[GoBucks RN]

Hello

I am David and I graduated in June 2007, and just passed my boards (RN).

I am in northwest Ohio, but looking for the right situation for my first job

and I am willing to relocate.



GoBuckeyez

[longjourneydream]

Oh,

Sorry the other question you were asking was are you allowed to work as a nurse before NCLEX.

I only know, you can work as a GN graduate nurse, before you can work as a full fleldged nurse.

There is a specific time frame( be able to prove you will be taking NCLEX, and proof of school you graduated from).

If you do not pass test first time, must work as a tech/aide until you pass.

As GN cannot pass meds on your own, just what you were allowed to do in clinicals.

Hope info helps...

Originally Posted by cweeks

Hi,

LPN's have a total of 85 min to pass, RN's total of 75 to pass.


When I took the NCLEX RN there were 15 experimental questions that do not count, so actually there is only a minimum of 6o to pass!

It is unlike any test you took in school, because if you miss one question, it will give you a harder question.



EX: If you answer a question wrong and it gives you a easy question, then a harder question, then you answer it wrong it gives you an easy question again. If you keep doing this , the computer will keep giving you questions until you start answering the higher level questions right.

When you finally answer enough higher level questions and the computer decides the number is adaquate then it shuts off.

It may shut off at 75,100, or 263 depending on the percentage of higher level questions you answer.

Many test takers will note that the questions are hard, and require you think them through, using critical thinking you learned in school.

Some time there may be a question that you have thought through and just cannot come up with an answer, pick the best one and move on.

More people pass than fail, so keep that in mind.

A majority of the nurses I have talked to thought they flunked it, the first time,but passed it.

Also a few that thought they did well, flunked it.

The best advise is to study as many questions and know the rationals.

I was told 3000 questions.

Do 100 questions a day 50 the first part of the day, another 50 the 2nd part of the day. Do not do more than 100, you will not absorb the info.

That is my advise to you...

Good Luck, and work hard.



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