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Nice to hear from you again :) and congrats on your new grad position. I'm still in limbo and jobless. Good luck with your new job you will do amazing!

Hi Sarah, I was in the exact position as you last year as a senior student. I still have not found a job yet but I do want to encourage you in finishing your schooling. I told myself the same thing when I had 3 months left, wanting to quit because I was not confident enough. Guess what, I finished the program and so can you! Back in HS I also aspired to be in psychology and actually got in to a good university for psych as well but heard horror stories over unemployment rates and too many student overfill heck nearly a quarter of my classmates went into psych in HS. It is different in your case however that you've perhaps landed a job. Is there any way you can postpone the job offer until after you graduate? or perhaps take it as a part time/casual option while trying to finish the last of your school work? (this might be harder though). As people pointed out psych is a tough career because it requires heavy schooling involved much more than a bachelors. Even if you think nursing isn't for you, you can always find a job or another career after you graduate. There's no set stone in which you "have" to be this or that in life. I had the same mindset thinking I had to graduate, I had to pass NCLEX, and now the thought that I "have" to get a job as a nurse. However, time will tell. Because as much as I had planned, and tried to predict the unknown, I could not. I still to this day remain unconfident and unsure about the future but what I did learn is that there are many times in life where you feel your being pushed away like a water current and feel that you have to be "pushed" and there are no options to take but to go along that route. Some people do , some don't. So know that there are always options ahead in your life even if it's not in nursing or if it's a different avenue in nursing.

Thanks for the update OP! I hope you find something soon that is your able to handle more! I am a new grad looking for something more my fit too. I have enough health problems before starting work I'd rather not make it worse! What kind of nursing positions have you searched before? I'm sure you'll be able to get something since you already have experience though. :)

I would like to know what happened to OP. Are you still continuing on with your job? Did you get a new one?

Hello everyone, I recently graduated. I just started applying more seriously to jobs recently and thought I needed to formulate a reference list and so I went and emailed my old professors and clinical instructors if they were able to. I asked their permission as polite as I could but I got rejected from my theory professors and none of my clinical instructors have replied yet. I did not bother to contact CIs that were 1st or 2nd yr but when I think about it most of my instructors were not full time staff and I even heard that most of them taught another school and worked in other hospitals so it's very possible that they might have quit. Out of the 8 instructors I've had for the 4 years I know for sure 4 quit because they went back to hospital nursing one of them retired, the other went to get her PhD. The other 2 were from community and mental health which I had in my 1st and 2nd year and I know one of them went on maternity leave and possibly quit as well and i highly doubt they'd remember me. So I was left with the 2 instructors that Ive had the most recent but so far no replies so I guess they ignored me or followed suit and quit. So far I only have 1 professional reference. What am I suppose to do? Can some employers overlook the reference part or at least take credit that I have one? I've also never worked before so I can't even include a non nursing employer that can refer me. In summary, most of my teacher quit/retired or is on temp leave, the remaining either declined for their on reasons, and others have not replied. What to do? And no I was NOT a horrid student I got a decent GPA in the end but certainly not Summa Cum Laude I was an average student and maybe that's what the problem I was, I didn't stand out so they couldn't say anything aides from very generic stuff? But I needed the reference regardless though. I heard even agency nursing required 3 processional references.

Hi guys, I would really appreciate advice from anyone and everyone because I'm stumped right now. I just graduated this summer and passed the NCLEX. However I have not been registered yet still waiting for the letter. So really I've been trying to secretly pass time trying to avoid searching for jobs yet. A little bit of background about is that I considered quitting nursing school so many time because I always thought I was not cut out for it since I became so anxious and depressed with all the with all the bad preceptors I've had and bad experiences. Long story short, I am not a confident person at all and I don't think I will survive in any hospital position. Whenever we had clinical rotations outside the hospital my heart would be at rest but at the hospital it was always as I was carrying a boulder on my shoulder because I took nursing seriously so I wouldn't endanger anyone's lives. BUT another thing is really the speed. I dunno if I can handle the fast speed in the hospital rather than another job in LTC or a clinic job for example. However EVERYONE seems to encourage going to a hospital is a better option (And I know in my head it tells me to apply to hospital jobs but my heart says otherwise that I'd be just wasting time and putting my health in danger). Another thing is that there is only one hospital in my city and they almost never high new grad without connections (mostly internal hiring). So if I were to apply to a hospital it would take me minimum 2 hours to get there (because I bus for reasons I am not able to drive yet). While nursing homes seem to be hiring every so often due to many people leaving for their nursing hospital dream job I suppose. Anyways my dad in particular won't even hear from me when I say I don't want to work in the hospital he's not the one who is going to be working anyways it will be me who will have to suffer. Anyways I just want a job that can support my daily life and pay of my school debts. I'm still fairly young in very early 20s and unfortunate to say I don't dream big enough to want to be that ICU or ER nurse, it's just not my thing. However people keep saying you need foundation and fundamentals and you can only get it from acute care in hospitals.. but the thing is I dunno I never can see myself working in the hospital without crying every other day at best. Sorry for the long post/rant. I honestly really want people's feedback on this. I don't have a problem talking to or taking care of people. The way I see it is the problem lies within my character, I get hurt too easily and I'm generally slow paced person (but let's not to put that on my resume). I know not everyone is going to be nice even outside the hospital but according to my past experience I could handle the stress better outside the hospital than inside. Transportation is another issue with the hospital because commuting there for 2 hours to and fro in a job I would hate is like a topping to torture. Now I have never worked as an RN in a hospital asides from being a student nurse in many acute floors like med/surg and really I already got panic attacks as a student I got insomnia and many many other stupid things like panic attacks. I don't want to endanger my health but I don't want to throw out a possibly good step into a decent career. Any thoughts or advices are appreciated!

