In all the excitement...

My post yesterday was geared toward all the drama of "not graduating". Now that things have calmed down...

I sent off my application to take NCLEX (state boards) on Thursday. It's finally real to me now. Until now, nursing school has only had that theoretical goal of passing boards. Now, we're getting to the nitty-gritty. For those of you who don't know the process, let me explain it to you. I have submitted an application to the state of Mississippi Board of Nursing. I also submitted an application to the National Board of Nursing. Once I graduate, the school sends my transcript to the state. When they receive it, they will process my application and submit my eligibility to test to the national board. The national board will then contact me and set up a date and location for me to test. Not exactly sure what the turn around time is once my transcripts have been submitted, but I think its pretty quick. So, now, I'm playing the waiting game.

Speaking of waiting. I called my first choice hospital the other day and let them know I got my background check letter back and asked what I should do now. I knew that I didn't need to do anything, but I wanted to get some information from them and that seemed like the perfect little cover story. They said calls for employment haven't been made yet, but should be soon. At my interview they said three weeks. My three weeks will be up next friday.

Next week at school, we have our NCLEX review class. It will be from 8-4ish Monday thru Thursday. I really enjoyed the review I did over Christmas break. This will be the same company, but a different instructor, so I'm hoping to reinforce the learning that I did over break. Then Friday we take another mock NCLEX predictor.
I'm trying to tie up my loose ends on assignments now. We received a print out of the topics we missed on the last mock NCLEX and have to do some work to remediate on those topics. Several people are groaning and complaining about it, but I think it's pretty smart. If I missed it once and don't fix it, Murphy's Law says: Those will be the topics on my NCLEX test. So, remediation, here I come. I have no intention whatsoever to take boards more than once.

Stay tuned...