Originally Posted by stdmidwife06  Good luck, I have mine in February dreading it, let us know how you get on. |
Hi and welcome to the site.
Thanks for your good wishes too.
Well, my clinical skills exam was awful, the morning started badly when the train I needed to get to uni was delayed and wouldn't get me there in time. So I had to catch a bus and walk for what seemed like miles.
By the time I arrived at uni I was really stressed, went into the exam and was told I would be tested on blood pressure and pulse.
They asked questions first and my mind just went a complete blank, then I had to perform the skill, I messed that up by only describing what I was doing for part of the test, then each skill was followed by more questions.
One of the tutors kept looking at me when I had finished my answers in a way that made me feel she was thinking I was stupid, she probably didn't think that (I hope) but that is how I felt.
I knew the answers to the questions, and I knew how to do the skills, pulse being the one I struggle with most, but as I started to take the tutors pulse I realised I had said the wrong thing for the normal ranges, so that ruined my test as I lost all thoughts of what I was doing. I did correct the normal ranges, but again got one of the figures wrong.
By the time I left the room all I wanted to do was cry, so, I don't need to wait until Weds to hear 'sorry but.....'
Not sure I am really cut out for this after all.
Hope everyone else has a better time than I have when they do theirs.
Pauline