TroyM

Hi all, I am an ICU nurse (ADN) of just over two years experience. Prior to getting my RN, I was a care partner (nurse tech) at Vanderbilt for four years. I worked full time to achieve my goal as an RN. Now, feeling a little burned out at the bedsid...

Thanks for the responses. I'm currently looking into some RN to BSN schools. Some schools out there are requiring a lot of fluff classes (Lit, history, etc). Trying to find something that won't require a ton of those classes

I just wanted to tell my story and to give hope to others! I graduated in December '14 and I was a B/C student throughout nursing school. So if I can pass these boards, you can too! First attempt (2/7/15), I focused a lot on Hurst and knowing content...

Congrats again!!! Told ya you could do it!! Winna winna, chicken dinna!

Thank you everyone. I'm overly excited to begin my nursing career!

I did get meds. Some I had no clue about...I just went with clues that were in the steam and based my answer off of that. I felt the second time was much easier for me. Because I have been to the testing center before, I know how it all works with th...

Other than Hurst for material and of course the 6 exams Hurst provides...I only used Kaplan and LaCharity. I haven't touched any of my texts since school. But I did bring out some cardiac rhythm slides to refresh. The first go around I had a good th...

I pretty much started studying from the week after Feb 7th until the 25th of March. I told Hurst I wanted the remediation, but they were all about material. I couldn't even redo their practice tests...so I only looked at Hurst just to clarify rationa...

Congrats on passing! I retake mine on Wednesday. First time around, I felt like the anxiety got the best of me. I was pissed off throughout majority of the 256 questions I received, shaking my head in disbelief because I didn't know a single question...

Congrats! I take my 2nd attempt on Wednesday. My first time around I used Hurst and very little of Kaplan and ended at 265. I focused on a lot of material and whatever questions Hurst gives you. I'm really anxious about retaking!! Though no one is ev...

Congrats! I retake the second time on the 25th. I went through all 265 with every category "near the passing standard". So it's kind hard to know what to focus on, apparently everything haha. I have access to Kaplan, Hurst, LaCharity and Saunders. I...

Congrats on passing! I'll have to check the instructions again when I retake. Thanks for all the info. Do do you feel that doing tons and tons of questions prepared you more than material? When I took mine the first time, I seemed to put a lot of ti...

I would like to try the board routine when I retake...but I've heard stories on how we're not supposed to do that. Hmm...

Hi all. just wanted to vent and tell my story. Graduated in Dec '14 with a failed attempt of 265 on Feb. 7th. I studied the material from Hurst and did practice questions from Kaplan and Hurst. I was definitely anxious walking into the test and conti...

Thanks for all the replies everyone! I feel like I'm going a bit slow on questions. I did a good 40 Qs on Kaplan and another 50 with LaCharity. Guess it just takes me forever to read each rationale (even if I get the question correct). Does it sound...

I'm probably one of the very few that did not count haha. I thought I had quite a few before question 75 though. A classmate of mine just passed NCLEX at 75 with no more than 10 sata questions. Ah...wouldn't that be nice

I have. I found a download and have been using it everyday. At least 3-4 sections per day. Seems pretty helpful so far. I've been mostly sticking with LaCharity and Kaplan QBanks. Kaplan seems to just frustrate me more and more. I do about 10-20 QBan...

How have you been studying this time around? I've been hitting a lot more questions than material, but I'm beginning to feel as if I am forgetting material though since I haven't looked at it. Haha. My mind is going at top speed at the moment.

Just finished my NCLEX with all 265. I did the Hurst and several several Kaplans. I'm in shock I had to take the max. Tried the PVT and now I'm $200 shorter. I can't go through all this studying again...

Hey all! I'm currently in my 3rd semester for my ADN, as I finish in December. This semester has already been one of the most exhausting ones yet. I work as a tech - 12 hour shifts (majority being Fri-Sun) on a modified schedule (3 - 12 hour shifts o...

Midwife, I'll see ya there! Got my acceptance letter as well!

Midwife, I called a spoke with someone with the nursing dept, they wouldn't tell me if I got in or not. The letters will be going out either tonight or tomorrow morning, just in time for the weekend.

Midwife-I called yesterday as well, haha. I was just told the same thing, first week of November. She said no one has been accepted yet since "Ms. whomever" is still going over the candidates. Seems like you're golden, but since I'm not currently enr...

I have no idea! Everytime I keep thinking about it, I sike myself out about how I'm not gonna get in. My low score friend as I mentioned above didn't take a single class at Aquinas prior to acceptance. A grad from Aquinas that I work with says the lo...

I've been calling Aquinas about once a week, bugging the living day lights out of them. I was told by Ian, in admissions that they won't know until we do on who got accepted. I have a feeling he's telling me that to get off his back a little, but you...