LOUISVILLE – Adelaide Quaye-Mansell has enjoyed caring about people, so finding a nurse was her “passion” goal.
In fact, when she was 15 in Ghana, before moving to the United States, she helped care for her bedridden uncle.
She cooked for him and gave him medicine. She was astonished to see him recover.
“I like to worry about. . . when other people are sick,” the 42-year-old Louisville woman said. “I feel like I have to worry about them. “
Quaye-Mansell enrolled at the Louisville campus of Galen College of Nursing in 2020.
But the COVID-19 pandemic that disrupted the education of other aspiring nurses also hurt her, she said. Her entire nursing education became a public fitness crisis that limited in-person learning opportunities.
“Most of our clinical hours (were) conducted on Zoom,” Quaye-Mansell said. So when she graduated in 2022, she couldn’t pass the foreign folk exam without delay and get the coveted registered nurse name. Your name.
It wasn’t until a year later, when he took a flexible preparation course through the Kentucky Technical and Community College System.
She blames COVID-19 for the delay.
Vanessa Lyons, LPN bridge coordinator at RN at West Kentucky Community and Technical College in Paducah, said the flexible preparation course attended by Quaye-Mansell and others was born out of a preference to have more nurses in the state.
Kentucky, and the country, has a well-documented shortage of nurses, exacerbated by COVID-19 exhaustion and an aging population.
Mass closures and restrictions have delayed the school trajectory of Kentucky’s next generation of nurses.
“Students, as a result of the pandemic, had less access to clinical facilities, less time in clinical settings,” Lyons said. “This is a very vital component of student success: linking what they are informed in the classroom to real-world nursing.
Most sensibly, many nursing academics are running their studies in the exercise box, which means they have been doubly affected by the pandemic, both in the classroom and in the box.
“So the stressors of mandatory, short shifts and exposure to COVID and all the stressors that physical care staff were experiencing, were also experienced by our academics,” Lyons said.
This made it difficult to officially become a registered nurse after graduation. Nursing graduates will need to pass the National Council Licensing Examination (NCLEX) to prove they can safely practice nursing.
The exam assesses “critical thinking skills using data that scholars learned in their nursing school or nurse practitioner,” according to nurse. org. “The purpose of NCLEX is to make sure graduates can make quality nursing judgments and provide patient care. “
To qualify for the Kentucky Technical and Community College System’s flexible preparation course, which ran from the first week of January through the end of March, students had to have failed the NCLEX twice.
Throughout their curriculum, they took assessment tests, reviewed content, and developed methods on how to study and examine.
Quaye-Mansel took NCLEX twice in 2022, in June and September. No time passed and she said that she felt lonely at that moment.
“When you leave school (you’re) like alone,” he said. “So, you want to know how to take the exam to pass the exam. “
She was making plans to take the exam for the third time in January when she won an email from KCTCS in December telling her she qualified for the loose preparation course.
For 3 months, the course of his life. Eight hours a day, she reads for NCLEX.
“It’s a full-time job,” he said. The workload is very overwhelming. “But Lyons and others in the program accompanied her in her studies and helped her expand a strategy for the test. It had a help system.
“With this program. . . You have everyone around at least once a week. If you have problems, you call your teachers,” he said. You go through a case study, ask questions, and it helps you do your way in everything you do. So the program has been helpful.
It passed NCLEX in late March for the third time.
Happened.
Twenty-five Kentuckians, most of them from Louisville and Lexington, enrolled in the course. The KCTCS reached out to those the Kentucky Board of Nursing knew had not yet approved NCLEX. There is no application process.
Of those who enrolled in the course, 3 were unable to take the exam. Ten passed the NCLEX after the preparation course.
“We’re excited about this result,” Lyons said.
And while she knows it’s vital that the state has more nurses jumping through exams, she said she also needs to help Kentuckians feel more satisfied.
“These are other people who have invested time, effort and money into a nursing program and have yet to see that gain,” Lyons said. “And a lot of those academics have barriers because they come from a difficult, low-income family circle. “life. And passing this licensing exam is your price ticket to a better life.
He will give his time this summer to keep running with those who haven’t, he said.
KCTCS officials say the plan now is to begin the next cycle of preparation courses at the end of the summer.
Quaye-Mansel has lived in Kentucky for about 15 years and plans to live there with her husband and 3 children.
She will work as a nurse in the Commonwealth, doing what she loves while helping to cope with the shortage of nurses.
He loves Kentucky because it’s family-oriented, he says, and it’s peaceful.
It’s quiet for other places he’s lived, he says. “We’ll be here forever. “
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by Sarah Ladd, Kentucky Lantern April 21, 2023
LOUISVILLE – Adelaide Quaye-Mansell has enjoyed being concerned about people, so finding a nurse was her “passion” goal.
