Yoshimitsu

"Let me borrow your stethoscope" the doc says. I let him have it!

i was looking on nslij website for a position and it says registered nurse - (GC MN) i have no clue what gc or mn means. any ideas? geriatric care??? but then what would mn mean?

and thanks to everyone that told me congrats :)

you'll be fine! study hard and pass

the pearsonvue trick is rarely wrong.. but this is not the end for you, 45 days you'll take it again. and you'll pass. do not give up on your dream this is only a minor set back and 10 years from now you will be a nurse making loads of money with a family and this minor set back wont even matter. you will be so successful in life! i know you are down but you will make it. study hard and kill the exam the next time around. if you need help inbox me.

i dont know about the LPN/LVN but i took it 2 days ago and it worked 2 minutes after i took the RN i passed i confirmed with paying 8 bucks for unofficial results today. but listen, as proud i am of you for passing the LPN/LVN, you better not give up! you better study your butt off and pass that RN soon! im gonna check up on you lol

our school used ATI, my ATI predictor said that i had a 93% chance of passing the nclex before i even opened a book to study (the rest of my class didnt fair so well). When i did kaplan qbanks i was scoring mid 60's from the start. throughout school i always focused on knowing why rather than memorizing symptoms. a great example is - cushings: causes hypernatremia and hypokalemia, but if you dont understand why it causes that then you dont have an understanding of cushings you are just memorizing facts. Hurst lectures focus on learning about why and it really solidified my understanding of the processes behind diseases. As for pharm i was always good with pharm. study to understand rather than cram for facts and things will just click and make sense. and dont second guess yourself on questions. if something doesnt make sense, dont select it! your brain didnt forget what you learned in school its all in there, and when you are trying to pull from the depths of your knowledge dont second guess yourself. trust you confidently know the information.

ok but when you first log into pearson vue does it say "delivery successful"? it should have some red text somewhere on the screen saying like "your results are not available at this time"

i was discriminated against in OB but that was it. and it wasnt even by the woman it was by her husband.. (cultural reasons i totally respected it) oh actually i just read the previous post blahblah24 wrote and i was discriminated against in the NICU as well and the doctor wanted me to do some test and it was reallly urgent or something i dont even remember what it was because it was 4 yrs ago but i went and i told the parents it was time for the test and they were completely ok with it but because the mother and the baby were bonding the nurse in the NICU flipped out on me saying i dont know what its like to be a mother and how i'll never understand and they cant understand why my university sends male students to OB.. the doctor came in and flipped out on the nurse it was terrible then i had to stay after clinical and do like a debrief with my professor to see if i was ok and all types of crap and i didnt even have a good rotation because all the nurses treated me like ****.

thanks :)

so i posted on the forum a couple of days ago with my scores and i was pretty nervous but i went and took it test cut off at 75 questions, did the Pearsonvue trick got the good pop up, checked my quick results today and i passed. passed on the first time, so how did i do it? i got my hands on the hurst review lectures, and i listened to 2 of them everyday from december (my graduation) till about february 20th. if you know somebody that has access to hurst review they can send you the lectures or you can record them using software on your computer while they play and circulate them through your school (its illegal but do what you must to pass). I bought the kaplan qbank - ONLY THE QBANK NOTHING ELSE - for 299 and i did 50 questions a day and really focused on reading the rationales. If i got questions right i wanted to know why i got it right and if i got them wrong i made a list of things and i researched it for the rest of the day to learn about it. also i always did the exams timed. the reason you SHOULD NOT do the tests with the rationales available at anytime because in the actual nclex you wont have rationales available mid test. also the rationales you read mid test will skew your scores higher and give you false reassurance about your grades. I was starting with about 60% and toward the end i was getting around 70-78% (unused questions only i never went back and redid questions) Around 1 week before my test i did question trainers which i found online and downloaded/converted to word document format. i would circulate it to you all but its illegal, i know they have websites that you can view them in pdf format but you cant download them. trust me on this - after a week of searching on google for hours there is a website where you can download every single question trainer!! my QT scores were as follows Question Trainer 1 - 76% Question trainer 2 - 70% Question trainer 3 - 63% Question Trainer 7 - 62% I DID NOT DO EVERY QUESTION TRAINER, its not even necessary to be honest. i didnt do any readiness exams or any of that. if u listened to the hurst lectures everyday, that is your content and you will be fine. So how did my nclex go? 30 SATA 10 Reorder questions 3 Med calc 6 Ehibit 0 Hotspot 0 Listen 1 Cardiac Rythym question the rest were multiple choice EVERYTHING THAT I STUDIED WAS NOT ON THE EXAM!!!! SO STOP MEMORIZING CONTENT!! i had a lot of professionalism questions like evidence based practice and malpractice.. which shocked the hell out of me. cuz i didnt study it. but i passed. you will pass. i left that room thinking i failed because honest to god the questions were so hard i didnt know *** they were asking me but i passed. gonna sound corny but visualize you telling everyone you passed, put it out to the universe that you will be a nurse, and you will post here and pass. if you see question 76, you are still in the game keep your wits about you.

the free ones edit: i bought the qbank though for the q trainers i took them timed 1 minute a question, and i didnt look at the rationales while i was taking it so i didnt give myself any information i wouldnt have known without reading it. and i also graded myself in 75 question intervals, i was pretty much in the range of 62-75 the whole time.

just did 7 and got a 62%, im debating whether i should not do 6 simply because of how burned out i am... its 10:45 so i would have to do it tomorrow and thats 1 day before my exam and everyone tells me dont study 1 day before.

im taking it on thursday.. if you got the good pop up that means you passed, right?

I've been studying for a while now.. Qbank - Total % correct 63% (been averaging 62 - 68 with some 70s on timed tests) on 86% of the questions done. QTrainer test 1 - 76% Test 2 - 70% Test 3 - 63% do i have to do all of them? my test is on thursday the 21st and to be honest im swamped, i feel burned out ive been studying everyday using hurst lectures, old flash cards, and kaplan questions and i feel like i cant wait for friday. i hear QT 6 and 7 are most like nclex, should i just do those?