Failed Nclex 2x...3rd in 4 weeks HELP ME

kling101 · Nov 17, 2009

hi ive got a friend who failed nclex for the fourth time and she cant work in the US coz of it and she's planning to take again the exam for the fifth time and my GF advice her to study the book strategy-kaplan.try it

afi06 · Nov 17, 2009

Hi Murphyal,I understand how you feel and I am also planning to take my exam sometime in December and I am also from the Milwaukee area too so if you need a study partner we can work together towards achieving the goal of passing this exam.I am using several books(Saunders,P,D & A by LaCharity).Good luck with your studying....

murphyal555 · Nov 17, 2009

im doing basically kaplan, and i also have saunders too. im just totally burnt out and need some motivation to actually study again :-(

AB normalRN · Nov 17, 2009

get the lacharity book.. Helped me bigtym!!

Pedsnurze · Nov 17, 2009

Failing is a little disheartening for sure. I failed 2 years ago and plan to resit soon.

For the longest time I held a defeastist demeanor, not any longer!

We will both master the NCLEX-RN! With intense study, humility,courage, lots of prayers.

By the way I'm using Saunders 4th ed, LaCharity P&D, Feur live review from 2002

cebuana_nurse · Nov 17, 2009

I just recently took the test and got the good pop-up.

I suggest that you read LaCharity PD&A. It definitely helped me since the test had tons of delegation and prioritization questions. Read your content very well and understand it by heart. Do 100 practice questions everyday. Practicing q's helped me a lot. Especially with what the question is looking for. Read the rationales even if you got it right and the strategy being used in the question. Stick to your plan and be consistent. Lastly, pray. God helps the people that help themselves. Good Luck! =D

Fiori1020 · Nov 17, 2009

Hello to all,

I am a new user to allnurses. com. Failed the NCLEX 1st time with Kaplan after an RN BSN accelerated program with 102 questions. Recovering from the first failure. Planning to retake it in December but the problem is now I dont know what to grab on to. I did my best with Kaplan Qs but felt as if with the content I was weak. I have Mosby, Saunders, Lippincott texts and CDs. Used Kaplan Qbank, Mosby and Saunders questions 1st time around. I requested to retake Kaplan and maybe do more content this time vs questions which I did the 1st time. I am very nervous, dont know where to begin...and hope I pass on the 2nd try.

Murphyal,

Please dont give up. Study, focus, eat right and PRAY and you shall do well. Be strong and good luck!

minenme5 · Nov 17, 2009

It would be great to have a study buddy and would be willing to work something out to get together.

waiting4nursingin09 · Nov 18, 2009

I have failed my NCLEX 2times and I am finding it hard to get back into the groove and study, I purchased the Illustrated NCLEX RN, Nursing made insanely easy and How to pass the NCLEX by Sally Rayfield but cannot get into studying. I plan to do Kaplan live review in January hopefully this will help. I read the other post about LaCharity book what is that do you think this will be helpful. I have already done Saunders and ATI, I find them very boring now and won't even open those books someone please help......

diegy_d · Nov 18, 2009

I tested last thursday nov 12... it was my second.. It took me a while to recuperate from failing my first NCLEX RN.. I felt like I lost my self...

I graduated march of 08 from the Philippines and officially and legally set foot in this country august of of the same year.. Boy oh boy, so many changes so many adjustments.. my mind and body was effed. finally, adjusted a bit before the year ended and got a job at local retail store.. that went well, praises from my boss but deep inside I felt like a slave to their trade.. but all is fair, at least I have a job... months pass I sort of lost track why I came here in America for and that was to become a nurse. Hanged out with the wrong set of dudes. co-workers and psuedo-friends. my girlfriend for four years broke up with me.. which was admittedly my fault. I can't believe the racial tension here in central valley CA.. its in the air especially in the workplace.. its funny cause I thought thats been dealt with a long time ago.

yes I know cry me a river... its just drama people but it happens and I feel like I had to put my two cents in. :twocents:

anyway, I finally scheduled my test last may 28 and failed. I studied purely the Kaplan book. and I swear I thought it helped me a lot with test skills. what I didn't know was my content had faded quite dramatically already.

My life went rock bottom I swear. I cursed at anything and everything. But basically, like the nursing process I ADPIE my life and picked up the pieces it took 5 months to set my mind right because I felt like I lost everything dear to me, my ex, my mom, ( who is disappointed at me) and most importantly, my future which depended on that one test. I answered 261 questions and ran out of time by the way.. ( results came in the mail 2 weeks indicating I had "near the passing standard on most of the categories.)

After 5 mos, I dealt with my problems head on. I called my ex up since she would not reply to my emails. And set things straight between the both of us. the sweet words of I forgive you flowed out of her lips. I was relieved. My guilt had eaten me alive for so long thinking I deserve it. but then I could only hold so long coz I have my whole life ahead of me still. Talked to my mom wo went home to the Philippines because she had too much "stress" living with me here. And set things right with her too. As for my Job in the retail store, I changed my availability to work only three days a week so I can dedicate the rest to review, reflect and pray.

I scheduled a test last nov 12 thinking I was ready to rock and that I was locked and loaded and ready to pull the trigger. Truth is the NCLEX RN test still kicked my butt, but i was kicking its but too along the way. Unbelievably, after my studies prayers I still answerd 257 questions. can you believe it? all my friends did it in and average of 75-100 and passed. Mine stopped at 257 with 13 minutes left. yes I was there for 6 hours hanging on to dear life. I could remember I thought I had answered the last 2 questions right. but of course like the whole test, I really could not tell if I was right. I felt happy though. But like all of you hear still in the back of our heads we have our doubts.... the wait is killing me.

the only thing that made me stop thinking about it was the Manny pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto boxing match. My boy won, at the back of my head I hope I won too.

however, It was to my dismay, that when monday came, I checked my name on the CA BON verification site and could not find it there. I wanted to throw up. Memories of the stuff that happened to me flooded in and I swore i had the symptoms for a severe anxiety attack. I was hearing war drums in my head.

Before I conclude my thoughts on my recent exam I started looking at the internet for threads like these. Boy I wish I found this a year ago. Who ever platinum user is, he is a genius. This helps so much. A whole international community of nurses and their thoughts. Wow. So many happy so many heartbroken stories too. It just feels like home and I found it very therapeutic to read.

anyway, thanks for reading this far if you are reading. thank you. My main question is I realized that last wednesday, it was veterans day, the friday after my test was a furlough day for CA BON they do not update on weekends. And then so I checked yesterday. My name wasn't there. its been three days, does that count? Then I found out about this "trick" I tried it and I got the good pop-up (couldn't re register) Now, I know that's supposed to be a good thing, but all my friends that have passed the RN test had their names up in two days. some even claim they saw their name on a saturday even when it said on the site they only update mon-fri. So anyway, I don't know what to think anymore. I'm sorry I wrote such a long comment. I just felt like sharing. any comments?

much love to all future and present nurses. I love this profession and I am excited to be a part of it.

diegs..

kling101 · Nov 18, 2009

where you from philippines?do you process on your own?