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Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 11:02 PM Sep 2014

My Daughter Passed Her Nursing Boards Today.

Previously: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018618145

I can't wait to get home to see her, these last two months of her doing review have been brutal on her.

When she called me after the exam was over and she got her results she was crying so hard I thought she had failed at first, but it was due to sheer relief at passing.


I don't know who was happier she had passed, her or me. I was on pins an needles all day waiting for that phone call.

All along as I was telling her she knew her stuff and not to sweat it, she would nail that test no problem, I had butterflies the size of B-52's flying around my stomach.

Not anymore, woot!










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My Daughter Passed Her Nursing Boards Today. (Original Post) Ikonoklast Sep 2014 OP
Congratulations to your daughter, my dear Ikonoklast! CaliforniaPeggy Sep 2014 #1
Thank you so much, Peggy. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #3
Congrats to your daughter! mnhtnbb Sep 2014 #2
We'll certainly have a little celebration this Saturday. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #5
Good for her! Aristus Sep 2014 #4
I knew she had it down cold, her study habits border on brutal. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #6
Congratulations to her! pinboy3niner Sep 2014 #7
We have a long history of nurses in my family. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #8
Hats off to Martha! pinboy3niner Sep 2014 #12
I know that sense of pride. Congratulations. My sweet niece just passed her RN boards a month ago auntAgonist Sep 2014 #9
Good on her! Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #10
Exciting times and more hard hard work ahead! Nurses have drive or they'd never have gotten where auntAgonist Sep 2014 #11
Congratulations to your niece! pinboy3niner Sep 2014 #13
Congratulations! TeamPooka Sep 2014 #14
She so wants to get busy working, she wants to get a year in and then start school again. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #16
My wife is a nurse and is still getting degrees underwritten by her hospital. nt TeamPooka Sep 2014 #25
Congratulations to your daughter! Solly Mack Sep 2014 #15
Thanks Solly. I am so very happy she passed on the first try. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #17
YAY! discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2014 #18
Hard work and dogged determination, refusal to accept failure. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #19
Hooray!!! Tribalceltic Sep 2014 #20
She got recruited pretty hard by several hospitals. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #23
Congratulations! mucifer Sep 2014 #21
The boards were anywhere from 75 to 300 questions, luck of the draw. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #22
my second day of testing the student to the left of me mucifer Sep 2014 #27
Wonderful news! femmocrat Sep 2014 #24
I shot her a text this morning and asked if she slept at all last night. Ikonoklast Sep 2014 #26

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,297 posts)
1. Congratulations to your daughter, my dear Ikonoklast!
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 11:06 PM
Sep 2014

That is one major milestone!

I wish her every success in her nursing career!

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
5. We'll certainly have a little celebration this Saturday.
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 11:17 PM
Sep 2014

Megan needs to de-stress a little bit, I think a congratulatory pint of Guinness will certainly help in that department!

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
6. I knew she had it down cold, her study habits border on brutal.
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 11:21 PM
Sep 2014

Convincing her she knew her stuff was the difficult part.


I am unashamedly proud of her accomplishment, even though all I did was cheerlead from the sidelines.

She did all the hard work on her own.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
7. Congratulations to her!
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 11:23 PM
Sep 2014

Nursing is one of the most rigorous majors one can have, and I've heard the boards are exceptionally grueling. Nurses are appreciated by patients and families, but even they have no idea what it takes to become an R.N. Not to mention the continuing ed requirements afterward...

As Joe would say, that's really a BFD!

(Can you tell that I LOVE nurses? One literally saved my life in Vietnam. )

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
8. We have a long history of nurses in my family.
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 11:36 PM
Sep 2014

Both my aunts, my mother's sisters were nurses.

My Aunt Martha was an Army Captain stationed in Japan during Korea, she spent her time patching up wounded from that war.

She met a flier while he was on leave in Japan, he asked her to marry him and she told him after the war was over.

She shouldn't have waited, her fiance was shot down and killed while on a strafing run.

