Took NCLEX yesterday and FREAKING OUT!!

If only I had a buck every time someone who just took the NCLEX flipped out of his/her head waiting for results, I wouldn't need to be a staff nurse

75 questions, first try at NCLEX, did great in school=HUGELY good chance of passing. Excellent, actually. First-time test-takers pass around 85% of the time, last I looked. And your odds, particularly, are probably better.

Breathe :)

You only remember the ones you probably didn't get right because they stuck out in your head. Not because you probably failed most of the rest of them! You DON'T remember the ones you sailed through. I was exactly the same. And I'm an RN

Did I mention you need to BREATHE?

Go for a walk, pet a dog, watch mindless TV or better yet, rent a FABULOUS fave movie. Drink and eat your favorite things. Play silly stuff on the internet you didn't have time to do before, when studying. Go out for drinks with friends (but NOT NOT NOT to talk about NCLEX!!!)

Smile. You're going to be a nurse soon :)

I'm trying to breathe... Thank you for your support... I just need to hear someone say that maybe just maybe it will be OK.... It did snow here last night, which NEVER happens.. I live in SC and it snowed 3 inches last night... So early this morning I had snowball fights and built a snowman... Now the snow is melting and the fear and anxiety of reality is setting back in.. .HAHA!!

What scares me the most is another girl, in another county, that took the NCLEX yesturday already found out she passed through the licensee lookup website... If her results are up... Why aren't mine???

Still trying to breathe

Ok, support group time

Different states have their web results up at different intervals. Some have them up within 24 hours, some take days or even weeks. Most of the time, with Pearson-Vue Quick Results, you can find out your personal results in 48 hours (after the test is complete). Is that an option in SC? Some states have had their results posted faster than Pearson, for others, paying $7.95 is a gift for finding out the answer.

I was NOT a good "waiter", lol....I know where you are. I alternated between massive headaches and being quite sure I failed, to thinking "well, the odds are with me, maybe I managed to pass". I spent way too much time worrying, in hindsight. You are too Hang in there!!

As a "by the way", I'm in NY and we've had only two cases of a dusting each time. ONE inch was our biggest snow this season, and I can't even impress upon you how weird THAT is. We're usually buried under mountains of snow by now, but in recent years, it's getting less and less. I personally believe in global warming!

If you weren't anxious you wouldn't be normal.

If you weren't anxious you wouldn't be normal.

Ditto that! I came across the rare bird on this site's NCLEX forum who swore he/she wasn't at all worried, knew they passed, and I just had to wonder about that person's biological makeup: sure wasn't remotely like mine!

Anyway, Gail, as far as the wait goes, just remember that the computerized testing has only been out for 12 years. There was a time when the test was offered twice per year, and it took three months to get back those results! Suddenly two days doesn't seem so bad, eh?

As for med-surg....WELCOME! I find it disappointing when I see new grads or about-to-be new grads talking about med-surg as if it were the last place on earth they'd ever want to be. Truthfully, *I* was pretty sure I didn't want to be here either, LOL, but boy have I changed my tune! I am more surgical than medical, but the amount of exposure I've had to so many different ailments and procedures, treatments is amazing. I really LIKE it, not just looking to "get a year of experience and move on". If the hospital's policies and understaffing don't kill me first, I expect to be a med-surg nurse for a whole pile of years :)

Having the questions go easy hard easy hard is probably a good thing. Because the test is similar to taking off with a small plane; first you gain altitude and then you are faced with stormy weather (hard questions) then clear (easy questions)alternating weather patterns, you only really get dinged alot if you have a succesion of questions you miss in a row and never regain altitude. Since you had a fair share of easy & hard questions and felt that the test wasn't too hard or way too easy...you probably passed. welcome to the club:balloons:

Breathe. Center. The power of intention..we create our reality...see this test as well done. Let us know when you get results you passed....and in the small event you did not, not a big thing, just take again.

Remember: All you need to know is in you and you are an excellent test taker.