What a day, I had to take my first CPE over again because I missed some critical points in my assessment. This is my first nursing 100 clinical practice exam, basically a full assessment on a patient including vitals and range of motion exercises.
It is a pass or fail exam and you get one chance to take it over so this morning I had a lecture exam and CPE re-take. First of all, at the end of seminar my instructor announced to my class that I had to take the exam again and asked if someone would volunteer to be my patient (a little humiliating thanks).
Anyway, I took my exam and thought for sure that I passed. After it was over my instructor told me that my blood pressure was way off, I got 112/60 and she checked it 20 MINUTES LATER and got 120/68...way off??? She also said that I was a little sketchy on the breath sounds and she didn't know what she was going to do, she then instructed me to come back for clinical and go to the hospital tomorrow...we would discuss it on Wednesday. I returned to class for clinical and was asked to come out and talk to the professors (in front of all of my classmates)...they brought me to their office to go over the exam.
When we discussed the breath sounds I said that I had a hard time because she was fully clothed, and they agreed that that was understandable. However, they could not pass me because they are not confident in the fact that I can take a blood pressure.
Failure of this exam means that I fail the class, and even though the student handbook clearly states that one nursing class may be taken over if you fail, they said I would need to re-apply to the program and write a letter to the board if I wanted to be considered to take the class again.
Basically...I just failed out of the nursing program because my blood pressure reading was 8mm/Hg different than my instructors (20 minutes apart)...REALLY??? Does anyone else see anything wrong with this???
Happy Ending: I had applies to this program 5 TIMES, was put on a waitlist every time and finally offered a spot a week before classes started this summer. I also had applied to another school, it's a 45 minute drive instead of 4 minute drive, but it is a much better school in my opinion. Anyway, I also received a letter from them offering me a spot for the fall but had called them last week to tell them I wasn't going to take it. Anyway...I called them on my way home from being kicked out of the program, crying hysterically, and they said someone called today to back out...I GOT IN!!!
