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Wakanda's Wrld
From Testing Centers to Living Rooms: How Nursing Exams Are Evolving
The nursing profession stands at a crossroads of tradition and technological evolution. A major announcement from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing reveals that by 2026, candidates will have the option to take the NCLEX—the gateway to nursing licensure—from home rather than at testing centers. This shift promises convenience but raises profound questions about what we value in professional certification.
Having personally navigated the NCLEX journey twice, I question whether the traditional experience—the nervous drive to the testing center, the rigorous identification process, the controlled environment—serves a deeper purpose in preparing nurses for their careers. While enhanced monitoring technology is promised, can it truly prevent determined cheaters? When patient safety hangs in the balance, every measure of test integrity matters. The physical journey to certification has always symbolized the dedication nursing requires—is convenience worth potentially undermining this significance?
Beyond licensing changes, we explore the ethical minefield where personal relationships collide with professional obligations. Would you risk your hard-earned nursing license to warn a friend about their partner's STI diagnosis? The overwhelming consensus from healthcare professionals: absolutely not. We also examine a landmark $20 million discrimination lawsuit where a nurse triumphed after facing wrongful termination and unfounded manslaughter charges, highlighting ongoing equity issues in healthcare. Finally, we address the controversial practice of creating social media content in healthcare settings, where public opinion strongly suggests patients don't want their caregivers documenting while on duty. These intersections of professional ethics, personal boundaries, and evolving standards reveal the complex landscape modern healthcare workers must navigate.
Have you considered how these changes might affect nursing's professional standing? Subscribe to join this ongoing conversation about the future of healthcare practice and ethics.
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Welcome in, welcome in whichever condor in. I got a lot on my mind, but I'm not here to waste your time, so let's get into it, man. Nclex from home 2026. Is this really a thing, man? We're here to talk about it, man, because I've seen a lot of people talk about it and so I wanted to introduce this to you guys as well. So, instead of going to a testing center, just go to just prop up and take it at home.
Speaker 2:Let's talk NCLEX. The world's premier licensure exam will be more convenient than ever. Imagine being able to NCLEX online, giving you more choice and easier access. Imagine being able to NCLEX at home Bring the exam for the real world of nursing right to the comfort of your room and with more flexible hours. Imagine being able to NCLEX anytime that works for you. It's all thanks to enhanced technology and monitoring that ensures a proper testing environment and the utmost in exam fairness and integrity.
Speaker 2:No matter where you take the NCLEX, it's still the same world-class exam with computer-adaptive testing to measure your ability, and case studies that look like real life. Visit NCLEXcom to learn more and sign up to receive email updates on when you can NCLEX online. Where you take your nursing career is up to you, and so is where you take the NCLEX.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you saw or heard that video, man, depending on where you're watching this or listening to this history that you will be able to take this national exam licensure exam in the comfort of your own home. In the comfort of your own home. So you know, as I hear this, as somebody who has gone through it twice, gone through it two times already, Once as a LPN and another time as a RN I'm sitting here thinking like you know what. I don't want somebody to take it in the comfort of their own home, because I remember everything I had to do just to take my exam. I mean, from the time that you walk across the stage and you graduate, that's the first thing you're thinking about is when can I take my NCLEX? When can I take the NCLEX? And I always got the advice that you should take it earlier rather than later because the information is fresh on your mind. So I mean, once you're got your all your OKs, all your stuff is in order, you're good to go to take your test. You just got to find the nearest place to take your exam. And so for me it was like a Pearson testing center. I went. I think I went once. Yeah, One time I went out of state, went to Texas to take my exam, but I didn't care because I was like I want to take my test, I want to get this experience done and over with.
