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I would like to know what each state makes broken down by specialty.. For example, Florida average ER salary compared to NY. This will help people know what to expect or negotiate for future jobs.

Has anyone experienced travel nursing in Hawaii? What specialty? Can you share your experience? Love or hate it? What agency did you work with? Pros/Cons of travel? Would you refer someone to do it? I'm just trying to get a feel of the experience. I need to make a decision soon to pursue it. Thanks for sharing!

Well 2 meetings for them have passed and still nothing.. Yes, I look at the PVL website everyday. Thanks for replying back, hopefully soon it will show up.

I think we're in the same boat.. Any results yet? I called and they said they were still processing it but haven't cashed the check yet.. Keep me updated with your situation.. Btw, I sent mine in a week before thanksgiving 2015.. And still nothing

Where can you find out that information on their next meeting? I've looked on their website and can't find that page anywhere. Can you post a link? thank you!

I too just took the exam this passed tuesday the 21st and found out i failed the 2nd time. the first time was 76, this second time was 265. Looks like im going to have to reevaluate my review and approach it a different way. I used Kaplan, NCSBN, PDA, and Saunders. In Kaplan and NCSBN they say that 65% would be at passing level for nclex, but im thinking to myself that is not enough. I really need to set the standard high for taking practice exams. You've taking this exam 3x's now and maybe you probably need to reevaluate yourself to see where your strengths and weakness are. Try picking up Saunders CD and do a diagnostic exam on yourself. Kaplan and NCSBN has diagnostic exams themselves. If your short on money try going to the local library they have Kaplan books you can check out. Like i said, set your standards high for your review, just continue doing questions after questions till you know why you chose those answers and most of all build confidence in yourself. Also it would help if you turned off all the distractions in your life ie social media and other things that distract you. Most of all set up a calendar and plan each day in doing something related to nclex. Plan out short term goals. If you need to review a body system one by one then do it. Pick up the Saunders book and start from page one and after completing a chapter do the questions from the cd. Studying for nclex isn't a sprint, it's a marathon and as you complete chapter after chapter then you will be one step closer to the ultimate goal. Confidence is key, so scheduled the exam as soon as you have confidence in yourself. In nursing school they said 75% is passing, set that bar to 80% instead. Good luck to us! If you need more resources just message me. WE can get though this! Take care!

Thanks for your advice and encouragement. I too deactivated fb and laid out a calendar for a full month. I was doing the Kaplans 7 exams as part of my last 3 weeks of preparation. I broke them apart into doing 75q's every other day. I was doing it every other day so that I can be able to have a clear mind going into reviewing and go back to see what i missed. I also made it important to not review 3 days before the exam. I didn't look at one single piece of material. I just thought everything was already inside of me and it will show up on exam day. It's been 3 days now and I've been dwelling on what can I do differently to review because all I did was questions after questions.. I can honestly say that I know more now than I did when I first started reviewing. And I agree with you that I may have been really close to passing and hopefully have better luck the next time around. I too graduated from Pinas from the Pangasinan region in 2012. What school and location did you go to? After graduating I enrolled in a Dialysis Nurse training in a clinic located in the hospital where I did my clinical rotation. Luckily they are affiliated with Davita here in the states and was the reason why I got a job right away as soon as I got back from Pinas. My plan was to work, wait for cgfns approval, the att, and at the same time review. Then as soon as I pass the rn exam, I could lateral over to the rn position if there was an opening. It was a good plan at the time until i realize, I can't work 12-16 hr shifts cause I was just too exhausted to review. So I ended up quitting after a year of experience as a dialysis. tech. I figured if i was going to sacrifice my health and body for 12-16hrs a day, why not put that effort on passing the exam. My best advice is to keep doing what your doing. My Kaplan scores never passed 68%. And most of all give yourself breaks because you don't want to be mentally drained on the day of the exam. What state are you testing for? Your exam is coming up soon! Good luck to you and update me on the results =) God Bless

Not good to cram the night before. I took 3 days off without looking at anything. The week of the exam I went to the gym, walked every morning, and ate foods that are good for the brain(Google it). I have a calendar that I set up to be doing something everyday. Having those last 3 days off helped because it just cleared up my mind and mentally prepared myself to expect the worst. I pretty much kept myself busy like clean my room, do some yard work that I've been putting off for a long time, and even cleaned the bathroom. I knew if I did all those chores I could just relax after the exam. I suggest setting up a calendar and plan your days and most of all give yourself breaks, especially a couple days off before the exam. Yeah you're right.. I prayed everyday up to the day of the exam to hope to get questions I'm familiar with. I actually saw at least 5 questions from Kaplan word for word. I think my weakness is still content. There's just so much information to absorb it's easy to forget one section because you try to focus on a weak section that I lack. I think because I've been out for a year I need to be in a live class with a lecture and pick up new strategies to relearn a subject or sharpen an area where I excel in. I did both Kaplan and NCSBN and I think Kaplan had harder questions, but that's just me. As for NCSBN I did pharm first bcz that's my biggest weakness. I recommend you pick up the Priority, Delegation, Assignments book by LaCharity it's really good. I kinda had the same reviewing habits but I would do q's in the morning and read Saunders at night to fall asleep. I liked NCSBN technique to give you 10q's at a time. It's much more of a relaxed approach instead of doing 100 q's and get overwhelmed and too exhausted to look over the rational. With doing 10 at a time your mind is still fresh and able to realize why you got something wrong and look it up. I actually tried that technique on the exam and focused on every 10q to 75. After every 10q, I would take a couple of deep breaths with my eyes closed to refocus my mind. This is the most exhausting exam ever, I feel so mentally and emotionally drained. I'm currently listening to Tony Robbins, Les Brown, and Dr Wayne Dyer for motivation. It's helpful for times when you just want to give up but when I look at my friends who already passed I keep saying to myself, we are no different, if you can do it, so can I. And yes I agree with what you're saying about the foreigners with English as a second language, I have so much respect for them.

