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1. How many questions did you take on NCLEX? 85 2. What study materials did you use? Did you take a test review course? NCLEX EXAMCRAM PN 3. Did your SON offer any testing (ERI, ATI, HESI)? no 4. How long did you wait for results of the test, or are you still waiting? Took it Monday. After one day was on LLR, Received liscence in the mail today (Wed) 5. What were your thoughts coming out of the test (total disbelief, certainty you had failed, confident you had passed)? Thought I failed. 6. Was this your first attempt at NCLEX? Yes

Hello. I hope that someone has an answer to this question. I took the boards today and feel very anxious myself. The time can't go by fast enough.

Congratulations. I am really happy for you. Good luck in your career as a nurse!!!!

As a nurse, I will probably start out making a little less than the job I left to pursue this career. However, the potential to make more money is there. I was close to my cap in my last position. So, yes, the money is probably one of the reasons. Not the main reason. The main reason has been said before. When you leave work (even if it is late) you are done for the day. I have many times in my old job brought work home after working late. And when you are sick or take a vacation the work continues to pile up while you are gone. This makes it not worth taking a vacation at all. As a nurse, your patients have to be attended to while you are out and documentation has to be done at the time of care. No worry of coming back to unfinished jobs. I really just want more time for my family and more flexibility while at the same time helping people. By the way, I helped people at my old job too. Nursing just seems more well rounded for me.

Hello everyone. This is my first post, but I am really trying to get some advice on something. I am a nursing student and am doing well in school. I really enjoy my clinicals and love taking care of my patients. I do not even mind giving them bed bath or changing dirty depends. I feel like I provide the best care that I possible can at this level of my nursing school career. I recently took a job in the ER as a tech at a local hospital. I thought I would gain a lot of experience. I do not like it!!!! This really scares me because I have put so much time and money into school. I feel as if the nurses there think I am an idiot. I am new to medicine and there is a lot I do not know about medicine, but I am not an idiot. Maybe it is my confidence level because it is something new. I feel like in the ER I do not get to build a rapport with the staff or the patients. I am a warm, compassionate person who is all about relationships. I often ask myself if it is nursing I am hating or if it is the ER. Maybe I am just not cut out to work in the ER or is it that I am too sensitive to be a nurse. I cry at the thought of having to go back into the ER. Please Help!!!!! All advice welcome. Thanks