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Help! pass NCLEX RN

Hello.

My story.

I graduated college about 10 years ago. I failed my test the first time. I've retaken the test and i'm still not passing. I've worked as a caregiver during those years. I couldn't work in the hospital because my CNA expired. I thought I would be an RN and did not update my CNA. What studying tips do you suggest? Do I need to go back to knowledge base information or should do I need to do a lot of questions? I don't want to give up. I want to be an RN soon!

Any one need a study buddy in southern california? or someone willing to study via AIM/net??

Thank you

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    Does Cali have a time limit to sit for boards??? 10 years is a long time from nursing school...

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    As long as you keep your file up to date. Or reapply again from scratch. In california, you can take the exam as many times as long as your file is not expired.

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    Honestly I would consider a Kaplan course and maybe even RN refresher. What you learned 10 years ago has changed a lot! Have you purchased NCLEX 4000 or something similar? If you have something like that it will give you an idea what kind of information you need and give you an idea what you will score.

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    I would also recommend taking a complete Kaplan review course, preferably the one where you go to review classes for a week and also have the question bank online. If you practice ALL the questions they give, and make sure you understand the rationales given, you should do fine on the NCLEX. Kaplan also provides audio and video reviews of nursing content, just in case you need to brush up on that. The Kaplan review course gave me all the preparation I needed. When I took the actually NCLEX, I still felt that I was doing educated guessing, but I ended up passing with 75 questions. Kaplan really helps you to learn how to answer questions critically, even when you may not have come across the situation/question before.

    Hope that helps!

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