Hi thanks for your comment. A little background about myself, I graduated December 2012, took a year off to take care of some financial obligations I had so that's why I did so many different reviewers. I started reviewing last September 2014 and got my ATT in February. I felt I needed to get back into the loop of things and needed to cover all bases. But yes I agree with you 1 or 2 materials is good enough. You're probably right about being so close to passing and is why I'm not going to give up. I looked up Hurst and they are having a live review in my area so I probably will attend that which starts on the last week of May. Since we have to wait the 45 days to retest, I think it's perfect timing. So maybe I want to shoot for a date late July or early August. When do you plan on taking it again? Best of luck to you, I'm sure we'll get it this next time around..í ½í¸€

Took the exam this past Tuesday the 21st went all the way to 265 and found out this morning by paying the quick results on Pearson Vue I Failed. I came into the exam feeling a little confident because I reviewed with PDA book, SATA book, Saunders 5th edition along with the 4000+ cd, Kaplan qbank and NCSBN 8 week course. On the 7 exam tests from Kaplan I scored between 61-69% and with NCSBN is was scoring under 75% range. I think Kaplans level of questions were more difficult than NCSBN. So on the exam I want to debunk everyone's story about answering the last question correctly to put it out there and tell you, regardless if you do know or do not know the last question doesn't mean you will pass or fail. I knew the last question on the exam 100% and I still failed. As far as the level of degree of the question I wouldn't know about that but what I can tell you it was a teaching question or patient education whatever you want to call it. I had at least 21 SATA, tons of priority and delegation, 4 ekgs pictures, 2 drag and drop, 2 pictures, and lots of "follow up" questions, and no math calculations. While reviewing with Kaplan and NCSBN there were NO "follow up" questions you can prepare for. The words "follow up" can be expressed in 3 different ways which can be confusing when your brain is numb by the 170th question. The "follow up" can be used without telling you a question from nclex would be most of all in Priority. For example, for nurse received 4 messages, which would you follow up? Another would be patient made a statement, which would you follow up? A doctor prescribed 4 meds with lab values, which would you follow up? And so on.. I can tell you I took my sweet time for the first 75, I probably took about 1.5hrs and the exam just kept going and going. Finally about 125 into it, I realized I think I may be going all the way and prepared myself mentally to endure the pain. By 160 I had about 1.5 hours left and thought to myself I need to finish so I just answered questions at a faster pace. In my mind while taking the exam I noticed I was getting bold words like "first, immediately, most, priority" and was thinking these must be high level questions which could be true or not. So during the exam if I saw bold letters I would take more time and answering the question. I've also noticed if I got 2-3 bold questions a "follow up" question would come up. And that's what the whole test was about. So, in a nutshell that was my experience. I don't know what to think or how to start reviewing again. I did make a list to myself about everything I seen on the exam and will probably review that material. All I can say is that this exam is pure critical thinking, they will give you the signs and symptoms of a disease and you have to identify what it is. Or looking at lab values which are all equally off the wall and you need to identify the most critical lab value to address first. I might just take 2 weeks off and come back to reviewing again. If anyone has any advice I could do differently this next time around would be appreciated. I might consider doing Hurst this time around because it's the only reviewer I haven't used yet. Other than that your input is important to me. Thanks for taking time to read this all if you made it this far.

I subscribed. It's great! If you are a current nursing student then this will help you with each topic in detail. He try's to explain it in a way where you can understand the subject. You can pair it up with a book, but when the book starts sounding like blah blah blah you can refer to his video to grasp the material. For the students reviewing for NCLEX, if you have taken a diagnostic exam to identify your weak areas well this program can help you by relearning the subject completely. It's hard to retain all the materials we learned in school but his videos do help. They are short to the point 5-10min videos just like the free ones on youtube. He said that 20% of the videos are on youtube and the rest in on the site if you were wondering. I myself is studying for the nclex and had already taken Kaplan, the videos do not compare. Kaplan's videos are just reading bullet points on power point with very few examples if at all. I'm not putting Kaplan down, I think there questions were helpful as far as the exam goes. But for content, simplenursing.com is for the struggling students. For those that say, some of his material isn't perfect and he has spelling errors or he's not a nurse, well i say to you, who is perfect? Like I said, pair up the videos with your book, and I think i seen a post somewhere that he recently did pass the board exam. For what its worth, if it helps you get though school or helped you retain information that you couldn't grasp by reading, or improved your quiz/test scores, or helped you pass nclex, then it was worth the investment. Good luck and God Bless

My wife graduated from the Philippines as a Midwife. My question is, can she be able to challenge the CA LVN exam? Has anyone encountered this experience? If anyone has any information about this pls let me know. Thank you to all that reply!

@johnybhoi24 go to Replace a Lost, Stolen, or Damaged Passport or a Passport that Expired over 5 Years Ago | Embassy of the United States Manila, Philippines and file with them that you lost your passport.. that is proof that you did lose it. fill out those required forms and a statement then send it to CaBon. then update us of what CaBon says.. thanks!

i"m aware of the rn.ca.gov initial requirements, i'm inquiring about their reply letter. does anyone have a most recent 'list of requirements' to send to them from the school? thanks!

Does anyone have a recent "list of requirements" letter from CaBON to take NCLEX that can post it up here? I am very aware of the concurrent issues but can anyone kindly post up the list of requirements needed to submit to them? Thanks!