Hi! I was wondering what the timeline was for you to:
Graduate
Send in your application to BON and PearsonVue for the ATT
Get your authorization to test
Take the NCLEX (how soon did you schedule it?)
How long did you study before taking the NCLEX?
How many questions and how long did it take you?
When did you find out your NCLEX results, did you pass?
Start applying for jobs
Get hired for your first nursing job (and what was it?)
Start an RN-BSN program (if applicable)
For example:
1/15 - Started applying for new grad positions
4/5 - Interview for Peds Residency
5/13 - Graduated Nursing School
5/14 - Sent in application for ATT
5/17 - Job offer for Peds Residency
5/21 - Received ATT
6/1 - Took the NCLEX (75 questions in 1.5 hrs, studied for 4 weeks)
6/3 - Received quick results PASSED!
6/15 - Started Peds Residency
8/25 - RN-BSN program
Obviously, you don't have to answer all of my questions, although that would be cool and interesting to read! I love planning and I keep thinking about my final year of nursing school and all the busy, exciting, stressful things that will come along with finals, graduation, NCLEX, and starting my first RN job!
Send in your application to BON and PearsonVue for the ATT 2/2015 - This was the school's deadline. They turned in our applications as a batch, and the BON processes them and waits on the transcripts. I went ahead and registered for the NCLEX then because I still had money from taxes.
Start applying for jobs 3/2015 - I only applied to one job.
Get hired for your first nursing job (and what was it?) 4/2015 - NICU
Graduate 5/18/2015 - School hand delivered transcripts to the BON that morning.
Get your authorization to test 5/26/2015
Take the NCLEX 6/8/2015
How long did you study before taking the NCLEX? The whole time
How many questions and how long did it take you? Haven't taken it yet.
When did you find out your NCLEX results, did you pass? Same as previous, but it is common in my states for testers' names to appear on the BON's site the same/next day depending on what time they took the test.
Start an RN-BSN program (if applicable) I graduated from a BSN program.
Send in your application to BON and PearsonVue for the ATT: 1ST WEEK OF MARCH 2015
Get your authorization to test: MAY 6, 2015
Take the NCLEX (how soon did you schedule it?): JUNE 3, 2015, scheduled it as soon as I got the ATT
How long did you study before taking the NCLEX?: ABOUT 2 WEEKS TOTAL
How many questions and how long did it take you? 75 QUESTIONS, 33 SATA, 1 HOUR 45 MINS
When did you find out your NCLEX results, did you pass? JUNE 5, 2015; PASSED
Start applying for jobs: JANUARY 18, 2015
Get hired for your first nursing job (and what was it?) Interviewed 4/6/15, accepted position 4/22/15; New Grad Fellow CVIC, starts last week of June 2015
Start an RN-BSN program (if applicable): Not yet, planning on starting in August or October 2015
Just coming to finish up the questions now that I've passed the NCLEX and got my license.
How many questions and how long did it take you? -75 questions in a little less than an hour
When did you find out your NCLEX results, did you pass? -I walked out of the testing center at 3pm and my license was posted some time between 1pm and 2pm the next day (yes, I was checking hourly...)
When did you find out your NCLEX results, did you pass? -I walked out of the testing center at 3pm and my license was posted some time between 1pm and 2pm the next day (yes, I was checking hourly...)
Wow! Your state is FAST! That's really nice, I had to wait for Quick Results, but at least my state participates in Quick Results, I'm thankful for that. =)
How many questions and how long did it take you? 75 questions, 35 minutes (I don't suggest it, they put my results on hold for 25 hours to review the tape/my whiteboard to make sure I didn't have any advantage...)
When did you find out your NCLEX results, did you pass? I found out 2 days later because of that hold but most people in my new grad residency program have found out within about 24 hours on weekdays and 48 if they took it on a weekend.
Send in application to board and pay fees, register and pay for NCLEX 3/27
Graduation 5/16
Kaplan 5/19-5/22
ATT 6/1
NCLEX 75 questions and good pop up for PVT 6/8
I am in CA so no quick results for me, I know for a fact my school hasn't sent out transcripts yet (even though nursing is the priority) so I think it might be a while for me until my license posts. In the meantime I have been applying to some jobs, working, and enjoying life.
5/27 graduated and school sent grad verification (PA BON and from a PA school)
6/12 ATT (seemed like they were sent completely randomly because some of my classmates who put in applications a few weeks ago were sent ATT before me and I paid over a month ago)
NICUmiiki, DNP, NP
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