NCLEX Eligibility Expiry

[Jimboi17]

I have tried to search the forum, and found similar queries as mine. Unfortunately, theyre dated 2011 so I am not sure whether it is still applicable today.

Scenario:

• My wife registered to NCLEX Florida, on Feb 13, 2016.
  
• She completed her document requirements Last December 2016, hence the Eligibility.
  
• She was also told she can now register in PearsonVue to receive her ATT and sit for the NCLEX Exam.
  

Questions:

1. Does the Eligibility expire after some time?
   
2. Can she delay the registration to PearsonVue to receive the ATT? (Reason is she is presently 6 months Pregnant, and the 90 days validity of the ATT will mean that she will have to take the exam during her pregnancy or immediately after her delivery.)
   

[Double-Helix, BSN, RN]

The ATT is valid for 90 days after it is issued. That means that she will have 90 days to take the test after she registers with Pearson VUE and receives the ATT. So if she registers now, she has 90 days. If she registers a month from now, has 90 days from that date.

Are you aware that in Florida a NCLEX applicant has only 6 months from graduation to take the NCLEX or they must complete a board-approved NCLEX review course? That also needs to be factored into the timing.

I strongly suggest she take the exam during her pregnancy and not after. Caring for an infant, the post-partum period, the stress, hormone fluctuations and the lack of sleep that go along with it is no time to be studying for a licensure exam. She has a couple solid months where she can study while she's pregnant, sit for the exam before the baby is born, and then enjoy the newborn period with her license in hand and stress of the exam behind her.