tmarti09

No but I applied in April so I think there's some more waiting for me. When did you apply?

When did you find out ?

I applied for Dallas, but just on 4/12. I am waiting it out now. I am relocating and am currently in a program and would be devastated if I cannot continue. Has anyone else heard anything?

Don't be in awe... I just graduated from a BSN program in May... and same with me just about my whole class has jobs! like 96%.... and were working all over... NYC (NYU Critical Care, Oncology, Med Surg, Presby OB, Montefiore Peds Onco) Jersey (in a whole plethora of places), CT (Stamford, Yale, etc), Washington DC (Georgetown (Speciality Surgery, Peds Transplant Unit Children's NICU), CA UCLA (SICU) Philadelphia (Hosp of Univ of PA on OB/LD CHOP PICU)... the list goes on... none of us settled were working in some of the best hospitals across the country in some of the most exciting places to live across the country and were all on specialty units!

Is it me or did you forget that you have to pass the NCLEX-PN to practice as an LPN... and I have no clue why you are delaying the process for that long! It seems absurd!

i took the nclex on the 25th... and i felt the exact same way! number one omg! it just shut off at 75 questions and then later in the day and by later i mean like 30 minutes... i guessed on a lot of those... i can't even believe i did not know one medication on the whole exam! did i really have to get sata because i always get those wrong on kaplan... and holy **** prioritization and delegation questions cannot be above passing standard aren't they just straight knowledge! i began to freak out! i had heard my clinical partner of three years speak of this trick... so i thought what the hell i have nothing to lose. i got the good pop up and then thought to myself... omg! i am going to be the first person to prove this wrong... well needless to say having guessed a lot, i found out i passed... i am not going to refer this to everyone i know because i see it works! so relax even though it feels like the worse test ever... you still passed!

Well at least in my area associate programs are known to have a higher success rate... most of them boast a 100 percent pass rate year after year.

Ive heard the top three states looking for nurses are TX Ohio and Alabama. But its not impossible to get a job. I recently got my dream job in NYC where everyone wants to work. and I landed the job before I even graduated!

I just graduated in May and passed my board ... but I was offered a job and begin orientation on August 2nd. My orientation is full time with my base pay... and I received the schedule for it before I even passed my boards.

if this is your only weakness; then honestly i wouldnt break my head over it. I never learned it and I passed the test. I honestly believe if this is the only thing you do not know you will pass.

So; I just wanted to write back on this post because I personally went insane for fourty eight hours... thank god I have the option to get quick results. I took the test on Friday June 25th and didn't sleep or want to eat anything... even with the PVT I was a little skeptical. However, I received the good pop up and I found out yesterday 24 hours later I passed. I Know I read this... but now I think you can believe it works. I wouldn't fret stressing I 100 hundred percent will be totally SHOCKED if you didnt PASS after seeing it work for myself!

I passed : ) did you?

I have not heard that quick results has to do with anything. Many people from CA due to the amount of time they torture you guys which I believe is cruel and unusual punishment... have stated that they utilized the PVT and it has held to be accurate... Many of them accredit it to the only way they dealt with the six weeks of waiting.

Throughout my college career everyone told me don't worry about your GPA. Your a nursing major your going to have a job thankfully however I didn't listen I busted my hump to get a 3.5 because below that wasn't good enough to me. I graduated a little more than month ago I can't even believe that and just passed by board two days ago. Besides having a BSN and a pretty good GPA I can tell you one trick that helped me land four interviews; and two jobs. It was nice being able to decide between two jobs in this economy and to be able to not settle for the regular adult med surg floor. I will be beginning my career on a Pediatric Oncology Floor in a hospital ranked top 30 in the country for pediatric medicine. Electronic apps make it TOO EASY for everyone to apply for jobs. This may be the reason hospitals report recieving up to 800 applications a day for RN positions alone! So imagine the nurse recruiters -- do you think they have time to read 800 applications. According to the many nurse recruiters I have talked to they do not! Therefore the applications they do look at are those who have followed up with them. Why does this seem to set people apart from the crowd because I'd like you to try to find contact information for different nurse recruiters on different hospital websites... it is not readily available at all. You have to spend many hours searching the website or have lucked out enough to have spoken with them at a fair and recieved their business card. Each application I submitted I followed up with by email if they didn't answer me in a timely fashion I was relentless until they finally emailed me back annoyed or not I had gotten them to take a look at what I had to offer the nursing world. The job I ultimately landed went a little something like this. I totally disregarded the experience requirements and applied for a Pediatric Nurse position... I emailed one nurse recruiter with resume attached who led me to another who told me that I obviously couldn't possibly be offered the job as a nurse right now because it was Jan and I wasn't graduating until May but she told me email me back in April and we can set up an interview. I emailed her back the last week of March telling her I could be in the area such and such days in April... and landed my interview. I did a mock interview bought a skirt suit (studies show that woman are more likely to be hired by both men and women when in a skirt or a dress) and practiced everyday in the mirror. The first question I received from the Nur Rec who interviewed me was how I had landed the interview without having graduated... and thats when i knew it was my emails that has done it. I followed the same protocol for every position thereafter. I applied to four jobs; got the offer to interview for four jobs. Interviewed for three jobs. Got offers for two. And canceled the fourth interview after I had recieved my dream job. Its possible but you have to set yourself apart from the crowd! Just passed my boards... Peds Onco RN coming soon!

I have heard many different things when asking nursing professors why they believe this is so. Two that I believe are huge are number one the people who have already failed are even more nervous than the people who are taking it for the first time and number two you are starting to forget the content and critical thinking skills you were utilzing during clinical and nursing school. First time test takers: 88% pass Second time test takers: only about half Third time test takers: is only about one quarter 25% Honestly; having come from a BSN program which are known to have lower pass rates than associate degree programs (some people believe based on the way they teach the Bachelors Programs and others believe because the content is spread over a longer period of time). I couldn't remember anything from med surg... by the time I had graduated it had been one full year since I had anything med surg related... and since then I had gone through OB Peds Community Health in PERU and then home health... if you think I could remember one thing you must have been kidding yourself. I took Kaplan and while I did TONS of questions; I truly believe the reason I passed wasn't their strategies or practice questions but the review of content. It opened my eyes to what holes had appeared in my knowledge base over the time since I had been tested on it and made me start to fill those holes back in. In addition their was apparently a TON of STUFF on the NCLEX that I had never even learned in nursing school EVER... I told my mom that I thought I was ripped off 53,000 dollars a year and still I didn't learn everything. So I completely learned that knowledge for the first time. Most of the questions I answered on the NCLEX were stuff that I had relearned or learned for the first time. Prioritization however you have to learn the method to the madness who would you see first etc. In the end I watched all of the content review and made sure I knew everything in it and did about 2500 questions over about 5 weeks... but it was totally worth it because I PASSED and found out today!