hey Nurses,

Can anyone help me with this NCLEX RN stuff. I did the Saunders theory and questions for my first attempt and failed at 75 and before the second exam i took Kaplan and i was doing all the question and i failed at 75, I dont think the Kaplan has helped me. I dont know what is set for me in the future. I did my BSN from India.

What should I do to pass ?

Can i join in any of the hospitals as a Nurrse Extern or as a Nurse Graduate ?

Do you actually have a visa that will permit you to work in the US?

If you have taken the NCLEX exam, then there is no way that you can work in any nursing role other than the nursing assistant until you pass the exam. Those other roles are no longer available for you once you have tested.

I would take at least a week to just relax and let your brain regroup before you start to prepare again. I will be more than happy to help you but you will need to follow the first tip of my program that is posted and again wait at least a week before starting it.

Since you trained out of the country, Kaplan has no guarantees about their program and they will not refund any of the costs of it.

hi. i'm on the same boat as you are. i took the nclex twice and failed. i did my bsn in the philippines. i hear suzanne's plan is helpful. take that into consideration.

Suzanne's Plan.

we both have the same situation. i also got 75 on my first and second take and now i'm really preparing for my third time and i hope it will be the last. i admit i rushed my self too early and now i'm taking my time. i'm planning to enroll myself on excell review class since most licensed and preparing to take nclex too that i know recommends it than kaplan.

maybe you should also try to consider that maybe self review or online review is not really working for you. some people can do it but maybe not for you....

Also recommend Suzanne's plan. And don't give up. No matter how many times you must take the test, keep on doing it until you pass. Good luck.

Hi. For my school I failed our HESI exit exam twice before passing that test on the third try. I actually passed NCLEX-RN my first attempt this past Tuesday. Is there anyone who could help you in person with testing like a tutor? When I took Kaplan in person in Richmond, one of the instructors told me that if I fail NCLEX-RN then they could arrange for a personal tutor to help me through their program. Plus, Kaplan would give you a free course to take the course again.

Those are just ideas. I know you said Kapaln would not be useful for you, but it doesn't hurt to try again. Also, have you thought about other books as well? I would again recommend the Hogan Prentice Hall Comp NCLEX review. The questions there have more thorough explanations regarding the rationales/strategies for each question. It only costs about $37.

Saunders is a good book, but I would go review with something harder like Hogan questions using Saunders for content review, but that was just me. Saunders questions are too easy.

I hope I helped. If you're having problems passing the NCLEX after 2 tries, I really think you should try to find a tutor.

Good luck!

I am waiting for Suzanne's study plan if I PM her correctly (so confusing ),here is another resource that might help NCSBN Learning Extension at www.learningext.com NCSBN are the people who create the questions for the NCLEX
Good Luck

i failed the nclex rn exam twice,i feel really bad,i dnt know what to do next?i studied all the questions on the cd on the new sanders book and kaplan i still fail the exam.Help pls??

I used saunders and some other questions book similar but different author and somewhat different.......I wish I could remember the author but it has been 5 and 1/2 years so I forget........I found that the content and actual knkowledge is just as much needed as the strategies. I know everybody gets different questions but I honestly didn't find it that hard...only a like 2 or 3 I had to totally guess at, not to brag at all considering I would consider myself an average student....not a brainiac by any means! lol I think it was just that I lucked out and studied the right way. That totally sucks to all of you who fail and fail multiple times! God I would have died! I was thanking my lucky stars when I passed!! I would say try not to over anyalize the questions....that is something that I had to be careful not to do. Know your nursing process...probably the last time I ever used it! lol and your "ABCs"...(Airway, breathing, circulation) and and knowing the normals for the common labs is good too. Common severe med side effects like redmans and stevens johnson, oh and scope of practice for RN and LPN, CNA. I had a lot of patient education questions that you had to know about diseases that way and triage/prioritizing of patients type thing.....with that remember ABCs and that pain is a symptom and not always life threatening.
When you do the questions are you reading the rationale for why the correct answer is correct and why each of the others is wrong? That is important. And when I found myself not on solid ground in picking my answer or didn't understand why the correct answer was such with just the explaination I pulled out a text book or the saunders review book.
Good luck to you......I find it interesting that I hear a lot of people who fail went to school out of the country...makes ya wonder what and how they are teaching........interesting.