Speaker 1:And it's from the experience of having to drive there. You're thinking about everything, you have all these thoughts going through your mind from the drive up there, right, and then you want to make sure you got to the right spot. And then you know like my RN test was in that bank. That was like on the third or fourth floor, and so you're trying to make sure that you're talking to the right people, you make sure you took all your identifications and you try to make sure that you got everything. And then just the anxiety and the anxiousness and all these feelings. And then, when you finally get in and you finally are assigned to your seat and you're just wondering what's the next hour, hour and a half? You wonder what that's going to be like. Is it going to cut off at the minimum questions? Is it going to go longer than that? You know, am I going to get the extra? I mean all these thoughts, right, but it's the process of having to go to the testing center to take your test. And now I'm sitting here thinking like I could be right here, right here on my laptop, taking a test, taking a test. Um, shout out to uh, scrub tails man.
Speaker 1:Uh, he had a good little comedy skit to it. He said, basically he was, he was in a row, he was in the comfort of his own home, pulled out his laptop and then he's like oh, I'm ready. You know, because a lot of people are going to think like people are going to cheat off of their laptop. I'm not sure how things are going to be set up. I'm going to be honest with you, but however, he had like somebody in front of him that had the hat chat GBT right in front of him, and then there was another service to the right of him as well. So he was like yeah, people can be right in front of me cheating. I don't know, I don't know. That's the thing that bothers me the most is like the creative ways that people will come up to cheat. People will come up with creative ways to cheat and I'm not sure why this direction is happening. I think it's safer to just go to testing centers and just do it there rather than testing in your own home. I don't know, man, but that's just my two cents.
Speaker 1:Let me know in the comments below, how do you feel about this, Because to me this this is pretty insane. This is pretty insane. So my next topic so HIPAA, or your homegirl, a HIPAA, or your homeboy, what happens if you work in a clinic, Right, and you take care of the boyfriend or girlfriend with the person that you're friends with, your roommates with, and they're upset with you for not disclosing that information? So you know what I'm saying. I it gets kind of weird when it comes down to stuff like that. Um, but let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. Man, it gets, it gets pretty weird, but you have to let me know. You know what? What do you think? What? What do you think? What do you think? Because to me it should be a no-brainer whatsoever. But let's watch this video below.
Speaker 3:I need to talk to you why you didn't tell me Jamal had chlamydia, and I saw that you was a doctor who tested him. Do you have a conversation with him? I don't have a conversation. I have the paperwork right here. Yeah, take a look at it, let me see here. So, technically, he was supposed to tell me that. No, you were supposed to tell me as my roommate and friend.
Speaker 2:And I know that I'm your roommate and I'm your friend, but you don't have to lose my life to tell you that.
Speaker 3:No, you were supposed to tell me as my roommate and friend and I know that I'm your roommate and I'm your friend, but you know I could lose my life to a trip along. It doesn't matter about your license. You're about to lose your friendship of 20 years, the less is always what.
Speaker 3:I'm trying to tell you is like I could lose my license if I figured and told you that he came to me to get tested. Like I can I tell? Tell you everything. We're supposed to tell each other everything, and this is something that you should have told me and this is my health it's on the line. This is your responsibility as a friend, and okay. But, frank, oh my God, am I crazy? You should have just told me Okay, I understand now. I understand.
Speaker 3:But, that was a lot. Where does your loyalty lie, with him or me? Loyalty for the license You're responsible to tell me. You're my friend? Not at all.
Speaker 1:Hell no.
Speaker 3:This is just committee. I have loyalty to you Go get the medication, you'll be okay and to the laws it's a federal law. I don't have loyalty to the job. I have loyalty to the license that he got arrested and that you have committee. I need to talk to you all right, man.
Speaker 1:So look, there is a lot going on. That's why I was trying not to comment. I'm trying to let the video play out. I wanted to find just a video of just a situation, but that's the only one I could find, so my apologies. Um so listen, all my nursing friends, my nursing students, my nursing friends, let me know what do you think about that? Would you risk HIPAA, risk your license for your friendship Quote, unquote friendship Would you do that?
