Recent PA GRADS: How long until you recieved your ATT?

aquarius04 · Jan 16, 2014

I honestly don't remember how long it took. But I finished August 16thish and got it back a week or two after, b/c I remember I could've taken my boards the first week of Sept. My school had a really good turn around, they put the info into the BON the day we took our finals. So make sure your school put their part of the paperwork in, other wise the BON might just be moving slowly. Also I finished in the summer and I dont think there is that much activity going on for the BON. Hope this helps some

11nick · Jan 16, 2014

I was done with school Dec 17. Due to a screw up in the nursing dept, they never posted the degrees to our transcripts (which the BON needs to see). That wasn't discovered until last week. So, I should be one the road to getting an ATT now. I have a job, too, and today was my first day. I was able to start with my temp license. Job market is tough. There 'may' be someone else from my class who has a job, but I'm the only one that I know of who has been hired.

vil2290 · Jan 19, 2014

Yeah, thank you! I actually got my ATT by email on Thursday! And I have been hired contingent upon passing my nclex which is scheduled for February 20th. Thanks for all your help!

What is the best way to study for the nclex?

PghBSN · Jan 19, 2014

I graduated from Pitt last Spring. Best studying advice I can give is to do practice questions. Do not worry about re-learning things. The best way to learn the material you are weak on is to do questions day in and out. I suggest Kaplan, they best prepared me for the process of thinking through the passing level questions. I also found EXAMCRAM to work wonderfully. They have 5 exams in their book, and the exams get a little bit more difficult each time. I thought the first three exams in the book were very easy, but they reviewed a lot of material I had trouble with. Good luck!! What type of unit were you hired on??

vil2290 · Jan 20, 2014

Thank you for the advice!! It's a monitored observation unit. I've been a PCT on a cardiac floor for two years so I know a lot about cardiac monitors so I'm pretty excited! I bought hurst review and idk if it was worth it. It's more content based and not so much question review. Thank you for your info! Kaplan is like 418$ and the Kaplan qbank is 99 $. Since I'm already doing content review with hurst do you think it would be sufficient to just buy the qbank?