only 18 days left...PLEASE HELP!

[faith.00]

:zzzzzHello everyone! I have been silently roaming on this site for a very long time and find it AWESOME!!!

My problem is that I am scheduled to take my NCLEX-RN on March 25, and I just now started studying....yes I take full responsibility for not studying until now..and my att expires March 27...ughhhh...WHY I didn't try harder when I knew my life depended on this...I constantly kick myself in the butt...thinking about this!!! Not only that I just received a job offer at "MY DREAM HOSPITAL"...so now I am continuing to beat myself up!! The last time I really studied was in Oct-Nov for HESI...I scored high (above 1000, but it was luck...because I really knew maybe less than 10 questions for sure!!!) and then after that I have been working and doing everything but nursing.....needless to say my journey through nursing has been difficult and trying...I have been waiting forever to start nursing...but because of so many problems...I have not been able to start....now when things are finally looking up...and a job offer beginning this summer...I messed it up again....!!

After reading about how everyone has been studying for months...I feel STUPID....VERY STUPID...discouraged....sad...and worst...a failure in everyones eyes! I feel like what is the point of studying now...might as well let that job offer go to.... hmmm...I'm not asking for sympathy...because this was all caused by me:angryfire...but please if anyone has anything that you could share with me...I will be so thankful. I try to pray...but I know that God already did what he could for me and I messed up....

I have the new saunders...which I just started...I was reading on GI and I felt overwhelmed...theres no way I can cover this in 2 weeks...I also borrowed money for Kaplan Online..and doing the Qbank now...the only book I know is the HESI book...I studied that book inside out for almost a month....but now since I haven't touched anything nursing related for 3 months I can't remember anything....WHERE DO I START with only 2 weeks left????? PLEASE if anyone has any inspirational stories or anything that you would like to share....PLEASE share with me....I will continue to try my hardest...but I know it is tooo late....:bowingpur

Sorry for this long and boring post,,,thanks for taking the time to read it!!!:zzzzz

[Jaloc]

If your looking for a magic answer there isn't one, this board or any other web site. The only way is you and studying, procratination gets everybody, trust me I'm the self proclaimed expert at it and I passed. Do all the questions you can from the disk included with Saunders, kaplan or any other source. Those questions and practice test will help you in all areas. Be sure to know major lab values at least and basic nursing math. By doing those questions and test it will remind you of diseases and complications that you MUST be familiar with at least. There is no way you can learn all the drugs this short of time so go over the drug classifications and the side effects of those classes. By doing this it will increase your odds on tose type of questions. Again do all the practice test you can find and then do them again and again. Repitition is the key to remembering in this short of time and when you need a break and want encouragement we're here.