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Pull the skin taut between thumb and first finger. You are wanting it to go into muscle so pinching up is not required, yet I see people doing that all the time. It's counterproductive.

I know that some state board of nursing bylaws require that all persons involved in patient care have a badge with credentials and photo clearly visible. It is a safety issue. Not only for the patients, but for everyone in the facility. Go to your state BON statutes and see what they say regarding badges.

Travel Nursing!!! Even if this is not something you want to stick with, do the 13 week first assignment to get back in the market. Plus, this is from personal experience, about a two weeks ago I signed for an indeed.com account because I was interested in a job I saw on that website. I uploaded my resume and was getting ready to apply for the job when I saw that it was not in my geographical area. I decided to take my resume back down and just look around some more. In that 20 minutes or so from uploading the resume and looking around on the site, I was emailed twice from prospective employers. I am a second career nurse, and have only been one going on 4 years. Times seem pretty good out there for a job. Now, a good bit of advice don't wait around for them to call you. I applied on a Wednesday, called the hospital on Thursday to speak with someone in recruiting about openings, was asked to come in that day for an interview, and was made a verbal offer. No one is going to get upset with you calling to check on your application. I'd say that is what has happened to the positions you have applied for...someone called and jumped in front of you. Good luck!!!

To be clear, I was not employed by the hospital that offered me the loan, Wellmont Health Systems in VA, but I had to sign a contract stating that I would apply and accept a job if offered to me upon graduation. If I defaulted and did not become and stay employed for the remainder of my contract, then I had to pay all the money back to Wellmont. There wasn't a limit on what they would pay...I had to work 1 year for every two thousand they gave me. They would only pay for required nursing classes and books, plus the stipend every semester. I once decided to take an ACLS class and they wouldn't pay for it because it wasn't a requirement of the program.

I didn't even know my local hospital offered education loans until they came to my nursing class one day and gave a presentation on it. They were nurse recruiters. It appears they only extend their loans out to nursing students that are currently in the program. I would definitely call the human resource department of your local hospitals or hospitals you are interested in working for and see if they offer such loans. Best of luck.

Everyone really seems to like Kaplan. I, too, did use Kaplan for review...just the NCLEX-RN 2013-2014 book. I only studied a week before my exam. All day and most of the nights lol. I got 75 questions and don't believe any of the content I studied was on the test. I don't think content is where it's at...you learned all that in nursing school. Just practice taking test questions and review Maslow, the nursing process and ABC's of prioritizing. Best Wishes and keep us posted of your success!!!

Is it possible your BON just keeps adding info onto the status update without erasing what was there prior...for example, they first added, waiting for transcripts, then added waiting to make eligible and then without erasing those two, added awaiting NCLEX scores even though they did receive your transcripts and found you eligible. Person Vue had to be notified by the state of MI that you were eligible before they sent the ATT. I believe all is well there. Wishing you much luck on your results. I'd say you have an excellent shot of passing or they would have simply shut you down much earlier! Right??? Yea...say a little prayer and go do that PV trick!!!! Best wishes and keep us posted.

Ditto to it all. The nursing process, ABC's, Maslows, infection/control and anything I've left out that deals with prioritizing is what this game is about. I know these things but did not know what some of the procedures or situations the stem was asking, but could use my nursing test taking skills and figure it out. I passed without being familiar with the question. I wonder if they make the test like that on purpose.

I wasn't prepared for that many pharm questions to tell you the truth. I had read through a zillion of NCLEX allnurses.com posts and many, many of them said they didn't have any pharm...or next to none so I thought, "Well, if there isn't going to be any on there, then I'm not going to waste precious time studying meds". See how well that worked out for me lol. I would look over drugs, but do it categorically. Recognize that Beta Blockers end in -olol and Ace in -pril...stuff like that. There is no way to remember all the inclusions in each category without driving yourself crazy, so don't lol. Recognize toxicities and drugs that can't be taken with certain foods etc. Also, antidotes. The major teaching points, really. If you can recognize what category a drug is in, then you will pretty well be able to remember major teaching points or adverse effects and get the question right. When you come across a drug you've never seen before...and you probably will....leaning on your grouping skills will help guide you in the right direction. Remember....I said I had a lot of meds, but many, many people on here didn't have any or only a few. Spending a day or less getting categories straight in your head won't be a bad idea, but memorizing every drug you can when you don't know flip about what infection protocol (contact, droplet, airborne) or prioritizing airway, breathing and circulation would be bad....very bad. Hit your weak spots and fall back on your hard work in school. Best wishes.

I wish I knew a great source for you but I don't. We used ATI in our program and there were a lot of SATAs on every test. However, I think maybe the best way to look at it is as if every SATA was really just several true/false questions rolled into one question. I would re-read the stem with each of the possible choices and ask myself if that was true before selecting any of them. Hope this helps.

I reside in KY, but live within 10 miles of the VA border. I went to nursing school in VA because it was closer to me than any KY school. I graduated May 10. On May 24, I got my ATT and scheduled my NCLEX for May 30. On May 31, my status on the KY BON website was updated to show that I had passed!!! I got my RN license # and was listed as an RN on the registry by June 3. I said all that to say your home state BON makes all the difference in how long it takes you to get your ATT. I graduated with 34 students from VA who still have not gotten their ATTs yet!!! God bless KY BON!

I felt the same, nursebre! I felt I had a fighting chance getting the math problems right and then only had one lol.

I felt just like the OP when that screen went blue after #75. I actually thought, "OMG...I've failed this so badly they have shut me down already". lol. Fall back to your basics of NCLEX style testing and rely on your education foundation. Plus, everyone's test is sooooo different. Just like the OP had few SATAs...I had tons. You just never know what your draw is going to be. Believing you worked really hard the last few years in nursing school is what kept me going during the test...of course, with lots of prayer.

I memorized all kinds of stuff for NCLEX and didn't use any of it! The NCLEX is written in such a way, I believe, that they put you in situations you don't know the answer to from memory, and they expect your to use critical thinking, the nursing process, Maslow and every other priority sequence you've learned to get yourself out of it. I'm a great fact checker and that was not what my 75 questions were about at all. Practice NCLEX-style questions and be sure to understand why you miss any question. I have to say that I don't think the bar for passing is very high. I'm saying that from my own experience because I felt as if I didn't know any of the answers, yet I passed. Use your strategies and read EVERY word carefully with lots of prayer and deep breathing to have the best possible outcome. There are probably thousands of questions in the NCLEX test bank and I only got 75 of them, so it would be bad practice to base your studying/reviewing on what anyone says was on their test. I actually read where one person said they didn't have any meds on their test. Mine was over 1/3 meds. See...the bank is just too big for that info to be reliable. Best wishes and keep us posted.

I don't really think there is anything a person can do other than work their tail feathers off in nursing school to get ready for the NCLEX. I crammed for 5 days and nights before NCLEX (That's all the time I had between getting my ATT and sitting for exam) and NOTHING I looked at in those days was on the test! Well, maybe one thing I saw helped me...that's about it. I had tons of SATA and meds. Some of the times I liked all the possible answers and other times I didn't like any lol. I do think if you are getting a lot of SATAs then you must be on the right road! Pray, keep telling yourself you worked very hard in nursing school and pray some more. That's how I got my RN license.