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how many questions you had on your exam? 75 what did you use as a review material? basically all saunders materials, kaplan, princeton book (i had other review materials given to me by relatives but i wasn't able to use all of it; i only scanned them. e.g. nclex made easy, exam cram, delmar, prioritization and delegation,etc.) enrolled in a review center or home study? both. i enrolled in kaplan and i also reviewed during my free time. for my home study, i tried to answer at least100-200questions per day to familiarize myself with answering so many questions. (our reviewer told us to try answering at least 265-300questions per day because during the actual nclex, you don't know if you're going to have the maximum # of questions or not. by getting used to answering 200++ questions per day while you were still reviewing will lessen the stress and feeling of fatigue and being "drained") percentage of topics youre very familiar with on the actual nclex questions? 100% i haven't encountered some pharmacology items in the nclex when i was still in school, but thank god i was able to encounter them while answering review questions!!!=) it really pays to answer tons and thousands of questions during the review. what did you feel after you finish your exam? right after the exam, i feel confident and happy that i passed. our reviewer told us that if your questions keep getting harder then your on your way to passing. but if the questions keeps getting easier, you have to think twice already. during the latter part of my nclex, i keep getting the "select all that apply" type of questions one item after another. so i was thinking "this is it!" but when i'm not so sure with my answers in the select all and i know i didn't get it right, the next question would revert to multiple choice, and if i get it right, the next item is select all again... a week after the exam and until i received the envelope, my confidence started to wane and i started thinking again about my nclex experience. i started to worry that maybe i failed after all... then i received the envelope and i didn't open it first. i prayed a short prayer of thanksgiving. after that, i felt confident again that i passed (the same confidence i felt when right after i finished nclex), and after opening the envelope: i indeed passed!!!:d:d

Are you still in Cebu? As far as I know, fingerprint cards from US (e.g. IL, NY, NJ, Cali, etc.) are brought to NBI-Carriedo (in Manila). Go to 6th flr and you will fill out some information in a record book there. Then go to 5th flr to have your card fingerprinted. You'll encounter a lot of nurses going to US with there fingerprint cards on the 6th flr. Try calling your local NBI office if you have to go to NBI-Carriedo or if your local NBI is allowed to do that.

I also applied at BON-IL and now I'm a US RN in IL. I applied last year and I did not submit ED-NUR because it's only for US educated nurses, unless they've already changed their process. I suggest that applicants read the packet very carefully and understand what is written there, especially the instructions. This will avoid wasting money and time.

Hi! I guess what you've heard is just a rumor. The board topnotcher was hired indeed by UST, but not at the USTHospital (because of the "freeze hiring" status). The topnotcher was hired by the UST College of Nursing, I think even before the board results were out because I've heard she's an honor student and a really good one. She's an "assistant" to one of the professors there. Maybe she's take up MAN already.:nuke:

Oversupply or shortage of nurses? DOLE wants to know Margaux Ortiz She (University of the Philippines College of Nursing Dean Dr. Josefina Tuazon ) pointed out that the high number of graduates of Practical Nursing, a two-year course that focuses on the basics of nursing, aggravated the unemployment problem. In a statement to the media, Paquiz said: "There is no local demand or positions for practical nurses within the Philippine Health Care Delivery system particularly in the light of the oversupply of nurses and subsequent unemployment of fresh nursing graduates." http://www.inquirer.net/specialfeatures/nursingmatters/view.php?db=1&article=20080729-151442

Hi! I know someone (I think around batch 2000) and she's HBV positive. She was able to work at Cardinal Santos (ICU) for a couple of years. At that time, I think she's also undergoing treatments for her condition. She also has goiter then. Right now, she's already in the U.S. working at Neuro ICU.:wink2: I'll ask her about this when she calls. :)

i wrote in an earlier post that i read in inquirer about the 400,000 unemployed nurses. when i saw tobby_walter's post from inquirer stating that there is only 100,000 unemployed nurses, i checked again where i saw the article i mentioned before. it was an article from the philippine star. here are some excerpts: 88,750 to take nursing exam by mayen jaymalin [color=gray]updated november 11, 2008 12:00 am a record number of nursing graduates are set to take the second licensure examination on nov. 29 and 30, the professional regulation commission (prc) said yesterday. marco sto. tomas, prc's board of nursing (bon) member, said the number of examinees in the nursing licensure examination (nle) this year reached 88,750, the biggest in prc's history. "manila alone has 40,310 examinees," sto. tomas said. --- the prc reported that about 400,000 licensed filipino nurses are jobless, despite the high demand for health workers abroad. here's the link: http://beta2.philstar.com/article.aspx?articleid=414308&publicationsubcategoryid=63

i guess that's right:D.. i remember when i was reviewing for nclex some of my classmates were asking our instructor about their brown passports because it doesn't have a line for their signature. i think the dfa corrected the problem already.

Me too... I really want to have a NURSING job. Does anybody know when will afp start hiring again? Early next year perhaps?

I totally agree!!! I'm a June'07 passer and a lot of my batchmates from my school are still unemployed in the nursing profession, and we're only 400++. (At least 50% are still unemployed or underemployed, i.e. call centers, or waiting for their training or waiting to be absorbed.) When I had my BLS and First Aid training last July, most of us there are batch '06 & '07 and unemployed. And now there's batch '08!!!:eek: And in about 6months, batch '09! Just imagine the sheer number of nurses graduating! I bet unemployed nurses would probably reach 1million soon if nursing schools are not regulated. I read in the newspaper (Inquirer) that there's at least 400,000 unemployed nurses all over the Philippines. Well, that's to be expected since a lot hospitals are not hiring. There's too many nurses but very few job opportunities locally. In other countries, there are opportunites however you need to have experience first. So it goes back to the issue (our main problem really) that there's almost no job vacancies here. Hence, it's really hard to get the experience required of us to work abroad. :smackingf

my recently expired passport was the green one, but when i renewed it, it was already the brown passport. there's a signature part there at the last page..

hi mcnursie! i just called afp medical center and they told me that they are not hiring...:confused: but i'll still go there on monday!!! i was supposed to go today but i wasn't able to. is it ok to go there on monday and have my exam? or should i go there before monday and have myself scheduled for an exam on monday? please help me..:)

They are giving priorities to their graduates; however, the waiting time is still so loooong!!!:down:

i think bank drafts are used for such payments... go to a bank and have your payment (in dollars) be made into a bank draft/cheque.. but different banks have different policies (e.g. you have to have an account in their bank)

hi! is your passport the green one? anyway, as long as your passport is not expired and you have your signature there, you can use it for nclex. when i took nclex, my passport at that time was not machine readable too (green passport)... good luck on your nclex!!!:rckn: