I took NCLEX RN this morning had 75 questions with 16 select all apply. lots endo, infection control, pharma, medical/surgical, 1 drug calculation, 1 ped, No ob.
Did pearson trick with the
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I am in California and I have to wait for the snail mail. Keep my finger cross...... :heartbeat
I don't understand the point of us being asked about obscure drugs. If I see a drug I have never heard of, I'm going to look it up before giving it. I think it would be better for them to ask us more critical thinking and patho based questions. But what do I know?
How come you got to take your nclex so soon after graduation? In texas, they make it a requirement for the NS to submit an affidavit for graduation (saying you graduated from NS), fingerprinting and all this other stuff before we get the ATT. I still haven't gotten my ATT because my fingerprint images were bad. I've been waiting since early December.
In CA, you can do all the paperwork, including the fingerprinting, a couple of months in advance -- I submitted mine in March for a May graduation. You get the ATT the day after your graduation date. You could take the NCLEX the day after graduation if you really wanted to (and if you could find a testing center with space for the next day). However, the BRN waits until they get the final paperwork from your NS certifying that you actually did complete all of your coursework and graduate before they issue your license -- this typically takes another week or two after your graduation date. So, in my case, I took and passed the NCLEX before the BRN had received the final affidavit that I graduated. This is why it took until a week after I passed for my name to appear in the CA BRN database.
I don't understand the point of us being asked about obscure drugs. If I see a drug I have never heard of, I'm going to look it up before giving it. I think it would be better for them to ask us more critical thinking and patho based questions. But what do I know?
We have the same thought why they give these drugs which aren't that familiar to everyone, as I said even medical practitioners won't be able to put all these drugs in their heads without using the Pims/Mims. Citing a specific disease or illness to relate the drug maybe would somehow test our critical thinking but direct questions as to what is the action, side effects of never heard drugs? I can be sitting 6hrs and still don't know the answer.
I too am waiting for my quick results and am so ****** that they would do the stupid maintenance TODAY. ugh! oh well nothing you can do i guess. i just hope theyre posted when the maintenance goes down this afternoon. and wasn't martin luther king day on friday? im confused...
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I don't understand the point of us being asked about obscure drugs. If I see a drug I have never heard of, I'm going to look it up before giving it. I think it would be better for them to ask us more critical thinking and patho based questions. But what do I know?