Okay if you just took the nclex and are freaking out, about to puke your guts up, can't eat, sleep, think, going to the bathroom a lot more often, maybe telling yourself you are an idiot and you can't believe you just blew it?! Well that was me 48 hours ago all the way up until 1:30 yesterday. We have quick result here in Ohio and I finished my test at 11:30 on the 8th and my "licensed" results were posted to the board around 1:30 on the 9th. I SERIOUSLY thought I blew it and I am normally an optimist. I wanted to quit the test or start guessing or yell at somebody b/c I thought it was ridiculous. I had like three med questions of drugs I had NEVER heard of. Then total I think I had like 10 new format questions. Three fill in the blank and 7 check all that apply which were harder than heck. Then my math problems were confusing and I figured they would be easy! Every question seemed to have 2 right answer and it was like a 50/50 evertyime! It was pure torcher. I was pretty sure I got maybe 10 right for sure. When the computer shut off at 82 questions I thought yup that's it, it thinks I'm really stupid and there goes my dreams I couldn't even look at the administrators when I was leaving, I was shaking so bad I couldn't put the key in the locker, dropped my purse, and held my breath while trying not to cry all the way out to the parking lot. I could see my heart pounding through my shirt. MAJOR anxiety. When I got onto the main highway I put my sunglasses on and allowed the tears to flow and flow and flow! Then I felt relieved but sick at my stomach just b/c I KNEW I flunked. I seriously don't know how I passed. They say the minimum number of ?'s you get the better off you are. Well yea as long as you got the harder ones right or at least quite a few of them. Then I figured I just got them wrong so it shut off so soon. Turns out I must have done pretty okay b/c it took me about 2 hours and I had 82 questions. So I guess the # of ?'s does determine in a sense pass or fail b/c the computer can make its mind up on your few answered b/c you are doing well or you are "iffy" so it keeps going. Either way it works with you which is a good thing. So if you get a lot of ?'s don't freak out it's probably just waiting for you to get to a passing poing b/c it wants you to be a nurse :wink2: So if you are getting ready or just took the nclex, calm down, breathe, do something nice for yourself. If you made it through nursing school and have the desire to be a nurse then you will be fine. If by chance you are too, too nervous (I was) or maybe just not a good test taker, give it another shot if you truly want to be a nurse DONT give up and you will be there. So good luck to all of you and be sure to be the best nurse that you can be and don't take your license for granted :wink2: Bye
Took my NCLEX for the 3rd time wed 9/17, got 200 questions and I am not feeling too confident about it! Tons of priority questions later on in the test and only 2 med-math! Live in CA does anyone know how long it takes the board of Ca to post licenses to website. I heard 3 days, does anyone else have experience with Ca?
Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
Depends on SSN or not. Average is 3-10 days for Ca and even then we have had posters get results longer than that. Nothing you can do but wait. Good luck
I took the NCLEX-PN on Sep. 19 at 8:00 AM in Cincinnati Ohio. I prepared for this exam for months. I studied from Saunder's, Kaplan, NCLEX 3000, NCSBN online review, audio reviews among others. I knew all the main topics that the school kept pounding in my head for the last 15 months. I graduated with high honors and with perfect GPA. I studied for hours and learned everything form a simple bedbath to a complex chest tube. I felt like I was ready for the test and even though I was anxious, I was not nervous. The morning of the test I was photographed and fingerprinted and was told to put ALL my belongings in the locker. The only thing allowed to bring in with me to the testing area was my drivers license, no chewing gum or even a bottle of water. I sat in my chair and prayed for myself and the other test takers. I went through the tutorial and started to take the test.
After the first few questions, I looked at the left upper corner of the computer to see if I was taking the right test. It had my name followed by "NCLEX PN". I seriously believe I left my critical thinking and test taking abilities on the locker with the rest of my belongings. When I was answering the questions I coudn't dissect exactly what they were asking. I felt like a CNA taking the nclex RN, that's how lost I was. I had several SATA questions, a bunch of weird infectious diseases, several unheard drugs, and some priorities. NO math, no main drugs (what happend to Digoxin, coumadin, heparin, nitro, albuterol, ect?) NO convertions of anykind, NO main disorders, diseases or facts. URRRG!
Since I knew I was being videotaped and recorded the whole time I wanted to yell at the makers of the NCLEX, the NCSBN (National Conspiracy to Screw Beginner Nurses) and ask them what on earth were they thinking when they made up this bunch of nonsense. I felt like I was guessing the majority of the time, even when I was able to ruled 2 of the answers out, the remaining two were so similar that I had a 50/50 chance of picking the right one. I was told that with NCLEX you must know your stuff, because you will never pass by guessing. Oh geez no pressure there, since it seems that that was exactly what I was doing.
After an hour I was only in question #30. I decided to not take a break at that time, because if I did I was going to grab my keys and go home and leave behind everything and run to safety. I decided to be strong and put off with the torture, the computer shut off in question 85, I guess it realized I would not pass and it also realized that I couldn't take anymore of the toture for that day. It knew I'd have to go back to be beaten up and mentally abused for at least one more time.
