June 2010 CRNE Results

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Jul 16, 2010

CNO's registration fees are the lowest in the country. ($184.81 commpared to $504 in Alberta, for example.) They also have a lower fee for the exam ($464.69 versus $598 in Alberta and $600 in BC). That means that they have fewer dollar resources per capita than any other province... to administer to the largest number of registrations and the largest number of applicants in the country at any given time. I guess they could jack their fees and make every single nurse in the province angry in order to pay more people for what amounts to seasonal work. The first reports of results in hand came in on July 7, which was 6 business days ago. The first reports were from the Maritimes where there are only a fraction the number of candidates there are in Ontario, 920 in 2009 from Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI combined compared with 3632 in Ontario alone. A week one way or the other isn't going to make a huge difference to anything except your mental health and in 5 years, you're not even going to remember the exact date you got your results unless you dig through the AN archives.

fixmypctoday · Jul 16, 2010

Hi Jess1ca,

Congratulations! I hope I can equal your feat come October 6, 2010 when I will take my

CRNE. Thank you for sharing how you manage your exam preparation. It is indeed helpful. I would like to ask the following questions and I hope you will be able to shed light on them:

1.) which CRNE textbook did you buy from Amazon is MOST helpful? I plan to buy only one aside from the 5th CNA prep guide edition.

2)Did you only do self-studying, or you also enrolled in exam prep sessions?

3)Did you buy the blue print from CNA? I am uncertain if this is useful.

Thank you. YOur response will be greatly appreciated! Again, Congratulations!

jhntsh · Jul 16, 2010

I do appreciate the fact that CNO fee is cheaper than the other provinces & territories however CNO claimed that results will be known 'within six weeks'. Should there be unforeseen circumstances that hinders the mailing of results, I believe the burden is on CNO to inform the examinees that the results will be a tad late. I'm pretty sure most people would understand.

mickeybass · Jul 16, 2010

The stress and anxiety that the CNO has put us through is absolutely freaking ridiculous. Since the deadline to apply to write the October exam is July 26th, it is a bunch of bull that if I do happen to fail that I might miss the deadline to sign up to write in October. I don't care how many people wrote this exam in Ontario, it was scantron. You put it in a machine and you get marks, it shouldn't take over 6 weeks to decide how to adjust the exam or what questions to remove. My job depends on me passing and I have put so many things on hold like signing up for courses to see whether I pass or not. If they want us to stop calling and harassing them they better snap to it. I cannot believe that I paid so much money for the prep guides, the exam itself, the temp license and hopefully the full license to be so stressed out by them. The least they can do is send them out at the 6 weeks like they said.

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Jul 16, 2010

How would you propose they contact each and every one of the estimated 1500 examinees? By phone? By mail? Who would be doing this notification, the people who are also responsible for encoding the results and getting them out to the examinees? Or would it be the people who are responsible for assessing applications for registration who are already being lambasted for taking so long at that?

CNO's website doesn't say that your results would be "known within six weeks". It says:

Results

Examination results will be mailed under the name and to the permanent address you most recently provided to the College of Nurses of Ontario. Results are not released over the telephone. Examination results will be mailed within 6 weeks following the examination.

Looks like they missed their deadline by a day or two. It happens.

JW2b · Jul 16, 2010

I have been lucky enough to get really nice people on the phone when calling the CNO. Here is what I have been told. As of today, (July 15th) the exams have not yet been mailed. The people at the CNO are waiting for someone (??who??) to give the go ahead to mail them out. There is absolutely no truth to the rumour that unsucessful applicants get the news first. The woman said "there is no way we are going to sort through all the letters, pick out who failed, mail theirs first, then hold the others for a few more days just for fun". As for a temp licence ~ In Ontario (I think it's only us still waiting), if you fail the CRNE, your temp licence is revoked. A letter is sent on the same day to both you and your employer. The results are not available to your employer on a secret website or anything like that. I think that's it. I have decided to stop obsessing because I don't think the results will be here till late next week. I'll wait till Monday and start to panic all over again! Hope this answers a few questions... Any further word on the passing mark? Last I heard the pass was 120/200 with only 8 of the questions being expiramental... Anyone hear different? :nurse: ??????

JW2b · Jul 16, 2010

Janfrn - it would be nice to get results via email. Quicker and save a few trees!

nilsky · Jul 16, 2010

I just hope that those people who have failed the test may still have the time to sign up for the October Exam. If results of the test are not known by Tuesday next week chances are they won't be able to beat the deadline to file their application set on Oct 26, that means waiting another 7 months or so to write the next exam. Statistics have shown that new grads have higher chances of passing the test on the first attempt. Postponing the test one year after graduation would reduce your chances of passing the test by 20%.

cherry86 · Jul 16, 2010

nilsky - don't stress about potentially signing up a day or two late, if need be. i registered 2.5 weeks late for this june crne and was permitted to write. most of the time you can be accomodated, provided you sign up prior to deadline to withdraw date. congrats to everyone who has passed and good luck everyone awaiting for their results!

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Jul 16, 2010

The stress and anxiety that the CNO has put us through is absolutely freaking ridiculous. Since the deadline to apply to write the October exam is July 26th, it is a bunch of bull that if I do happen to fail that I might miss the deadline to sign up to write in October. I don't care how many people wrote this exam in Ontario, it was scantron. You put it in a machine and you get marks, it shouldn't take over 6 weeks to decide how to adjust the exam or what questions to remove. My job depends on me passing and I have put so many things on hold like signing up for courses to see whether I pass or not. If they want us to stop calling and harassing them they better snap to it. I cannot believe that I paid so much money for the prep guides, the exam itself, the temp license and hopefully the full license to be so stressed out by them. The least they can do is send them out at the 6 weeks like they said.

Do you honestly think that CNO is doing this on purpose to stress people out? I can't imagine that they're sitting in a room somewhere discussing how they can sit on the results for a few more days just to watch people lose their minds. Their turn-around time has actually gotten shorter over the last two years. It used to take EIGHT weeks. I know this because this is my twelfth exam cycle as moderator of this forum and I've heard it all before.

I also don't believe that CNO had anything to do with your decision to buy the prep guides or even reaped any reward from your purchase. The cost of the exam goes directly to the testing organization affiliated with the Canadian Nurses' Association that administers the exam, not the Colleges. The CNA says this about results:

How long does it take to receive results on the CRNE?

Your pass or fail result on the exam will be sent to your provincial or territorial regulatory authority within 4-8 weeks of the exam. The regulatory authority will then mail your result to you; how long it takes for you to receive your result from the regulatory authority varies depending on the jurisdiction.

So who's to say that it's not the CNA that caused the hold-up?

You can register to write the October exam online and pay by credit card in a matter of 10 minutes or so and the deadline is still 11 days away.

Your employer won't know whether you've passed or not until you do, so your job really isn't in jeopardy until you have your results in your hand.

The cost of your temp license will be deducted from the cost of your regular license so you haven't lost anything there either.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. Norman Vincent Peale

jhntsh · Jul 16, 2010

As I had mentioned in my earlier posting -Cno can post a short note on their website. Examinees are checking for updates on the website incessantly so the 'news' will spread to each other even ending up on this site also. Doesn't take much to post a one liner.

I am waiting patiently as there is nothing I can do however, the fact of the matter is CNO should have handled the matter differently. There are a number of individuals that are complaining that they were not treated well when they contacted CNO regarding results and address/name change.

mickeybass · Jul 16, 2010

If they had put a message on the CNO website giving information I'm sure it would have saved them a tonne of hassle from people calling them and bugging them