WHY OH WHY? Every year-------competencies!!!!!

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Ugh, every year we have to do yet another annoying, repetitive, HIPAA or some other Gawd awful online inservice. Is there an end? Will the healthcare system ever deem me HIPAA compliant? Will they ever consider that I've absorbed their vital teachings for more than a year?

Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.
When it comes to the online competencies every year, we spend more time telling each other how to fudge the system so that it registers the training "complete" than actually doing them.

Click, click, click, click.............exit. Take quiz, fail?, check answers, take quiz, pass. MOVING ON! That's all you need to know.

I did mine in one sitting this year using the above strategy. Still took me TWO hours to get through them all without reading a single slide.

That's pretty much how I take care of it, too.

I've got better things to do with my time ... and bigger problems to focus on.

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Specializes in Peds Urology,primary care, hem/onc.

I have been at the same place for 10 years, I have unintentially memorized all the answers on all the computer mandatory education we have to do every year (there is like 8 or 9 of them). I just answer the questions, get a 100% on the quiz and move on. I think it is just something we all have to do. At least it is online and not something we have to go to classes to do (like I used to).

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Specializes in Hospital Education Coordinator.

if you participate every year you cannot use the excuse that "no one told me". That way, your boss can say "hey, we tried to tell them"

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.

This year, my hospital added a competency about being a team play and how to make and participate in positive changes at the culture at work. This was obviously made up by someone in HR who felt the need to justify why they were getting a paycheck. Come to most nursing units and they will show you how team work really works.

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Specializes in ED; Med Surg.

Or Sexual Harassment training...Quid pro quo, Clarice?

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
Ive been a nurse for 43 years. I can do competencies in my sleep.
I can do them in my sleep as well. Competencies need to be "proven", on file, yearly for accreditation/reimbursement purposes.

You are my age and I have been an RN since I was 18...being a nurse for 43 years means you started at age 9....LOL Now that is a child prodigy....LOL ;) ((HUGS))

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Specializes in pediatrics; PICU; NICU.
Plus I get tired of the "communicable disease" training we have to do every year. "True or false...you can catch HIV from someone who sneezes in the next room." Ugh.

So, is it true or false? I just can't seem to remember!:geek:

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So, is it true or false? I just can't seem to remember!:geek:

Actually, I appreciate that my employer makes the questions on the competency quizzes idiotically simple -- makes it a lot easier to breeze through the modules. :)

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Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

Well, judging by the sheer number of threads entitled "Is this a HIPPA violation?" (and YES, the misspell is mine, I DO know that it's HIPAA =) leads me to believe that YES, some nurses DO need yearly training on this subject...

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

Yup it never ends. I just finished my last round of 27 competencies, only to leave that job. I wonder what the next place has in store for me...

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I wonder what the next place has in store for me...

Easy -- 27 annual competencies. :)

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Specializes in medical.

My company has a annual skills which takes a couple of hours or so that everybody has to do. The day shift gets paid because they are on duty anyway but night shift doesn't get paid because we are staying over on our own time. The company justifies this by saying you are on a salary. ?

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