charmbee

so I'm a recent grad, I have an interview for an OR Position at a hospital. I just want to know what should I expect? and what do they expect from me? I would never thought in a million yrs that I'll be working in the OR (PACU yes..) .. But thats the beauty in nursing, you can try everything until you find your niche. What are the pros & cons in the OR? Salary? Did anybody start in the OR right after nursing school?

yes I did, I took it just last week...and I passed .. I'm relieved that I passed and it feels good to not open a book everyday for a change :)

It really depends on your situation, if you have the luxury to take a month off or two..take it!..most of the people I know who prepared for 2 weeks bc they had work or kids and family, found the NCLEX "difficult" ... My thing is if I spent all this time in nursing school, it's worth taking a month to study to make sure you've got everything covered and to pass the NCLEX the first try. Even though not everything is going to come out, at least you don't have yourself to blame at the end when you feel like you didn't prepare....you can say you did your best and you'll be more relaxed.

Your in good standing if your grades are between 60-70% ... and the amount of questions your doing is good too, I did about 100q's/day and 200q's/day 2 weeks prior to my exam. I don't think I would've passed the first time if I didn't take kaplan. It really gives you an idea what your weakest and your strongest points, so you know what to work on. Good Luck and keep doing your questions!!:)

I felt the same way!! I felt good after I took my test and felt confident...at the same time 100% of my nursing friends said it was difficult which made me doubt myself because I thought I never reached the level of difficulty - but long and behold, I passed the NCLEX! I think its all in the preparation.

the PearsonVueTrick (PVT) is basically after you take your NCLEX, once your status says "Delivery Successful" you would try to re-register again and before you get to the credit card page you would either get the "POP UP" that won't let you register - which means to PASSSED...BUT if it lets you go all the way through the Creditcard page - it means you FAILED ... it worked for me! ... I did it 2 hrs after I took my nclex and got the pop-up....Like I said above Kaplan says you at least want 60% or above, you have 90% chance of passing it....I kept working on my questions and towards the end I was able to get to 90's and 80's ... You studied hard enough, trust me it will pay off!!! Good Luck!

I thought when I took the NCLEX that the kaplan questions were harder. But at the same time it all depends on how prepared you are. I studied for about a month and I did questions every day (~100 p/day) and 200 q/day 2 weeks before my exam ... I say keep working on your qbanks and read the rationales, also do your question trainers. You at least want 60-65% on your qbanks. What I did was I did questions and studied the content. I also used Saunders along with the kaplan book , I only use it when I need to know the rationales. My kaplan instructor to not use the saunders CD for questions but it is good if you want to review your content. Don't be scared, I was scared too but when I took the exam, I was like thats what I was scared of?? trust me its very do-able as long as you put in work!? Good Luck!! and think positive :)

Thank You, congrats in advance!! I know you may not believe me and kind of skeptical but it the PVT does work!!! :yeah:Good luck :)

just wanted to let everyone know I PASSED the NCLEX-RN!! woohooo pvt works ;D

yeap, I tried it 3x yesterday and today....thats keeping me hopefull but then it can be a total false positive result....eeeek

thanks! the 48 hour wait is a nightmare!? I find out my results tomorrow morning

I felt the same thats why I'm freaking out ... a lot of people said it's "hard" walking out of that exam... did you do the Pearson Vue trick?

congrats! I just took mine today....did you think the q's were difficult?

I had a friend from nursing school who went through the whole 265q's and passed!! I took mine today as well, Im already thinking of plan if I failed it's such a sucky feeling to know you can either for both ways...75 q's or 265 q's it gives the same anxiety...You would think after taking the NCLEX you'll have a peace of mind but this is going to be the longest 48 hours of my life! Good luck! definitely keep us updated :)

OMG! good for you, I told my self before I graduated nursing school that I was going to start studying for the NCLEX but it didn't really happen. I say you sign up for Kaplan and stick to another material aside kaplan - I think Saunders was great. It summed up everything with its rationale. I reviewed for a month , don't start stressing yourself - its so far away! Studying hard will take all the anxiety away. Your state of mind will be in a better place if you know that you prepared. Just know that not everything you're going to study is not going to come out, which disappointed me because I only got thrown a few diseases, most of it was just prioritizing. Do a lot of questions!!! Kaplan qbank questions were really similar as far as the nclex goes , wording and everything. I felt prepared and didn't feel like what am I reading! Good luck! no need to stress yourself now, you got a few months to go :)