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Where the heck is your CPNE experience??? Too busy floating around on cloud nine to write it?

Specializes in Trauma,ER,CCU/OHU/Nsg Ed/Nsg Research.

Yes, you feel like you can do anything after getting that albatross off your back...lol.

As for the "cotton-behind-the-eyeballs" feeling (LMAO at that one- it's so true), it took me a few weeks of telling myself that I passed, and I had to shove those mnemonics forcefully out of my head.

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I walked around for no telling how long with a *&%& eating or beatific grin on my face! Seriously, I just wanted to run around and tell people "I just graduated from college." NCLEX was nothing compared to the pressure of the CPNE. I mean, we were already established test takers before we hit the CPNE! So Chris, if you keep having trouble concentrating for a while, IT IS OK !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Yes, you feel like you can do anything after getting that albatross off your back...lol.

As for the "cotton-behind-the-eyeballs" feeling (LMAO at that one- it's so true), it took me a few weeks of telling myself that I passed, and I had to shove those mnemonics forcefully out of my head.

That is so true. It really takes a while for it to sink in that you really passed. Studying for the CPNE became such a habitual routine, that it was hard to stop studying when you were done. I could actually just drive to work without reciting Critical Elements in my mind. I could just get ready for work without watching the CPNE videos for an hour. I found myself with all kinds of free time.

But once I stopped studying, I was totally burned-out, and could not even pick up a book for the NCLEX (which I found out last Friday that I passed.)

It took me about a week to write up my CPNE experience. (It is seven pages long.) I also still visit the Yahoo CPNE groups and help people when I can. You become part of this "CPNE community' and you cannot just walk away from it. Just take your time, Chris.

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Specializes in Mental Health, MI/CD, Neurology.
I found out last Friday that I passed.

Daaaaaaaaang!!! Congratulations!!!! You're on paper now!!!

:balloons: :balloons: :balloons: :balloons:

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But once I stopped studying, I was totally burned-out, and could not even pick up a book for the NCLEX (which I found out last Friday that I passed.)

:balloons: :balloons: WAY TO GO! :balloons: :balloons:

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