Past and future graduates of Excelsior College

[oldlpnnewrn]

Please read this proposed amendment

Virginia Regulatory Town Hall View Petition

[TLSpaz, ASN, RN]

Signed...

[TiddlDwink]

In my humble opinion:

Nursing is a knowledge-based profession of course, but it is also skills-based. Without any clinical experience at all, how would the candidate show that s/he had any skills? Even the ability to make a bed or take vital signs? Wash hands properly? Give an injection? Much less do a physical assessment..

Would you want a doctor doing an exam on you that never had any clinical experience doing your pap smear, or listening to your cardiac sounds? Just that he read about them and memorized what it said? Would you want a doctor who aced the written exam, but never been in an OR, to take out your appendix?

I just believe it takes both knowledge and the ability to apply the knowledge, as well as a skills base to be a licensed nurse.

And before anyone jumps my case: I know that depending on what nursing specialty you go into, there are more skills that are acquired after you go to work that you didn't have a chance to do in nursing school. I just think that every nurse who gets licensed should at least have demonstrated some very basic skills.

[caliotter3]

The link posted has been the subject of two previous threads.

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

The link posted has been the subject of two previous threads.

At least one which the same poster started, and is now locked.