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I looked it up on the California board of nursing website and it says you can re-examine once every 91 days. I think you did just fine this time though. NCLEX is notorious for picking a subject and sticking with it. My friend had almost all OB/Peds questions and I had like 2 and passed. My test covered all type of different areas of medicine, but I know a girl who got almost exclusively GI. Answering delegation and priority questions is a good sign because they are hard. I just passed on the 6th! I would think living in California would be scary enough. Just last night, my husband and I were watching what you could buy for $500,000 and it was like a 787 sq ft apartment in San Diego. Oh my lord, in KY where I'm from that would buy a mansion. Good luck but I'm sure you did fine. You'll have to let us know when you pass!

I'll offer some advice. Think nursing process. Pay attention to the time frame. If it says immediately, most of the time you would have to assess first before you could move throug the rest of the nursing process. On the questions that seem like you don't know the answer to, always think about the nursing process itself or just in general about what they are asking and what it really means. Ofcourse remember Safety first! and ABC's! I think the questions are somewhat designed to be about things we don't know about to see how well we can work through the nursing process to figure them out. Not that I'm a pro by any means, I just know that is what I did. Good luck to all that haven't taken it and God bless. I'll pray for you, it was the #1 thing that I did in preparation. I added myself to our prayer list at church. :)

Well, I'm sure you'll do just fine. I think that it helps a lot when you can relate to what your patients/families are going through personally. It brings your care to a whole new level when you can truly empathize! God bless!

Oh my gosh! I PASSED!!!!!!!:chuckle I am just thrilled. I was up ALL NIGHT LONG last night pacing the floor and looking over books and then finally today at 10:30 I found out that I passed. What a relief. I just keep on writing my name over and over with the RN on it. It feels so good. My daughter was born at 24 weeks, weight 1 lb and 3 oz, 10 years ago when she didn't have much of a chance at all of surviving and did and has not one problem at all. I just felt so much like God was wanting me to bring something good out of that experience so I will officially be starting work at University of Kentucky NICU where she was in February! thanks so much to all of you for all your support. Nurses are such good people!

I hope that you all are right. I can't hardly handle this anymore. I keep trying to reason with myself that surely I didn't fail in just 75 questions, but I was very discouraged when I didn't know the answer to the first question. It was a drug I've never heard of. I had to guess. It was just not a good feeling. I guess you are so prepared when you take a test over content material because you know the material. Having to be blind-sided is enough to make anyone unnerved. I can't even remember some of the questions to look up the answer to them. I can't stand this!!!!!!! Hopefully my results will be ready tomorrow. I don't know if I'll have the nerve to open them.

I also took the NCLEX on Wednesday the 4th. I am on pins and needles here. I had 75 questions and most of them were on which patient would you see first and delegation and who I would discharge first. IT did cover all areas of medicine but I am concerned that I didn't pass. I know I either failed miserably or passed. I am so nervous, does anybody else pass or fail with 75 questions and if so... how hard were the questions? I keep hearing that if you get them wrong they get easier. If you get them all wrong, what are they like Nursing 1 questions like what are normal vital signs are what do they consider to be a minimum standard? This is just horrible!

congratulations on passing. Hopefully in 24 hours, I will be able to say the same thing. What a cruel thing it is to have to sit here and wait. What is a Hesi? I've heard a lot of people talking about them and I assume it is something similar to the ATI exit program that we used in KY.

I would think, but let's just be honest. How many time in nursing school did you feel like what you were picking was the right answer and then it wasn't. I wonder how many people actually fail at 75. That seems pretty quick to make a determination. Seems like if they got easier and easier they'd be like what are the normal vital sign type questions to fail at 75! Hope so anyway. Anyone out there with any experience that failed at 75, insight could help. I didn't get any math problems either.

I took the NCLEX exam today and it was terrible. Everytime I would read a question I would think, that is a no brainer, this is what needs to happen. Without fail, the answer I wanted was never there . It was terrible. I graduated with 4.0 and I don't think I passed it. There were many things on there I've never even heard of. I know they are looking for a basic level of competency but what is that level? I didn't get any "basic" questions, I felt like they were all hard but the same hard. I didn't feel like they fluctuated in difficulty like I expected them to. I had 75 questions, do you think that is a good thing or that I just failed really badly. So worried. Please somebody help!!!!!!!