here's my problem. i have been wanting to be a nurse for a really long time, it's always been something i felt i had a nack for. so, this may i graduated an adn nursing program as an rn. how awesome! but, since then, there has been a lot of bumps in my career path.... which feels more like tall mountains. i had two interviews right after graduating for jobs, and didn't get either position. (at the time i was horrified, but i felt it was good "practice" for upcoming interviews.) i lost a brother-in-law in a car crash on july 9th, and his funeral was the day i was supposed to take my boards! ack! thinking i was ready, i rescheduled them for that next week. i had 2 more interviews in that time span, and 1 of them were depended on if i passed my boards. i would have had a job! low and behold, i didn't pass my boards. :angryfire i am hoping to take them again the end of september, or early october. i had such hopes of having a job by now and being an actual working rn! i am just getting really down this summer with everything going on! i just want to know, i guess, if there are other people in my boat! or have at least been there. i know a lot of people don't pass their first time taking the test, but i guess i just need some encouragement. i hate having to pay all that money, again, to take the test. we are taking that test so that we can get a job and make the money... we don't have it yet!! i know things have to get better, it's just really hard to see all the people that were in class with you pass their boards and all have jobs, ya know?
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here's my problem. i have been wanting to be a nurse for a really long time, it's always been something i felt i had a nack for. so, this may i graduated an adn nursing program as an rn. how awesome! but, since then, there has been a lot of bumps in my career path.... which feels more like tall mountains. i had two interviews right after graduating for jobs, and didn't get either position. (at the time i was horrified, but i felt it was good "practice" for upcoming interviews.) i lost a brother-in-law in a car crash on july 9th, and his funeral was the day i was supposed to take my boards! ack! thinking i was ready, i rescheduled them for that next week. i had 2 more interviews in that time span, and 1 of them were depended on if i passed my boards. i would have had a job! low and behold, i didn't pass my boards. :angryfire i am hoping to take them again the end of september, or early october. i had such hopes of having a job by now and being an actual working rn! i am just getting really down this summer with everything going on! i just want to know, i guess, if there are other people in my boat! or have at least been there. i know a lot of people don't pass their first time taking the test, but i guess i just need some encouragement. i hate having to pay all that money, again, to take the test. we are taking that test so that we can get a job and make the money... we don't have it yet!! i know things have to get better, it's just really hard to see all the people that were in class with you pass their boards and all have jobs, ya know?
melissa
i can relate. i did not pass my boards the 1st time either. sometimes i beat myself up about it, then i come to this site to get encouragement from other honest people who can say that they had to take the exam 2 times themselves. i was so depressed! i am currently enrolled in a kaplan review class, and to be honest, i am so burnt out with anything that is structured like school that i can hardly keep up! there are online reviews that come with the course, though, and i am going to begin going over those starting this weekend. you are not alone in this. my kaplan instructor told us that her class valedictorian had to take the exam 4 times! hopefully that won't be the case with any of us! keep your head up and know that so many other nurse-hopefuls are in the same boat, but we will get ther some day!
Melissa - TRUST ME when I say I know EXACTLY how you feel. I have failed the boards three times, yes that is correct I said three times. I'm so fed up with the NCLEX that I could really honestly care less about it right now. I know I have to pass it and become an RN because I didn't spend 4 years in college for no reason working my butt off. I graduated in December 2003, so it's been almost two years for me.
Anyway, we WILL pass that damn test if it's the last thing we do. We're MEANT to become RN or else life wouldn't have led us to nursing school. Remember everything happens for a reason.
Keep us updated on your progress!
Brandi :)
PS. I have met someone who has taken it 7 times and finally passed on the 7th try. It WILL happen for us!!!
I'm sorry you didn't pass. That is hard to swallow. You had a lot going on during that time. I agree with you on finding a job. People tell my family oh, she is a nurse? Oh she can get any job she wants and ask for what she wants. LOL....I'd like to know where those jobs are. They don't understand it's not hard to find a job, it's hard to find a job in a speciality that you like. Which can be hard. I luckily found a good job but it wasn't easy. The interview was a killer. You go and pass those boards next time and knock em dead with that interview.
i know things have to get better, it's just really hard to see all the people that were in class with you pass their boards and all have jobs, ya know? 
NurseNicoleRN
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Try The Ncsbn Course.....very Helpful At Learning .ext A 3 Week Course Is Only 49 Dollars And These Are The Pople That Write The Nclex So Their Most Similar....but Saunders Is Still The Best Study Guide