Reregistered for the CPNE

You're not going to try again? I'm so sorry you failed!

I just don't feel like I can put myself through that again. It made me doubt myself-and I don't like feeling like that. I'm looking into LPN to BSN programs now. Maybe I'll change my mind....but I don't think so.

Lisashee,

Cry today, feel sorry for yourself tomorrow, eat a quart of Ben & Jerry's, wash down with a good Merlot then:

WORKSHOPS
Lynn Frederick's www.clinicalprepexam.com. I am taking this one in Charlotte on August 14, 15, 16
Tina's workshop www.necpne.com is in Wilkes-Barre, PA

Robs CPNE DVD can't find address right now but check LUNAH's posts, you'll find it there or just google it. Worth the $40.00

Check on this site for CPNE journals that folks have been kind enough to post; LUNAH and IVAN have great ones.

You can do this. Look at this inital failure as practice!!!!

Enjoy that Ice Cream!!

Maura

Thank you for all of the support-you are all great

I agree with the others here- go ahead and take a workshop. It'll cost you a lot less time & money than starting all over again in a trad program. Come here often for support from the other current/former students. If you can pinpoint what it was that caused you to fail, that's a good place to start. Was it clinical performance, or documenting? Where do you think you need more info?

I know that if I had failed my CPNE, I would have seriously considered not trying again ... but being a Paramedic, I didn't have another route to that RN that wouldn't involve me starting from total scratch -- there aren't any P-to-RN programs in my area.

When I failed what should have been my last PCS for a silly error (failing to ID the patient, whoops), I paced hallways for about two hours while waiting for my next PCS, and during that time, I made a deal with myself (probably talking out loud, I'm sure I looked like a crazy person, LOL) that if I failed, I would try again. Thank goodness that wasn't necessary in the end, but it was important to give myself permission to not succeed, in a way, but to also to promise myself that I wouldn't give up my goal of being an RN.

The CPNE definitely takes people outside their comfort zone, which is really unsettling, I know. *hugs* Take some time for yourself, then take a deep breath and decide if you really want to start all over, or take a chance (it's an expensive chance, I know!) that you could reach your goal in a 2.5-day exam. And we'll be here for you either way!

Thank you for the advice. You make me feel like i'm not the only one who feels like this! I'll keep you posted on which way I decide to go-

Good Luck!!!