Susabella74

congrats, congrats, congrats to the 1/4 nclex takers! yeah!!! too bad we aren't close in proximity or we all could have a big celebration party together! so glad we all passed! :balloons: susan

I found out today that I passed!!! Yeah!!! I also was not sure about the first question, but I guess I pulled through! Just some side notes about my test: either I studied very broadly, or I just did not have a test with bizarre questions. I think there were a few question roots(or whatever they are called) that had something I didn't know what it was, but I had lots of answer choices that I didn't know what they were. However, I was able to weed out the weird answers on lots of questions (not to say that will hold true for everyone). Good Luck!! I am sure you passed!

I also took it today, got 75 questions, and am not sure how I did. Some did seem harder than others, but about the same the whole time. I got a lot of priority and at least 5 of the "pick all that apply" questions. I didn't get any math problems, either. I was very confident about some of my answers, but not so much about others. Wouldn't you have to be failing pretty badly for it just to shut off at 75??

If anyone knows if the Mosby CAT or Saunders is more accurate to how questions on the NCLEX are written, please let me know! Susan

While in nursing school, I worked as a NA on an understaffed med/surg unit with some nurses who were not keen on helping each other out(and I was the only aide for about 26 patients). I was in a room helping a patient to the bedside commode, when I heard a bed alarm going off down the hall. I had a feeling it was our 102-year-old dementia patient, who was there for pneumonia. He was quite spunky for being 102!! It was taking longer than expected to help the patient I was with, and I could hear the bed alarm still going off. By the time I got back out into the hall, the nurse was finally there too. The patient was not in his room. I checked the stairwell first, then we started frantically running down the hall, checking all of the patient rooms. Suddenly, I heard a toilet flush, the bathroom door opens, and out steps Mr. C. He had wandered about two rooms down. I asked him what he was doing, and he said, "I went down the hall to go to the bathroom." Well, of course. He was obviously having a semi-lucid moment. We laughed after we realized that he wasn't hurt(or off the unit).

here is the web address for the mosby cat: http://www3.us.elsevierhealth.com/cat/ for some reason my user name and password did not get emailed to me, so after a few days i called the number from the confirmation email and they gave them to me over the phone. i believe that the 30 days of use don't start until you actually log in. i have been using it and hope it is worth the time and money spent! good luck! i take the nclex 1/4.