nurseslite

You make some EXCELLENT points NC29mom and this is a warning and heads up to any nurse, particularly ADN's, who took a course in the latter part of 2014.. yes, the wocncb tells you, at time of signing up, that you have 1 year to complete the exam...BUT...obviously if you should not pass you are no longer qualified due to the changes of #1 needing a BSN. And here's the real clincher....you sign up in 2014...your money is accepted....then in January 2015 the big changes roll out.... yet you still can take the prior exam correlating to the prior curriculum...BUT..if you did NOT take that exam before May 2015..the NEW exam (now correlating with the new guidelines, requirements and curriculum)...is now being given ...Let me tell you from personal experience....another nurse friend and I took the course in the latter part of 2014....we were happy to be on our way to being credentialed in foot care and providing it... but real life happens (family sicknesses and deaths) and despite the fact that we studied, studied, studied and got our hands in there...we were both unable to take the exam until almost 1 year after signing up....which brings us to Oct 2015; This exam is grueling and we BOTH thought, what exam am I taking..?? We were first not aware of these very "extensive" changes made; Even with not knowing, we were cautiously optimistic yet both felt we knew our stuff; that did not matter as the extensive changes made were NOT AT ALL in the previous course/curriculum we'd taken...it has changed extensively and the new requirements to take this exam/course is MUCH more in depth both in both didactic and clinical..Sadly..we are both now out of the running....as we did NOT pass the test... though considering the content of it...in conjunction with our clinical experience and background..we did not do bad...just not enough....In our opinion..there should have been provisions made and cutoffs for those who paid for and took the previous course/curriculum in 2014 and ALSO provisions made for those, to take the correlating exam (up to 1 year) (before all the changes were made!!) It would seem ethical to not accept ppls money, knowing that the changes being made were coming soon!! It also baffles me...that I have wound care background and have provided foot and wound care to the feet, always with the ability to refer out to our wound care nurse as needed for complicated wounds; yet now as "only" an ADN, I'm unable to even be considered for this certification; We don't know where we stand now...no pun intended....any similar stories or suggestions?.....