Took NCLEX today/second time

Woo! I sure hope you're right! It's funny, i was a frm believer of the pvt when I didn't get the pop up and thought life was over. Now when I do get it I'm skeptical! Yikes what a roller coaster ride. I wish I could see my name on the site already geez!

Gah all these "congrats" r making me want to cry! As soon as I get confirmation I will post again :) but thank you! Seems to be true and I'm keeping my fingers crossed

Oh my goooooddddd! Thank you so much everyone! Is till can't believe it, I've been working so hard for this for so long and it seems like so many crazy things happened through nursing school it's a trip. I feel weird giving advice lol since I didn't pass my first time either but I can definitely share what I did this time around if it helps.

first the details about the first time I took nclex-

graduated september 2013, took nclex October 2013

my baby was barely 4 months when I took it

i was still breastfeeding and up most of the night

my studying was basically, do as many practice questions from the kaplan test prep as possible while baby napped. (Which wasn't long)

got to about 139 and knew I failed....I had a gut feeling and cried for a long time.

well it took over a month to get the dreaded letter. After I sent in my beloved permit and money to retest their system was apparently down for almost 3 months! So I was losing motivation. Got my AT&T and what not in January and immediately scheduled. Seriously like 4 months of waiting- ridiculous

second time!

so I emailed kaplan test prep and they sent me a study plan which I had to tailor to my life lol

watch the videos... Well because I firmly believe it's learning how to answer questions properly I didn't watch the videos. Only the test taking workshop and decision tree which I also find useless since it appears to only apply to like one question. Maybe that's just me though

i completed the qbank, each test was 50 questions on timed mode and I did 1-2 a day plus remediate right after and wrote down the stuff I got wrong so it would stick

once I completed qbank I did the trainer tests.

made a deal with my fiancé, I don't care when but once a day I need about 2 hours to study

after completing the trainer tests I'd remediate those also

met my goal of 65% on all but one. Which was definitely an improvement from my original scores when I took them in school.

Honestly for me, it was teaching myself to think e nclex way, put myself in the perfect nursing world and think of what the book would say. Even if the answer sounded stupid to me which plenty did, I learned to pick out the ones nclex wanted me to pick and that was the hardest part in all this. You have the knowledge, it's just teaching your brain to identify priorities and ideal responses.

Think

- ABC

- what's the one thing you would do before you clocked out?

- what is the least harmful implementation

- assess, diagnose, plan, implement

- always always choose physio over psycho meaning pain unfortunately no one cares about (on nclex) unless it says severe then it is possibly correct

- always use open ended questions

-always choose responses that allow for further exploration of the clients thoughts or feelings

-just review common labs I mean really just glance over them a bit here n there

- don't bother with pharm just try to know basic side effects of common drugs like beta blockers, antidepressants, antipsychotics ya know the main ones.

Just relax :)

i made stress tea instead of coffee, listened to my fav music on the way and just smiled. If I got stuck and had to guess, I guessed and accepted that I'd really need to try n get the next one. I took one break, to use the restroom and breathe, read slowly to catch the "further teaching" questions and left with my head up thinking, hey worst comes to worse I can try again. I really hope this helps!

and I really hope I can confirm soon this is killing me!