chocolateocean

I am non-binary but perceived as male by society.

You should invest your time into learning Arabic and it will help you on your nursing exams. thank me later

Agreed. As nurses we must keep cultural differences in mind when dealing with Arab people.

I failed in February and still have not received ATT for retake. I paid Pearson another $200 in February. I just tried to go through the "RN reapply examination" process on the breeze site and it prompted me to pay $250. Do I need to pay $250 as a retake fee. Do I need to pay this in addition to the $200 I paid to pearson, so it costs me $450 to take the NCLEX?

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I took the exam this week for the first time. I graduated from a BSN program in December and studied a little. I started out with easy/common sense questions that made me feel confident I was going to pass, then it started asking many SATA questions and I think on a lot of SATA questions I selected every option because I didn't see why not. I don't know if it's common for every option on a SATA to be correct. I also saw a lot of things I didn't know, but I had heard I can still pass with getting 50% correct or guessing a lot and I didn't worry about it too much. But of course I didn't pass and I'm worried I may not pass anytime soon. I saw posts on the NCLEX subreddit from people who didn't pass the NCLEX until their 10th attempt or 10 years after finishing school. I don't want to end up that way. I don't have much time to study because I work full time and I have a lot on my plate. I'm currently reading the Saunders review book and I'm considering other review books to read, but I don't want to get overwhelmed. I also don't want to do have to do UWorld or Kaplan subscriptions since they're expensive. I feel like there's just so much I don't know and I don't know how I'm supposed to prepare for an exam that asks such random questions.

Hi, what state did you test in? I tested on Wednesday in California and got the bad pop up several times when trying to register again. I don’t know why it would give me (or us) that pop up unless we failed. I wonder if it could be because of where I tested or because I went to school in another state. My test shut off in 75 questions (minimum), and then I had a post-test for research purposes that I didn’t bother reading. I honestly just clicked random answers and submitted them because I was ready to go home and it said that those questions wouldn’t count towards my grade. I have to wait another day for quick results. I’m trying to find a reason why I might have passed even if my card was declined on the website. I don’t feel ready to accept failure on this.

I'm really depressed because I don't want to have to deal with this test again. I took it for the first time this morning and it cut me off after 75 questions. There were a lot of questions I guessed on. I did the PVT trick twice using a wrong expiration date and got the message my payment was declined. However, I saw that many people have gotten false negatives and passed. I took the exam in California and the breeze website is giving me an option to retake the exam. I heard that is also a bad sign. I don't want to be sad in case I do end up passing. I expect my quick results to post within 48 hours but it feels like such a long time.

My application was approved recently. Faster than I expected.

I graduated from a BSN program in December and I was expecting my application for licensure to take until at least March to process. I was surprised when I already got my ATT... I didn't study for this. I had to move to a new place and start a new job and I didn't have time to prepare. I don't want to put the exam off either. I just want to get it done and over with. I want to schedule my exam for as early as next week. I work full time and don't think I can cram before that time. I want to take my chances and experience the real NCLEX. I hate taking exams because it's hard for me to concentrate or stay focused. Is there a good brief review I can do to at least improve my confidence before the exam?

Update: I graduated from nursing school and selected “no” when asked about my criminal history on the application for licensure. My application was approved/ I cleared the background check. I wasn’t kicked out of nursing school either, just from a clinical rotation. It had essentially the same effect as failing a class, which many of my peers have done because most of the professors are so horrible at teaching and give unfair exams.

I went to a BSN program and had clinical placements at like 10 different facilities, many of them in different cities. I would agree with the Dean's suggestion that it probably won't be an issue. During COVID we often had to do clinicals online so you should ask them if they can make that accommodation for you in case a site doesn't admit you.

I guess they were being brash and weren’t concerned about how their choice of words can make me feel or look. I was having an argument with the professor who said I was two-faced and he was trying to discredit me. I was trying to argue that I wasn’t an Arab like another professor had said I was. “Two-faced” just feels like a more blunt way to call me inconsistent. It’s all a bit complicated and I don’t feel prepared to say everything about the situation on this forum. The cellphone thing was small potatoes, happened a year after I was called an Arab and two faced, and I don’t believe that incident had any connection to the name calling. It doesn’t prove I’m inconsistent because of how I responded to her question. I said “yes” after having a chance to think about it for one second. It’s a mistake anyone could have made and says nothing about my honesty or character.

