Fired.......Why?????

Not to sound unsympathetic, but she should suck it up and take the refresher course. She knew she shouldn't have been working alone, but did it anyways, and then screwed up a medication. That is very serious, and it doesn't matter what other mistakes other nurses have made. She deserved to be fired and deserves to be made to do a refresher course. She is lucky to be getting a second chance at all. Why on earth would she have worked without supervision when she knew that was a condition of her lisence? Passing the exam will not prove her competence as a nurse more than her own behavior already has.

Your just lucky your not in her shoes,when she went to the hospital she told the manager she has to be under supervision and the manager signed the letter and told other nuses as well HOW MANY TIMES CAN YOU SAY SOMETHING!!! And I didn't ask you if she should get a second chance I just asked if there is anyone on top of the RN board

If you think how well someone does on the NCLEX exam determines their ability to be a good nurse, (pardon me) but, YOU'RE WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!

If she made a mistake and isn't taking the responsibility for her actions that's her own problem, she deserved to be fired and deserves to have to do a refresher course at the LEAST.

Probably a troll,

but it does bring up the issue. I have been asked to work outside my scope before at work. Our hospital and our BON requires certification for certain things and I have had charge nurses try to assign me patients before I was certified to look after them. My response was always NO!!! They can't force me to work outside my scope of practice because I know it's my lisence on the line, not to mention the patient's safety.