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@DavidFR Thank you so much for the encouragement and great info!! It means the world to me, I feel a lot better ? I was trained in the US myself, and I will be starting at a junior grade! I'm going to be a band 4 until I pass my OSCE examination and then I'll be at Band 5.

Hello there! New grad, got my license in May. I'm starting a job on an oncology floor after spending two years of nursing school and these past few months working in a primary care office. I got a job in the UK on a unit I really wanted. I was wondering if anyone had any advice- I've always felt pretty drawn to oncology, and I really want to make connections with my patients. I'm just really nervous about going to a new job since I briefly tried a gig in the ER after getting my license in July and found it really overstimulating and was miserable. Be gentle please, I'm nervous!

Hi Alyssa! I'm a bit late to the party, but I've been lurking this topic and I'd love to know what books/resources you used for the OSCE too. I'm moving over to Cornwall and beginning work as a nurse in November and am trying to get all the resources for the OSCE that I can. Would I be able to email you too? Thank you for sharing your experiences, it's really helpful. -Ashton

I passed in 75 questions in less than 40 minutes ?

I've been studying for the NCLEX since around March. I was hoping for someone to look at my scores and share theirs; my test is on May 24. I know scores aren't everything but I'd like to hear from some people who also used these prep programs and whether they passed/failed, since all I've seen on some websites are NCLEX horror stories and it scares me. I know scores aren't everything but I have crippling Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and cannot help but feel inadequate with them. What I DO have going for me is I'm known as a generally good test taker, and I've seen consistent improvement in my work since I started really studying (I originally started in January at a 54-55% average in UWorld and Kaplan, am around 60% now) so I DO feel like I'm getting somewhere. I'm just worried because I'm not as high as other test-takers I've seen. I don't know it I'm using UWorld, Kaplan, and Archer for practice questions, and Simple Nursing, Mark Klimek for content. Going to try High Yield too. UWorld: (Entire QBank Complete) Overall QBank score: 60% (UWorld reports passing score at 92% at a 56% QBank average) Self Assessment 2: 58%, "High" chance of passing. Taken May 9. Kaplan: (QBank 70% Completed) Overall QBank score: 60% (60% is target score) First 6 Question trainers: 59%, 65%, (Jan), 56% (April), 60%, 63%, 58% (May) (worried because I heard you're supposed to get, like, 60%-65%? ?) RN Practice Test: 73% NCLEX sample tests: 56%, 56%, 83% (prioritization), 30% (the alternate format one that everyone fails) (Taken in May) Archer: (QBank 90% Complete) Qbank: 59% (60% is high predictability of passing NCLEX) Self-Assessments: 7 "Very High" in a row (4 or more in a row indicates 99% pass rate according to archer, I don't know if I believe that) Am I going to get eaten alive? Thanks! ?

It actually came in the day before yesterday, I worried for nothing!! Thank you for your answer ☺️

Hello! I graduated this last Saturday, and my state's Board of Nursing just approved my degree on my application today. I'm waiting now for my Authorization to Test. I know that you're supposed to receive your ATT within two weeks of registering with Pearson Vue for the NCLEX as long as your Board has deemed you eligible, but I paid the registration fee and registered back in January before I had my degree and therefore I wasn't eligible at the time. Since I registered so early before I had my degree, will this mess up me receiving my ATT? Or should I still expect my ATT within two weeks? I’m really antsy to take it since I’ve been studying for months now ? Thanks!

Hello! I am starting the process of applying for being a nurse in the UK. I think I've got all parts of the process down, but I'd really like some OSCE study resources or advice from some fellow international nurses in the UK, please. I've been looking at the resources provided by the different testing centers, but I'm much more of a visual learner and would really like some study materials that helped you guys pass. Thanks!

New grad here, graduating at the end of next month. I just wanted to talk about this where people understand- I'm so happy and proud. After feeling like I'd never be smart enough to be a nurse, I am now two years later accepting a job offer at the largest Emergency Department in my state! I have always wanted to do critical care nursing, and after precepting in an ER, I fell in love. I was initially disheartened because my first choice ER didn't respond to my application. I was, however, delighted when I got multiple interviews from other hospitals, including this one that hired me. After some great (though nerve-wracking) interviews at various places , I got offered a position at a Level 1 Trauma Center ER that I thought would never accept me. I'm so excited. Any advice is greatly appreciated! I'm eager to learn ?