Speaker 1:I know what I would do. I worked hard for my license, very, very hard, and I'll be damned if I give that away just because your boyfriend cheated on you. I got STDs and I happen to be the one who happens to get their results, and you're mad because I didn't come home and tell you. You're mad at the wrong thing, sis, sis, we got our priorities jacked up here. You're mad at the wrong thing. You need to be mad at your man. He needs to be your ex man, your ex boyfriend or whatever, because being mad at your homegirl for not telling you that your man is cheating man, your anger is displaced, because what are we talking about? And I don't know this for a fact, but obviously it sounds obvious to me that that woman you don't know what it's like to work hard for success. Because if you really if you're really a friend of this girl who's trying to defend her license, you would know how hard that she worked to get her license. You would have known all the sacrifices she's made for her to get to that position, but instead you want her to jeopardize losing her license for your selfishness Over a guy that you shouldn't even be with in the first place what it sounds like. So that's insane to me. Get your priorities straight, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong, man. Listen, I've seen people violate HIPAA for way less. People violate HIPAA for way less than that. I've seen people violate HIPAA by taking pictures of residents and put it on Snapchat. What they thought was just their friends, and little did they know that your friends can be your closest enemies, let me tell you, because this particular person who was a CNA, and this particular friend group took the opportunity to turn this girl in and she thought she was safe. Just saying, just saying. People can be turned in for way less. When it comes to HIPAA, people break it all the time, but me I'm not. I'm not willing to lose my license over it, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. Let me know in the comments below what you would do. What do you think? How would you go about it? Because I know I can't do it. I can't do it, man. So let's move on to our next story.
Speaker 1:Man, in this day and age, you know, there's lawsuits everywhere. There's, there's, there's, there's always something going on in the judicial system. There's always some type of lawsuit. There's always something going on within health care, right, something going on within health care, right. So there was actually a nurse not this, not that long ago that was awarded 20 million dollars for discrimination lawsuit. 20 million dollars, that's insane, because I'm like he ain't got, he ain't got to work again, he ain't got to do nothing again. But let's, let's check it out. Y'all tell me what you think. Um, lord, bless my speech. Don quinnick, yvonne, joppy, queen no disrespect, no disrespect, I'm trying.
Speaker 1:A registered nurse has emerged victorious in a legal battle that once threatened to derail her career and her life. Her story, marked by allegations of racial discrimination, unfair treatment and a justice system that seemed stacked against her, sparked outrage and drew attention to broader questions about equality and accountability in health care. Equality and accountability in health care. Now a federal jury has sided with Joppa and her civil rights against her former employer, hca Health One LLC, dba the medical center of Aurora. On August 19th 2025, the US District Court for the District of Colorado found ununanimously that Joppy's termination was the result of both her retaliation for her complaint about race discrimination and race discrimination itself. Joppy, who worked at the Medical Center for Aurora in Colorado, first came into public view November 2020 when she faced manslaughter charges following an incident involving end of life care for a 94 year old patient. Those charges were dropped in September 2021 in the interest of justice, after it was determined that she had followed a doctor's verbal orders and that the patient's death was due to natural causes. Despite this, joppy was terminated from her position and her reputation tarnished.
Speaker 1:During her two years in the intensive care unit at the Medical Center of Aurora, joppy had been widely recognized for her clinical excellence. She was awarded. She was nominated for the Daisy Award three times, honored by the American Heart Association with an excellent award for saving a patient's life and praised by her patients under her care. $20 million awarded to Don Quinick Joppy. The jury awarded Joppy a total of $20 million in damages $5 million in compensatory damages for emotional distress, pain and suffering and humiliation and damage to her reputation. $15 million in punitive damages after finding out that the hospital system intentionally engaged in discrimination and retaliation. So I mean it kind of goes on, you know, goes on and on and on. If you're watching this, there's a picture of it there. I mean there's some more. You can check out more details of that case. You're more than welcome to. But the main thing is, I know in this day and age everybody's hypersensitive when it comes to subjects like race and all this other stuff.
