CRNE exam OCTOBER 8, 2008

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Specializes in med/surg.
I love it!! But guess what? We have at least a dozen nurses who don't recognize PVCs at all in our pediatric cardiac ICU... Think that's a problem?

:eek::eek::eek:

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Specializes in med/surg.
Personal experience has taught me that nursing school is one thing and the job of nursing is another. It's unrealistic that any new grad RN is ready to function independently or perform as well in every situation as an experienced RN. This is why we have, or should have, new grad residencies/internships with ongoing preceptor/mentor relationships to develop and encourage the beginning nurse for at least two years.There should be additional pay for the experienced nurses offering this leadership while also fulfilling their own job duties.

If a nursing program is truly producing unsafe graduates, perhaps the accreditation process needs to be reviewed. If we can move toward "universality" of nursing education, board exams such as CRNE (Oct '08) can truly be used to test all candidates' readiness for licensure.

This is exactly our point - when we trained we had to complete each unit on the ward, the training was practical, as well as theoretical. By the time we came to our last year we were pretty much able to run a ward, let alone work on it.

I'm not saying our training was perfect but now they've gone to the other extreme.

I truly believe that nursing is a very practical subject, you can't nurse on paper, you have to do the real thing - & lots of it.

Of course knowledge is important - we did the A&P, had to write essays & pass exams on each of the units (which started at adult nursing, progressed through surgey, medicine, psyche, paeds, maternity, OR. ER, community & management) before we could go on to the next. On average we spent 3 months on each unit & had teaching days & competencies, which were assessed, as we went.

It was a really great training that totally prepared you for life on the ward because it took place in the same hospital (bar the psyche & Community) so by the time you applied for a job you already had a fair idea of what you were doing.

I don't have a problem with a final exam, if that's what authorities want, but the CRNE just doesn't test anything that I feel could prove if I'm a safe nurse or not, whereas in truth, the N-CLEX does.

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Would CNO have the results before we do? I hope the results come soon. Feels like my entire life is on hold until then.

Anyone know how they arrive at the passing score? Do they vote on it? I hope they take into consideration that this exam was really difficult.

I believe the results are sent first to your provincial regulatory board which in turn sends it on to you (by mail?!). There are detailed bulletins on CRNE site that you can research for the answer to how they grade (since your "life is on hold" anyway) ;)

Myself, I'm thinking they should take all the time they need to figure out how to grade on a curve...

[$5 says the results come out next week] :uhoh3:

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any news on crne results? is it possible to inquire from the provincial regulatory board when the results are going to be mailed? thanks

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it has already been a month since we wrote the exam. any news on the passing rate? thanks :nuke:

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Specializes in med/surg.

I'm in no hurry to get mine!!

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.
it has already been a month since we wrote the exam. any news on the passing rate? thanks :nuke:

As has already been explained at least a dozen times in each thread related to the CRNE, the results are not available by phone, they are not available online and they will be arriving in your mailbox 6 to 8 weeks after the exam was written. The receipt of results is relatively random, with those in the centre of the country getting theirs slightly sooner than those on either coast. If everyone who wrote called the regulatory body to inquire about the results, they'd have to hire a person just to deal with those calls. You will just have to be patient.

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Hi everyone!

I am new to the forum and just wanted to say that I've read this thread from beginning to end and absolutely feel everyone's sense of anxiety! I wrote the exam a 2nd time in October after being unsuccessful in June by only a few points. I honestly thought my life was over because I was so upset and all I did was cry for the entire day and that entire week seemed like a horrible nightmare. I was definitely going through the stages of grieving now when I look back on it.

I feel that the second time around I was more prepared. I attended a prep class for two weeks and studied from the day I learned I didn't pass, all the way until Oct.7. Overall, the exam was quite different from the one in June (from my perspective) and I left the exam feeling okay. I've spoken to some friends who wrote the second time around, and they too had mixed feelings because the questions seemed a lot more psychosocial than the 1st.

From what I've heard from friends who wrote last Oct.2007, they received there results around Nov.14th-16th. But this year could be different.

All we can do now is continue to think positively and have faith in God.

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^That's next week.

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When I wrote the exam in June, some of my friends called the regulatory body and asked them when they were planning to send out the result, and when the actual date was out, the regulatory body told my friends when the result would be sent out. (Which was July 18th)

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I don't understand why it takes so long to release the results. 6 to 8 weeks? it's nerve wrecking. I know that with NCLEX, you take the exam and in 2days you know your result and the torture of waiting is over and you move on to the next thing on your agenda.

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hi friends ...i am also sailing in the same boat&have been following this thread from begining..it seems we all are anxiously waiting on for the results.i left the exam centre feeling ok but now that result date is approaching i started getting nightmares,,,its so brutal to have such a long waiting period for results to arrive.But CNA is not to be blamed as they evaluate the answer sheets from entire Canada.As far as i know in one of their bulletin CNA has quoted that they complete evaluation of the test in first 4 weeks approx..&then they mail results to individual provincial regulatory bodies ,,from where they are sent to candidates mailing addreses.So its quite genuine for results to take so long to be out .

So friends we are thinking only about ourselves but they have to serve all of us...

They are doing their job,,we should do ours i.e pray te almighty with full faith ...may he be our saviour,,God bless all of us...

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