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thank you!!!

There are three main hospitals in GR. Depends where you are looking to work and with what population?

How is the program? How long is the program? Any clinicals? Im worried about taking classes online? Is it really difficult?

I wrote a thing all about my NCLEX journey in a different post. https://allnurses.com/nclex-discussion-forum/my-nclex-rn-1166609.html Check it out.

Hey guys. Just wanted to tell you guys my story and how I passed the NCLEX. More for my personal use but maybe someone else can benefit from this as well. I liked reading about other's so here is mine. Background: I've been an LPN for about 4 years. Graduated the RN program in end of April 2018. Got ATT in beginning of May. Test date: Scheduled my NCLEX for June 19th, 2018 but ended up rescheduling for Saturday, June 23rd at 2pm. I prayed for a sign from God to tell me if I was ready or not. Two days before the 19th, I started to get bad anxiety and something told me that i was not ready. I took that as a sign. The next morning, I rescheduled for the 23rd. How I studied: only thing I used was UWorld. I had the Hurst live review during school and there was some content they wanted us to review on our own. I did some of it but never finished. One of my classmates bought UWorld and we shared that. I didnt get to do the assessment part of it bc if that but on the 75 question tests I created, I was scoring 50 to about 64% on each one. I tried to do 75 questions a day, about one month before NCLEX day but about 1.5 weeks before, I started to do 75 question twice a day. Towards the end, I started to carefully read the rationales. When I would answer each question, I would make my own rationale on why I picked that answer. Also I bought the pretest and posttest of NCLEX RN Mastery. It was $20 for both. I took the pretest a few days before my exam day. I got 71% chance of passing. The postest I took a day before the NCLEX and I got 82% chance of passing. Exam day: my exam was scheduled for 2pm (I am no way a morning person). It was downtown so I was concern about traffic and parking. I wore nursing scrub pants and a fitted t-shirt. Did my makeup really nice (I wanted to feel good about myself). I ate a yogurt and drank some water...thats all I had bc I did not want to feel nauseous from the anxiety. I left my house about 1245pm and headed downtown. During the drive, I took deep breathes, thought positive thoughts, prayed for guidance, listened to music and just tried to have good vibes all around. I parked my car at my former college and walked from there to the center. Before I got into the testing office, I went to the bathroom and told myself wow this is it. I went into the office and the lady greeted me and asked me what test I was taking. She gave me a set of rules to read. After I read the rules, she asked me for my ID and to spell my name. Then she asked me to scan my palm and she took my picture. She then asked if I had a cell phone and told me to turn it off and put it in a sealable bag provided. All of my keys and belongings went into a locker that was provided. I took only my ID and my locker key with me. She told me to sit at the chairs in the hallway until someone called for me. I estimate that I started go take my exam around 1:35pm. If you arrive early, they will take you in early. I sat down on the chairs and took more deep breathes. The other lady came over and took me back to the monitoring area. I scanned my palm again and told them what exam i was taking. She reminded me of the rules and gave me a dry erase board and marker. She walked me to the computer and signed in. Then I sat down and it was time to get started. Exam itself: theres a section thats just the tutorial. It is a part of your timed exam. Then NCLEX itself is just scary. Not one question made complete sense to me. Only three questions that I could think of I was like yep ok I know this. The rest of them, I have no idea...nothing like what I studied in school or on UWorld. I got a lot of prioritizing and delegating, 2 put these in order, disease and medications that ive never heard of, some OB and peds. I got to 75 questions and the exam shut off. Took me an hour and 16 minutes. There were some question that do not court towards your exam but NCLEX wanted you to answer. Then a survey as well. After that, I raised my hand and another lady came to get me. She collected my things. We walked back to the monitoring area and she scanned my palm again. Then I was allow to leave that area. I got my things out of my locker and the other lady opened up the sealable bag so i could obtain my phone. Then i left. Feelings; the NCLEX is hard. It was hard the time I took it for my LPN and it was hard this time around. I really felt like I failed. I walked back to my car. I did the PVT an hour later and got the good pop up but I still was not convinced. Waiting: since I took my exam in a Saturday, I figured I would have to wait until Monday to get my results. Many of my classmates took theirs on a weekday at 8am and found out around 430pm the same day, that they passed. The waiting period was torture. Monday came around and I worked the night before until Monday morning. I could not sleep at all and I have to turn back around and work second shift that same day. I slept for about 2 hours and then I was stuck to my email, refreshing it every 2 minutes. But nothing. I started to get worried. I went to work and kept looking at the clock. Maybe the licenses will be released at 430pm. around 403pm, I refreshed my email and there was an email from our state's licensing board. I have officially passed the NCLEX and received my RN license!!! I couldnt breathe and I was so happy. One of my nurse coworkers came over to see why i was freaking out. She congratulated me and gave me a hug. Advice: study and do as many questions as you can. Read the rationales slowly and understand them. You will get questions that you have no idea about. Do you best and take an educated guess if you need to. You know more than you think. Take deep breathes. Be calm. You got this. Pray always and often. If you do not pass, don't be discourage. You passed nursing school which has 100s of nursing questions. That difficult stuff is over. You got one more thing to encounter. Don't give up.

