Julie64

Congrats Julee2ya, way to go!!!!!!

Way to go, Miguel!!! Congrats!

I will be praying for you for sure. It sounds like you should be well-prepared with all that you are doing to get ready!

Thanks ned2bnurse, it does feel a little like winning the lottery :)

Robenz- Oops...I wasn't done writing when I posted that! So, when are you talking the test again? I will be praying for you, I'm sure you'll do great this time:redbeathe Julie

Robenz07, I'm sorry that happened to you. The morning I took my test I talked to someone else who told me the exact same thing happened to her a couple months ago. Even the 265 questions. On Thursday our tests shut down after the same amount of time. She had done quite a few more questions than I had, but said she felt much better about this one because she really slowed down and made sure she understood what each question was asking before attempting to answer. As for me, I read the Kaplan strategies book a few times and practiced using the strategies while answering 50-100 questions a day from Saunders Comprehensive and sometimes Lippincot's Review for NCLEX-PN. I studied both the books and cds. In the last week or so I also reviewed Mosby's Review Cards after a friend gave them to me. I like them because they were more portable and easy to use while on the treadmill, but I don't think they were necessary. When ever I found myself burned out and answering without giving a lot of thought, and therefore bombing the questions and losing confidence, I took a break, often until the next day. I made sure to review areas that I was weak in on my predictor tests too, but I think just answering lots of questions and using the strategies helped me the most.

Hi Mig, I felt exactly the same last week and then I read someone's post that reminded me that God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7 That brought me to tears. I had spent weeks studying, but was so shook up. The night before the text I was just quiet and went to bed speaking good things over myself, I asked for prayer here and had my best friend at school and my husband pray for me too. When I got there I felt like I was in a cocoon of peace, I tuned everything else out and made myself focus. The visualizing I had practiced earlier really helped too. When a question didn't seem to be going anywhere, I used the strategies I had practiced, took my best guess and moved on and didn't let it shake me up. The test shut off after 85 questions and I just found out that I passed, praise God! All this to tell you that I also thought about rescheduling my test, but went ahead and took it. I don't think we can know all of the answers, but if you have prepared you should know enough to pass. I will be praying for you. Julie

I passed!!! What a relief, thank you for your prayers! Julie

Took my test yesterday and finished with 85 questions. It took me over 2 hours to answer them so I was getting nervous that I would run out of time if I got all 205 (LPN). I was surprised and happy when it shut off, I'd been praying for 85. I had many SATA questions and med questions, many that i was unfamiliar with. Also a lot of prioritization. While I felt unsure about a lot of my answers, (I actually know for sure that I got one of those med ones wrong since I just saw a commercial for it :wink2:), I walked out of there feeling pretty good. Thanks for the prayers, I'm praying for you all too and will let you know when I find out my results.

I don't know why I never saw this post before, but I'm so glad I did. Please add me to yours prayers, I am testing in the morning and although I have been faithful to study, I am feeling scared and nervous! Thank you sooo much and God bless each of you.

name: julie school: columbia basin college program: adn what area of interest at this time: l & d or hospice, but i'm open to possibilities biggest fear: not being able to balance family life with ns and stressing too much about my gpa what you'd like us to know about you: i've been planning on travel nursing for years, but we just bought a big ol' house after living (consecutively) on a sail boat, an rv and in an apartment for the last several years so we'll see how that goes. i have a 22 year old daughter serving in iraq, a 15 year old son at home and a wonderful husband

We had a Lello Offshore 33. It's a South African boat...great sailor, beautiful lines but not as much room below decks as we want next time with it's 9'5" beam. Here's a link to our web page with some pics: The Boat While we loved her, we sold her when we came back to the states and now we have an 18 foot Potter for day sailing and weekends on the river here. We are deciding what we want to get for next time while we save our pennies. Our dream boat is a Kelly Peterson 44 or 46. Realistically though, it's probably out of our budget, so we have others we are looking at. We spend a lot of time on yachtworld.com daydreaming and making plans for the future.

we have an island trader ketch. i've never tried living aboard -- you must be very brave to try living in such close quarters with kids! where have you been with the boat? and i'm not sure i understand the putting the boat on the hard part -- do you mean they put their boats on the hard while they work in the states during hurricane season? dh and i are both nurses, and hope we can find assignments in english speaking countries when it comes time to replenish the cruising kitty. i don't know how realistic that's going to be, but we'll see! sounds like you've had a great time with cruising! __________________ i've never been below in a boat like yours, but they sure are pretty on the outside :) yes, many of the people we knew put their boats on the hard in mexico and went back up to the states during hurricane season to work. we also left ours there this way when we came back to the states for a few months. however, we did meet one couple who sailed down from california and were both traveling nurses. they stayed in the sea for several months and then bashed back up the coast to go back to work, not sure where, but didn't leave their boat behind. we had big dreams of circumnavigating when we first went out, but we fell in love with mexico and the cruising community there and never left! there are lots of pretty anchorages, cool little towns, nice weather and friendly people so why not? we actually really enjoyed living aboard with our kids. our daughter turned 18 and joined the air force before our last year, but she still always talks fondly about it saying it was the best time of her life so far. on the other hand it will be lovely when it's just the two of us good luck...i'm sure you'll love it!

re: rv's anyone??? anybody tried traveling in a boat? when the child finishes college (in 2014) we're planning to sell the house and move aboard the boat. (we have a 37 foot ketch-rigged sailboat.) we can take coastal travel assignments from maine to florida, then take 6 months off to go through the panama canal and up the west coast. by then, i should be old enough to retire and we can circumnavigate. not quite as much mobility as an rv, but i'd rather be floating. __________________ hi ruby, i'm not a nurse yet, but my husband, 2 kids and i lived aboard a 33 foot sloop off and on for 3 years. when we weren't on the boat we were on a 35 foot rv and traveled the southwest, west coast and pacific nw. we lived aboard in the sea of cortez. it was a fantastic life and we can't wait to go back! i just finished all my prereqs and am starting nursing school in the fall and will be done in 2009. my son will graduate from high school the next year and then we plan on taking off again, only this time with me working as a travel nurse we'll be able to replenish the cruising kitty often. i met many travel nurses in the sea living aboard who worked in the states during hurricane season and spent half the year in mexico. they all seemed to love it. hanging out with them was what inspired me to go to school to become a nurse myself. most of the nurses i met also lived aboard in the states before bringing their boats to mexico but ended up liking it so much there they would put their boats up on the hard when they came back to work either going back in small rvs or taking apartments. btw, do you guys have a tayana? fair winds- julie

I loved API and II, I'm not sure which I like better, but possibly I. I also loved my Psych 101, I had the best professor. Just finished APII last quarter and now I'm starting Business math, Developmental Psych and First Aid. All of my teachers seem really cool, but the pace has been very relaxed so far and it's weirding me out after all the pressure of my last 3 quarters :wink2: