse, and probably not even all that important. compassion, after all, can be faked. being astute/smart/educated enough to realize that amlodipine and amiodorone or diltiazem and digoxin are not the same thing, that coumadin dose is related to inr and that blue skin might indicate a problem are much, much more important. so while my heart could, perhaps, stand some tenderizing we have a lot of folks posting here whose brain could use a bit of exercise.

[tnbutterfly - Mary, BSN]

After staff discussion, this thread is closed for a time out so members can step back and cool off. Many posts on both sides of the discussion have been negative and attacking in nature, which is not beneficial to anyone. It would be refreshing if members could use both compassion and intelligence when posting.