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Thanks JWRN and all the others who have responded to my complaint. Glad I'm not the only one out there in the dark about this. Since I posted this, I've had 3 interviews and have another one scheduled tomorrow. I'm going to keep my chin up the best I can and beat them at this one way or another. I've since discovered that some hospitals are very rigid about this and others aren't. I guess there are still some places out there that believe in supporting their nurses instead of putting them in front of a "grand jury" to decide if they get parole or get gassed. Keep up all the good work you guys do!

Click on the tab at the top of the home page for Nursing Discussions, then click on Nursing Educators and scroll down to Performance Based Developmental Systems. You'll see that it's the latest "virus" to hit nurses. I probably posted this to the wrong thread. Sorry, I'm new to this and am learning how to use it.

:imbar I am a recent casualty of PBDS. This is an insane way of getting rid of good nurses with valuable experience! Why weren't we in formed that this part of orientation was "do or die"? They said it's not supposed to be used as a means to get rid of any one, but after I failed the initial test, I became scrutinized. The nurses that were my preceptors were no help at all. I was told that if I chose to take the re-test and failed, that I would be "black-balled" as a nurse. I used my nursing books for reference as well as my Internship notebook as tools to fill out the scenarios and was told it wasn't good enough. When I filled those out, I wrote on front and back and literally wrote a book on the darned thing. I've had nothing but good things said about me during my whole medical career. And now, suddenly it's implied that I'm "not up to their standards". So, I find myself in the job market again and I'm sure PBDS will raise it's ugly head. At least this time, I'm more prepared for it.