Counting Down

Pinning - 4 days
Graduation - 5 days
HOME - 5 days
Spend the day with Laura Beth, Diane, and baby Carson - 7 days
Gulf Shores - 10 days!!!!!

These five countdowns are keeping me going through finals!

Today I took my Professional Practice final, which is another NCLEX-RN predictor test. We were told that a score of 850 means that you have a pretty good chance of passing the NCLEX-RN, and a score of 950 is "Outstanding". Some people in my class (around seven or eight people I think) failed the first predictor test we took and were told that they must pass this one in order to graduate. Luckily, I already passed the first one, so I just had to take this one for my final grade, which I'm not too worried about. Throughout the whole test I felt as if I was doing pretty well, which usually means that I end up not doing too well... As it started to score I held my breath, hoping for an 850 - I scored a 947! That's just three points from "outstanding"! I figured everyone would do better on this one, but apparently they didn't. None of the students who needed to pass did, and even some who had passed the first predictor failed this one. One friend asked me how I did, so I told her my score, then immediately wished I hadn't told her when she told me that she failed and failed badly. The head of the School of Nursing is supposed to have a meeting tomorrow with the Dean of the School of Sciences and Mathematics to decide what to do. If these people aren't allowed to graduate, we loose almost half of the Nursing School's graduating class. Things are tense around here since the Nursing department has allowed people to move on in the program without the required grades, and now, the week of graduation they're finally going to put their foot down. I'm just praying that the right thing for everyone (whatever that may be) is done.