neveragain00

I Just Checked And I Passed! I'm so glad these boards exist to help cushion the insanity of waiting for results!

also i have yet to find it, if anyone can tell me how to find spec ific states nclex pass rates please let me know, i'm looking for IL, but i looked up pass rates and thanks to ncsbn raising the bar for the nclex-pn, pass rates have already gone down 4% in the first quarter of the year that the standards have changed.

that's what everyone says it doesn't simplify the blow it just makes it that much more daunting 90 days is a lot of time to have to wait for me, especially with things going south because of the way the place is run at my cna job

i would also like to know where you found it?

oh my GOD. i know cost of living and things like that are different,.... but $12 for an LPN? i make more than that as a CNA before shift differential, o granted i work in the chicagoland suburbs... but whoah. although, i have to consider, does this area just treat lpn's as glorified CNAs? also.. curious [although i have a major bridge to cross first, i took my lpn nclex yesterday and am dying about the results.. i really fear that im going to have to take it again in 3 months..... ] i'm moving to central il, specifically bloomington-normal and wondering what lpn's out there are doing and how much they're making? its unfortunate because im really not interested in ltc i'm coming from an ob unit and it's going to kill me not to be able to work in an ob unit anymore assuming that like everywhere else, the only hospital department that will consider lpns is probably med-surg?

definitely would not recommend it. that's what makes me so mad about the school i went to . it was lpn program, but we were still being taught out of RN books in some classes. it sounds like a good idea at first, but you will get so confused not only with delegation but things that you are and aren't allowed to do by your own decision, chain of command. if you feel confident enough in knowing the differences in chain of command and decision making as an LPN on your own, then maybe. but it would just confuse me too much.

I took the NCLEX-PN yesterday in IL and I'm beating myself up so badly over it... i went all the way to 205 i had absolutely NO hotspot ?s or drag&order VERY LITTLE ob/peds, maybe a couple ?s each tops, maybe a handful of med/I&O ?s (and i feel confident in that area, medical math is not hard to me), but a TON of pharmacology questions .. a substantial amount of SATA... and pretty much everything else situation/priority "which client would you see first"... SO many of those the way the NCLEX was explained to me by my review class instructor was that it preys on your weaknesses. supposedly if it gives you a ? in peds and you get it wrong, you will get another and so forth, causing you to be assaulted by a test that is in majority on your weakness? i'm also scared because i never got any hotspot or drag&order, which makes me wonder if that's reserved for a higher difficulty level i never achieved? i am SO scared especially because i know that the passing standards went up april of this year, but no one seems to know theoretically how far they've gone up. i took an ATI predictor calibrated to the OLD NLCEX, that gave me a 95% pass probability, when I only got question for question 65% of the questions correct... as far as i know there WAS NO predictor yet for the new NCLEX basically what i'm asking is i've only read a couple posts of people saying they or someone else they know passed at 205q..... but those were in 2007. i'm also reading a lot of current stories here with people saying they failed at 205 the first time, and passed now with only 85q. has anybody or anybody you know passed AFTER april of 2008 with 205q? ? ? :crying2:

I go to this school and I'm trying to find transfer options or get out as soon as possible.