tinkerbell1455

I took my nclex pn on the 30 as well. I paid for quick results and i did pass. i was certain i had failed when the computer shut off at 85 questions i knew it was because i had done so terrible! Like you i had tons of conference questions and who do you check on first and pharm i had never heard of. It was awful! enough about that though. Everyone has there thing that works for them but unfortunately I have kids, a job and could not afford any review books or courses so i had to make the best of it. I did get the saunders book from school but that was it. I utilized the 35 pg. study guide that has been floating around and another guide from a poster on here about nclex and hesi. I read them everyday! But remember that most people only remember what they read for the first 20 minutes so take breaks. i probably only studied 20 minutes a day on the guides. I downloaded 2 free apps although they were for RN, kaplan trial and lipincott trial. I did questions on practicequiz and anywhere else i could find them. on the study guides i tried to look up things that i didnt know. a few hints that helped me tremndously 1. ABC's 2. MASLOW 3. VERY IMPORTANT-in nclex land always assume the WORST! example bright red blood=bad, unrelenting pain after surgery=bad ect. 4. I am certain you have heard this one plenty but do not read too much into the question or spend too long on one question. i thought about it like this-i can only read the q's and a's so many times but if i do not know it staring at it isn't going to help might as well make an educated guess an move on! 5. Do not second guess yourself! one more thing, I did not study for several hours a day as I did not have time and felt that i would get burnt out quickly. as i said i read study guides daily and whenever i had some free time I did questions, questions and more questions! i also made flash cards and added my own notes on the study guides b/c i printed them out so i could write on them.

You haven't returned to tell us your status! I must admit I was a skeptic because although I did not get sent to cc page I was still certain I had failed! I paid for quick results today and to my suprise I passed! I still do not think it will completely sink in until i see my name on the BON lol!

i posted the same thing yesterday! i took my nclex pn yesterday the computer cut off at 85 i had tons of sata and feel like i didn't know anything on the test! it was horrible. I am not sure what i was thinking taking it on a friday because now i have to wait until tuesday for quick results unless pearson magically posts them on a sunday! i did the pvt trick and got a pop that says the same "you have recently registered for this exam and another exam cannot be scheduled at this time" nothing about contacting the board! i tried it again this morning and got the same thing. i still feel like there is no way i passed!

Thank you for trying to make me feel better. I did hear from my BON and it wasn't good. I was a little to eager and should have done soem research before I sent in my application. At this point I am not sure I will ever be able to sit for my boards. Unfortunatly I have an expunged record that for the last 14 years has never been an issue. I was under the impression that a person did not have to disclose an expunged record and I never have before but when it comes to the board of nursing I was SO wrong. They had to dig deep to find it. I am supposed to provide documents from the incident but the court that expunged it doesn't even have the records. All I can get from them is a letter stating that there are no records available. Its weird though I didnt have to hire a lawyer to expunge my record it was part of the plea bargain I took as long as I paid my 50 dollar fine (yes I said 50 bucks) no court cost and unsupervised probation as long as I didnt get into any more trouble it would be gone. and it is.....or was until now.

Ok so I live in Tennessee. I just graduated recently and all my classmates except about 4 have recieved their ATT!?!?!?! I called the BON today and all they said was they have 4 weeks and if my app is missing anything or whatever they would send me a letter! So no info AT ALL! There are only a few spots left in the testing centers near me right now! I am a wreck. I feel like if I am looking at 4 weeks and then maybe another 4 to schedule my test I am going to forget everything I have learned. Not to mention I am having a panic attack nearly every day! I did my background check 2 months ago, my application, fee, transcripts and photo were all sent in at the same time as everyone else. So what is up? Why can't I get any info from BON? Do they purposely torture people?

I realize i am a little late for this discussion but I am having a similar problem! I too feel like I am in Jr. High again except the "mean girls" are in my class. When I say mean girls they are exactly like the girls from the movie. They know how to smooze the instructors but they fake smile at everyone and then talk behind peoples backs and when they do talk they do it with this air of superiority. Unfortunately I live in a small town so what makes even worse is I recently found out that my stepmother actually wrote one of the "mean girls" a letter of reccomendation! I couldn't believe it. But then again my stepmom was the charge nurse were she worked so I am sure that she smoozed her but still if you knew my stepmom she should have been able to see through her, but I digress she did not. And then we have the "interrupter" who always has a story to tell some relative who has had every illness i think we have ever talked about always an anecdote to tell, its ALWAYS something. The instructors try and make her stop but I think they want to be liked which is crazy. They aren't there to make friends with their students they are there to teach because of this class gets held up and by the end of the trimester we rush because we are behind and then people end up failing because they need as much time as they can get as it is a fast paced program! Sorry don't mean to rant but I still have 6 months of this nonsense and it is getting harder and harder to deal with it. Why are so many lpn students like this?