NCLEX-PN Tips

[Commando_Brando, LVN]

Hello everyone! I just want to give my fellow LVNs / LPNs insights about the NCLEX once you have finished taking the final test. I love reading all the comments that go on in allnurses.com and finding tips and information that’ll help me with my nursing career, and I want to do the same. Hopefully this will relieve some anxiety and stress. I’m not sure if this is helpful in other states besides California (since that’s where I did my LVN program and NCLEX) but it’s worth a shot. After I took my NCLEX, I did what most post-NCLEX person would do..have anxiety for the next few weeks or months and do the Pearson Vue Trick to see if I passed. I got a good sign but I wasn’t convinced that I passed. After doing some research and testing this method out with my colleagues, I’m convinced this is a sure way for you to know you’ve passed the NCLEX as well as a faster way to get your LVN license and start finding jobs! So here’s what I found out:

When you log into your breeze account (breeze.ca.gov) and under “Manage Applications” you have a list to choose from “Change of Name Application”, “Request for Verification”, “Vocational Nurse Exam Retake Application”, and “Vocational Nurse Interim Permit Application”. After 2 business days (Monday to Friday is business days) of taking your NCLEX, your breeze account should update to “Change of Name Application”, “Request for Verification”, “Vocational Nurse Initial Application for Licensure” under Manage Applications. Once you see “Vocational Nurse Initial Application for Licensure”, you passed and you can start the payment as soon as you see that application even before you receive your passing NCLEX letter! I’ve tried this with multiple classmates of mine and it has never failed! Despite what the BVNPT says about the time it takes to receive your license you’ll usually get it within a week after you paid for your license on Breeze. Hope this was helpful and I’ll be sending good vibes to all my fellow LVNs and LPNs!

[It'sYaGirlK, CNA, LPN]

Awesome and congrats ❤️ I’m curious to know how working in urgent care is going for you.. see lots of job posting for new LPNs in urgent care here (Florida)

[Commando_Brando, LVN]

Thanks! Each urgent care here is different from what I’ve heard from my colleagues and former co-workers. A colleague of mine just teaches other Medical Assistants how to work in an urgent care while only helping with hands-on portion when they’re short staffed. Another colleague of mine does just specimen collections, blood draws, ECG, and vital signs. I honestly love urgent care because it keeps me busy and having the outpatient setting helps me see a variety of patients. I start IVs (all ages), blood draw, temporary splints, wound care, specimen collections, and help providers (doctors, nurse practitioner, physician assistants) with surgical procedures. I guess it just depends what your urgent care you work at as a LVN/LPN.