Confessions of a 30-something RN grad

Enjoyed that. thx.

I might have all of you beat. I just took my exam 2 weeks ago and I am 44! This story was just like mine! Fortunately, I saw my name on the board website the following morning - it was surreal. I kept checking all week just to make sure they didn't change their minds. But, 3 days ago my license arrived - it was official
Lisa

Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!! I will too!!!!!!!!! don;t have a date yet, but know I will be taking it in early July! God Bless!!!!!!!

Hi Epona,

I read your post, and I sincerely wish you the very best with your NCLEX coming up in the next weeks.

I'm from Australia, but I understand that it's one of those things that is quite stressful, but its the doorway to a new change!!!

Stay positive, and I wish you the very best......and I'm sure everyone else wishes you the best too.

It is so nice that now you get to find out so soon! I graduated at a time that the state boards, as they were called then, were a 2 day affair, with 5 separate tests. If a person failed, they only had to retake the failed tests. I took the test in July, and got my results in September. For those that failed (I did not, thank goodness!) who were working as a GN, had to go back to working as an aide, or quit, which must have been humiliating for them. I remember how I sweat every day about whether or not I had passed! I was 19 when I took those boards so long ago....:-)

Yup, I can relate to this as well! Thanks for writing it .. although, I just wrote the Canadian exam and they tell us we can expect to wait up to 8 weeks to find out results. Nothing to do but to put it from my mind as there is absolutely nothing I can do about it at this point (even though I had a nightmare about it last night). I have fully resigned myself to having to do a re-write in October .. well, maybe not fully resigned but .. you know what I mean ..

Great article! I had huge flashbacks to when I took it, almost 3 years ago now. I was a wreck and thought I had it so bad because I had to wait 2 days to find out if I passed. Some older nurses I worked with told me that it used to take MONTHS..I would have lost my mind!

Congrats, new RN!!

I remember taking the boards over 13 years ago and as another poster stated, we had to wait for the snail mail. Two to three months of wondering and pondering. When my letter finally came, I couldn't open it. It sat on the table for about three days, then I knew that work would know soon and if I failed and was called into the office before I opened the letter I would be in more trouble. So I picked up my letter walked the then few steps to my girlfriends house and opened it. That was for my LPN, I start school in the fall for my Assoc degree. Today after my class, I go to turn in the last of my admission packet and I keep wondering, can I do this again? The last time I took my boards, I thought I was going to die, right there in the chair. We were the first graduating class to take the boards on computer and the nursing instructors could not tell us much. Just to study, be well rested and we were all ready. Oh and by the by.....I will be 45 when I sit for the RN board......if I pass the nursing school that is.

This was great!! Seriously, it sounded just like me and my experience. Congrats again on passing.