m_lanham

I was just failed from a community college in Washington for questioning nurses while I was in clinicals. I was not even given the opportunity to explain what I was questioning. At the beginning of the meeting I was told I could grieve the failure, but I had already tried that at another school and I knew that the grieving process means that I was already doomed. I questioned a nurse who was hanging a bag of lipids that had Vit K in it. There was no vit K on the MAR. I was not blaming the nurse for anything. I was just trying to understand if it was ok to hang. We called the doc and he said go ahead. The other nurse I questioned was cutting a piece of foam for a wound vac. She was cutting it too small and I told her to stop so that she could look at the wound again before cutting. You know measure twice, cut once. She was an old LPN with 34 years on the floor, she did not like me telling her to stop. I only told her to stop to avoid ruining the dressing. She went ahead and cut it, ruined it and had to get another wound vac kit to do it over. I was not rude, but she was evidently sensitive. I am sure if my instuctors had given me the opportunity to tell my side of the story they would have understood that I was trying to perform good nursing. Similar stuff happened at the other school. I went to the zoo with some disabled clients without permittion; thereby, putting the school at "risk" for a law suit. I was with the other professional staff. I was not incharge. Yet, I was written up for this. None of my sins put patients in danger. If you can call my infractions professionalism failures at all, they are surely not worthy of failure.:angryfire

Do you have a link that I can find out more about taking the test in CA?

I've gone to two nursing schools and have failed in both! I was 10 weeks from taking the NCLEX-RN in both programs. I am starting to feel that God doesn't want me to be a nurse. I am male, 51 y/o, and I have graduate degrees (that is right plural) in other fields. It seems that nurses feel criticized when I ask questions. I don't mean to be critical; I am just trying to learn. I have been in both a graduate immersion program and a community college program. I have been kicked out of both. I managed to get my LPN before the last failure. Is there anyway I can combine the hours between two programs to get permission to take the NCLEX-RN? I feel like I am in LIMBO! Stuck! I not bad guy, honest.