“allowed students to go on to sit nursing board exams and obtain licenses”
So they passed the boards. They can’t exactly be ignorant slouches.
I used to live in California. The Vietnamese people took over the manicure shops all throughout the state and now throughout the nation. I hired Dave Vietnamese girl, who told me that girls manicurists sit for the boards, but they’re allowed to have an interpreter with them who gives them the answers. So they don’t really know what or why they’re doing. They’re just copy their friends. Must be a lot of money in it.
I have a niece who married a guy named Mohammed, who was from Gambia. She met other Gambians at work and they introduced her to this guy who needed green card etc. All the Gambians are nurses in the Pacific Northwest anyway. These people are immigrating here to be nurses. Did they take a legitimate test or take a test legitimately? Most likely not.
Agreed.
Nurses must pass yearly proficiency tests
in order to maintain their employment.
I’ve a good friend who’s a nurse. Those
tests aren’t easy to pass.
If they became nurses in their home countries, they are probably qualified for the most part. But if you flood the country with nurses, their wages would drop to minimum wage.
I wouldn’t be so sure of that. The actual passing score for the exam is zero (it’s essentially pass/fail), and, for example, over 96% of test takers in NH pass:
https://www.kaptest.com/study/nclex/nclex-pass-rates-what-you-need-to-know/
Precisely
Exactly. Technically you can be a lawyer without going to law school. So long as you can pass the bar exam. You can be a plumber or electrician simply by passing certification exams as well.
In my own industry, there was big push in the 1990s for people to go to night school to take these computer courses so they could pass their Microsoft MCSE exams. We used to call them "paper MCSEs" because they'd pay upwards of $10,000 to go to these schools that would coach them to pass the exams but would have no practical experience in the field.
I remember passing my certification exams on Windows NT with just some ExamCram books purchased at the Barnes & Noble.
Getting back to the original article, a nurse working successfully in her field is way more valuable than a young girl who comes out of the top nursing school with no real experience as of yet.
Bingo. Thank you. If they passed the test, they should know enough to be nurses. Or the test is invalid.
That’s my thought. If they passed the boards that’s what counts.
So they passed the boards. They can’t exactly be ignorant slouches.
You'd think.