BouBou

Greetings, The best thing that you can do for yourself is to apply for another position at the rank you would like within your current organization, at a new one, or join the float pool. Every float pool is like an episode of Cheers, the unit is glad you came and youre glad to leave at the end. Do not entertain the negativity and doubt yourself.

I think the first goal is just to be employed as RN with this economy.

Glad to hear that I am not alone in my mixed emotions.

I took my exam 3/22 and had 75 questions. Checked my results via the PVT about 2 hours later and received the good pop up. My unofficial results became available 3/24 and it confirmed that I passed.

Just got my unofficial results....I passed!!

Greetings everyone, I am writing because of the feelings I am having since taking the NCLEX on Friday. I am just BLUE and don't know what to do. I have received the good pop up many times. In addition, in my state when you submit your application for licensure, your name appears on the BON website with pending status. If you fail the NCLEX, your name falls away like a leaf in the wind and if you pass it remains with a pending status. As a result I am 99.99% confident that I have passed. However, I don't know what to do. I have been in my pajamas since Friday night. This is totally not me. I am up at 5 on my way to the gym and dressed by 7:30. Maybe, I've just been studying for too long. I just don't know. I'm not worried about employment, because RN Orientation starts on Monday. Is anyone or has anyone else felt this way after the NCLEX.

You would not see your name there yet until you had a license number through your state board.

@jringer, Thanks for your words of encouragement. I'll give advice once I receive my offical results.

Alright my friends, I finished my exam in a little under two hours with 75 questions. I did the PVT and received the good POP UP. I'll be waiting with baited breath until Monday to get the official results. Wishing you all the best while you are studying!!!

St Claire, I think he is Canadian. I have seen the term CNO in research articles from Canadian Nurses. So the CNO equals our NCSBN and the CRNE equals NCLEX.

Our thread has just about died, but it is the evening before my exam. I just cannot relax. I am reviewing lab values, positioning, and delegation. During the course of my studies I have completed Saunders, Kaplan Qtrainers, 100% of Qbank, and a majority of PDA. Plan to order my favorite food and go to bed early. Kaplan Qbank 100% complete and average 65% Qtrainer1 = 51% Qtrainer 2= 56% Qtrainer 3= 55% Qtrainer 4= 60% Qtrainer 5= 63% Qtrainer 6= 72% Qtrainer 7= 69%

I will confess that I have checked on few of classmates not out of maliciousness, but for inspiration.

Many states have an online licensing verification page. You can look up beaticianns, doctors, nurses, plumbers, etc.

Maybe you need to have a mini break. Just a few hours. Are you having breakfast before starting? I have exactly 52 qbank questions left. I have been doing them 50 at a time but I am now doing them 25 at a time. I would try another source for questions since you have finished all of Kaplan. I really like the NCLEX 3500 because it differentiates client needs as well as categories. The rationales really make sense. I do 50 questions twice a day. I will be doing Qtrainer 6 tonight once the kiddos are in bed.

For this question I choose answers 3 and 5. I too was surprised that a nurse's assistant can Dx a foley. I spoke with a friend who works in telemetry and she confirmed that in her unit nursing assitant's dx foley's and do ostomy care. I really don't agree with this, but who I am. I agree that the word "experienced should have been included in the stem. #15 i was confused how to assign these patients. was i assigning two unstable or stable patients to the 1 RN? i guessed 2 and 4.. and guessed wrong. I picked 1 and 4. I picked stable pts because the stem said that unit was usually 1:1. #19 i didn't choose answer 4 because when turning a pregant pt on her side, i want to choose answers that specifically says to turn to a specific side, for instance the left side. bc the left side is the best side. turning the woman on her right would occlude the great veins (vena cava). correct answers for this SATA included 4, but i didn't choose it. was i not thinking critically? I picked 1, 4, and 5. The only thing correct was 4. Besides the reasons that PDA mentioned; Turning side to side after an epidural also prevents the pt from having the medication pool and pain relief only felt on one side of the body. I have been labor support for dozens of women and no one got a catheter after their epidural and many had their epidural turned off during the pushing phase. Alas, this is not the real world it is the crazy dimension of the NCLEX. I don't know what I was thinking with picking 5 though. #20 the rationale said to notify the anesthesiologist, as in answer 4, yet the correct answers for this SATA did not include 4. im confused. are the correct answers 2 and 3 or 2, 3, and 4? maybe it's a typo... I picked 2, 3, and 4 as well. That baby needs to get out of there. #25 you don't have thoughts of hurting your baby during postpartum depression (baby blues) do you? you're just really emotional, sad and crying a lot, feels of fatigue, difficulty concentrating, and have appetite and sleep disturbances, but no thoughts of hurting the baby right? I think you mean # 24 because 25 is about exercise. I picked 3. Post partum depression can include feelings of self harm and baby harm. THe baby harm is focused on the mother's feelings of incompetence in the care that she is giving the baby that would inadvertantly cause harm. Ex, bath water too hot or cold, diaper rash, thrush. I had a friend hysterical because the baby had hiccups. I don't agree with all of the rationales in this book all of the time, but I am a mere mortal.