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I graduated LPN school in Jan 2012. I took my Nclex that March, failed and became discouraged. I have my 2nd attempt next Saturday and have been doing a lot of studying to refresh my memory. I am confused with how to answer the questions. I read a tip that said that if I can just do one thing for the pt, what would it be. I would choose what I would think would be a great answer but the correct answer would be an assessment answer. I also read where assessment would never be the right answer because LPN's never assess. Please help as I am panicking. I do the ABC's and if that doesn't apply, I do Maslow but then if that doesn't apply, I do the above which results in the wrong answer. Please clear this up for me. Thank you!

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Specializes in ER.

Why did you wait so long to retrst

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What state are you in? In mine, after 6 months you have to do a refresher- 3 years is insane! No offense, just wow, that is a long time. Honestly, I would reschedule and take a refresher.

In the meantime, answer with what you can do, what is the priority (acute vs chronic, life vs limb ), safety, and delegation are important. Most of the questions now are multiple response, so practice those. You have to know the content to answer the questions as an entry level nurse, so given that you have already failed, you need a refresher course. Good luck

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This is Debbie from the original post, just got my original username back. Anyway, I waited so long to retake the test because I was discouraged. I barely passed school as I was working FT, going to school FT and raising my daughter. I failed the NCLEX and gave up. On top of that, the school I attended was so bad and had many failing grades as they were forced to shut down. I am in Florida. Only after the third attempt do we have to take a refresher course. I've downloaded a few refresher courses onto my ipod and listen to them at work. I have also purchased the NCBSN website and have been using that along with other things for the past year. I've read comments of those that took it after 5 yrs of graduating and passed. I do feel like I know more now vs then. I had to self teach. My test is this Saturday and I am not going to reschedule. I scheduled this 3 mos ago and I feel like it's time. I am just confused over how to answer some questions as they are assessment answers and LPN's don't assess and so on...

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So I took my test today. I am getting the Pearson Vue page that won't accept my credit card, has the red explanation mark and is telling me that I already took this exam. Fingers crossed!!

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So I took my test today. I am getting the Pearson Vue page that won't accept my credit card, has the red explanation mark and is telling me that I already took this exam. Fingers crossed!!

"Good pop up" fingers crossed. Good luck! You got this

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I PASSED! After 4 yrs I did it. So surreal!

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Congrats! I am taking mine tomorrow! What did you use to study? I am using kaplan qbank, Saunders for content plus nursing school ( i am in an rn program- taking nclex lvn) and the reviewer that is circulating around this website.

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Congrats!!! I have been out of school going on 4yrs n I have taken Nclex pn twice in scared to take it again what material did u use??

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I really focused on the nsbcn website more than anything. Once you skim through everything, do the group of questions at the end. I did these and was thinking, "this isn't anything I learned". I got discouraged because I got 30% on a lot of them the week before my test!! Well, these questions actually did stem from everything I had studied because I was to apply all of my knowledge and use my critical thinking at this point to answer the questions. Believe me, the nclex is just like the nsbcn website questions. You will take the test and you will think after question #1 that you will fail but stay confident. I wanted to give up after #2 but didn't. I gave it all I got. I had one drug calculation, maybe 3 questions of what med to use/care to give for a woman who was at 32 wks gestation and lots of teaching questions. A few deligation questions and priority questions. Only about every 4th question was SATA. The first time I took the nclex back in 2012, I was overwhelmed with SATA and lots of drugs so it was really different the 2nd time around. Know your lab values. You can youtube videos for lab values on nclex and there are some out there for the ones to really concetrate on. I had only one questions on lab values but I'm sure I got it right. Good luck, you got this!

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Thank you! I am so sorry to get back with you after you took your test as I just saw this message. I hope you did great! I used the ncsbn website. It helped a great deal. I also skimmed over the reviewer from this website also.

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