I left "Guantanamo Bay" (the test center) and drove home. I did not cry, I told my DH how I miserably failed and that I didn't want to talk about it. I just layed in bed and try to watch some TV to put the traumatic experience aside. I couldn't. Like people who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, I was reliving the whole thing over and over. I couldn't sleep, think, function or even pretend to be a good wife and mother. After a while I did break up and cried my eyes out.
That night I had all the questions I had during the test running through my head, and I was reanswering them all again and again. During one of my sleepless nights believe it or not I was able to write down 50 of the exam questions I had during the NCLEX. I thought I would be able to remember a few, but I never thought I could actually remember 50 of them. Wow! that's how marked I was by the test.
Today is the 21st of September, almost 48 hours have passed and I am still dying to know my results. I am 95% possitive I failed but I just want to see it in writing so I can start studying again, call my employer and give up my promised position since I won't be becoming a nurse after all, not for a while at least. I also need reapply so I can retake the torture.
I believe it should be "illegal" to make us wait more than a couple of hours for the results after we take the test. I wish there was a way to sue them for emotional pain and suffering (lol). Thankfully Ohio participates in the quickresults program, but still, 2 days have felt like an eternity. My heart goes out for those of you who have to wait several days and even weeks to get the so wanted results. I am just praying that by some miralcle I am wrong and hopefully I passed. Thanks for reading my first ever blog and I wish the best of luck to those who are in the same boat. God bless.
:yeah:I DID IT! I DID IT! THANK GOD I PASSED!!! OH MY GODNESS I AM A NURSE!!!
Now for those of you are are working on passing the nclex try this:
:bowingpur to your God. :typing hard. Don't :smackingf over do it. Even if you feel like it, do not :crash_com at the testing center. Believe in God and in yourself . Try to get a good :sleep: the night before. If things do not work out in your favor EVER give up! even if you are feeling like , God can make it all like :yeahthat:.. Good luck and God bless you all.
Man I feel like you are my clone! I felt the exact same way. I took it Thursday, knew I had just flushed all my dreams down the toilet, found out I passed yesterday. I was the first to take the test in my class so now I'm going to make sure and tell the others to not lay around for 2 days wallowing in their self pitty like I did and just wait for their results they will probably be pleasantly surprised. Congrats!
So I took my test Wed Sept 17th and have check the board website and nothing! I am freaking out! Does that mean I didn't pass? Since Monday would make it more the 3 days. I finished my test at 2pm on wed the 17th!
Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
So I took my test Wed Sept 17th and have check the board website and nothing! I am freaking out! Does that mean I didn't pass? Since Monday would make it more the 3 days. I finished my test at 2pm on wed the 17th!
Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
California Board of Nursing
If RN then looking at anything from 3-10 days and sometimes even longer. If PN then you will not see name on website until you get your results by snail mail. Hang in there and wait for your results. GOod luck
I am an RN for Ca BON. And I wanted to check,when logging on the website your are just checking a permanent license, correct and just plugging in your first and last name and middle initial if one, then the city?
Ok Can someone help, Please! It's now been 1 week and nothing on the CA BON website. Does anyone know how to check on that website, is it just under permanent license verification, and you plug in your name and city/county, and if you passed your name comes up with an RN license number? I AM THINKING NOW I DIDN'T PASS! someone please reply if they have any info...
I couldn't even look at the administrators when I was leaving, I was shaking so bad I couldn't put the key in the locker, dropped my purse, and held my breath while trying not to cry all the way out to the parking lot. I could see my heart pounding through my shirt. MAJOR anxiety. When I got onto the main highway I put my sunglasses on and allowed the tears to flow and flow and flow! Then I felt relieved but sick at my stomach just b/c I KNEW I flunked. I seriously don't know how I passed. They say the minimum number of ?'s you get the better off you are. Well yea as long as you got the harder ones right or at least quite a few of them. Then I figured I just got them wrong so it shut off so soon. Turns out I must have done pretty okay b/c it took me about 2 hours and I had 82 questions. So I guess the # of ?'s does determine in a sense pass or fail b/c the computer can make its mind up on your few answered b/c you are doing well or you are "iffy" so it keeps going. Either way it works with you which is a good thing. So if you get a lot of ?'s don't freak out it's probably just waiting for you to get to a passing poing b/c it wants you to be a nurse :wink2: So if you are getting ready or just took the nclex, calm down, breathe, do something nice for yourself. If you made it through nursing school and have the desire to be a nurse then you will be fine. If by chance you are too, too nervous (I was) or maybe just not a good test taker, give it another shot if you truly want to be a nurse DONT give up and you will be there. So good luck to all of you and be sure to be the best nurse that you can be and don't take your license for granted :wink2: Bye 
:yeah:
:sleep: the night before. If things do not work out in your favor 
EVER give up! even if you are feeling like 
, God can make it all like :yeahthat:.. Good luck and God bless you all.
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Took my NCLEX for the 3rd time wed 9/17, got 200 questions and I am not feeling too confident about it! Tons of priority questions later on in the test and only 2 med-math! Live in CA does anyone know how long it takes the board of Ca to post licenses to website. I heard 3 days, does anyone else have experience with Ca?