After failing the entry-to-practice exam three times, a student resigns herself to giving up her dream of practicing nursing and cries out from the heart.
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“Today, I say goodbye to the dream of being a community nurse, a women’s health nurse, a nurse in schools, a nurse in indigenous communities and so on. Today, I say “bye” to my dream profession,” Clémence Fortin wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
In her message, directly addressed to the Order of Nurses of Quebec (OIIQ), the young woman explains that she failed last March, and for the third time, the entrance exam to the nursing profession and says that she “broken heart”.
“Three attempts, three failures, three times the study and the stress of exam day. But above all three years of DEC [auxquels] I say goodbye, three beautiful years with kind classmates, patients who marked me[ée] and enriching internships, but also three years of lack of time, fatigue and in the other case less pleasant and hard internships on mental health […] I could do the exam a fourth and last time, but I don’t have the mental strength, the energy and the money that this whole exam process generates, ”she wrote.
She also claims that the pass rate for the March exam was 53%.
“Everything about this review is in question. Everything is obsolete,” she lamented.
Clémence Fortin calls on the OIIQ not to “let the next generation drop”.
“Do better, improve because a failure like this is not just a simple ‘no’. A failure like this has far more repercussions than you might think. I worked hard during my three years of DEC, I contributed for almost two years to the COVID-19 vaccination, campaign in which I enrolled[ée] voluntarily to help the population and the healthcare system who are struggling, at the same time to have a second job. I know that I would have been an empathetic, caring and persevering nurse. I’m proud of myself, even if it’s hard to admit.”