Failing nclex 6 times

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I graduated in July 2014, I failed the nclex 6 times. Did everything Hurts, kaplan, remar review. Ncsbn. I I used the kaplan strategy and study and listen to remar and hurts. My Kaplan average test score between 60 to 65. When I used 50 questions with kaplan I average between 60/65.I am going insane. I don't want to give up coming too far to let go.Please any advice.

unwarranted praise only works in childhood. Unfortunately as a nurse people's lives are at stake. So lets say i kill a few people, according to china baby, the proper response would be "its okay there is always next time, do not give up, keep trying harder and harder and point at yourself in the mirror and say how hard working you are and sooner or later you will succeed"

Some people are not in touch with reality.

Also, if people fail the test this many times, excluding ESL, one should probably take a look at the nursing program they went to, it obviously is not preparing people well enough to answer simple and basic questions aimed to measure minimal doses of competency.

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Specializes in Hospice.

I'm willing to bet it's a language competency issue. Hang in there!

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I know one person that failed.

She took it twice and gave up. She was amazingly good LPN, but she just didn't get it, the RN part.

6 times? No.

And DudeNurse, no one "deserves" to be a nurse just because he or she wants to be. It's not a reward or a prize.

Everyone gets a trophy!

Poo on that.

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I said if one can pass nursing school they deserve to be a nurse.

My brother has been a nurse for 20 years and he couldnt answer a simple

question like why do older people have longer success with synthetic mitral valve

replacement than a young person. (I bet most dont know without googling) Or whats the difference between mild and severe preeclampsia-

he said, "I dunno I dont work in maternity"

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I said if one can pass nursing school they deserve to be a nurse.

My brother has been a nurse for 20 years and he couldnt answer a simple

question like why do older people have longer success with synthetic mitral valve

replacement than a young person. (I bet most dont know without googling) Or whats the difference between mild and severe preeclampsia-

he said, "I dunno I dont work in maternity"

No. If one can pass the NCLEX one deserves to be a nurse.

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right because being a nurse is just like being a lawyer.

I graduated nursing school in 2012

by the time I took the test 4 years later I had forgotten almost everything

I had to re-learn it all. I felt like leonardo d'caprio in Catch me if you Can

-how did you pass the bar? "I studied really hard"

they 'taught' us how to start an IV by showing us pictures. The way I really learned was by starting

an IV on a patient.

You cant just learn in a book how to be a nurse.

Clinical experience trumps memorizing facts in a book.

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right because being a nurse is just like being a lawyer.

I graduated nursing school in 2012

by the time I took the test 4 years later I had forgotten almost everything

I had to re-learn it all. I felt like leonardo d'caprio in Catch me if you Can

-how did you pass the bar? "I studied really hard"

they 'taught' us how to start an IV by showing us pictures. The way I really learned was by starting

an IV on a patient.

You cant just learn in a book how to be a nurse.

Clinical experience trumps memorizing facts in a book.

I agree. Much much Much more clinical is needed in nursing school.

But if you are just doing the skills and don't know why then you don't "deserve" to be a nurse. Anyone can be taught to start an IV.

6 times is 5 too many.

3 should be max.

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Specializes in Hospice.
right because being a nurse is just like being a lawyer.

I graduated nursing school in 2012

by the time I took the test 4 years later I had forgotten almost everything

I had to re-learn it all. I felt like leonardo d'caprio in Catch me if you Can

-how did you pass the bar? "I studied really hard"

they 'taught' us how to start an IV by showing us pictures. The way I really learned was by starting

an IV on a patient.

You cant just learn in a book how to be a nurse.

Clinical experience trumps memorizing facts in a book.

Ok, once again, this needs to be said:

Nursing school does NOT teach you how to be a nurse.

It teaches you the minimum amount of information you need to learn to pass NCLEX.

Once you do that, you have EARNED the right to practice as a nurse. It's not a middle school sporting event where everyone gets a trophy just for showing up. Your parents aren't telling you how wonderful and talented you are, even if you can't play for crap.

You learn how to be a nurse after you land your first job. You will make mistakes, that's a given. Just don't keep making the same mistakes over. and over. and over. Your preceptor will get cranky and possibly develop a nervous stomach.

Not everyone who makes it through nursing school should be a nurse. Many years ago, I knew someone who graduated at the top of her class, had an eidetic memory, and sailed through Boards. The problem? She only became a nurse because her mother wanted her to. I literally had to physically stop her the night she was going to give a kid an IM, and held her hand waaay up over her head. She would have impaled that kid to the bed-I grabbed her wrist and moved it down to the proper spot.

Point is, after that she defied her mom, quit nursing and went to music school-her TRUE passion. I was her preceptor-I kind of gently suggested it to her.

People have to start being taught again that you CAN'T always have what you want. Schools have to stop taking anyone with a pulse. Students have to realize that when someone gives them criticism, it isn't "being mean" or "bullying".

Why do you think floor nurses are less than enthusiastic at being saddled with one or more students? You think they like getting eye-roll and attitude from you? Seriously, if my daughter had ever shown face like some I've seen, there would have been some SERIOUS discussion and Mom Voice. If I wouldn't take it from my child, why ever would I take it from a perfect stranger?

Anyway, I digressed a bit. Failing NCLEX 6-7 times? You just possibly aren't nursing material.

