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thanks to all....it's a wonderful feeling...feels like a 3 ton elephant fell off my shoulders

Hello to all...... I have found this forum very helpful over the last few months..... many thanks to all I have passed the NCLEX with 80 questions

I studied for 2 months for my exam (took it yesterday...shut off at 80)...I moved into my apartment 3 days before I took this test...there was one question on the exam that I knew only from studying NCLEX questions and not from school....I took a review course..don't know if it helped...I would say if studying for 8 hours a day until you take the test makes YOU comfortable then do it......I was told that the review courses were a waste of $$$, but I didn't want to not do it, take my exam and think "what if"....I can't tell you if studying 8 hours a day from now until you take your exam will be enough...you do what you feel you need to do in order to walk into that test knowing that you did all that you could do to prepare for it...... best of luck

After I sent in the post, I went on and did some more reading....The last question I had was a very easy question which I am not sure if I answered it correctly....now I read in some posts that if your last question is easy that is pretty bad.... any accuracy to that....(gosh I am going to puke)

Took NCLEX this morning...it shut off at 80.....i thought it was hard....I tried wearing ear plugs, but I could hear/feel my heartbeat and that was driving me nuts....I had a lot of priority, delegation questions, about 4 math problems, infection control.... I didn't have any point and click or select all of the above or fill in the blanks.....I am sort of in this funk....like everyone else....I didn't come out feeling confident,,,went home and went to bed....I don't know what to think.....

I got my hands on a Saunders Book today quite unexpectedly and I really like it...I wish I would have had it 2 months ago when I really began to prepare for the NCLEX..... Thanks to all for your input

Dear Already have taken NCLEX folks: I have a goofy question.....Are the questions you did while studying similar to those that were on the NCLEX....style-wise....I am sort of worried that the questions are going to be set up very differently than from what I have been studying (Lippincott, Mosby).... Does this make sense??

Why did it take so long for them to send out the info??? My school had all the grade information, but had to wait until we actually graduated to send out the material. We graduated May 14th, my temporary permit was up May25th and I sent in my application to test May27th......Then I got my att June 20th..... Good luck

I just checked email and my ATT was sitting there....so I now have it....holy smokes.... thanks for all the advice.....

The FBI??? I know we have to have our fingerprints taken at our testing centers, but I didn't realize that the FBI was involved.... :rotfl: I found that mildly amusing.....the FBI...I didn't realize...

Thanks for the tip...i might just have to give the folks at the BON a little buzz tomorrow....

My state board of nursing received my application for examination on May 31 (I sent it certified mail)....someone I graduated with whose last name begins with the same letter as me and who sent her application the same time as I did, has had her ATT since Thursday June 16. (We also live near eachother.) I start work July 11. We are expected to have taken the exam or to be scheduled to take it by the time we start. I just want to get it scheduled. This waiting is making me sick. I really don't want to call my BON to find out what happened, but should I? Who knows what happened to it. Should I wait or call......I know it takes a while to get it and I don't want to be a pain in the rear and maybe it's a blessing that I don't have it yet, but maybe it fell behind someone's desk or something, maybe the mailperson dropped it...:-) If my friend hadn't receieved her ATT I probably wouldn't care, but if they had it at the same time, why don't I have mine.....Thank you

I saw that you are from PA....are you starting at HMC??? I am in the boat...I start orientation on July 11th...I want to take this wretched thing before do I can rest a few days before work starts....

This is what our professor-in-charge told us.... you have a better chance at passing NCLEX if you: 1. Have never had to repeat any nursing courses 2. Aren't sliding by with C's in your nursing courses 3. Have above a 3.00 in your nursing courses

I am interested in anesthesia school....may I ask what your grades were like while you were working on your bachelor's degree??

