(March 10, 2011)
Dear Editor –
As a current student at SUNY Sullivan I was appalled to read this article.
I, along with the rest of the graduating nursing class of 2011, have worked very hard to get this far. It is extremely unfortunate that those who have not passed cannot accept that they were not ready to become nurses.
No one was given special rights or privileges during our final competency.
Everyone’s greatest fear has always been competency. Whether it be the competencies we completed in the first 3 semesters or the final competency, this was not a surprise.
It is disrespectful to those who are currently in the program that the students who did not pass competency have continuously tried to interrupt our education by filing suit and fighting for something that they are not entitled to belong to, which is the graduating class of 2011.
Those many students who have not successfully completed the final competency would clearly not be competent nurses if they were unable to successfully complete skills that we were able to practice for the past 2 years.
It may come as a surprise to those that are not in the medical field, but to those who are, if passing a dual medication and performing a sterile skill within 30 minutes was not attainable, you’re in the wrong field.
Nurse Jackie, Current Nursing Student at SCCC
The Catskill Chronicle 
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