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Ohio. The Ohio BON sent me my results before Pearson vue had quick results available.

Nclex was 100% easier than UWorld!

I received my license from the BON today. So it's official. I absolutely think UWorld helped me. I'd say it's was the closest thing to the actual nclex that I studied.

I rescheduled my exam for this morning. I was given 76 questions and took about 1 hour 10 minutes. According to the PVT, I've passed the exam. Still waiting on official and unofficial results, but things are looking good!

Focus on your studies and continue to study your a$$ off. Do not concern yourself with how others are studying or how they are doing. There are plenty of things in the program that will weed out people that do not put in the work. A tip for life and for work: if you spend your time focusing your attention on others and believing that you deserve something more than them just because you did it differently, you're setting yourself up to fail. Focus on your studies and encourage your peers to study as hard as you say you are studying. Do not concern yourself with how they study, but just that they are studying.

Testing 1/6/17. Used HESI study materials a lot; basically all of elsevier's review materials. Hitting uWorld hard. Averaging a 58% overall. Good luck everyone!

After having read an article on the site, I decided to check with Pearson Vue and move up my testing date. I really wanted to test sooner than later, and when I scheduled initially I had to take a later test date than was ideal. Now NCLEX is about a week away and I can't tell if I've contracted dysentery or I just have the nervous poops. I've been doing about 100-150 questions on uWorld a day. I only have about 300 questions left and I've been averaging a 58% overall. From what I can tell, that seems about where a lot of other people that have been successful have been. I scored above a 900 on all of my HESI exams, including a 950 on the exit HESI. I'm not usually a nervous test taker, but this has me pretty shook up. Send me some good vibes, friends! Test is on January 6th. Will update when I know the results!

The registry for paramedics is just as hard. Plus, you have little to no direction in the field and are directly responsible for making split second decisions with minimal information about the patient. If you are having trouble with the NCLEX and all the information that is provided to make sound nursing decisions, I do not believe being a paramedic is right for you. Paramedic of 11 years. This isn't easy. Best of luck.

I'm currently 28. I started nursing school in 2006 when I was 18, but being young and pretty immature, it just didn't work out. I became a Paramedic instead and have been doing that about 10 years. I started back in nursing school at 26, and it's been loads easier, not only because of my experience as a paramedic but also because I'm more mature now. I don't get all wrapped up in all the drama and the like that these younger kids do. I have a wife and two kids, and while some would say that makes it easier, I actually kind of disagree. Having a family complicates scheduling and makes everything a little more hectic. With that being said, It's very doable. Getting older doesn't slow you down as much as people think it does. If you're having doubts about being able to hack it intellectually, then I encourage you to still give it a try. Life experience plays a major role in what nursing is today; it's way beyond just medical knowledge. Most of the other nursing students I'm in class with don't have a clue on therapeutic communication or enough life experience to know what people need to hear and how they need to hear it. Frankly, that is something that can't be taught, but must be learned in life. I'm all for older students/nursing as a second career. I even have a 60 year old woman in my class starting college for the first time.

The college was extremely competitive in the past. In the last 5 or so years, they've really opened up as far as enrollment, and even offer a few enrollments a year. As for the whole BSN program, even though we have multiple enrollments, your GPA means a lot to them. That being said, even if it isn't perfect they will work with you to get you in. Fortunately, there isn't a waiting list. So if you don't get in for the spring, you can still start summer or fall if they have room. The RN to BSN portion, of which they are rolling out a completely on-line version in the spring, is fairly easy to get into. I don't hear of many people having issues with being turned away, whether it be for space or other reasons.

I work both in hospital based medicine as well as prehospital based medicine. I'm also kind of 'old school'. If you make it personal enough to raise your voice to me and swear at me, then I'll make it personal enough to put your big head, ego and all, straight up your rear end. Be professional. Treat people as you want to be treated. Be gone with that 'crossed the line' crap. If they need coaching, then coach them. You obviously see yourself as a leader, so be a leader, not a ruler.

Im averaging between 62-64% on the NCLEX Mastery App. I know that with UWorld they say these averages are ok, but how does that transfer over to this app in terms of it being "good" or "bad?"

Hey, So I have a few options about when to take Mark Klimek, which is who I've decided to take to help me feel better prepared to take NCLEX. My graduation date is early December and I've talked with his people who say they will be having classes in August, September and December. I know that I should probably take his course as close to taking NCLEX as possible, but part of me also says that I should take it with enough time between my course and NCLEX to let the information come together and settle in. A few of my friends advised to take the course in early August. I start back for my final semester (pets, role transition) on August 22nd. They say it will help and "won't hurt". My role transition, as it stands currently, will be with a weekend option nurse preceptor. So my weekends, which are primarily when he holds this review course, will be shot. What it boils down to, is do I take it before my semester and hope that it helps with school and I can retain the information for 16 weeks, plus however long it takes to test, or do I aim for September or December and go that route? The goal is to graduate in December and test as soon as I would be allowed, which due to holidays will probably be early January.

Some of my friends have ordered that and they said that it's hit or miss. The way our school does HESI, and as I understand it, the way everyone does their HESI exams, is that the school sends a topical outline to the people that make HESI and they send back a personalized exam based on the outline for the semester. The only one that isn't based on the outlines is your exit HESI, as it is based on a national standard instead of your school. With that being said, I could see where yourbestgrade would be beneficial, but I just feel like there is something to using the source that is provided by the people that make the tests (Evolve which is Elsevier). What it boils down to is whatever works for you, works. I hated doing the practice question sets, about 100 questions at a time. That being said, I'm scoring very well on the HESI exams. I've never used anything else though, so my experience is limited with other sources!

I am a current student at The Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences located in Cincinnati, Ohio. I wanted to reach out to anyone seeking more information about this school as I haven't really seen a lot about it on the site. Feel free to message me with any questions you may have!