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Oh totally, thank you for clarifying. There were multiple questions in the test where the "correct answer" was not correct. Some had two correct answers as options direct from the book and they wanted the one I didn't choose, their answers were not "better". In one case the side effect I chose is a more common side effect than the one they they said was correct, neither were more dangerous. ? A couple questions had flat out incorrect answers. I'd have gotten an 88% if they had been fact checked. On top of that a couple others expected me to have knowledge not found in the books & above the education level we've been given. So I'm not frustrated at a thin margin, I'm frustrated at an overall testing system because we use Prep U for multiple classes and it's a system wide issue from what I can tell, hence my trying to find out if anybody has had successfully communicated with them regarding the questions.

I'm feeling unhappy at people stating "if you failed something by a bit you were basically failing all along." That is not true for many things. There are some tests that need to be passed at a certain grade and if you get 95% on everything but fail that one test by the smallest bit you fail, period. I'm not sure if people who have practiced for awhile are assuming that school today is like it was when they took it, but it probably isn't, and remembering that when you are responding to questions is important. OP - I'm sorry. I am seeing that at my school. It is demoralizing to be told you are wrong when you have evidence in front of your eyes that you aren't - or the book is. I'm watching intelligent people cry from failing exams that were so badly worded or had just enough wrong things on it that it'd be hard to really thrive. Your syllabus probably has who to escalate things to. If you've escalated it up that far then go up to the department lead, a VP or the President. Google some articles about how to escalate it depending on the type of school you are at (a 4 year university vs a community college vs a nursing only school likely have different tactics.) Take a breath. Rewrite your case, ask a couple of friends to look it over for clarity and to give you suggestions. Keep it succinct so it doesn't distract from the point, if relevant provide a few references to back up what the book says, make sure they are reliable medical ones. Be confident.

In this specific case my instructor has not been open to discussing problems in the assignments/quizzes they write themselves. The instructors have been clear they have nothing to do with the Prep U exams since it's some separate company. It's kind of scary challenging an instructor after you've already tried. But.. yeah. Remediation in Prep U is for scores under 80% and I got 79.86% so it is an actual thing.

We have a lot of Prep U quizzes in our nursing program classes. There seem to be an inappropriately large number of questions with incorrect answers, or that ask us to know information that isn't actually in the chapter at all. Because it's not given directly by instructors it doesn't seem like I can negotiate with them directly about the questions. Here is an example where the the textbook chart states IV administered morphine reaches it's peak at 20 minutes. "AT 1030, the nurse administers morphine 5 mg IV as prescribed for a client in pain. The nurse should expect to assess for the drug’s maximum effect at what time?" You Selected: 1050 Correct response: 1040" You can click on questions and report typos and incorrect answers, and I have sent in reports as I come across them, but I'm wondering if the company DOES anything about them, or if so, does so in a timely fashion. It matters to me because I have to remediate a test because I fell 0.02% under a grade threshold due to a few questions like this.

Oh thank you! That is a great explanation.

Thank you kaylee. And this is why I ask - it's week 4, none of our instructors have covered it (or much about documentation at all or how to word things) and our clinic instructor refused to let us use vitals at all for a patient with Raynaud's who didn't register on the pulse oximeter and gave us a lecture about how everything has to be "complete" and noting in the chart why SpO2 was not included was not adequate. I imagine I'm already going to get hassled about it even though I have no control over what vitals were done previously, so wanted to ask here for best wording because we were never given options to use. Sounds like you say "no data available" is preferable to saying it was "not charted" for a given set of vitals, so posting here has been useful ?

First quarter student here who just had their first clinicals day. We have an assignment to take complete vitals on a patient, then compile their previous vital signs to compare them, and there are days that both pain assessment and respiration were skipped. I am required to include SpO2 but the clinic does not take that reading for this patient. I was just going with "not charted" but I thought I'd check here. We've been given almost do direction and I'm not finding any information in my books about this particular subject.