Hi everyone I just want to share my recent experience taking the NCLEX RN. Hope it will help those who are about to take the exam.
Sorry for the long story and not good in writing my story. Any questions pls don't hesitate to ask. Thank you and good luck to everyone ... pray and work hard. I know you can make it!
A bit of a background. I took my exam yesterday 4/17/13, and I am an international educated nurse from the Philippines and I'm one of those who applied for NCLEX here in CA bat I was denied too. I was so devastated and thought of going back to the Philippines so I could start my career as a nurse there instead. But, my family was against the idea and encourage me to look for other State that doesn't implement the concurrency thing and that where allnurses greatly help me. I found Texas as an alternate route to taking the exam and I'm am thankful that I did not give up and got my att.
I have read a lot of posts here, maybe I visit this site once or twice a day to see if someone has posted something to either inspire me or get some insight as to how their test was.
Got my att 1st week of Feb and in Texas you only have 75 days of att validity so I immediately scheduled my test and started studying furiously and took many advices from this site, like the pdf file, nclex3500 and NCBSN coz I didnt know their existence till I read those lovely people who shared those review materials that I must say, has done a tremendous job in preparing me to beat the monster, it shudders me to think how could I have made it without those.
I have Saunders 5th edition, Kaplan book (dont have the Qbank 'coz I cant afford it) and pda by Lacharity. I highly recommend Lacharity and NCBSN. They were really helpful. Thank god I bought them on the last 2 weeks of my review. I also watched videos on Youtube like the ecg readings and procedures and they were so helpful as well.
I got the good pop up hours after I took the exam. 75 questions for 2 hours I got my first break on my 74th question. I took the break and gathered myself, wash my face and went back inside and when it was my 75th question before I hit the next button I was praying lord pls give me more question so that I could have more chance of passing this, but God was so great and knows better whats good for me, and the screen went blue and my world started crashing down for I really thought I did the worse test of my life...but God took over and blessed me love and I made it!
Hi everyone I just want to share my recent experience taking the NCLEX RN. Hope it will help those who are about to take the exam.
Sorry for the long story and not good in writing my story. Any questions pls don't hesitate to ask. Thank you and good luck to everyone ... pray and work hard. I know you can make it!
A bit of a background. I took my exam yesterday 4/17/13, and I am an international educated nurse from the Philippines and I'm one of those who applied for NCLEX here in CA bat I was denied too. I was so devastated and thought of going back to the Philippines so I could start my career as a nurse there instead. But, my family was against the idea and encourage me to look for other State that doesn't implement the concurrency thing and that where allnurses greatly help me. I found Texas as an alternate route to taking the exam and I'm am thankful that I did not give up and got my att.
I have read a lot of posts here, maybe I visit this site once or twice a day to see if someone has posted something to either inspire me or get some insight as to how their test was.
Got my att 1st week of Feb and in Texas you only have 75 days of att validity so I immediately scheduled my test and started studying furiously and took many advices from this site, like the pdf file, nclex3500 and NCBSN coz I didnt know their existence till I read those lovely people who shared those review materials that I must say, has done a tremendous job in preparing me to beat the monster, it shudders me to think how could I have made it without those.
I have Saunders 5th edition, Kaplan book (dont have the Qbank 'coz I cant afford it) and pda by Lacharity. I highly recommend Lacharity and NCBSN. They were really helpful. Thank god I bought them on the last 2 weeks of my review. I also watched videos on Youtube like the ecg readings and procedures and they were so helpful as well.
I got the good pop up hours after I took the exam. 75 questions for 2 hours I got my first break on my 74th question. I took the break and gathered myself, wash my face and went back inside and when it was my 75th question before I hit the next button I was praying lord pls give me more question so that I could have more chance of passing this, but God was so great and knows better whats good for me, and the screen went blue and my world started crashing down for I really thought I did the worse test of my life...but God took over and blessed me love and I made it!
I am about to start my nursing program this coming fall semester and I can't wait to be a nurse! You mentioned earlier that CA doesn't accept grad from Philippines to take the NCLEX, what do you mean by that?
Unless the CHED properly matches the CA BON minimum concurrency requirements, be careful on taking your classes in the Phil then hope it will be accepted into CA or several other states. There are a few 2013 PH grads here that are trying to see if they will be approved in CA, so let's see. Otherwise, the rumors I heard was that the CHED will not make the "proper" changes till the 2016 year.
Kabayans, read ALL the threads posted in the World forum, under "Nurse registration", lots of good reads over there.
Guys, there's a lot more to read in the section mentioned above!!!
BUT the real hard part is that the job market is really drying up for the foreign grads and nurses as the US is already producing a record number of local US educated nurses and the hiring preferences are going to be to prioritize the local nurses first as they also get hired from within where they do their clinicals.
Here's a good link read of the job market (or lack of demand for PH nurses now):
thanks everyone!im happy to share what was shared to me as well :)) i tried sending the pdf file to everyone who gave their emails i hope u got it but if not just pm me here and ill be more than happy to resend it again. go go go nurses!
I already send the pdf file to those who gave their emails but incase u did not received it for any reason heres is the link, the admin from other post has kindly reposted the linked where i got it as well.
Again to whomever person/s who created that incredible material thank you very much.
@dcmom nope i did not read it from cover to cover but its not advisable to do so, for i really hate ob and pedia and i always fall asleep everytime i'd tackle that part so i just did as much ob/pedia questions as i can.
@may it took me 2 months to process my papers and thats because of the waiting period to get all my documents from the philippines to get evaluated. but as the bon got all your requirements it will only take them like 2 weeks to review them and if you dont receive your att then call them, it took me 20 days before i called them and told me the att is all set and ill be receiving it in few days but i got it the night i called them. They dont need a license and u dont need to take cgfns exam but they require credential evaluation from three agencies posted on their website.
I hope i have answered all your questions satisfactorily or if not just pm me here and i'd try to answer them as i can.
I already send the pdf file to those who gave their emails but incase u did not received it for any reason heres is the link, the admin from other post has kindly reposted the linked where i got it as well.
Again to whomever person/s who created that incredible material thank you very much.
@dcmom nope i did not read it from cover to cover but its not advisable to do so, for i really hate ob and pedia and i always fall asleep everytime i'd tackle that part so i just did as much ob/pedia questions as i can.
@may it took me 2 months to process my papers and thats because of the waiting period to get all my documents from the philippines to get evaluated. but as the bon got all your requirements it will only take them like 2 weeks to review them and if you dont receive your att then call them, it took me 20 days before i called them and told me the att is all set and ill be receiving it in few days but i got it the night i called them. They dont need a license and u dont need to take cgfns exam but they require credential evaluation from three agencies posted on their website.
I hope i have answered all your questions satisfactorily or if not just pm me here and i'd try to answer them as i can.
Darrelton,
Thank you very much for the info. Can you please tell me if you have time your step by step process and the rule if the 3 agencies for the application pls. God will bless you hundred folds.
Dcmom
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congrats kabayan!!!!!!