NCLEX Reader Accommodation

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I was wondering if anyone had experience with the reader accommodation and how it worked. In nursing school I used a computer program that read the test. It was mentioned by someone who works on my case at school that it may be a person who reads the test. Any insight is greatly appreciated. I take the test in 2 weeks!!

Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.

When I took the NCLEX there was not a special separate room that someone could go to to have someone read to them. Everyone was in a big open room that was being recorded. I think it would be very distracting to everyone testing if someone was reading to you.

I was undiagnosed bipolar at the time & I not only passed nursing school but the NCLEX. If you can't pass the NCLEX without assistance, how are you going to make it throughout your career as a nurse? No one will be there to hold your hand.

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Specializes in Pediatric CICU.

I understand this may be hard for others to understand if you never had to deal with it.

This is only for those who had the same question that I had and looking for guidance.

I had had an in-person reader and they sat in the private room with me. The private room was inside the big open room and one of the walls was a window so the proctor had access to look in on me.

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Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
I understand this may be hard for others to understand if you never had to deal with it.

This is only for those who had the same question that I had and looking for guidance.

I had had an in-person reader and they sat in the private room with me. The private room was inside the big open room and one of the walls was a window so the proctor had access to look in on me.

My brother has severe dyslexia, he made it through college without a bunch of accommodations & has been working for years.

I think a lot of us want to know how you will work as a nurse with no accommodations. There will be no accommodations when you are working. No one can slow down or read anything to you. If you can't take the test to make you a nurse on your own, how will you function as a nurse on your own?

I could ask for accommodations, I have bad anxiety due to my bipolar disorder but what good would that do me? I have to learn how to be a nurse with people holding my hand through school & the NCLEX? In the real nursing world no one gives you help because you have dyslexia, anxiety or ADHD.

I think now would be the perfect time to learn how to function without any help. Because if you can't now, how will you after you pass the NCLEX?

ETA: I had to deal with bipolar disorder throughout my whole nursing program & was not medicated for it. It was a huge struggle for me. Have you looked for different ways to study, manage it or medications?

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Many people with learning disabilities are able to be nurses ? I don't understand how someone came on here to look for similar stories and advice and they are asked about how can will hold a job with disability? I was diagnosed with a learning disability and get special accommodations for my tests and I get above average clinical grades and outstanding recommendations from my instructors.

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they are asked about how can will hold a job with disability? I was diagnosed with a learning disability and get special accommodations for my tests and I get above average clinical grades and outstanding recommendations from my instructors.

If they need a reader for tests in school and a reader when taking NCLEX, what is their expectation once they are working as a nurse and they no longer have a reader. There is a lot of reading in nursing, the question is how will they adapt? Grades in nursing school are irrelevant to the question.

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Wow you have an answer for everything, don't you? Have you ever taken a nursing exam? They're so in depth and and why wouldn't someone utilize resources that are available to them? When referring to "clinical grades " I am saying just because they have test accommodations doesn't mean they can't do their job! In school and for the nclex you have to take be able to pass these tests with a certain average and just because they use accommodations for the nclex doesn't mean they will need those same accommodation when they become RNs. I was also making a point when I was in school I could run circles around people in clinical that didn't have accommodations and could get 100s on the tests. There is two sides of nursing and I'm stronger at one than the other í ¾í´” I tested separately from everyone on every test and will be for the nclex. Will I need to be separated when I'm on the floor with my patients and colleagues, nope!

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Wow you have an answer for everything, don't you? Have you ever taken a nursing exam? They're so in depth and and why wouldn't someone utilize resources that are available to them? When referring to "clinical grades " I am saying just because they have test accommodations doesn't mean they can't do their job! In school and for the nclex you have to take be able to pass these tests with a certain average and just because they use accommodations for the nclex doesn't mean they will need those same accommodation when they become RNs. I was also making a point when I was in school I could run circles around people in clinical that didn't have accommodations and could get 100s on the tests. There is two sides of nursing and I'm stronger at one than the other ������ I tested separately from everyone on every test and will be for the nclex. Will I need to be separated when I'm on the floor with my patients and colleagues, nope!

IF you could just drop the snarkiness from your reactions and response you just MIGHT be able to get your point across in a professional and even educational manner. As it is you've done nothing to shed any light on this topic or answer even a single question that those of us who are asking very reasonable questions are seeking.

Our questions have to do with HOW it is that someone who REQUIRES a test to be read to them in order to expect to be able to PASS that test is likely to succeed in the day-to-day work a typical nurse experiences in a typical shift. No need to respond with nastiness to an honest question, it really does nothing to help your (or anyone else needing this accommodation) position to be understood. Supposedly, you DO want others to understand, right?

Ok, so please take a moment to explain. OBVIOUSLY those of us who are real, working nurses have taken nursing exams, there's that snark I mentioned. What we DO NOT understand is how it is that one MUST have exams read to them, exams that do not have anyone's life hanging in the balance of understanding that questions, yet will be perfectly fine WITHOUT having someone read things to them where people's lives DO hang in the balance. Surely you can see the issue, the reason for concern?

If you are saying that you do not need anyone to read anything to you at all at any time while you are working, you understand perfectly the "in depth" nature of pharmacology reference books and online resources, med references you MUST be able to read, then WHY do you NEED the "accommodation" of having someone read the NCLEX to you??

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Merged both threads. To the original poster- you have received some solid advice. It does seem as though few of our members have had this experience so it would be best to call the testing center

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On 6/28/2017 at 4:35 PM, Extra Pickles said:

I'm trying to figure out how someone who requires a person to read the NCLEX questions to them in order to take the test would do in the real-world of a nursing job. When you're working there isn't someone to read the drug book to you or someone to read the labels of the medications to you or someone to read the chart to you, so how does this kind of accommodation for testing translate to a job?

Extra Pickles - Respectfully, it is not your place to question this individual about their accommodations or how this would allow them to have a nursing job. Respectfully, it is not your business on how others handle their job outside of an exam. No one should explain themselves as to how the exam will translate to the job. This individual was reaching our for help and advice, not to be question or judged for having accommodations and how they will handle the "real" world. That is up to the individual and nurse managers to figure out. When someone reaches out for help, help if you can. If not, leaving your judgements out and let someone else help.

~ Respectfully,

Nancy

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On 7/13/2017 at 12:17 AM, OrganizedChaos said:

When I took the NCLEX there was not a special separate room that someone could go to to have someone read to them. Everyone was in a big open room that was being recorded. I think it would be very distracting to everyone testing if someone was reading to you.

I was undiagnosed bipolar at the time & I not only passed nursing school but the NCLEX. If you can't pass the NCLEX without assistance, how are you going to make it throughout your career as a nurse? No one will be there to hold your hand.

Everyone is different and handles their conditions different. Congratulations on passing the NCLEX! However, just because you passed the NCLEX without accommodations, doesn't mean everyone else with a condition can pass the NCLEX without accommodations. Everyone is different and needs accommodations for different reasons.

Respectfully,

Nancy

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Specializes in RETIRED Cath Lab/Cardiology/Radiology.

This is a three-year-old thread, and OP has not been back since. As such, this thread will be closed. A new thread may be started, if members wish. Thank you all for your responses and participation.

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