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that was totally appropriate for you to be a little nasty to that student! did he asked permission from you or inform you that he's gonna take the call? or did he said it was something important? If he asked you, that would make a different story... but since it wasn't said in your post, then that was a totally rude thing to do (what the student did)! :redpinkhe:redpinkhe:redpinkhe

the school will give you your RLE and then your TOR... it will be authenticated by the school... so don't worry about it...

Right now, I'm doing my Kaplan review. I'm also using the Saunder's Book. i study about 3-4 hours per day. i'm still using the kaplan course book, so i'm still not answering questions except when it's after the chapter or something. i started my review last march... how about you??? :yeah: How many months since you started your review for nclex? What's the date for your NCLEX exam? How many hours per day did you study? How many NCLEX questions did you answer per day? Is the NCLEX exam totally what you expected it to be? What NCLEX materials did you use for your review? Self study or review center? Do you have a study buddy? What were your preparations the week before your NCLEX? Any good strategies that you used? How many questions did u answer on the ACTUAL NCLEX EXAM? Topics that people should study for nclex... any things to memorize, etc... Any tips or advice?

hehehe... i think you have the options of writing the BON an explanation letter as to why your license isn't available yet, or you can get a certificate of passing from the PRC. I sent them my certification of passing including my rating... but, i think you might find it much easier to write a letter... hehehe .... :wink2:

i sent my application sometime in january. they received it jan 28... so i'm calculating it would be sometime between the end of april to may (maybe 1st week of june)... hehehe... what about you?

this happened when i was a student nurse... that was about 5 years ago. hahaha... we were doing a graded physical assessment demo, and i was really really really anxious! the clinical instructor that's going to grade my demo was a complete terror! ok... physical assessment was supposed to be cephalocaudal, ryt... but when it was my turn, i got everything mixed up! my mind was totally disorganized! hahaha... plus... when i was doing the breast assessment on my classmate, i just checked the left breast ONLY! i forgot the right breast which was totally dumb coz it was right there staring in fron of me! well... i find that very funny now that i think about it.. hehehehe

i'm waiting from my eligibility sometime between april and may... as for when the eligibility expire, from what i can remember, i think it's 365 days (1 year). you have a year to register w/ pearsonvue... and you got 60 days to schedule your nclex exam...

i'm doing kaplan right now... i'm starting on my second month. You have 3 months to do the laboratory, and then a month of live lecture... There are a few Kaplan branches in the Philippines. I think there's one in Quezon City, Cebu, and Iloilo City. It's roughly estimated to be $550 worth in Philippine pesos. Some people might not want to do the Kaplan review. I could placed it under the self-review category. you're gonna be studying at your own pace. it doesn't require you to finish a number of pages in a day... and! it's totally up to you what time you're going to attend Kaplan. This might not be for those who requires much prodding to start studying those kaplan books they're gonna give you. But remember, think about the money you paid!~

hey there! people just don't talk about that if they think they're giving someone a good advice. I graduated june 2007, and i got more than 25 erasures in the board exam... and i later learned that i got an execptionally OK score in the board exam... yeah, we're told it's not really advisable to have erasures but sometimes there are flaws in the system... any kind of system. Review centers have their own tricks up their sleeves (i'm not talking about the 2006 issue here ok)... They know the trade. Whereas, the Commission would really stick to the rules they had established, and appear strict and foreboding to someone who would take the board exam. This is to avoid further complaints regarding the rules. She's right. That totally depends whom you're talking to. Besides, if you have done the erasures, the computer would only read those ones... not the other test items... so, it's a risk that other people might take, and other people might not take... :redpinkhe:redpinkhe:redpinkhe

Yup... Philippines is a just great place to get started working as a nurse! The prices of basic necessities are going thru the roof! and workers there are "underpaid". Remember... Nowadays, $1 = 40 to 42 Philippines pesos!!! :yeah: