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Jun 23, 2009, 12:14 PM
 Re: Confessions of a 30-something RN grad
Girl, You had me going..lol...
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Jun 25, 2009, 06:54 PM
Re: Confessions of a 30-something RN grad
Congrats to all new RNs...good luck to those of you in school or getting ready to take boards...I was 40 when I started the ADN program, am now 55 and am starting the APRN program in August. We're NEVER TOO OLD!!!
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Jun 26, 2009, 12:53 AM
 Re: Confessions of a 30-something RN grad Here I sit seeing myself only it was a year ago. The first darned question was the dreaded select all that apply; " WHAT THE HELL IS THIS" I was screaming in my head. I thought they started easy and progressively get harder. NOPE, start hard and only get harder, and I didn't get only the 75 questions and shut off. I made myself not look at the screen and when I couldnt take it a single second longer I looked at the question number at the bottome right hand corner,,, it read 77, that is when I nearly got sick. Why didnt it shut off, omg it hadnt shut down I knew I was done for. Well at question 83 it shut off, and I thought the same thing. Oh god, wait I can prove that I know more than the three questions I was sure I got right. I went out of the testing center knowing I failed, what kind of number was 83, no one gets 83. I called my husband and he actually had the nerve to laugh at me while I was balling my eyes out. He was doing the standard placating that husbands do when they want you to stop crying. Well I have news for him! in the summer of 2011 I will get even with him. That is when he takes his own NCLEX, after entering nursing school at the ripe old age of 40.  | | No. 74 |
Jun 26, 2009, 01:11 AM
Re: Confessions of a 30-something RN grad Originally Posted by paramedicnurse  Here I sit seeing myself only it was a year ago. The first darned question was the dreaded select all that apply; " WHAT THE HELL IS THIS" I was screaming in my head. I thought they started easy and progressively get harder. NOPE, start hard and only get harder, and I didn't get only the 75 questions and shut off. I made myself not look at the screen and when I couldnt take it a single second longer I looked at the question number at the bottome right hand corner,,, it read 77, that is when I nearly got sick. Why didnt it shut off, omg it hadnt shut down I knew I was done for. Well at question 83 it shut off, and I thought the same thing. Oh god, wait I can prove that I know more than the three questions I was sure I got right. I went out of the testing center knowing I failed, what kind of number was 83, no one gets 83. I called my husband and he actually had the nerve to laugh at me while I was balling my eyes out. He was doing the standard placating that husbands do when they want you to stop crying. Well I have news for him! in the summer of 2011 I will get even with him. That is when he takes his own NCLEX, after entering nursing school at the ripe old age of 40.
O girl!!! you have to make him feel tragic on that "special day" kudos to him for making it through!  | | No. 75 |
Jun 26, 2009, 12:38 PM
 Re: Confessions of a 30-something RN grad Originally Posted by paramedicnurse Here I sit seeing myself only it was a year ago. The first darned question was the dreaded select all that apply; " WHAT THE HELL IS THIS" I was screaming in my head. I thought they started easy and progressively get harder. NOPE, start hard and only get harder, and I didn't get only the 75 questions and shut off. I made myself not look at the screen and when I couldnt take it a single second longer I looked at the question number at the bottome right hand corner,,, it read 77, that is when I nearly got sick. Why didnt it shut off, omg it hadnt shut down I knew I was done for. Well at question 83 it shut off, and I thought the same thing. Oh god, wait I can prove that I know more than the three questions I was sure I got right. I went out of the testing center knowing I failed, what kind of number was 83, no one gets 83. I called my husband and he actually had the nerve to laugh at me while I was balling my eyes out. He was doing the standard placating that husbands do when they want you to stop crying. Well I have news for him! in the summer of 2011 I will get even with him. That is when he takes his own NCLEX, after entering nursing school at the ripe old age of 40.
that's great! now he'll know the fear, the anxiety, the dread, the doom that the NCLEX monster evokes in us baby grads.  congrats to your hubby! What a wild ride he is in for!!  | | No. 76 |
Jun 26, 2009, 02:37 PM
Re: Confessions of a 30-something RN grad
I have a phone interview at 3 mountain time....and I'm getting nervous.....
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Jun 26, 2009, 05:14 PM
Re: Confessions of a 30-something RN grad
You nailed it!!!!! What a terrible thing to do to all of us--the dreaded anticipation when the board knows darn well whether youve passed when the computer shuts off.
My hubby sent me into test with the comment, "Dont worry, honey, its just 5 years of your life down the drain if you dont pass." With a laugh. And Im thinking, what a punk. He had more confidence in me than I do. Thats what nursing school does to you and the final insult is making us wait days and in some cases months to find out if we have failed.
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Jun 27, 2009, 06:43 AM
Re: Confessions of a 30-something RN grad  I know you will be very supportive of him...goodluck... still waiting. Originally Posted by paramedicnurse Here I sit seeing myself only it was a year ago. The first darned question was the dreaded select all that apply; " WHAT THE HELL IS THIS" I was screaming in my head. I thought they started easy and progressively get harder. NOPE, start hard and only get harder, and I didn't get only the 75 questions and shut off. I made myself not look at the screen and when I couldnt take it a single second longer I looked at the question number at the bottome right hand corner,,, it read 77, that is when I nearly got sick. Why didnt it shut off, omg it hadnt shut down I knew I was done for. Well at question 83 it shut off, and I thought the same thing. Oh god, wait I can prove that I know more than the three questions I was sure I got right. I went out of the testing center knowing I failed, what kind of number was 83, no one gets 83. I called my husband and he actually had the nerve to laugh at me while I was balling my eyes out. He was doing the standard placating that husbands do when they want you to stop crying. Well I have news for him! in the summer of 2011 I will get even with him. That is when he takes his own NCLEX, after entering nursing school at the ripe old age of 40. | | No. 79 |
Jun 28, 2009, 02:44 AM
Re: Confessions of a 30-something RN grad
I could've written this...10 years ago! It seems so long ago in some ways, but in others it seems like yesterday.
Congrats on passing!
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