EteRNalTranquility

I tested in early February, exactly two months to the day after my graduation date. I took the Hurst review two days after graduation. I did five of the six Q-Review exams... That's it. Really. I didn't study anything else/do any other questions. I googled things that I didn't completely understand. I had faith that my nursing school prepared me with the content. Hurst more so helped me to put it all together and learn how to apply the concrete nursing knowledge to dynamic situations/I love how it condensed so much information in an easy to remember way. I passed with 75 questions in an hour and a half.

I knew I was going to go for ADN first because it was less time in school and the pay wasn't drastically less than an RN-BSN. The school I attended has relatively good NCLEX pass rates (I did pass on the first try), their nurses get hired quickly (my class graduated in December and several are already employed; I was hired just last week) and it's only about ten minutes from my house, so I could still live at home. Also, the BSN program in my local university (different school from where I attended) has a dismal reputation and their NCLEX scores are in the toilet.

Well, you can try, take the remaining exams, and still have a chance to make it out of the course... Or you can give up and fail for sure. You owe it to yourself to do everything you can with whatever time you have left.

Don't knock working in a LTC facility just yet. There are some nurses who truly do love that work and you truly never know how you'll feel about a certain area of nursing until you experience it.