In fact, when she was 15 in Ghana, before moving to the United States, she helped care for her bedridden uncle.
She cooked for him and gave him medicine. She was astonished to see him recover.
“I like to worry about. . . when other people are sick,” the 42-year-old Louisville woman said. “I feel like I have to worry about them. “
Quaye-Mansell enrolled at the Louisville campus of Galen College of Nursing in 2020.
But the COVID-19 pandemic that disrupted the education of other aspiring nurses also hurt her, she said. Her entire nursing education became a public fitness crisis that limited in-person learning opportunities.
“Most of our clinical hours (were) conducted on Zoom,” Quaye-Mansell said. So when she graduated in 2022, she couldn’t pass the foreign folk exam without delay and get the coveted registered nurse name. Your name.
It wasn’t until a year later, when he took a flexible preparation course through the Kentucky Technical and Community College System.
She blames COVID-19 for the delay.
Vanessa Lyons, LPN bridge coordinator at RN at West Kentucky Community and Technical College in Paducah, said the flexible preparation course attended by Quaye-Mansell and others was born out of a preference to have more nurses in the state.
Kentucky, and the country, has a well-documented shortage of nurses, exacerbated by COVID-19 exhaustion and an aging population.
Mass closures and restrictions have delayed the school trajectory of Kentucky’s next generation of nurses.
“Students, as a result of the pandemic, had less access to clinical facilities, less time in clinical settings,” Lyons said. “This is a very vital component of student success: linking what they are informed in the classroom to real-world nursing.
Most sensibly, many nursing academics are running their studies in the exercise box, which means they have been doubly affected by the pandemic, both in the classroom and in the box.
“So the stressors of mandatory, short shifts and exposure to COVID and all the stressors that physical care staff were experiencing, were also experienced by our academics,” Lyons said.
This made it difficult to officially become a registered nurse after graduation. Nursing graduates will need to pass the National Council Licensing Examination (NCLEX) to prove they can safely practice nursing.
The exam assesses “critical thinking skills using data that scholars learned in their nursing school or nurse practitioner,” according to nurse. org. “The purpose of NCLEX is to make sure graduates can make quality nursing judgments and provide patient care. “
To qualify for the Kentucky Technical and Community College System’s flexible preparation course, which ran from the first week of January through the end of March, students had to have failed the NCLEX twice.
Throughout their curriculum, they took assessment tests, reviewed content, and developed methods on how to study and examine.
Quaye-Mansel took NCLEX twice in 2022, in June and September. No time passed and she said that she felt lonely at that moment.
“When you leave school (you’re) like alone,” he said. “So, you want to know how to take the exam to pass the exam. “
She was making plans to take the exam for the third time in January when she won an email from KCTCS in December telling her she qualified for the loose preparation course.
For 3 months, the course of his life. Eight hours a day, she reads for NCLEX.
“It’s a full-time job,” he said. The workload is very overwhelming. “But Lyons and others in the program accompanied her in her studies and helped her expand a strategy for the test. It had a help system.
“With this program. . . You have everyone around at least once a week. If you have problems, you call your teachers,” he said. You go through a case study, ask questions, and it helps you do your way in everything you do. So the program has been helpful.
It passed NCLEX in late March for the third time.
Happened.
Twenty-five Kentuckians, most of them from Louisville and Lexington, enrolled in the course. The KCTCS reached out to those the Kentucky Board of Nursing knew had not yet approved NCLEX. There is no application process.
Of those who enrolled in the course, 3 were unable to take the exam. Ten passed the NCLEX after the preparation course.
“We’re excited about this result,” Lyons said.
And while she knows it’s vital for the state that more nurses pass the exams, she said she also needs to help Kentuckians feel more satisfied.
“These are other people who have invested time, effort and money into a nursing program and have yet to see that gain,” Lyons said. “And a lot of those academics have barriers because they come from a difficult, low-income family circle. “life. And passing this licensing exam is your price ticket to a better life.
He will give his time this summer to keep running with those who haven’t, he said.
KCTCS officials say the plan now is to begin the next cycle of preparation courses at the end of the summer.
Quaye-Mansel has lived in Kentucky for about 15 years and plans to live there with her husband and 3 children.
She will work as a nurse in the Commonwealth, doing what she loves while helping to cope with the shortage of nurses.
He loves Kentucky because it’s family-oriented, he says, and it’s peaceful.
It’s quiet for other places he’s lived, he says. “We’ll be here forever. “
TRUSTED SUPPORT NEWS.
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Sarah Ladd is a journalist based in Louisville, Kentucky. She covered everything from crime to higher education. In 2020, he began reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic and has been covering fitness ever since. At Kentucky Lantern, it covers intellectual fitness, abortion, COVID-19, and more.
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