Julie Williams, RN, BSN – it feels really good to write that! After possibly the longest 48 hours of my life, I got onto the Florida Dept of Health website and thought I’d look myself up, kind of for kicks since they say the DOH is slower than Pearson, and Pearson hadn’t posted my results yet. And to my surprise, I was there! Julie Wargo Williams, professsion: Registered Nurse! (Well, the exclamation point wasn’t there, I added that in) With my home address so I knew it was really me! I even have a license number. I swear, that test (the NCLEX) will rip any ounce of confidence you have to shreds. 170-something questions, I don’t know because it just shuts off after you’ve passed or failed with no warning. Actually, now that I think about it, that might be a good thing – you know at the end of a test you kind of start getting ancy for it to just be over? I do, anyway, so maybe the no warning thing is good. But still, I was in there for almost 3 hours, and I had a sinking feeling of doom when I walked out – very close to “failing-the-HESI” feeling, which I know all too well. But today – all is good! And I have a job offer at Shands, and my family is coming to visit next week, and I can RELAX, for the first time in a loong time!
Yesterday Dusty took the day off to help me get my mind off the test, and we went here:
I was cold – a miracle, really.
