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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!

Hey, Some of the best students I know have failed their HESI exams. Alternatively, some of the best nurses I know have also failed their NCLEX exam. Failing an exam really has no bearing on how good of a nurse you are. An exam is just a tool for measurement of knowledge retention and regurgitation. I have been a paramedic for 10 years. I'm a pretty damn good paramedic. The majority of the time, I make sound decisions and critical judgements that benefit my patient. I failed my National Registry twice. National Registry is an exam set up identical to the NCLEX, just on different material. It's adaptive and can go up to a couple hundred questions. It's the devil. Failing a test isn't the end of the world, especially if you get another shot at taking it. Consider it a small set back, and trust me, your career will be full of small set backs. The trick is learning to overcome and not letting it affect the fibers of your being. This is still a work in progress for me! I use Evolve at my nursing school. Typically before my HESI exams I spend about 2 weeks taking NCLEX practice questions (we call them question sets) over all of the material I think will be on the test. I do practice mode so I get instant feedback and it allows me to identify my problem areas. Usually, the content is presented in groups: like the questions will be 60 questions of mental health, 40 questions on renal, 100 questions on acid base, etc. I just do a hundred or so a night and then close my laptop and start it up again the following day. My professors have recommended that we do the case studies and things like that, but I didn't find them to as beneficial to me as just doing a ton of practice questions, many of which I have seen repeated on the HESI exams. I don't know if this will find you before you test again, as your post is fairly old, but I hope it does and I hope it helps. Good luck!

I don't really know what the ATI is like, and I haven't taken my NCLEX yet, but I have taken 3 HESI exams so far and I will say that they are not the easiest test to pass. At my school, each HESI progressively gets "more difficult" by pulling information forward from past semesters and also counts for more against your grade. My first HESI was about 20%, second was about 30%, third is 45% and my last HESI will be 50% of my grade. Many of my friends that are ahead of me have said that the HESI exams are actually HARDER than the NCLEX. I don't know how true that is or if they are just trying to boost my confidence, but they said they breezed through NCLEX after having been tortured by the HESI exams. Ultimately, I think the experience is very subjective. Do well on your ATI and HESI exams, and NCLEX is probably easier. Do poorly, and NCLEX is probably harder.

I don't know if you have access to Evolve, or if your school uses it, but logging into Evolve and doing the HESI practice questions have helped me TREMENDOUSLY! I typically start about 2-3 weeks before my HESI and do around 1500-2500 questions. I haven't taken my exit HESI yet, but there is an option on the site to lump all of the categories together and be quizzed on everything. If you have Evolve, or know someone that does, it is definitely the way to go.