ATT: Turnaround Time

Jules A, MSN · Jun 2, 2008

OMG they are killing me. It has been almost a month but I heard another school that got them in a week. :banghead:

skyblue77 · Jun 3, 2008

Just curious what is the ATT? Is this something you need in order to take your NCLEX?

eager1hasbegun · Jun 3, 2008

yes, you get an Authorization to Test from PearsonVue (the company that procters the test) once all your paperwork has cleared from the board.

skyblue77 · Jun 3, 2008

Wow, so you finally finish school and graduate and then you have to wait for an ATT just to take the NCLEX? So it could be another 3 months before you actually get your license from the time you graduate? That's only assuming you pass the first time, talk about nerve wracking!

Proverbs 16:3 · Jun 4, 2008

God bless the person who started this thread.

Can everyone post their turnaround time? Please....I really need to know.

if only i coulda had a job in PA, i'd only have to wait for 2 weeks. I've decided to apply for initial lincensure from MD because i don't know why i should pay the state of pennsylvania and pay MD again. Besides, i heard it can take more than 2months if you apply for lincensure by endorsement so i think i'll play it safe. The fact that my school is in PA makes me think it might take them a month to give me the ATT.

eager1hasbegun · Jun 12, 2008

Hooray!! I mailed my paperwork last friday night and got my ATT today. :yeah: That's less that a week in turnaround time. I'm very impressed! and anxious and excited and scared... :barf02:I got the earliest date: 7/1. Pray for me!

Elise

Proverbs 16:3 · Jun 13, 2008

Hooray!! I mailed my paperwork last friday night and got my ATT today. That's less that a week in turnaround time. I'm very impressed! and anxious and excited and scared... :barf02:I got the earliest date: 7/1. Pray for me!
Elise

OMG. I am so happy for you. It's gonna cost me more but i'll apply for initial lincensure from MD.

Do you mind me asking how you got the paper work? The md BON website isn't the best i've seen. Why can't they have the forms for us to download?!

I appreciate your feedback.

eager1hasbegun · Jun 13, 2008

OMG. I am so happy for you. It's gonna cost me more but i'll apply for initial lincensure from MD.
Do you mind me asking how you got the paper work? The md BON website isn't the best i've seen. Why can't they have the forms for us to download?!
I appreciate your feedback.

I sent an email request from the website and probably got the application within 2 weeks. I applied to pearsonvue online, got my fingerprints done here in pa, got my school to do their thing and sent it all in last week. I did request my ATT come via email instead of snail mail--dunno if that made a difference in the time as well. good luck to you!

Jules A, MSN · Jun 13, 2008

Hooray!! I mailed my paperwork last friday night and got my ATT today. That's less that a week in turnaround time. I'm very impressed! and anxious and excited and scared... :barf02:I got the earliest date: 7/1. Pray for me!
Elise

Glad you are impressed now. Just wait until you take your exam and a week later they still have you as pending because they have so many applications to process.

Proverbs 16:3 · Jul 7, 2008

Just to add to the thread, I did my fingerprinting tuesday, june 24 at the CJIS. I actually received a letter from them on friday that i was clear with the state of MD.

I mailed everything in including the forms, payment, transcript via UPS overnight shipping. I actually requested the items be delivered before 12noon on friday so yeah, you can imagine how much i payed UPS in fees. My school also faxed their letter on thursday and overnighted the original thing that same day so i figure the BON should have received all my stuff friday, June 27. I actually checked the website and the items were delivered around 9:37am.

I checked my email constantly :typingbeginning wednesday because i figured i'm closer to baltimore and if eager1hasbegun got theirs early, i should get mine early, too - cuz we both live in PA. Yeah, so nothing thursday, friday and i started to thing i wasn't gonna get nothing. i even checked my spam just to make sure it didn't get there by accident.

I spent the weekend in Jersey with family and just got back to philly like 11am this morning. I check my email first thing when i got home and no ATT. Then i check at 2:55 and there it was. So mine took about 11days to get to my email .

I was excited when i saw it but now that i have to chose an exam date, i am soo nervous.

I guess their processing time isn't so bad afterall. It's just so hard to deal with the BON if you reside in a different state.

LyndseyER · Jul 8, 2008

i grad from a PA school took my NCLEX in PA and got my PA lisc moved to MD and brought my info to BON for MD and had my fingerprints receipts from CJIS (which is about 10 buildings up shopping center from BON) and the $ for my lisc and got my temp MD RN that day and they will mail me my perm MD lisc. it was well worth the $ then to wait to have MD BON get my ATT stuff.