We have the phrase "Time does NOT stand still" written on a 3x5 index card on the front door of our apartment

I am in a BSN program and grades ARE NOT curved. The following is my school's philospohy on grade curving: Unlike many other majors where the ultimate goal is earning a degree, in nursing you not only must earn your degree (diploma, etc) you must also pass the NCLEX (or whatever other tests that are needed for whatever other programs)....If you are pulling As or Bs or Cs because your fellow classmates are doing poorly or whatnot.. that will help you with earning your degree and having nice grades on your transcript and a nice GPA.....HOWEVER, will that help you pass your NCLEX?? If you cannot pass your NCLEX that means you cannot get your license. What good is it to get fabulous grades if you can't pass the NCLEX and practice. You feeding off another's misfortune of getting bad grades will not help you in passing the NCLEX. You are on your own with that one. Hey if your school curves grades and you get your license that's great, and if you know your nursing that's great. I wish my school did that, but it doesn't so I get the grades I earn. On rare occassion the instructor will throw out a question that was deemed bad or add points if everyone misses. I just want to say that since people often misinterpret written material because there is no tone to what is being said, I am not jealous of those students who go to schools where they curve grades. It doesn't bother me. Anyway, the students don't have any control over that. I was merely stating my school's philosophy on the subject. Thank you....

MLOS - you are right.....I get my knickers in a twist regularly.... thanks BarbPick.....

I have a minor concern...I am currently doing my peds/OB rotation..(BSN program) at a teaching hospital and I have a slight problem...ok here's the deal.....the way "they" do the clinical schedule is as follows: we have peds one week and then ob the following week. the student either has 2 half days (6:30am-11am and then 11-12 in postconference) or one full day (6:30am-3pm and then 3-5 postconference) I have peds/OB mondays only from 630am-300pm (on floor)...Yesterday I had OB and then next monday I will have Peds...I am on the floor ONE DAY A WEEK....I had a slight panic attack yesterday because I am the kind of student who needs to practice and don't know how one day a week is going to get me anywhere.....does this seem safe?? I do not intend on pursuing a career in either discipline, but still would like to do well in clinical.....

I am a nursing student and was watching a cabgx3 (i want a career in the OR and I asked for an extra day there). At the end of the surgery, the surgeon (who apparently is known for having a huge ego) asked me if I was impressed with what I saw...I told him yes...then he asked me if I had any questions...I was about to ask him about a blood pressure problem that the anesthetist was having when he then asked me if I , at any point during the surgery found him attractive...the atmosphere was very interesting i.e. he mentioned how his daughter's college friends were hot and plumping up nicely ...my response to his question..."you have a small head"....which I think he does....his head looks funny..the one that is 3 feet above his hiney....I have a very dry sense of humor.....I am not 20 btw...this probably wasn't the best answer, but the first one that came out of my mouth....oh well....

Switching weeks...that's a really good idea....I think I will email my past clinical instructor and mention in...I will never have her again, but maybe she might talk to the senior instructors about it..

BarbPick....well put.... I will be starting my 3rd semester in my BSN nursing program...all info was from last semester.... I was a pmer for my middle adult clinical which took place in the SPCU of a local hospital.......I got lots of post op cabg pts. (CT&DB)a few traumas that all seemed to not need a lot of pm work...few meds were given in the PM while we were there...I GAVE NO IV MEDS....my only IV experience came one day when I saw my instructor in the room of a patient who did not belong to a student whose IV was running out and beeping and needed a new one...I got the bag, spiked and hung it...I got to suction a trach..I gave 1 injection (one) the entire semester for this particular clinical...(I did way more in my elderly nursing clinical...many many IMs and SQs a few PPDs.. and got to do a straight cath at the nursing home)....we were not required to go in the night before either am or pm group..on a few occasions we were given information about our patients the night before through email which said about what they were in for, their meds, treatments etc..I would only ever go to the nurses station to chart...I would go around to my fellow classmates and helped them out with their patients and that's where I got to see more. I must say that I have cleaned up my fair share of #2 which to be honest doesn't bother me as much as chewed up food...(another story for another day)...I might not have done it, but I got to see it which is better than nothing at all....We did actual charting and the thursday clincal which was at the same hospital but different floor and different instructor did not do any of their own charting other than meds..Would I have rather have had the AM shift...absolutely...but I didn't and I can't change it..I was always worried about learning new things.....anyway it's down to chocolate world with the little munchkins in january to a level one trauma center...which is a better facility than up here....

when I started on my second degree at the same school where I earned my first degree my GPA started over again.....

My Professor - in- Charge said NO THONGS....you can see right through the white pants. We had a choice of either blue top/white bottom or blue bottom/white top