Just to let you know, my license was issued today. I passed and PVT works

With UWorld, I shared it with 2 other classmates. One of my classmates was nice enough to share it with us. So I cant tell you anything about the assessment scores. My UWorld scores ranged from 50% to 65% on the 75 question tests. I purchased the pretest and posttest on NCLEX Mastery RN for $20. The pretest, I got a 71% chance of passing NCLEX and postest I got 82% chance. The rationals on the mastery isnt as good as UWorld but I took them to get an idea if I would pass NCLEX or not. I took the NCLEX PN 4 years ago. I used just the Saunders book and used the software to do questions. Took the NCLEX PN and felt the same way - I felt like everything I studied for was not on the NCLEX and there was not one question where I was like YES that is the answer!! Got cut off at the minimum (85 qs). Left feeling like I failed. I did the PVT (which is a bit different than what it is now. DIdnt have to put in a CC number) and got the good pop up. 4 days later, I checked my state's licensing website and my license number was next to my name. I passed. NCLEX RN - I got questions on medications and diseases that Ive never heard of before. I just had to take an educated guess. There was maybe a few questions that I felt confident with but I still left the test site feeling not confident and that I had failed. I got cut off at 75 questions meaning that I either did very well or very poorly. I felt the same way I felt with the PN, not confident and just sad!! I did the PVT an hour later, got the good pop up. Ive been checking randomly and still getting the good pop up. But still waiting for my official results.

I just took my NCLEX yesterday so I havent got my results yet. I got the good pop up but I wont get excited until I see my official results. Not to scare you but I thought the NCLEX was difficult. I used Uworld doing 50 to 75 questions a day then the 2 weeks before, I was doing about 75 questions twice a day. I got shut off at 75 questions and I walked out feeling like I didnt even study and not confident at all. An hour after, I did the PVT and got the good pop up. I felt like that when I took my NCLEX PN and I honestly just think there is no "real" way to prepare for this exam...thats just me though.

I used UWorld for about 2 months. The NCLEX is scary, that's all I have to say.

I did the PVT as well so hopefully it is accurate!!!

I took the NCLEX yesterday and I agree, it was terrible!! I used UWorld for about 2 months and I felt like that didnt help at all because there was things and diseases on that test that I've never heard of before. I did the PVT and I got the good pop up so hopefully that means I passed. I wont know until maybe tomorrow!! Fingers crossed

What about people taking it in at 10am or 2pm? Or on the weekends?

Any schools not requiring prereqs? I looked into Ferris and they are asking me to take 5 more prerequs such as as Statistics and Microbiology

Hi, I am just finishing my RN/ADN at a local community college and I am trying to plan ahead. I want to start on my pre-reqs for the BSN program but I need to figure out what school. Anyone have any experiences they would like to share and what school you chose? Thanks!

Just review the previous Hesi exams you have taken in the past. You will be able to take the Hesi twice, must get 76% on one of the exams. Know your lab values, ABGs, etc. It isn't as bad.