I'm soo happy I got to motivate you Nathan! And congrats on passing!!! You deserve it :) Good luck to every student taking the exam out there!

Just wana say congrats on passing I saw your thread a day after I wrote my exam. Supper glad you did awesome!

@JPGasmin, BSN: This was the main reason why I wanted to post here because like you I was freaking out because people would post their marks with 80% and say they are scared and feel like they are not good enough, what about the other people that are scoring 40-60s how do they think we feel? So I just wanted to say it is possible to pass without getting sky high marks. That lady at hurst always says we just need to pass. And I also felt the same about not knowing enough and needing to learn more, that's fine. I think the anxiety kind of made me pass in a way because I always wanted to learn more each and every day so instead of feeling defeated and a quitter, I invested more and more time studying about things I didn't know, who cares about the grades on questions because NCLEX will have more than enough questions that we didn't even do. And yes prayer helped me every day as well it was probably the most powerful thing that helped going and of course support from family and friends. BUT even they were getting irritated haha only God wasn't well he couldn't complain to me more like it. @pithoud2 : I am sending positive wishes to your second try I just want to encourage you and applaud you for standing back up and going back to take the exam that alone takes a lot of courage! I hope you continue to study and learn and retain more info, you will be successful just think of it like that! Your so right we never really know what questions they'll ask so don't be so down if question results are low. Just keep going and review the ones you got wrong. Writing the exam wasn't as bad as preparing for the exam. I felt so alone when I prepared for it and no amount of advice got through me (I think because I was soo hardheaded), in any case I don't know your character fully but I hope me encouraging you as small as it may be will make a dent and create positvity towards your preparation. (Now I sound like a Hippie shooting flowers to people taking tests.. no offence to hippies out there I love them). I can't seem to edit my first post but and I forgot to say I had 75qs and had soo much Satas I forgot to count after 28.. So maybe I went passed 30 even.

Hello guys, I promised to post a thread that would encourage others in preparation for NCLEX because I found that reading all these threads good and bad experiences helped me toughen out and become stronger when taking the NCLEX. I had horrible scores in any questions practice. I had low scores in Kaplan and Hurst and Lipincott. I think my average would come around 40-50%. So I'd like to encourage others that it's not all about the scores it is honestly being humble and persevering studying as much as you can and of course prayers go a long way despite where your beliefs may lie I'm glad someone here in the forum shared a prayer which really helped me in studying (+Prayers to St. Joseph of Cupertino for Success in Examinations+) If you guys feel you need extra support spiritually I found it helped me because honestly preparing for this exam is a mix of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual fight with yourself and a whole bunch of books and info. I really needed a combination of everything when preparing for this exam and I didn't want to listen to people who said it's possible only studying for a week or a day or a weekend. It's good that some people can do that but I cannot. I am an average student in school some subjects I do well some I don't but it's really important to review content and go over questions and really prepare for this exam as much as you can. Each of us have different ways of studying and different approaches. Some people study for the whole day, half a day, or 2-4h. I personally could not study more than 8hours a day I stuck to it for a whole month. But when you get to the exam you'll be amazed how much you can remember despite freaking out the week before that you can't remember anything. To sum up, study hard, be prepared as much as you can. And try to remain as confident as you can. Good luck to all those taking the exam.

Thank you for your kind reply. What you said makes really good sense.. which makes me even worried because I'm not sure how to prepare for it, in better words I dunno how well prepared I am. I have done lots of questions more than content but also went over content decent enough. I'm a bad test taking however and no matter how many times I try using those strategies for answering I can't seem to get the right answer always narrowed it down to 2 and end up picking the wrong one.

Thanks for your input I really appreciate it. I will have to go through the rationales once more for everything then. Questions are from all over. I've done Lipincott Q and A, Kaplan, La Charity, Uworld, Hurts, I haven't done Qtrainers yet though do you advice on doing them? I wish I had the time to do 100 questions now I'm not sure yet I'm trying to go over my meds for this week (I haven't started yet) and I have to go back to read rationales for Uworld, Kaplan, La Charity, and my own notes. I have more or less 11 days. and you are absolutely right sometimes theres no time to do 100 questions every day I've been making an effort to do 150 everyday but there are some days especially weekends where it's a flop. Which is why I'm kind of on the fence with the QT and time management when I have to review all the rationales plus do the meds, labs, etc. I also still have my Saunders Questions here waiting for me.

Thanks for the reply. So questions is best. Can I also ask if you repeated the same questions you did? Or did you keep trying to get new questions from different sources. I'm learning a lot through questions I've done maybe 3000 but I haven't gone back to review the rationales yet from all the questions. I'm just wondering if it would be good to go back now and go over the rationales or still keep going on questions and review everything 2 days before the exam? I have written all of the rationales for most of the questions I've went through them after I answered the questions but I haven't gone back to look at them anytime after.

Congrats on passing!! Thanks for sharing your experience :) I would like to ask if the Qtrainers helped you though or if the Qbank is better or doing both? There's a lot of questions for QTrainer so I'm not sure if I can get it done on time.