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I passed NCLEX-RN Examination!!! Yehey!!!

Posted by graeyze on March 16, 2009

WohoOo!!! Finally…  My thin envelope has just arrived. Yes! I passed nclex! Wohooo! I woke up late and found a text message from my friend that she already received her nclex result so I think maybe mine is already here but I don’t feel nervous by that time. I’m ready. I went out from my room looking around me to look if there’s an envelope, Yes, I found an envelope but I didn’t recognize it if it’s from California Board of Nursing. I get the envelope to see what it is! Oh my gosh! From California Board of Nursing! I knew then that I passed without opening it because it’s a thin one hehe, then I opened it to be assured that I really passed. I passed yes I passed after 3weeks of waiting! I’m already a US-RN! I called my mother on her phone to bring her good news. I also called and texted my friends to say that I passed nclex. But I didn’t informed Jemuel yet because I want to surprise him. At last I have conquered this exam! What did I do to pass the exam? I enrolled in a good review center (Universal Review Center) they are a big part of my success. They say that you read Saunders in order to pass the exam; I think you don’t really have to. You can use it as a reference because it somewhat helped me when I need to read more about the disease but I really wasn’t able to read the whole book because I’m not fun of reading, really. Ha-ha. I answered a lot of questions, I used Saunders cd, but I really recommend using Kaplan qtrainer and Nclex 4000, it is very similar to nclex question that is why when I’m on the exam, the way the question was delivered is not new to me. I really felt that I’m just doing a practice exam. I felt that I failed the exam, because I got the wrong answer in computation and I just guessed it, next I have 2 questions that are very tricky and asking me for a normal ones. And my confession, I just don’t know the medications they are asking I just guessed it. I guessed it to the feeling that I think its right but I’m not sure. You see I have a lot of unsure answers. But ofcourse somewhat I just felt that I think I passed because I knew I was able to answer the other questions correctly. By that time I was thinking is the questions given to me is more on analysis? Because as they say the harder the question the better. But I can’t differentiate the easy and the harder one.  I can’t also forget the light that stikes me while I was taking the exam, now I’m thinking maybe it’s a guidance from above, really, because the room is closed and just have some curtain on it, but in my cubicle light strikes me while I was taking the exam. I knew then that God is with me.  The exam for me is not that hard it’s just very tricky that’s why I some what not that confident that I passed. But now I realized why I’m feeling that way that I wasn’t felt too hard in that exam, because I study and prepared for it. This is the fruit of my labor. One not needs to be so knowledgeable to know everything, because like me I’m just an average type person, and I say “Bawal masyadong matalino, malalaman ng computer un” Ha-ha. So here are my special thanks from the bottom of my heart, to URC who really helped me a lot and they are really highly recommended. To my family and friends for giving me their support and prayers. To Mama who’s with me during my exam, it’s very true! Mothers are very lucky so get them to accompany you when you take your exam. To Jemuel for being my inspiration and sometimes despiration.Ha-ha. For giving me those motivational quotes like “Once you visualize it will materialize” and others and especially thanks for the times that he has to woke up early because I’m already in their house to study. Yes, some of my time I really went to their house to study. Maybe you think I wasn’t able to concentrate but for me it’s better and more relaxing, Ha-ha. To St. Jude for giving me hopes. And more especially to God for all his blessings and guidance through out my life.  Thanks to all! I’m really happy, I made it!

By the way if you want to download good resources related to nclex you can download it here at http://sunmoonlight.livejournal.com

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Expect the Unexpected

Posted by graeyze on February 18, 2009

What a day! I took the qualifying exam for staff nurses in Veterans Memorial Medical Center today. I prepared for this exam like I slept early and had a

breakfast. I ate tuna sandwich, gelatin and drink Milo. Why I’m saying this because something happened beyond what I expected. It’s really true that “Expect the unexpected”. Well I took the exam at 8am. The exam was 100 items; it’s difficult for me so I’m nervous that I won’t be having anymore chance to be hired in Veterans. But what it makes more difficult for me was the coolness inside the room and it gets colder and colder because I felt something, I thought I was just hungry but minute by minute the feeling becomes different. My stomach is aching so much and I felt I want to defecate. Wahahaha! So I started thinking what should I do, should I go to the restroom? But I don’t have any tissue anyway. I kept that feeling and just answer and answer just to finish the exam and get out of the room. There’s a lot of computation in the exam and calculator was not allowed, Oh my!!! I finished the exam at 9:30 that was the allotted time so I just finished in time. The feeling subsides a little bit and I thought I’m just hungry by that time. I planned to go home after that but the jeep didn’t stop to the stoplight where should I be waiting for an fx. So I just dropped by in SM North. I planned to have breakfast in SM but then the feeling of something came back again and now I know and very clear, I have to go to the restroom. But SM North is not fully open by that time, waaaaaaaa!!! Should I go home or go to Jemuel’s house??? So I decided to go to Jemuel’s house. I went to their restroom, and that’s it! Haha! But still my stomach is aching until now. I don’t know what’s happening in my stomach. I loss appetite too. And I’m sure this is not diarrhea. Uhm, I don’t know but I hope this will get over. By the way about the exam again, I don’t think I made it. Haha! But I still hope and believe in miracles.

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