During the first day of
my online class, I was shocked because the lecturer was hard to understand. I
thought I am already good in German after having my B2 Certificate but I was
wrong. It was as if, I was back to A1. But still, I tried to integrate myself
on the language. We need to study about nursing and after, will have an exam.
The exam will be oral and practical exam. The oral exam is like a presentation
of a case study and the second part is like a return demo in the Philippines
where in you need to prove you are skilled enough to be recognized as a nurse
here.
There comes the day of
the exam. By the way, we had our oral exam first and the practical exam will be
three weeks after. We had our oral exam in Campus Buch in Berlin last December 2020. You will be
called one by one and will sit in front of two examiners. So, once your name is
called, you will choose on one of the flipped papers on the table. Each paper
is about a case and you need to discuss about it. Then you will be asked
questions by the examiner about the situation or they could also ask you about
general questions about nursing here in Germany. After the exam, they did not tell
us if we passed it. On my experience, they told me that they were very satisfied
on my answers and that I did well. It isn’t a guarantee that I passed the exam
but I am so happy to hear those from them.
Meanwhile during the
practical exam, you will choose a patient and you will present about his case.
This includes his personal details, diagnosis, medications, treatment and also
the nursing care plan which is needed to be done. So, basically you will do everything
for the patient that day. Afterwards, the examiner from the campus you are
enrolled in and your mentor (Praxisanleiter) in the hospital will evaluate your
performance. They will then call you and tell you the result right away.
For me, it was a very
stressful exam. It was very basic in English but auf Deutsch everything is
complicated. And it is indeed stressful to adjust at work, at a new environment,
missing your family, braving the cold weather while preparing for the exam.
Most of the time we don’t have enough sleep because we really need to review.
But thank God, we made it! There is nothing impossible if you put you heart to
something. Stay focus and reach for your goal. And of course, always pray
because up to this time God still does wonders and miracles!
I feel that Germany program for Filipino Nurses is the most rigged program and unfair.
ReplyDeletesome of your colleagues/classmates that are b1 level already got their visa /flight tickets available
ReplyDeleteand students that got B2, attended 2 years of class without tardiness are left waiting for the visa
3 students who participated online without camera on and muted the whole 2 years area already flying there, the GERMAN course program is the most unfair way to assess ,gauge nurses before deployment, I wasted 2 years of nothing learning this program Better of to UK, Australia, USA or Singapore