Leap Year test-taker! 29th of february!

bigglesnurse · Feb 28, 2008

Hi good luck tommorrow my suggestion as many have said try and not study too much maybe do some lab reviews to refesh and take note of some pointers you may have written down a while back. you are testing tommorrow and if you check online i believe you may have the results on late sat or sunday but i believe it is sunday. lets know how you managed with nclex. :nurse:

chepita · Mar 1, 2008

Exactly what I needed, a place to vent! I warn you, you might regret it!!!

I took NCLEX on Friday Feb. 29, so it seems like I will fit right in. ..

I am freaking out, I am sure it is everyone's story, but I honestly feel like I have never felt before!!! The only thing I can think about is the test, questions, what if..., what if not..., was this right, was this wrong, 75 questions? 50/50? who passed, who failed...

This is the recap. Just to vent....

My husband and I drove a couple of hours from home to the city where I was going to test. First thing we did was go check the address of the testing center. Got there ok, had a bit of a hard time finding the hotel, found it, checked in and went to find a place to eat. I was starving, had a headache, cramps and PMS!! The voice on the GPS thingy was driving me crazy along with my husband's turning and re- turning to try to find a McDonald's!!!! The hotel lady said there was a Wendy's neaby, so my husband tries to find it with the GPS... I don't even LIKE Wendy's!!! He follows directions and we end up at this dark, not too pretty street, and sure enough, there's Wendys... A BAR !!! called Wendy's that is... At about nine o c'clock at night, we found the McDonald's. There was NOBODY in the place, except for a group of men "watching" us pull up as they smoked and drank!!! We got our meals, a shake to go and went to the "historical" hotel my husband had kindly booked for us on line because it was close to the testing center! It was "historical" ok, the bathroom creaked when you sat, shook when you flushed and the hair dryer in the bathroom looked like the vent tube behind the clothes dryer but had that 70's brown appliance tint to it. Finally, I showered and did my last 75 practice NCLEX questions... Oh! I forgot, I had a pulled muslce on my back and it was killing me AND, I was taking antibiotics for a UTI and the "expected side effects" were bad!!! So I finished my questions... scored in the 80's and decided to go to sleep with that feeling... the feeling of passing!!

The next morning ran smoothly after a night of hourly waking up and trying to close my eyes and rest without my eyelids twitching!!! Drove to the testing center without any problems, got dropped off, got a good luck kiss and a prayer and went on up to suite 212. I prayed, had my lucky charms with me and felt ok. I sat for my test and I was honestly surprised that I was not shaking! I took a long deep breath, prayed again, gave myself a pep talk and got started. The first question, a pedi question!! Not my thing, and not a good way to start! I kept going, got a math problem, gtt/min. Worked it with confidence ( not a good thing, because on my drive back home I realized I typed

in 33.3 ggts/min, not 33!!!) Oh well!!! I looked at the question # and it was 65 and I said to myslef, at 75 I'll take a break, but the very nice computer who had been monitoring and measuring my thinking for over an hour, and I guess was reading my mind also, offered me a break right at 71 questions. I took it, went to the bathroom and went right back in. Sat down again, answered four more questions and it all went blue...BLUE!!! :crying2: :uhoh3: :rolleyes:

I raised my hand and was escorted out, fingerprinted AGAIN and headed out with the eeriest feeling ever. I called my husband, he picked me up, I text messaged my son to tell him I was out, tried to read an NCLEX brochure that somehow ended up in my hand and couldn't, I just sat there.

The way back was a total and painful review of the test, question after question!!!! After two hours we got home at around 1:00 pm, I answered the ACLS pretest to the best of my ability and left for the evening class for that. Oh! on our way back my husband tells me his friend from Canada would be arriving that evening and stay the weekend to celebrate his birthday, which is on Wednesday and that he needed my car to go pick his friend from the airport. Complete surprise! Are there clean sheets on the guest room? How's the kitchen? When did I sweep last?...

We went out to eat with the friend from Canada who ended up bringing his own friend along... so two unexpected guests. Welcome, but unexpected.

Well, they celebrated my husband's birhtday all right, until 2:30 am! My two teenage daughters with a friend had their own little get together next to my bedroom. Everyone kept it kind of quiet, but I could not sleep, the N-GHOST lingered... This was Friday. On Saturday I had to show up for ACLS training from 6:30 am to 4:00 pm. You know, we did the stations, practiced algorithms, watched videos had a test and had to run a megacode....

I just got back from that and checked the web for my grade even though I KNOW it is not there and found this as I looked for some kind of answer...

I got several calls from people seeing how I did, a great thing, but will I let them down?

My preceptor from work, my uncle, my son's girlfriend, my parents...they're all waiting with me. I have a plan B if I fail, I try to think about it with a cool mind, but that sinking feeling comes over me. I don't want to think or say I passed...what if I didn't?

Right now, as I write, I don't know if I want to shower, have a drink (or two...), check the website again or just plain lay down and think about the NNNNNNN....

Oh! and my share of very happy news, I will be a grandma for the first time this summer, a young grandma that is, at 39!! :yeah: Again, unexpected but welcome...

On Wednesday we find out if its a boy or a girl...can't wait!

WAIT?? Isn't waiting why I'm writting this? Isn't waiting killing me...

Silverdragon102, BSN · Mar 2, 2008

Good luck

akcarmean, LPN · Mar 2, 2008

good luck to both of You who took the test keep us posted

chepita · Mar 2, 2008

I passed!!!! I just found out!! I'm still shaking!!! Thank you Jesus!!!!

I love this feeling!!

OH YEAH!! OH YEAH!!! OH YEAH!!

akcarmean, LPN · Mar 2, 2008

I passed!!!! I just found out!! I'm still shaking!!! Thank you Jesus!!!!
I love this feeling!!
OH YEAH!! OH YEAH!!! OH YEAH!!

:ancong!::flwrhrts:

Silverdragon102, BSN · Mar 2, 2008

I passed!!!! I just found out!! I'm still shaking!!! Thank you Jesus!!!!
I love this feeling!!
OH YEAH!! OH YEAH!!! OH YEAH!!

Congrats

caliotter3 · Mar 2, 2008

Congratulations to Chepita! Have you found out yet, charmed_one? Here's hoping you get good news too!

suzanne4, RN · Mar 2, 2008

CA average wait time is ten days, some get lucky and see their name posted earier.