Talk me down from the ledge!

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I'm getting really scared.

CPNE, second time, 8/1, Albany.

:urgycld:

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Specializes in Homecare Peds, ICU, Trauma, CVICU.

Holy cow, that's in 6 days, right? How'd you manage to get a second date so fast?

You can do this! You've got the advantage this time, you already know the ropes. You will come home a graduate nurse! Just keep telling yourself that. Be excited, not nervous. This is your day!

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I'll be thinking about you. You're going to pass!!!

I'm getting really scared.

CPNE, second time, 8/1, Albany.

:urgycld:

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Specializes in Staff nurse.

I'm praying for you. Have some Freihofer Chocolate Chip cookies to celebrate your victory!! (Albany, NY, right?)

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

Sue, if I can do it, so can you!! *hugs* You WILL succeed! Don't give yourself any other option. You've been there, you know the drill, you know exactly how to play the game.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ER, sick, injured,stupid.

Your first time through was just practice. Now you know EXACTLY what you have to do and how to do it. This is your time to show them how it's done. You know everything that you need to know. Go in there, do everything one step at a time and get it done. Let all the first timers be nervous. You're the vet that gets to show them how it's done.

I was in the same boat as you. It was a thousand times better my second go. Don't freak. Go in, kick ass, go home. Then, you get to party like it's 1999.

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Specializes in Trauma,ER,CCU/OHU/Nsg Ed/Nsg Research.

You can do it!!!

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Suesquatch,

I know you are going to be posting to this board a really short message that reads "I PASSED" next weekend and will be telling us that you will posting your journal later. I know things (believe me, I do), and I know that you are going pass.

You know your material and you have been practicing a gazillion times. You have been there and know what to expect. My prayers are with you and you will be fine. Suesquatch, GN:yeah:

Treeriver1966

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Thanks, all.

I got the second date for fast for several reasons:

NE RPAC. I said I would take ANY location except Pennsylvania, which gave me 6 sites;

My application was entirely online, so the day they re-opened my application I submitted it, and

I said I'd take a cancellation with one day's notice.

:)

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

Big breath.

Let it out.

Step back.

Back off that ledge.

You are gonna do it, Sue. bodypartslipssmack-1.gif

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

They seem to be pretty speedy with getting people in to re-test, too. I think that's wonderful!

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Specializes in Psych, LTC, Acute Care.

((Hugs)) to you! OMG I never knew how emotional I could get over people taking the CPNE. I visit the EPN board and have to hold my breath in hopes that the weekenders pass. It seems like most of the people that actively participate in that board pass this GIANT. You will too.

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