PBDS testing

Need info on this kind of testing...heard very few nurses passit
Quote from iliketweetyNeed info on this kind of testing...heard very few nurses passit

Like the above post noted, just do a search. You can find all the info you are looking for!

Quote from iliketweetyNeed info on this kind of testing...heard very few nurses passit

You believe everything you hear?? It's merely a critical thinking exam designed to test your present skills. Nothing more fancy than that. It involves, case presentations and video presentation, followed by 'what would you do first/second/third, etc.'In my field (travel), around 85% of nurses pass it on the first try. It's designed to replace subjective peer review with objective test results.Don't sweat it. :spin:

pbds (performance based development system)

Can anyone help me with this testing. Has anyone taking the test for the or? what are the scenerios for the or?

Jan 22, 2009I am a nurse with 16 yrs experience. I work as a local area agency nurse as house float (MICU, SICU, ER, PACU, Med/surg, tele). I have been doing that for the last 7 yrs. I just took the critical care pbds test at Greenville, NC yesterday and found out that I failed. I am from Ohio and packed everything up for a 13 week assignment in their MICU. My agency (Advantage RN) is sending me home with no job available. I am the horror story that everyone needs to know. Hindsight 20/20.....It is ok to take this exam, however, do it in you own state or just fly to the assignment stay 2 nights and go home after the exam. Get your results at home while you still have a job and do not incur the expenses, time, travel, and inconvienance of moving 4 states away just to move back in 4 days! I was not prepared for the test, I was told it was a trivial standards of care test. I took the exam after driving 12 hours the day before, and the testing facilities were cold and undesirable to say the least. I did not receive any time of results except that I failed (go home). I have no idea how I did, but after preparing to leave home for 13 weeks, 12 hour drive, in a city I know nothing about, taking the exam in a 50 degree trailer in winter. I hope that I spelled my name correctly and got that right. I hope every nurse reads this or hears about it so they are not in the pickle that I am in today. Thank you .Please do not put your personal Email address on the public board.When you have made 15 posts on Allnurses then you can use the PM function of this board as per the TOS.Nightmare ......Moderator.

any new updated PBDS takers.

I think the PBDS TEST sux and is something sold to the hospitals to help administration nurses �AT THEIR OWN"!