Passing tests such as these, is about proving you make it from 
'incompetent' to 'competent'.  That's the line you cross on a 'pass'.

It's about proving you are not incompetent!  A 'pass' is a minimum 
standard of competency.  If you reach 'pass' you are now able to 
self-monitor as you improve.

Just as driving tests are about being safe to drive (not that you are a 
'good driver'), these sort of tests are about being safe to practise.  :-)

Like mothering, and loads of other things, 'good enough' is enough to be 
getting on with.  Not because your intentions are good, and you've 
'tried hard' but because you've proven you make the minimum accepted 
standard.

Minimum accepted standards are much maligned.  We like to talk about 
being 'good enough' as if it's all about intent... but it's about being 
competent.

Competence everyday, and exceptional now and then, is all we can ask 
for, and aim for.  I've gone on about this a lot on lactnet, so I'll bow 
out on that now!

Morgan Gallagher

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>  I will leave 
> you with two ideas:  1. pass, just pass. If you have worked with moms and 
> babies, and are  studying/reading/keeping up with things you should do fine, 
> and that is all that  needs to be done for an exam like this. Your compassion 
> will not be measured,  nor will your true ability to do the needed if 
> this/then that and the give and  take that happens when we work with moms and 
> babies in crisis. As long as  you have those things anyway, you will be a great 
> help to families and that is  what we need: professional competence and 
> human interrelational caring.  

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