I have! I'm completing my precepting hours in an ER. I have one more interview at one which havens to be a Level 1 Trauma this Monday.

...Or is that a bad idea? I'm about to be a new grad, and have been interviewing among some ERs and a couple ICUs around me to get experience before I plan to move out of the area in a year to a year and a half. My dream ultimately is to work in an ER when I move; I love the fast-paced environment they offer. However, of the floors I've interviewed on, a specific ICU has captured my heart; it's an extremely good working environment, and it seems like a great place to do my nurse residency as far as learning goes. I'm torn between my ERs since I want to work in one when I move and this specific ICU unit. The ERs are okay, but the ICU environment seems a lot healthier and welcoming to new people. Looking for advice as to what would be better for me.. would working ICU now make it harder for me to get hired in ERs later? Thanks!

Hello! Compulsive overplanner here, looking for NCLEX advice. I've suffered through ATI for school, and I'm not really a fan, so I bought Kaplan and UWorld too to prepare for my NCLEX, which I plan to take in May. I heard the best things from both Kaplan and UWorld, so I bought the both of them in a panic the other night. I plan to do 60 questions a day minimum (20 from Kaplan, 20 from UWorld, 20 from ATI) so by the time May rolls around, I'll have likely statistically gone through all the questions from these resources at least once. I plan to remediate the ones I get wrong so I'm not just blowing through them for no reason. Do you think this is a good plan? I tried to make it a thorough regimen, but I'm scared of getting cocky.

It could be anything about nursing; advice, encouragement, warnings, etc. I'm graduating in April, and I'm wondering what some experienced nurses would tell themselves if they could go back. (I wasn't sure whether I should put this in General nursing or new nurses; forgive me if I'm in the wrong place!!)

I found out because I’m a compulsive over-planner, haha! I found most of this on the UK’s Nursing and Midwifery Council website, though. They have a big guide on joining the register for interested overseas nurses here: https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/ There are also nursing agencies that can help you get placed in the UK, but I’m planning on doing the application process by myself since I’m going to be a new grad and usually agencies want experience. And I’m planning on making a thread of my journey once I start my NMC application!! :) I plan to start once I graduate this Spring <3

Hello there! I'm not too sure where to turn, so I was hoping I'd find some advice here. I posted this in the nursing Subreddit, but thought I'd post it here too since I realized this might be a more topical place to post it. Here's my situation. I'm going to be graduating in April, and I need to be thinking about where I'm going to work. I'm caught between two options here. For background, I'm planning on moving to the UK after I get a year's experience (currently in America), and once I'm there, I plan to work in critical care or at least adult nursing. I know the nursing scene is way different in the UK and I'll get paid less, but I'm moving there because people very important to me are there. I'm willing to make sacrifices for it. But I want to spend some time working and saving money before I move and while my UK nursing application gets processed. I'm not sure whether I should work where I'm working now or on a critical care unit in a hospital. I currently work in a primary care clinic, where I get better pay & benefits than I would at the hospitals where I currently live, and really enjoy the patients, my coworkers, and my environment overall where I am. I've worked here for a year and a half, and they've said they'd be happy to have me as an RN. I'd be able to save more money for my move, and would really, really enjoy it there. But as someone who's considering working in the UK, I'm wondering if ICU would look better to a recruiter in the UK or if I'd get better experience. At the same time, I know that once you pass the NMC nursing process, they pretty much train you from scratch anyway so I don't know if the kind of experience I have would even matter since the NMC doesn't require former experience to apply anymore and I'd be treated as a new grad nurse once I got over there for orientation anyways. I'm also wondering if I could stay where I'm working and then pick up as-needed shifts on critical care at the hospital or something so I could get experience with both? I don't know if that's possible, but if anyone knows anything about that, I'm all ears. I just really want the experience to become the best nurse I can be. Where I'm working has a big piece of my heart, but I'm willing to work somewhere else once I graduate if it'll give me better new grad experience and better my chances to grab a job in the UK. I really appreciate any answers I will get; I'm getting conflicting answers in real life and I wanted to hear some unbiased opinions. Please be gentle haha- I'm a little nervous about all of this!