failed my competency

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Apr 27, 2010

What are competency's. (if we have them we don't call them that)

woman_king · Apr 27, 2010

I get so nervous for competencies! I just had one yesterday, and I have to redo it because I got so nervous I forgot to put my gloves on! Other than that, I performed the skill (mixing & administering insulin SQ) perfectly according to my instructor. But because of the gloves, I have to redo it.

On one hand, I feel really good that I did so well on all the difficult parts! On the other hand, how frustrating that such a simple thing was my downfall. But I feel more confident now about the retake than I did the actual test, and I know when we retake they do their UTMOST to make sure we get everything right.

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Apr 27, 2010

So they are the return demonstrations. Ours are just called returns. Ours don't have any bearing on our grade.

kriscam2011 · Apr 27, 2010

In our class we have had a couple of people fail their competency tests, but the students that failed are not bad students. Sometimes you are just having a bad day, but dont worry this will just make you extra prepared for the next test. Good luck!

loreal · Apr 27, 2010

I'm trying to prepare for the NCLEX exam and do not want to approach it on simply retaining information not gotten in school supposedly or just studying randomly. Could someone give me some advice on studying for the NCLEX exam?

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · Apr 28, 2010

I'm trying to prepare for the NCLEX exam and do not want to approach it on simply retaining information not gotten in school supposedly or just studying randomly. Could someone give me some advice on studying for the NCLEX exam?

There is a whole section on the board under the student tab on NCLEX which has a lot of good information on it :)

That Guy, BSN, RN, EMT-B · Apr 28, 2010

I personally have not failed it but helped coach someone who has. It basically was a self esteem course in you can do it, lets review again and again and look at your weaknesses, not just criticize them. That is what really made it for this girl. We were able to expand on what she was doing wrong and turn it around on her and make her learn from it. That is all that you have to do anytime youf ail. Step back look at what you did and say no this wrong, this is what I need to do.

semester1kid · Apr 28, 2010

If you want to hear something funny/scary at the same time, I sort of plan of failing my competency tomorrow night on administration of parential meds...Actually 'planned' is not a good way of wording it since I will be working my butt off tonight to learn the stuff. But in the past week, we've already had 4 different tests (2 competencies, 1 lecture and 1 med calc) as well as had my clinical Elder paper due...and since we get three shots (pardon the pun:D) to pass this one, it's the one I put on the backburner until we got through the rest of it. Thinking about it, it's actually not that hard and I probably have about 75% of it down without even having opened the book yet.

But my point is sometimes when you have a lot on your plate, you have to play your cards right (and sometimes you do that instinctively without thinking about it - such as the case I mentioned above)...As our instructor always says, don't think of these as a pass/fail thing since all they want is for you to know it by the time you walk out the door - just concentrate on the parts you didn't do as well and work on them, then get in there and pass the darn thing.

I'm not sure how your school works, but if my instructor says it would affect my grade, as long as it's a passing grade, I wouldn't care since it doesn't carry over anyway. When I started the nursing program, this former almost straight A student (I had two 'B's and the rest 'A's in all my pre/pro -req course study) gave up any delusional thoughts of carrying that average through the program:yawn: :lol2: