WainbowRN

Hi everyone, they are calling up people for interview. I had mine just today. Im not sure if they are still doing the calls But i know they are starting to conduct interviews. I hope you guys get an update soon. Cheers everyone. Always hold on to your faith and hope. I know they increase the number of position from 10 to 15. Just keep praying!

They are actually calling and emailing candidates for their scheduled interview next week. Best of luck to everyone who got an invitation.

I got the online assessment and it consisted of personality test and behavioral assessment on June 28th. After the test, I had the talent plus result which is a pie diagram of my strengths. Haven't heard back from them yet again. Heard there were over hundreds of people who expressed their interests.

Let me start with a brief background about me: I have graduated BSN in the PHilippines last 2006. More than decade ago, the chance of working in the US was pretty slim. No hirings and no sponsorships available. It was that time that US recession was starting and employment rate was dwindling. Plus the fact that I wasn't really interested in leaving because I was already working as a fulltime RN. I never came around filing for Nclex. Fast forward to 2018 when I moved to the US since I became a greencard holder. This time my spouse filed for my Nclex with the California BON. Despite concurrency issues with foreign graduates, I was lucky to be given a chance to take the NCLEX without concurrency issue with my BSN program. Lets just say I had too much going on with my life that I really didn't got to “studying”. after 4 months after I received the BON Approval, i started reading the Saunders book. Thats the thing with me, I have the shortest attention span and i get bored easily. From October2018 to mid November 2018 I was able to finish the book(although i skipped few other chapters). Then came December in which again I got busy and completely forgot all about my review and shoved the saunders book under my bed. I was caught up in the holiday partying to care much about my review. I wasn't entirely committed or focused with my review. January 2019 came and i totally gave up on the idea of reviewing and went to Europe for vacation. Everything in that book flew out of my head too. When I came back on mid February2019 after my overseas vacation, i was kicking myself mentally for slacking off. I started answering UWorld but thought It wasnt enough at all. I considered going to that out-of-state review that cost about 4000$. It was decade ago since I got out of nursing school. I felt rusty with my nursing concepts. My spouse saw how dejected I was and looked in at allnurses forum for review places here in soCal. Spouse stumbled upon America Healthways and by sheer coincidence it was just 15-20minutes drive from our house. One day, spouse drove me to the center and enrolled me for a review class for March 2019. The education coordinator gave me the HUGE and heavy binder along with a homework and advised me to just read and stop doing my uworld. HOMEWORK! Pshhhh! When it was handed to me, there was an imaginary thud sound in my head as she handed that HUGe reviewer. No kidding. The binder felt like a stone tablet with all the nursing commandments written in there! At home, i just stared at the homework for hours! I was told to read a huge portion of that binder and had 10 days to do so. I resigned to reading it. I had no choice, either. I skipped a few parts here and there. Told you I had the shortest attention span. I realized I have not answered my take home tests/homework. At 1 am, just few 8 shy hours away from my first class with America healthways, and even if I felt i caught the flu, i was damn answering that quiz like a maniac! And yes I did sure wake up with the flu. I called and told them Im coming in next month for my review. That extra 3 weeks I had, i spent religiously reading the binder/reviewer. April rolled over and class was starting, I was forced to wake up at 8am! I am nocturnal. I usually sleep late for at least 12 hours and sleep in until noon time. Waking up was even too much work for me but I had no choice but to go to the class. Since I already read the binder/reviewer twice, It was easier for me to catch up and be pretty much active with the 9 day live class discussions. The class was non threatening but requires active participation. The educator was encouraging and engaging. The environment was conducive and set up was perfect for discussions/lecture. Educator and coordinator was hands-on and dedicated to your goal of passing the Nclex as well. And I felt much better. My confidence grew. Fast forward april 26 for the last day of the class we had final exams and I crawled just above passing score. And I felt confident enough. My exam date was inching forward. I had it scheduled on May 15th. Since I was already waking up brunch time, I went to the library for an intensive review on my own. I went home past 10pm and sometimes midnight. While i was in the library, I was doing my Kaplan qbanks, reading my America Healthways binder/reviewer, and as well as finished off my remaining qbanks with Uworld since I already paid for them. I was more connecting with Uworld and found it pretty much easy to answer the qbanks since I have my organized concepts already when I had that review with America Healthways. I had full grasp of concepts now. The loose concepts are now intact and organized. I was answering Kaplan qbanks and scores was just a little above passing. Even if i wasnt scoring high, the results was pretty consistent. I was developing my phase too. So i was doing a combination of Kaplan, reading my AMerica Healthways reviewer to brush on that topics/questions that I missed, skimming through the bullets that I bought from America Healthways as well, mnemonics from picmonic app, searching for add on materials at Pinterest or youtube. A week before my nclex exam, I took my uworld final exams and got a passing remarks for the 2 sets, 3 sets of Kaplan Adaptive tests which has yellow and mostly green results for my scores which shut down at 75 for all that 3 sets. I knew I was ready then. 5 more days before the BIG day, I concentrated on my America Healthways bullets and my self-made flashcards that I had accumulated from the rationales of my qbanks. I knew I was ready. 1 day prior to my Nclex exam, I took an entire day off and had the best Thai massage in my life(although I glanced for about 10 minutes and reviewed the EKG’s.lol.) NCLEX day came and I was saying my prayers . Went 30 minutes before my time, I went through protocol /screening. I made a point not to bring my phone or any review materials at the testing site. Wore loose and baggy clothing and brought just a few snack bars and my water. I was trying to keep my self calm. I sat down and started answering. On the fifth item I had the much dreaded SaTA. And them came all that SATA’s. I almost had 60-70% of my exam was SaTa’s. I was blinking back tears. I wasnt looking at the item number on the top corner. I wasnt even looking at the time. I was just concentrating getting the right answers or getting the next difficult questions. The first pop up for my break came. I took a deep breath. Got up and went out to the receiving lounge and sipped on my water. Took some deep breaths and stretched a few more times. Went to the restroom before going in to start again where I had left off. Sata, sata, another sata. Answered another 15 questions and my monitor blinked! I froze. And i shifted my eyes over to the top right corner and saw 76. I stopped at 75! And I ask myself, “thats it? Its over just like that?” I was trembling. I was really going to cry now. Relief flooded over me because I knew I did well. And there came the case studies that was not scored. I didnt mind that they were hard. I was just answering them the best that i can even knowing that those questions were not scored. I was so ready to cartwheel myself happily out of the room but I remained calm and finish off the case studies. When I was out of the building and inside my car, I literally bawled! I had the best cry in my life! Happy tears streamed down my face and i was saying my prayers in my head! Headed straight towards the church because I knew deep in my heart that I did well! My spouse did the PVT trick fee hours after and got the good pop up. 48 hours after my exam, I already had my license number posted in my breeze account. Registered nurse. Big words. Whoop there goes my heart! Yes, that is my long story and journey towards my RN dream. First time to take the NClex, foreign educated and graduated more than a decade ago! It doesnt matter how long you had graduated or how many reviewers you had. Its a combination of whatever works for you and HARDWORK plus DEDICATiOn. And of course Prayers and faith! NCLEX is really hard but not impossible. All that hardwork, America healthways review classes, combination of Kaplan materials, youtube, picmonic, Uworld, and techniques, I wouldn't have it any other way. Whatever works for me might not work for you. You know yourself better. Figure out what’s best for you and what works for you.