Yes. I dared to say it. I've stomped on your dreams and taken away your one. true. passion. That happens sometimes. The Universe tends to unfold as it should.

Sorry, not sorry. There's probably something you'll be really good at. It just isn't nursing.

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Specializes in ORTHO, PCU, ED.

Does anybody else wonder if this might be a troll? It just blows my mind how people come on here and post about failing X number of times and expect everyone to just let them cry on their shoulders!! I'm tired of this mess. If you already know the answer to YOUR problems and only you have the right answers (no pun intended) then quit coming here to ask us how we feel about it!! Something is wrong if you have to take NCLEX 6 times and is REALLY wrong if you think we all will just send our condolences!!! A lot of people say, "well, on a public forum people tend to be more blunt because they're anonymous" Let me tell ya, if you were my friend and you said "Hey I've tried 6 times and I haven't passed yet" I would say to your FACE, "Do you think maybe nursing isn't for you?"

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Specializes in Urology, HH, med/Surg.
Ok, once again, this needs to be said:

Nursing school does NOT teach you how to be a nurse.

It teaches you the minimum amount of information you need to learn to pass NCLEX.

Once you do that, you have EARNED the right to practice as a nurse. It's not a middle school sporting event where everyone gets a trophy just for showing up. Your parents aren't telling you how wonderful and talented you are, even if you can't play for crap.

You learn how to be a nurse after you land your first job. You will make mistakes, that's a given. Just don't keep making the same mistakes over. and over. and over. Your preceptor will get cranky and possibly develop a nervous stomach.

Not everyone who makes it through nursing school should be a nurse. Many years ago, I knew someone who graduated at the top of her class, had an eidetic memory, and sailed through Boards. The problem? She only became a nurse because her mother wanted her to. I literally had to physically stop her the night she was going to give a kid an IM, and held her hand waaay up over her head. She would have impaled that kid to the bed-I grabbed her wrist and moved it down to the proper spot.

Point is, after that she defied her mom, quit nursing and went to music school-her TRUE passion. I was her preceptor-I kind of gently suggested it to her.

People have to start being taught again that you CAN'T always have what you want. Schools have to stop taking anyone with a pulse. Students have to realize that when someone gives them criticism, it isn't "being mean" or "bullying".

Why do you think floor nurses are less than enthusiastic at being saddled with one or more students? You think they like getting eye-roll and attitude from you? Seriously, if my daughter had ever shown face like some I've seen, there would have been some SERIOUS discussion and Mom Voice. If I wouldn't take it from my child, why ever would I take it from a perfect stranger?

Anyway, I digressed a bit. Failing NCLEX 6-7 times? You just possibly aren't nursing material.

Yes. I dared to say it. I've stomped on your dreams and taken away your one. true. passion. That happens sometimes. The Universe tends to unfold as it should.

Sorry, not sorry. There's probably something you'll be really good at. It just isn't nursing.

This. Exactly this, a thousand times. Print it out & put it on your wall.

If you need someone to give you nothing but positive reinforcement, tell you how wonderful you are (and you might very well be a wonderful person- NCLEX isn't a measure of that)-- then go to your Mom, your Dad or whoever blows smoke.

This is not the place for smoke blowing. This is a place full of - mostly- people who have passed a nursing program AND NCLEX. So it is possible, just not for everyone!!

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I suppose if you've failed 6 times and publicly announce it in a forum, it is nearly impossible to get

only positive comments from people.

In my humble opinion, the best thing to do is read experiences of those who have taken

the NCLEX multiple times (i.e. 5,6,7 times) and PASSED. Learn from their experiences and

see what it was they did right and at long last passed their last NCLEX exam. Yes, it actually happens!

As unbelievable as it may seem to those naysayers et al. on this thread.

Also, I feel the person who posted this post failed 6 times because of language difficulty. Just reading the

post, it is already obvious English is not this person's first language. Reading the NCLEX question itself

and understanding what to answer already presents as a challenge if you don't speak English well.

In addition, I feel some people hit the "apply" button on Pearson Vue every 45 days to retake the NCLEX and are

not really putting an effort their study strategies. If you have to re-take it, be sure you are OVER prepared, not just

cranking out questions on some book or qbank. Read, understand all those rationales, memorize, type out notes,

make flash cards, whatever it takes....Your NCLEX effort should be Herculean. Okay, just my 2 cents....

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part of the problem is the nursing school itself. Our school used the medical model, which

cherry pics subjects often unrelated. Example: one the the first classes we learned elderly care,

one of the last was pediatrics. In the middle was labor and delivery.

A better way would be to learn labor and delivery, and then pediatrics, and then care of the adult.

Our pharmacology class was combined with assessment. Pharmacology should be its own class,

or better yet integrate it into each med surg. ex. instead of memorizing heart meds and then

6 months later in med surg III learning about cardio problems they should teach heart meds

as youre learning about cardiac patients. Whats worse our classes were 8 weeks each, so we had

to memorize some 1000 meds in 4 weeks while learning assessment the other 4.

Nursing is wholistic, nursing school is medical model.

In the real world a psych nurse is not going to know all the heart drugs, and vice versa.

Once on a cardiac-tele floor you will quickly know all the heart meds because

you see the same ones over and over again. If a cardiac-tele nurse gets

sent to a pediatrics unit they will not be as adept with all the peds drugs.

Unless youre freaking RainMan there is going to be a learning curve.

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