BSN, RN The NCLEX

I took the NCLEX on June 6th at 2pm.

I wasn't a big ball of nerves (or didn't realize it) until I had to have my fingerprints scanned and my hand scanned at the testing center. I placed my palm on the scanner and I noticed it was shaking. There were 10 other girls and 1 guy sitting that were processed before me. I was the last one to enter the exam room. They basically strip searched me. The lady looked under my hair and tried to look in my non-existing pockets. I sat down and went through the instructions and began the exam. I wasn't ever sure of the questions. I think I was positive on 2 questions throughout the entire thing.

So the NCLEX.

Let me explain.

You can pass or fail the exam in as little as 75 questions or go all the way to question 265. It is an adaptive test, so the better you do, the harder it gets. 

I marked down on my scratch paper every time I got one of the harder questions (select all that apply). It took until around question 17 or 18 for me to get a select all that apply question. I was a little worried. Once I moved on a bit, I got more and more select all that apply. I hit the 15 mark on select all that apply and eased up on my nerves. When I got to question 75 and was ready to hit submit...I took a deep breath. Would it shut off? Would it let me keep going?

I would have died if I had to keep going.

It shut off and I took an exit survey and waited on the attendant to dismiss me. I skipped to my car, called my parents, texted Stesha, and drove home.

I was pretty certain I had passed. Failing in 75 questions is probably hard to do.

Lance and I went to a special dinner at a Hibachi place we had never been to. It seems to be the only 4 star place other than Benihana's and I wasn't that impressed with the one downtown over Christmas break. We both enjoyed the food and the "show".

We rented We Need to Talk About Kevin and watched that. It was a disturbing movie that has (of course) won awards.

I relaxed the next day by reading by the pool while Lance was at school. Some of my classmates were updating their status about passing the NCLEX, so I checked online.

Guess what?

I PASSED!

I am officially an unemployed nurse.

This is what I went to school for, now I just need a job.

I spent yesterday going through the steps to get my NC license transferred to TX. If I read correctly, I should have a temp license in 5-10 days that will last me 120 days.