PVT scare! Help meee!

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Hey guys!

Just wanted input to determine if my experience has happened to anyone else who has taken the NCLEX.

I have been reading dozens and dozens of posts about PVT, because lets be real, I did it too and I got the "bad pop-up". However, today I checked (July.28th,2017) on our provincial board of nursing website and my verification read "registered nurse" "active" with a license number.

I am SOOOO confused. For me, seeing a name and a license number is pretty legitimate, but could it be a whoops? However, I have NOT received results yet, I got the "bad pop-up" 5 hours after taking my exam (my credit card went entirely through and I got a receipt), I have NOT received an "ATT" yet though. We don't have access to quick results in Canada and I'm going on day 5 with no results (it's been taking around 7-10days).

Has anyone ever experienced this? Your name and "active" license number with "registered nurse" along side it BEFORE seeing any results? And especially after getting the "bad pop up". (To clarify, NO I did NOT wait 24hrs)(yes I realize this was a gamble)

someone shed some light on this for me:)

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Plenty of people on here has seen their name on their BON website before quick results were available ... congratulations ... go out and celebrate RN

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Specializes in CVICU/ED, CCRN-CSC, CFRN.

You obviously passed because your BON would not make a mistake like that. This is why we tell people DO NOT PUT IN THE CORRECT SECURITY NUMBER. Putting in your correct CC info does not make the "trick" more accurate all it does is risk the chance of you losing $200. Sucks you lost it because they won't refund it, but at least you're a nurse now!

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Yeah, yours would be yet another example of why playing the pvt game is truly stupid. I'm sorry that you did it, I'm sorry that you lost $200 that there is no way to get refunded. You would have become the nurse that you are ( license numbers are not issued to people who fail the exam!) without doing the game and without losing the money :-(

Congratulations on passing though!

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I know! At first, I didn't put I my correct security code and it said "declined". I wasn't educated in that fact that this still meant "bad pop up" because it tried the card; I just figured because I didn't give the correct info that I wouldn't get "accurate" (or as accurate as they are) PVT results.

To make it worse, it's not $200.00 in Canada; it's $360.00!!

Honestly tho, with how devastated I've been believing I failed all week, I'd gladly sacrifice that if it meant I passed. As I'm still scared that this is a typo or something because I haven't seen results.

Crazy the PVT convinces me but my BON doesn't!

Praying it's all accurate, and that that is in fact my licence number and I am in fact a RN!

Thanks for the response, I'm clearly impatient as heck!

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So good to hear! I just hope it's accurate and Up to date and not an error or something.

Stupid PVT tainted me!

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I battling the same thing but different...I got the pop-up and the next day I did it again and it took my money...I didn't see RN by my name it still said Pending...I have been praying since yesterday...took my boards on the 28th of July

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I don't think the nclex should be such a mind bending game as it is right now. It should focus on basic competency as it was intended to be. I took the test couple days ago and my experience was that most of the questions were either irrelevant to a new graduate nurse' competency or were highfalutin to say the least. I think the whole structure needs to be reexamined and redesigned to serve the main purpose for which it was created!

Needless to say I passed though but I strongly feel that the current curriculum needs to be overhauled.

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Good luck to you!!! I hope the PVT doesn't mean anything in your case!

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Did you pass? I tested July 28 and it said open registration a few hrs after I never got email from Pearson till 26 hrs later

I checked pvt the day after exam and it said decline card. I never did pvt after email I'm so nervous

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Specializes in CVICU/ED, CCRN-CSC, CFRN.

Try it again, if it declines your card then....í ½í¸”

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I still don't know. We don't have access to Quick Results. Tomorrow is one week since I wrote! Most ppl I graduated with that wrote recently found out 7-10days after writing! I am so nervous. I hope my name on BON is a good thing!

And good luck to you!

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