Speaker 1:But when it was ununanimous, I mean I, when I think about that, I think about like somebody winning an ununanimous nvp award, like in sports, know, I'm saying like Stephen Curry, a few years back, you know, basically, I mean the evidence was so strong and that it was clearly racial discrimination, and you know this, because all this went back to 2020, and then you went, it went into 2021, and then the case was finally settled in 2025. But at the same time, I mean it's a huge victory. I mean it's a lot, though. I mean I can only imagine, you know, you get. You know, first off, you're accused of manslaughter and you have a good history of being an excellent clinical nurse. You've been praised by patients and staff members for your excellent job that you do, and then you're terminated, and then so you go, go through the whole process. So it's insane. I mean that is a lot of money, that is a lot of money, that is a lot of money. But yeah, so you hear it. I mean one of the rare things that you're going to hear about. I mean there was no, basically no contest. You know I'm saying no contest at all.
Speaker 1:So my last subject I want to talk about. So this past week, you know week and a half or so I did a live on TikTok and basically I talked about you know it was me and another content creator and I made a video about this to content creator and how she talked about she got fired at work and you know, put it out there because she put it out there and you know, put it out there because she put it out there and it's not really so much about her, is so much more about what people actually said back and there's a lot of things to note. I think it's overwhelmingly evident from I put this on YouTube, tiktok, instagram. I mean I put this information everywhere, my content everywhere about this particular subject Should content creators make content at work? Talking about healthcare workers and the evidence, I mean people overwhelmingly talked about how nurses, doctors, whatever they should not make content at work. I mean one comment talked about how it's still in company time. I mean other comments say that you know that nurse to them is untrustworthy and I know this is going to be hurtful and harmful to people listening to this and and I know people aren't going to stop making content at work. I know this is not going to stop anybody, nor am I trying to shame anybody, but I want people to be aware of how the public feels and, if you know, I have mutual friends that you know was chiming in on some of the stuff, and some of them have made content at work in the past and so I understand, I get it. I just want people to be aware that this is how the general public feels about us making content at work.
Speaker 1:Now, if I've said it before, I've said it before, I've said it again, my stance is clear. I myself do not make content at work. I myself, if I have, I mean it's been like on a break or or whatever after hours, but however, that is not my content. Like, if you go down my page, that is few, few, few and in between, like you're not going to find very much at all. However, if you're somebody that got permission from your employer and you're not on the clock, whatever, you're away from patient care, I mean I don't really care, it's my beef.
Speaker 1:Was what content creators that were making content literally on the clock? You know recording patients, recording med passes, recording events that are going on, recording whiteboards. You know recording conversations between them and patients, recording conversations between them and doctors or health care workers about patients, that that was my beef. That was my beef. Now, do I find it cringe that people do? I don't know. Let me not start, no more beef man, because I've already caused a lot of problems. But however, there's some cringe content, man, like there's ways you can make content without having to jeopardize your license to do so. Man, and I mean that 100%. But the general public, whoever's listening to this, wherever you see this clip, the general public does not want to see the person taking care of them making content. They just don't. They just don't. Sorry, not sorry. They just don't. Take that for what you will, take that for what you will.
Speaker 1:Now, somebody had to be funny when I was talking about this live and somebody said now how dare myself make content in scrubs? I'm in the comfort of my own. Somebody said now, how dare you make content in scrubs at home? At home, I don't know what to do about that. I'm going to make content in my scrubs at home. I mean, it is what it is. I'm a nurse, I'm a content creator. I mean scrubs are comfortable.
Speaker 1:I don't mind being in scrubs. These are comfortable scrubs. I like my scrubs. These are Cherokee brand. These are nice Cherokee brand scrubs. These are. These are comfortable scrubs. I like my scrubs. These are what these are cherokee brand. Here's a nice cherokee brand scrubs. They're comfortable. I got a nice sketchers pair that's real nice and comfortable too. I'm not sorry for it I'm really not. You guys for tuning in with your wakandar and if you enjoyed any of the content, please subscribe, uh, give a follow, donate to the channel if you feel led to um, but thank you for tuning in which you're with your recondar and I love you guys and I am out.
