well, like other people here in the forum.........took the nclex today june 22nd!
went to church yesterday and today in the morning and had a long long conversation with my heavenly father and poored my heart and soul to help me and guide me thru this.
today woke up early and went to church mass at 0830 and did the same thing and poured my heart and soul to him for the same blessing.
ate a good breakfast and just went home and just relax and get all my things ready.
went an hour early to the center and sat in my car, listen to my christian music and just prayed again.
went to the center feeling ......"ok, here i go....im going to do this....get it over with"
it was nerve wrecking going into the center. hands starting to sweat.....couldn't get my locker open.
sat at the computer and said another prayer and off i went and answered my questions. ...............i got up to 65 questions and it stopped. omg! thought i almost had a heart attack....but it was telling me if i wanted to take a break.....
went on with the questions......they were not easy.....they were hard......a lot of critical thinking, a lot of sata, had 4 math questions (i knew i got those right!) .... who would i see 1st.....nurses from a another unit from l/d, mental health floating to peds, or l/d or to mental health.......a lot of ob questions (who would of known).....meds that where not in my review books, a lot of teaching. a lot of statements looking for the wrong answer.
i took kaplan and did use the decision tree, on some but not most of them. like ok, this is an assessment, implementation, implementation, assessment......and i read the question over and over.
i was heading to 75 questions and i was hoping to get more because i wasn't sure if i was doing good.......so hard to tell.
but the next thing i know...... it shut off....oh my gosh! did i do good? did i do bad? so hard to tell!!!
i left the building not crying but just in shock and speechless and not knowing how i did.
now the waiting period begins!
went to back to church right after i took the test today and had another conversation with my heavenly father and thanked him for his blessing and for keeping me calm thru the whole exam..........thank you my heavenly father!
as a treat for all my hard work.....went to dairy queen and bought myself a waffle icecream cone.....yum, yum!
went home, waited for my hubby and went out to get dinner at this yummy korean bbq restaurant.
now, checking my emails and posting this and of course just venting here as you can read.
now, going to enjoy what i love and enjoying doing best........going to open my desk drawers and do some scrapbooking and card making with my rubber stamps!!!!
oh? one more thing to my new allnurses.com friends.......if you are taking the exam soon........all i can say is just to stay calm, positive and tell yourself "i'm going to do this over win it!!!!!" [color=sandybrown] have faith in yourself!
I am very happy for you. I just read all the postings to your thread and the only thing I will share with you is that I felt a sense of POSITIVE ENERGY and so much calmness. I truly feel you made this happen. God was with you all the way protecting you and watching over you. I must share that I am not very religious but knowing that you are and reading about your dedication to the books and the Lord I feel in my soul you have succeeded.
God Bless you and everyone on this wonderful site !
cubano30
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Nursegreeneyes,
I am very happy for you. I just read all the postings to your thread and the only thing I will share with you is that I felt a sense of POSITIVE ENERGY and so much calmness. I truly feel you made this happen. God was with you all the way protecting you and watching over you. I must share that I am not very religious but knowing that you are and reading about your dedication to the books and the Lord I feel in my soul you have succeeded.
God Bless you and everyone on this wonderful site !
Cubano30:up: