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I just got my ATT and scheduled for July 17 at 2pm. I am about to have respiratory alkalosis! (hyperventilating) Anyways I hope I am doing the right thing. The other date I could have had would be on July 30 but I dont think I will be anymore prepared. I might buy NCSBN tommorro and do that but please God help me, I am half way through my RN program and in Oklahoma they let you test for LPN if you want and I just hope I am doing the right thing. I am so scared. Any advice or suggestions I just hope I made the right choice. Anyone who is out there and has taken the PN Nclex tell me is it really really that bad. To me these study questions seem like they are pretty hard. I am doing Kaplan PN and getting 63's on average and I am doing Sauders RN content because thats the book I have from my RN program.

Well any advise or anything to ease my mind will help.

Thanks

Stacy

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Hello Stacy. I took the NCLEX PN on Wednesday. I won't lie to you. I thought it was a terribly difficult exam. I went in as prepared as I could be. I studied my NCLEX study books, took all my ATI online practice exams, did my flash cards....was accepted into a PN-RN accelerated bridge program, and got a 99 percent liklihood of passing the NCLEX the first time on my Comprehensive Predictor with a 99th percentile ranking nationwide. I went in to kick NCLEX butt and came out most certain I failed the exam!! The computer stopped at 85, which is the PN minimum and I was so embarassed to think I had flunked it at the minimum number. I haven't ate or slept in days. This morning I found out that I passed. I am ECSTATIC!

All that you can do to prepare is do all the practice questions you can get your hands on. Make sure you understand the rationale of each one and that you know why one answer is right over another. It helped me to study with a friend sometimes, and by myself at other times. When I took the exam, I put myself as the nurse into the question. I said "What would I do in this scenario?" Then, I chose one, and although I wasn't certain it was the correct choice, I only knew what I would do in that situation should it arise. Most of all, take a deep breath, relax, and read your question and answer choices thoroughly. Double check all of your calculations to make sure they are correct.

Good luck! You can do this! :up:

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Hey for the math questions do they give you any scrap paper and a pencil to work it out. I Know that they have a caculator but I have to see it worked out. Also does the Kaplan PN Q bank help? I have been doing that for the last week.

Anyways CONGRATS!! to you:yeah:

thanks so much for answering me back.

Stacy

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Hey for the math questions do they give you any scrap paper and a pencil to work it out. I Know that they have a caculator but I have to see it worked out. Also does the Kaplan PN Q bank help? I have been doing that for the last week.

Anyways CONGRATS!! to you:yeah:

thanks so much for answering me back.

Stacy

I didn't use Kaplan at all...although I have heard great things about it. I used ATI which is what my LPN School used.

They provide you with a dry erase board and marker to do your math calculations on. I used the computer calculator and the dry erase board to double check.

Good luck! Soon you will be a :nurse:!! :D

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goodluck..

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