The NCLEX-RN nightmare

 I took my state boards last Wednesday. Let me walk you through the past few weeks before I go into detail:

To prep for this I took a 3 day class, bought 3 study books, and 2 iPhone apps and studied countless hours for over a month. 100-200+ NCLEX questions a day easy. I felt pretty ready, but still nervous. The way NCLEX works is you get anywhere from 75-265 questions. If you miss a question, you get an easier one, if you get one right you get a harder one. When I went into it, I knew I didn't want to just get 75 (the minimum). Well I showed up at 9AM and the thing shut off at 75. I was done by 10AM. WHAT!? Seriously, I did not know one of those questions! When I got to about 55 I was like "please god don't shut off at 75" because I knew that I was doing THAT crappy that it would just be like "okay Amanda, you pretty much suck at this so I'm shutting off". I went home, ran 7 miles and cried. Everyone was like "don't worry you passed" but I was worried.

24 hours passed and I was supposed to be looking on the AZ BN website to see if I passed but I was looking at the Pearson Vue website where I took the test. Apparently the results first show up on the AZBN web. I got a call from my hubby saying "congratulations". Huh? I guess my mother in laws friend (her daughter took the NCLEX a few weeks ago and looked me up) had called to tell them I passed. I asked how they found out, looked it up myself, and couldn't believe my eyes. I had to keep looking at it. I guess I didn't know any of them because I kept getting them right and they had to give me harder and harder questions. It shut off at 75 because it didn't need to keep giving me questions to show that I was a competent nurse. I should never have doubted myself.

So now I'm an RN!