Psychiatric PBDS exam

[fawnsternurse]

Hi ,

I had this under the regional link but had no responses so I thought I would place this in the Psychiatric board. Has anyone heard of this or have taken it?

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Hi all,

I am due to take this exam (in psychiatry) ( I decided not to take a med surg position in NYC due to lack of healthy Nurse-Patient ratio's) and as I was researching it, I found out that the Hospitals in NYC love this exam and use it frequently.

Is this true?

If so is anyone willing to shed some light on their experience with it , especially in psychiatry.

I have already done the search on this site about it and have read up quite a bit. But no one has addressed the PBDS exam in psychiatry specifically with scenario's.I am going up as a Traveler and would love some feedback.

Thank you so much!

[JD1106]

Hi,

I work in CT and my hospital required me to take a PBDS exam. Though I work on a geri-psych floor my exam was not psych based, but more of a med-surg competency. I would assume your exam may be similar in style, though. Basically, we had to watch videos of about 11 scenarios and try to determine what the medical diagnosis of the patient was and then write down what your nursing interventions would be. The next part of the exam was all about IV troubleshooting. We had pictures to look at and we had to determine the problem - infiltration; phlebitis; etc - and again write down the appropriate nursing interventions. There were also a few written scenarios presented. Another section examined how you would react to certain statements or requests from patients as well as other staff members. The final section had to do with prioritizing. In this section you are given a request and you must decide whether this is something that needs to be done within the hour, can be put off to a later time, but during your shift, or can it get passed to the next shift.

I hope that helps!

[fawnsternurse]

Wow... thanks so much for replying!

Yes, that does sound like the med surg version of the PBDS exam. But I think based on the area i will be working on that it will definetly be the psychiatric one.

I dont mind saying that I am a bit nervous about this because not only have I heard the horror stories but especially with the fact that I am a Traveler, I know that you have one shot and you are gone if you dont do well.

Aggggg