Officially an RN!!!

I am so happy to finally be able to say I am a Registered Nurse! I found out this past weekend that I passed the nursing boards, and couldn't be happier!

I kept my test date fairly secret, only a handful of people knew when I was taking it. I didn't want to have to worry about a ton of people knowing I was taking it and all the pressure that came with that. I took the test Thursday morning (Jan. 26th) at 8am. Thankfully I did a drive by of the testing center the day before so I knew right where to go, didn't want to get lost or anything! I actually felt fairly confident the morning of the test, still super nervous, but I knew I had prepared adequately and was ready to take this test.

The way the NCLEX works, you don't know how many questions you are going to get. The minimum number of questions you could get is 75 and the maximum is 265. That is a huge range! The amount of questions you get is partly based on how you are doing. I was really hoping for the minimum, so after I answered question 75 I had my fingers crossed. But then it went to question 76, I was a little disappointed, but stayed focused. Thankfully the test shut off at 100 questions for me, so not too many more.

After the test I felt pretty good, I knew there was a slim chance I failed. How could I really have done THAT bad on just 100 questions that the test shut off because there was no hope of me passing. That was a huge relief, and I just focused on trying to not think about it for the next two days till I got my results!

Saturday morning (48hrs after the test) I knew I could go online and get my results. They require you to pay $7.95 (ridiculous, but at the same time they could charge $70.95 and I'm pretty sure everyone would still pay it!). I put in my credit card information, and this screen pops up:

This small little insignificant 'pass' is what comes up on your computer. It was a little anti-climatic, like I was wondering where the fireworks were! But I was SO relieved to finally be done.