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1. Travel to Thousand Oaks

   tempus fugit replied to taylorj1's topic in California

   Along the beach in Oxnard/Ventura is some of the cleanest air in that part of the state. Ocean breezes and all that.

2. NCLEX help!

   tempus fugit replied to bamaRNguy's topic in NCLEX

   Bama RN, If you read the Pearson book on CAT computerized adaptive testing, it says that the pass rate is 50 percent for EVERY BODY who takes the test. in short if you start doing better than 50 percent, the computer gives you harder questions, then...

3. NCLEX RN I had 24 SATA!!!

   tempus fugit replied to tempus fugit's topic in NCLEX

   Apilorasi, I'll bet you your favorite beverage that you passed. You may have gotten 10 SATAs in the beginning because they were throwing the 15 non-counting questions at you in the beginning. If you got loads of SATAs, under my theory, and you cut o...

4. NCLEX RN I had 24 SATA!!!

   tempus fugit replied to tempus fugit's topic in NCLEX

   I studied Saunders for about 4 weeks. Did approximately 100 questions every other day. I tried to do 100 questions in each of the contents, but have to say I did not succeed in finishing them all. I was getting scores anywhere between 72 to 84% on Sa...

5. NCLEX RN I had 24 SATA!!!

   tempus fugit replied to tempus fugit's topic in NCLEX

   Feisty, that's a good story. I'm sorry you had to stress. Unfortunately, adaptive tests are designed in such a way that they make people who normally due well on exams feel horrible. I just read a post where the test taker had 30 SATA! She passed. A...

6. NCLEX RN I had 24 SATA!!!

   tempus fugit posted a topic in NCLEX

   The exam would have made me feel like this . But I had read Pearson's explanation of adaptive tests and I concluded that the more SATA's they threw at me, the better I must be doing. Before too long I was jazzed to see an SATA come up and when it sh...

7. Best Hospitals for New Grads

   tempus fugit replied to MSUnurse's topic in California

   MSU nurse There are many hospitals hiring in the Ventura County area. I recently attended a new grad hiring fair at St Johns in Oxnard. They have the highest hourly wage in the county, pay 10k to 12K hiring bonus for two year commitment and give a 21...