Okay, I fully expect to be slammed for this. What do all these posts about gaming the system to get early results say about the character of some of the new grads/nurse candidates? One of the prime requisites of being a nurse is good judgement. Boasting about or encouraging fraudulent behavior by using inaccurate or inadequate credit card information to get test results hours or days quicker does not speak well of one's judgement and maturity. Is this what we accept from our colleagues?
It may be harsh but I think this is a matter of integrity. I understand impatience very well, I understand wanting to know if all the work of school paid off, what I don't understand is how easily one can ignore the lessons of integrity and professionalism.
If one can lie to a faceless testing company how one respond when faced with a potential life threatening situation that requires, patience, integrity, and maturity. It's a slippery slope, a little harmless deception here may reveal character issues that come to light when real harm may be caused.
So, slam me, flame me, whatever, or I hope some will agree with me.
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Peason Vue offers early results for eight dollars, why is this not considered ethically or morally wrong. The company is taking advantage of every candidate that takes the test and wants to know the results. Why are individual people being blamed for the time it takes to have test results snail mailed to them. There sure are a lot of saints on this site, I'm sure no one has ever done anything wrong ever.
They're being blamed for try to use fraudulent information to find out if the PVT worked.
Why is there a problem with using a pre-paid gift card or expired card to check if Pearson Vue allows you to register. Would this all be okay if everyone that tried the PVT used legitimate credit cards?
I thought the point that people want to make is to discourage the use of PVT as it can be inaccurate.
How can you judge a person based solely on their decision to try the PVT?
Who is being harmed when someone attempts the PVT?
As one who has posted in another thread about using the trick, I feel as I should clarify...
In my first attempt to get the info I wanted (God help me)... I entered CORRECT info.
Shot número 2 (because I'm a trouble shooter by nature)... I entered incorrect info to decrease my anxiety level.
Guess what. Same result whether I was being ethical or unethical. Same exact pop up both times. Cool beans!!
48 hours pass and I pay for my quick results... (Scandalous as it seems) and the rest is history.
My point being.. Don't categorize or make a mountain out of a mole hill when using words like "morals" and "ethics". Judging is also a pretty unattractive characteristic.
Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
* CC#s are derived from the Luhn algorithm, so changing one number on one of your own cards is virtually guaranteed to create a number that would never actually exist (because it would change the checksum at the end). In the off chance that you swapped in a number that still made a valid CC#, you'd still be missing data like the account name, address, zip code, and CVC.
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They're being blamed for try to use fraudulent information to find out if the PVT worked.