u/tonyadpx

My biggest problem is staying organized. I don’t have a designated space, so I often carry my materials to where ever I can find it. Lately. It’s been at the kitchen table. However, I’ve noticed that more cluttered or disorganized my space, the less successful I am. What is your work space like? I’m thinking about investing a small space in my garage specifically for binding, but I need ideas….

I just got off the phone with my daughter, who finished her NCLEX. She had a full panic attack in the parking lot of the Pearson building after and has convinced herself that she failed. I listened to her reasoning. I’m her dad, and she’s been working so hard, but her reasoning has me convinced she didn’t do so well either.

1. She listened to Mark K lectures. She took from him that if the questions aren’t getting harder then she’s doing bad and she never felt that they were too hard. But she said she got a lot of case studies and SATA questions. Isn’t that good since those are considered difficult?
2. She struggled with the ATI predictor. In fact, she only passed it about a week ago after failing it twice. It shook her confidence. But I was told that ATI isn’t what NCLEX is, that NCLEX is more a safety test than a knowledge test. Is this true?
3. She said a good chuck of her questions were med-surge. I read that that means the computer is still trying to determine her strength in that subject. Is this good, bad, or neither?

I just want to give her confidence, and also I’m scared too. She was an amazing student, never was close to failing out, passed her TEAS first shot, and formed a study group that was also pretty successful. Never was there a moment until now where we (her and I) weren’t confident. Any answers are helpful, and don’t worry, I’ve never put any pressure on her that she needs to pass or else, or anything even close to that. I’m just scared for her and want to be ready to support her.

UPDATE 1: I genuinely didn’t expect this response and thank everyone, even the person who told me to tell my daughter to smoke a blunt and get cracked. She’s a great kid, it’s super easy to be a good dad, and we are tremendously lucky that she keeps us so informed and in the loop of her daily process. She didn’t tell anyone else, not even her saint of a boyfriend, that she was doing her NCLEX, because she didn’t want to disappoint anyone if she failed or want the pressure of all the “good lucks, you’re going to do fine.”

I would like everyone to know she did the Pearson trick and got the good answer. It calmed my wife and I, but she’s still waiting for hard evidence. Of her four person study group, one passed, one failed, and one other besides my daughter are waiting results. My daughter gets hers the 19th. Both my wife and I are home for the Juneteenth holiday so we will be there for whatever aftermath will come. I promise to update once she gets her results. I’m sure she’ll make a TikTok. Thank you all again. The shared trauma of nursing school has made so many amazing and supportive nurses, I can’t tell you how much you helped this worrying dad.