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jadu1106

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simpleplan, love-d-or, italia13 and everyone else testing this week, i wish you all the best....conquer that exam and post on how you think you did....

good luck everyone!! :) :up:

Simpleplan

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To all of you testing this week, I wish you the best of luck. I still have two months of school left. I want to test as soon as I am able because I too have been told the chances of passing drop the longer you wait after finishing school until you test. I was the most drained last quarter while taking Community Health: bunch of useless projects and papers:no:. I won't be using Kaplan because I just can't afford it. Our program has ATI and it comes with Virtual ATI: a personal instructor and additional questions and guided study schedule. I'm going to use that and questions out of the multitude of study guides that I have. I'm going to trust in my knowledge, ability to think through the problem, and my faith in God to guide me.

Simpleplan, and anyone else testing on Tuesday, it is almost midnight on my side of town. It's time for you to close up all study books, shut down the computer, and relax. Sending you all good vibes.

Thanks so much. My test isn't until 1230pm. Still I would like to go to sleep yet I am wide awake peeing every 5 mins. I am nervous. I did get quite a bit of sleep earlier though so I should be ok... I hope. I keep wanted to scrouge for any last piece of info I might be forgetting. I keep thinking there is a big section I might of forgot to cover. Pretty scary.

I have mixed feelings. Deep down I feel pretty confident, yet I can't keep doubt from creeping up in my mind. Anyway, I'm sure you'll do fine with or without kaplin. Many hospitals will reimbuse you for a review. I was reimburse for kaplin. Check into it. Good luck and thank you.

Oh and our school uses ATI too. I was using it until Kaplin started.

Simpleplan

120 Posts

Yes I know that is soooo true, but what happened was I was supposed to graduate Dec of 06(passed all the courses) but had to take the 5 week externship(separate graded course, which I'm sure you know is working in a hospital under direct supervision of a preceptor/RN) and was required to take on 6 patients when in clinical I was only used to having two. I had terrible anxiety because I thought "how in the heck am I going to take on 6 pt's when I'm only used to two), my hands were shaking when preparing all these meds etc,(it was hell for me) and my preceptor told the instructor how nervous I was so my instructor let me go, in other words FAILED ME. I was so depressed, anyway...So I ONLY had that 5 week externship to complete and had to wait till the end of the next semester...I decided to take a whole year off instead of going back the following semester. So over the summer I took a position as a nurse extern and learned SOOOO much there. I waited till november(which is right after 204) and took 205(the 5 week externship) and winged it. I'm glad I did take that externship because my hands on skills improved. However I did fine with the schooling part/clinicals(B's C's).

So that's my story.....so during that year of taking the externship I didn't study and YES I should have.:banghead:

Sorry to hear that. Glad you passed and are back on track.

Simpleplan

120 Posts

simpleplan, love-d-or, italia13 and everyone else testing this week, i wish you all the best....conquer that exam and post on how you think you did....

good luck everyone!! :) :up:

thanks so much. now, if i could stop peeing and get some sleep.

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