Hallelujah!

[allamericangirl]

What an ordeal! I took my State Board Exams for my Nurse Aide License over 2 weeks ago. I had to wait over 8 weeks to get scheduled for the state exam after I finished the required hours of schooling :angryfire and then after I took the state test I had to wait 2 nerve-wrecking weeks to find out if I passed or failed. It made me completely NUTS! I thought I was going to lose my mind worrying and waiting ... fussing and stewing! OMG!!

A bunch of people that I went to school with failed the state boards and I didn't have any kind of feel about whether I passed or failed. The test shouldn't be that hard, but the testing service "Promissor", has made the Skills portion of the exam ridiculously hard! In the skills portion it is all in the eyes of the beholder, (that is where most of my classmates failed) ... My tester didn't seem to be very objective, but more judgmental, as she was also a new nurse educator! ( I was scared to death! :chair: ) It is so hard to tell with standardized state exams, how you did... they always have so many wacky questions, with questions that could be answered a lot of different ways... you know ...which answer is MOST right! My state has revised the CNA educational and testing program and made it really difficult. Considering the pay scale for CNA's and their scope of practice, it is a little bit overkill. I swear I was ready to start desperation drinking ... especially since I landed my first choice of jobs at my first choice hospital (1 of the top 100 hospitals in the US, 2004) nearly 2 months ago, and they have been waiting for me to pass my exam before my start date. :yelclap:

I have been scheduled 2 monthsfor the monthly hospital orientation this coming Monday morning, June 6th and as of last night, Friday... I still didn't know if I had passed or failed the test! SCREAM! They must post new licenses during the night, because when I got up this morning I checked the on line License Registry and there it was!!!!! YEAH!! My name and a license Number behind it! !!!OMG ... Hallelujah! :bugeyes: I start to work Monday morning. I'm jumping up and down ... I'm sooo excited ... and relieved!

I get to work on the General Surgery Floor, where I will really learn a lot about bedside nursing! Hallelujah! My nursing career begins! Next, Step #2 ... learn my job and do it well ... and then...start my training toward my LPN! Hubby says he's leaving town when I have to wait for the outcome of that one ... LOL! Oh! I'm sooo HAPPY! :balloons:

[lil' girl, LPN]

Way to go, congrats!!! :balloons:

[purplemania, BSN, RN]

Good for you! Another goal set then met.

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

Great news! Congrats!

[minneRN]

congratulations!!!!!!!!!!! i am so excited for you...you sound like a person who is going to go far and you will do great!:balloons:

[nursemike, ASN, RN]

Good for you!

[ladyhawk3]

I went for my CNA1 written and skills testing yesterday. I believe Promissor is a money rackett. They FAILED almost all of the 15 girls there testing, including me. I know that I passed the written even though they did not give me the results. But, they told us when we failed the skills, that was up until the last 5 candidates. People were angry and upset, some were crying because they will lose their jobs as CNA's because Promissor failed them. The lady who was my partner has been a CNA for 20 years and forced to take these exams in order to keep her job. She failed (no reason given) and now she will either have to re-test (pay all that money again) and pass to keep her job. You can test up to 3 times and it's like $70 some dollars just for the skills part. This company is out for the money, nothing but a business, and their skills tests are RIDICULOUS! One girl was told she failed because she did not set the scales balance back to zero, BEFORE she put the client on the scales!:angryfire Is that just not ridiculous? What does that have to do with resident care? That was the ONLY reason she failed. Now this girl has 20 days to re-take and pass the test, before she loses her job. Heck, after you send your money to Promissor, you have to wait 6 or 8 weeks to get a test date! That girl's job is gone and she only makes $6.65 an hour anyway. I would like to have a list of how many people fail Promissor's tests. I bet there are alot of people who do. This is nothing BUT a money rackett. I bet that on your 3rd and last try, you could kick the client out of bed and pass because they can't get any more money out of you after the 3rd try!!! If any of you who read this have failed Promissor's unfair skills test for CNA's, please contact me. Thanks!