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CSABiker - This is fantastic news!!! Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!

csabiker - I am sure you passed! I looked up all the ones I remembered and know I got them wrong. Then I read somewhere that you really only remember the ones that you were unsure of and/or guessed wrong. You don't remember all of the ones you were pretty sure you could figure out the answer, or KNEW were right. That's why you feel you got them all wrong :) The waiting is horrible. It's like some sort of hazing! Let us know in a few days when you find out you passed!

I passed with 75 questions. I had a lot of priority and medications. I felt alright walking out of the test, but then as I kept thinking about questions, I felt worse and worse. Of course I looked up some of the meds and panicked when I realized I got them wrong. But, in the end I passed. On the NCSBN website, they have a good explanation on how the test works. Basically everyone gets 50% right and 50% wrong, in order to assess what level of knowledge each person is at. If you are in the pass zone, you pass. If you are in the fail zone, you don't pass. I think that's why people feel horrible about the test afterwards. We aren't used to getting only 50% right. Good luck to everyone taking it in the future. Remember that you know this stuff! You wouldn't have made it through the craziness of nursing school if you didn't! :wink2:

Hi! I am in the program right now, I graduate in December, and I thought I might answer some questions the best I could. I started my pre-req's at St. Kate's in the fall of '05 with two children and had my third baby in Feb. '06. I think at present count there will be 10 babies born to our class of 21. 1. do you have any idea of the emphasis of acceptance? GPA? Pre-Req's? Essays? Work/Life experience? I graduated with a 3.3 GPA but know that going back to school as an adult would be a totally different deal. I hope my GPA isn't too low. I believe they go by pre-req's and GPA but I don't think it hurts to have life experience. 2. I have a 4 year old and twins that are 10 months. Before anyone says I am crazy, I have a great husband, mother and mother-in -law to help. How much (on average) study time did you need each day? I think it depends. I tried to do at least an hour or so a day, just to keep up with it all. Even if something isn't due for a while I would still work on it. It would be really hard to be a procrastinator in this program. 3. I would also need to work, but thinking of going part time to be done by noon each day. Would I HAVE to do that to make it manageable? Or did others seem to make it work? Some have full-time jobs, some part-time and some are stay-at-home moms. I work 0.5 FTE now and it is manageable with three kids. 4. I have been out of school for 8 years. Was it hard for you to go back? How long were you out of school? It was not to hard to get back in the groove. It was nice to do the pre-req's first to ease into it. 5. What was the age range of your classmates? I am 33 and feel ancient compared to "newbies". I am 33 too and probably most everyone else is within 5 years of that. There is not as much clinical time as other programs, that is true. But you could have a ton of clinical time and still be a dolt. If you go to clinicals and your mentorship and seek out new experiences and make sure that you are pushing yourself, you are going to be fine. I agree 100% with what Maxxineo has posted and she has a great point about getting experience as a HUC or a NA. It's a great way to see what nursing is about, you get experience and often it's an in as an RN if you wish to stay on the unit you are working on. It is really hard and you will probably have moments in which you think it is impossible (especially with kids) but it is worth it.