Taking the NCLEX-RN tomorrow 3/5/14...So nervous!

ac2meang · Mar 7, 2014

Congrats!!!!! Yeeeyyyy :up:

teecee · Mar 7, 2014

Me too! Metro Detroit area

MissyNik · Mar 7, 2014

Oh so we have some Mich folk here!!!

teecee · Mar 8, 2014

Yup. MI folks are very much here & active. Lol

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Mar 8, 2014

So the test turned off at 75 questions! I didn't feel too confident though...I thought for sure it wasn't gonna turn off. I got a lot of high priority questions like who do you see first and what do you do first which I remember Kaplan saying was a good sign. I felt like half the test was select all that apply questions which I was dreading. I did the Pearson Vue trick where you try to register again and it gave me the good pop up. I've been checking the Michigan licensing website like every hour...waiting for my RN status to change...right now it still says pending no license # yet. I have to wait until tomorrow to get my unofficial results... I'll keep you posted. I think I passed though :)

I think you passed, too, but not because of any silly "trick". Here's why: you had 75 questions. You'd have to ask yourself if you were so horribly unprepared, so lacking in understanding of content and ability to critically think, that it shut off with the minimum number of questions because there was NO WAY on this PLANET that you could pass...? Or, was it more likely that it shut off with the minimum number of questions because you could demonstrate the minimum competency that is required to pass the NCLEX?

Those who have many more questions, up to 265 questions, are still being determined by the computer as to whether they are competent. Those who get hundreds of questions mean that they were a little above passing, a little below passing, the entire time....and eventually, squeaked by a little above at the end (and passed) or a little below (and failed) when the questions (or time) ran out.

You got 75 questions, and seem to have it enough together to tell me that it's most likely that you're a typically neurotic nursing student who obsesses over everything, but in the end...you knew your stuff.

Best of luck to you :)

Disc_Chick · Apr 2, 2014

So I thought I should give all you lovely people who gave me some encouragement before my boards an update. I did pass!! Took my boards March 5th, got an official license number on my states website on the 11th and I got my license about a week and a half after that. It's now the beginning of April and the job hunt wasn't going to well. I don't have any experience in a hospital, as a CNA, sitter, or anything like that. I worked customer service for years and currently work in an office. After about a week of applying at local hospitals (30+ applications) and nothing but rejections (I don't have the preferred 1 year experience in nursing) and not even an interview, I widened my search to long term care facilities. I got a call back from 2.

Monday the 31st I had an interview with a 150 bed LTC facility and they offered me the job. I accepted. Not my dream job but I am super excited to finally be a nurse and an employed one at that. Also really grateful for the opportunity.

Good luck to anyone taking the NCLEX and on the future job hunt!!

RetrieverGirl, BSN, RN · Apr 8, 2014

So I thought I should give all you lovely people who gave me some encouragement before my boards an update. I did pass!! Took my boards March 5th, got an official license number on my states website on the 11th and I got my license about a week and a half after that. It's now the beginning of April and the job hunt wasn't going to well. I don't have any experience in a hospital, as a CNA, sitter, or anything like that. I worked customer service for years and currently work in an office. After about a week of applying at local hospitals (30+ applications) and nothing but rejections (I don't have the preferred 1 year experience in nursing) and not even an interview, I widened my search to long term care facilities. I got a call back from 2.
Monday the 31st I had an interview with a 150 bed LTC facility and they offered me the job. I accepted. Not my dream job but I am super excited to finally be a nurse and an employed one at that. Also really grateful for the opportunity.
Good luck to anyone taking the NCLEX and on the future job hunt!!

Congratulations on the new job!!! How do you like it so far? I interviewed yesterday for position on nights. I am very apprehensive about it. In fact, I'm not sure I want it. The shift is 6p-6a and from 10p-6a I would be the only nurse on the 1st floor and in charge of 45 patients. The only other nurse in the building is on the 2nd floor and she is also a new grad RN. Ugh! I hate this job hunt!!!! :arghh: