Learz13

well.. they said they were hiring less than 1% of more than 600 applicants so my GUESS was 6 positions, but i guess who knows for sure?

heyy, i also got a call from stanford ... i got mine on December 30th (the day after i passed my NCLEX!) the guy who called said they would be contacting me THIS week to let me know whether or not im chosen to move along in the interview process.... so i think the same probably goes for everyone. I wass probably at the end of the list of people they're calling, so i think we can all probably expect some kind of feedback soon. let me know if anyone finds out! i REALLY want this job ahhhhh ... as im sure you all do too :-) good luck!

try the pearson vue trick, worked for me. I think its pretty accurate.

yes, as long as you have a decent background education.... i got my BSN more than 7 months ago, and just spent 7 days total studying this passt week and passed.

ooohh thats a great idea, thanks for the input! luckily, i JUST got a call from Stanford University Hospital for a "pre-interview" so im excited to have finally gotten SOME sort of contact!

sorry one last thing, i dont think you're going to possibly get anything that has to do with theories of development such as erickson or piaget ... whatever, i didnt and i dont know anyone else who did, so i would skip that too. you dont need to know theory things such as stages of labor either, they won't ask you that, they might ask you something along about identifying symptoms of preeclampsia for example, but anything thats theory such as stages of labor or erickson will not be tested. When they ask you questions its pretty much ALWAYS going to be about what to do (intervention) if you see certain symptoms, what certain symptoms are indicitive of, "which of the following if ESSENTIAL to follow up on", or "which of the following prescriptions by the physician would need clarification", where would you place this patient, which patient would you give to the aide.. etc etc, you get the idea, its going to be about in the moment, on the floor stuff .....also it might help to know a FEW MAJOR drugs in each other category for the last one.... other than that, you should be golden.

i did not have one single question that had anything to do with any legal aspect/issue, so you might want to cut that out of studying, all you need to know is that only doctors can write prescriptions and orders.

stick with the date. you are going to pass, and the thing you need to concentrate on MORE than studying if releiving stress and anxiety so that you can take the test completely focused. you are going to pass, i understand how nerve wrecking it can be to be faced with a possible job loss if you fail, but you have to believe in your abilities! i dont think theres any way you are going to fail with the types of scores you've been getting, so stop worrying!

I graduated with my B.S.N. in may 2009 from the top nursing school in the nation, had above a 3.0 gpa and yet after applying to hospital after hospital, I cannot even get an interview. I've applied to about 20 new graduate programs all across the country and got rejected from every single one. I'm pretty much willing to go anywhere, so what am i doing wrong??! I would thing for a NEW GRADUATE r.n. position, i would be a great candidate and would at least get an interview, but no?!?! I've tried e-mailing and calling every place I apply, but either my e-mail doesnt ever get answered, or the person I talk to says the generic "we'll contact you if you are chosen for an interview" I feel pretty confident in myself that if I can get an interview, i should have no problem but i can't even get that :-( please, any advice on what i might be able to do in order to get an interview? I'm so frustrated :-( thanks!

trick worked for me, i passed

you are way MORE than ready to pass, do not put it off, all of those scores are definitely better than people usually get who pass. you just have to remember to relax! you would passs it today if you took it right now, so dont worry so much or you will psych yourself out. i studied a total of 7 days and took it 7 months after i graduated, and i just passed so you will be fine.

one more thing to add, the MOST important thing to remember is that the test is designed so that you will ONLY get about 50% right no matter how well or poorly you do. Which basically translates to, each question you see, you are going to be able to "probably" eliminate 2 answers that dont seem right, and then guess between the other 2 for the rest of the questions. there was only 1 single question on the entire exam that i felt i definitely knew the answer too, and according to everyone else i know that passed, they felt the same way. Everyone says there was only about 1-3 questions that they felt sure of, and the rest were guesses. Don't let this freak you out while you are taking the test! you are going to have to guess for almost all of the questions! what is important is being able to eliminate the wrong answers so that you increase your chance of guessing right.

thanks to everyone for the support! I took it yesterday and it shut off at 75 questions, and according to the pearson vue trick i passsed! I'm pretty confident that I passed so I'm ecstatic! thanks againn

I hope this can help everyone! i started this thread, but just passed my NCLEX with 75 questions! I was getting about 70% of questions right on the practice CD for Saunders, I actually only studied a total of 7 days for the NCLEX, and took it more than 7 months after I graduated, but still managed to pass. I recommend using Saunders, but starting by doing the test at the end of each chapter, if i got above 70%, i skipped the reviewing the chapter, but reviewed the rationales to both my wrong and right answers and then moved onto the next chaper, obviously if i got less than 70% i tried to quickly review that chapter, then test myself on that subject area using the CD to make sure I could at least hit 70% after my review. I did this for the whole book, but completely skipped the medication chapters because I knew i would get a few of the most important ones in the main chapter and through CD questions. This i did for several reasons: 1: i only had 3 days to hardcore study for the exam, 2: i knew there was no way i was really going to be able to memorize more than a few meds for each main subject area (i.e. GI, respiratory etc), 3: I knew I would get confused and overwhelmed by the amount of memorization and information in the medication chapters, which would cause me then to be more anxious and less able to focus .. 4: my best friends (my 4 best friends who all passed with 75 questions) said they DID study meds alot, but didnt think it helped at all because either the meds they got on the test were ones they didnt study, or the information needed for the med was much more than they had been able to memorize (i.e. contraindications or therapeutic levels) now that i passed, im obviously glad i didnt waste time on hardcore studying meds, because it would have taken me weeks to study them and actually know them and their characteristics well, also if i had studied the meds thoroughly, i dont think it would have helped me on the med questions i DID get, because the information needed was never as simple as knowing what the med was for, it was usually about contraindications and other specific details which I think would be impossible to memorize for more than a few main ones (i.e. minimum bp and hr levels before administering digoxin etc) I'm not suggesting that you dont review meds, but don't freak out if you find the info overwhelming and cant find yourself able to retain it, knowing each and every med is not essential to passing. Also, for a hint, the questions i got were never about obscure or rarely seen disorders or diseases (except for about 2 questions i can remember), but instead were always about very BASIC diseases that are seen very often, but the question itself and answers are hard, you really have to know them. So instead of trying to memorize every illness and disorder under the sun, i would really focus on the main ones in each chapter, but know them WELL, know each symptom, intervention, and contraindications especially. Lastly, review infection control and prioritization!!!!!!!! if you do nothing else, do that. know infection control policies inside and out, if they name an infectious disease, you better know what sort of infection control procedure to implement and what it consists of! annnd the prioritizations were MUCH harder than i could have expected, im STILL confused about what the right answer should have been for some of mine, it is not as easy as knowing ABC's and maslow's...... so review prioritization CAREFULLY. I hope that helps, if i could pass after graduating 7 months ago and studying for only 7 days, then you definitely can pass too! just stay focused and approach the exam like its a game, each question there is going to be some sort of hint or subtlety leading you to the right answer, you just have to use your knowledge to try to figure out what it is! good luck! i really hope this helps some people :-)

unfortunately, im all the way in new jersey! so i highly doubt i'll see you, but im glad that helped. you definitely shouldn't be worried about passing. good luck!