Do you think physicians could pass the NCLEX-RN?

[Lev]

I think they would fail at the psychosocial, prioritization, and delegation questions.

[hiddencatRN, BSN, RN]

For what it's worth, physicians are increasingly excluded by the courts as experts on nursing care in legal cases. They have no education in nursing, no licensure in nursing, and no experience performing in the nursing role supervised and evaluated by nurses. Ergo ... they have no standing in such matters.

Sure, there's overlap in what we all know and in an increasingly-large number of tasks (BTW, did you know that up to 1959 in CA, it was illegal for nurses to give injections or start IVs, because the extant practice acts limited broaching the skin to physicians? Our practice acts tend to follow, not lead, practice).

But as we are not held to physician standard of practice due to lack of education and training in physician work, they cannot be held to nursing standard of practice due to lack of education and training in our work. The sooner everybody understands and embraces that -- and judging by the above comments, that includes nurses-- the better off we will all be.

The NCLEX is a test. Physicians take tons of tests so develop good test taking skills if they didn't have them from the start, and in my experience are generally pretty book smart. I think with a little preparation they'd do fine on the NCLEX, which we're all told again and again is not real world nursing. So no need to get our nurses caps in a bunch about the independence of our profession.

[OCNRN63, RN]

Deleted; already answered this the first time around.

[hellookayy]

I can in my power guarantee you that ANY doctor who took the NCLEX (without preparing for NCLEX) will MISERABLY fail. I am not saying the NCLEX is hard, it is MUCH DIFFERENT than ANY of the tests they take. YOU MUST take a coorifice prep that is designed for the NCLEX. The NCLEX questions are very specific to aligned programs that teach you how to take that test. You have to in other words be very good at picking up concepts of how to take the NCLEX. YOU HAVE TO prepare for the NCLEX itself in the way the NCLEX wants LOL and THAT will require specific training. I hate people who make it seem like doctor's can do what nurses can. The teaching and philosophy of nursing is SO much more different. An NCLEX question can say, "A patient who was islamic has just died selected all that apply "Turn the patient to the right" "Turn the patient to left later" "Wash the patient with a cold wrap" "Put 3 pillows behind the patients head" Unless you are die hard islamic or in the MAJOR lucks of luck heard this question somewhere OR have STUDIED NCLEX preps and kinds of questions YOU WOULD NEVER ANSWER THAT RIGHT LOL. A doctor would NOT know this kind of thing!! SO PLEASE to answer your question a doctor will NOTTTTT pass NCLEX idc what anyone says. The NCLEX is designed very specially to itself that ONLY people who have tailored to the programs of coorifice prep and grasped the concepts will truly know how to take the test!!