She never married after that.

Martha came back to the states and after working for the VA for years taught nursing at the school my daughter graduated from, she was in charge of the nursing program before she retired.

My Aunt Martha was a force of Nature, few doctors that crossed her path ever did so again.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
12. Hats off to Martha!
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 12:13 AM
Sep 2014


I spent 18 months in an Army hospital and got to know my nurses very well and went to some of their homes for dinner and had a place when I needed somewhere to stay.

One thing I got a kick out of was the nursing school caps that the civilian nurses wore (because the Army used both military nurses and civilian nurse employees). The civilian nurses were not required to wear the standard Army nurse cap. And I learned that each nursing school has its own distinctive cap, and that's what the civilian nurses wore, so we had a variety of styles on the ward.

One nurse in particular, Sherry, took a lot of ribbing about her cap--a narrow, frilly, lacy thing with some black ribbon on it (memory's foggy, but it may have been from a nursing school in Louisiana?). Sherry became a good friend, and I thought that was a very cool tradition.

Did I mention that I love nurses?

auntAgonist

(17,252 posts)
9. I know that sense of pride. Congratulations. My sweet niece just passed her RN boards a month ago
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 11:52 PM
Sep 2014

and is now working in Cardiac ICU in a large hospital in Ontario Canada.

Best wishes for a bright and fulfilling future / career for your daughter.

Well done family!!

aA
kesha

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
10. Good on her!
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 11:59 PM
Sep 2014

My daughter wants to work in pediatrics, I think she said that she had a good chance for that happening at one of the hospitals that were recruiting her class.

auntAgonist

(17,252 posts)
11. Exciting times and more hard hard work ahead! Nurses have drive or they'd never have gotten where
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 12:09 AM
Sep 2014

they are today.

There is hope for the future.


pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
13. Congratulations to your niece!
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 01:03 AM
Sep 2014

I neglected to mention before that I was married for a lot of years to one of the top critical care nurses in the country. I have a deep appreciation for her and for all the men and women who do that.

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
16. She so wants to get busy working, she wants to get a year in and then start school again.
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 07:49 AM
Sep 2014

She wants to get her Masters, and if it works out her employer will pay for most of it.

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
17. Thanks Solly. I am so very happy she passed on the first try.
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 07:52 AM
Sep 2014

She said that after the first 100 questions she knew she had it in the bag, she had six hours to complete 265 questions and she did it in three.

Tribalceltic

(1,000 posts)
20. Hooray!!!
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 08:54 AM
Sep 2014

I come from a family of Nurses (Mom was an LPN, Sis is Bach RN, halfway to Masters) I was an aide for 30 years.

She will have her pick of employment.


Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
23. She got recruited pretty hard by several hospitals.
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 09:29 AM
Sep 2014

They were just waiting for her to test, the jobs are definitely there for nursing grads.


Love your handle.


Sláinte!

mucifer

(23,373 posts)
21. Congratulations!
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 08:58 AM
Sep 2014

I have been an RN since 1988. Back in those days we had to wait 3 months to get the results from the test. We had to work as RNLP license pending and hope we passed or we'd be nursing assistance till we passed the test.

It's a lot of hard work.
Big hugs!

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
22. The boards were anywhere from 75 to 300 questions, luck of the draw.
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 09:23 AM
Sep 2014

Megan got the 300 question test, had six hours total to finish, two three hour sessions, all done on computer.

After 265 questions, the test stopped as she had no statistical chance of failing at that point.

Her test results were posted immediately, her license gets posted by the state and goes into force on Monday.

mucifer

(23,373 posts)
27. my second day of testing the student to the left of me
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 06:50 PM
Sep 2014

was taking it for her second time. The student on my right was taking it for her 6th and final time. I was shaking in my boots . But, I passed.

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
26. I shot her a text this morning and asked if she slept at all last night.
Fri Sep 26, 2014, 02:14 PM
Sep 2014

She responded, "Like I ran a marathon."

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