Fair guess, but that clinical instructor never knew me and was a different faculty member from the ones who said I'm inconsistent or two-faced. She had no involvement with me from previous semesters and knew nothing about me. By the way, I didn't establish myself that way. Those faculty have said so many things about me that were false I could lose count. It wouldn't be appropriate to judge a student a certain way and hold them to a different standard or expectation anyway. Everyone should be treated fairly.

On a related note, I was running late to clinical one day and didn't leave my phone in my car as I was supposed to. My instructor asked me if I had my phone and I responded, "no. I mean, yes." She tried to text another instructor that I lied to her and that I "fib" but she accidentally sent the text message to me instead of my instructor. It wasn't the first time I caught them trying to talk about me behind my back. Of course I just forgot that I had my phone in my pocket and I didn't intend to "lie" to her.

There was a concern that I was having issues in the clinical setting and that it may be related to my parents being from Iran. A professor had read about it and made the remark that I seemed two-faced because I had allegedly said that I didn't wish to get into other's personal space at clinicals but then claimed to not have that issue. He also said he thought it was a personal issue with me and not related to my ethnicity or cultural background. I discussed it with the program director and she said that she didn't agree with the language he used, but she told me she wouldn't address it since the professor was in the department of public health and not under her supervision. I've been more consistent with information in this thread alone than most of the faculty I went to school with.

You might be on to something. Professors had noted that I was "two-faced" and "inconsistent with information." It was one concern of many. A little strange that they graduated me from their program in spite of that.

Weird. I had a nursing professor tell me Iranians are Arab and speak Arabic. It was something I learned in my first semester of nursing school.

It's because I had posted on this website years ago after being kicked out of a clinical rotation and many of the responses I received were upsetting to me. I wanted to see how people would react to this post since this is a sensitive subject matter for a lot of people. I know it really isn't the place for this. I would delete the post.

I was putting myself in his shoes. His husband told me he is a bit of a "people-pleaser" and wanted attention from these friends that were giving him the Media. Anyway, the person who this happened to is retired, in his 70s, and has a 6 figure pension so obviously no interest in becoming a nurse.

Honestly, this didn't really happen to me. A friend of mine has a husband who got in trouble for this. I believe he had some friends overseas who were trading obscene materials with him which he got busted for. He's not a pervert nor did he enjoy the videos of children being abused. This occurred years ago and doesn't really have anything to do with me or nursing. I apologize.

I applied for RN licensure by examination in California in December and my application still has a pending status. It says they are missing my transcripts and fingerprints. My university electronically sent them my transcripts and I submitted my fingerprints through livescan about 2 weeks ago. It feels like such a long process. How long should I expect to wait for them to process the application or give me an ATT? Will calling them help speed things up or give me important information?

I was released from the hospital after a 72 hour hold. I just submitted my fingerprints to the BRN in CA 2 days before I was detained. I'm a new grad. I am worried the BRN will see that this happened. I was detained by patrol officers at the Golden Gate Bridge who thought I was suicidal or planning to jump even though I didn't even go over the railing.

Thanks for taking the time to leave me this response and share your story. I thought an admin removed my post so I was surprised to see it still up. It was mainly for ranting purposes because I was upset on my graduation day after seeing how happy everyone else was as well as the other student I mentioned who had like a 4.0 GPA and a job lined up. I didn't have a good time in nursing school for the most part and I'm very scared of NCLEX because I saw a lot of people posting on here that they failed it several times.

I forgot to mention that a nursing professor said that my parents are old and know what being old is like before saying that I'm Arab. I'm angry that I got recognized because of the age and nationality of my parents and this other student gets recognized for something to actually be proud of. I have accomplished so much throughout my life and the focus is always on my parents who don't even go to my school.