NCLEX tips and advice for a 4th time taker

Editorial Team / Admin · May 20, 2015

Hello,

We moved your thread to the NCLEX forum for the best response.

Good luck.

LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN · May 21, 2015

HOW are you studying?

The issue may not necessarily the source of the review, but how one approaches the NCLEX itself: understanding the four concepts of becoming a competent, entry-level nurse:

1. Safe, effective care;

2.Health promotion;

3.Physiological Integrity;

4.Psychosocial integrity

Will determine WHAT the question is asking you; the question may be Respiratory related-but is it a Health Promotion or a Safety, or a Physiological or a Psychosocial one? Would you know the difference and choose the BEST answer?

Once one understands the concepts of NCLEX, they can do so successfully.

Don't look at content; you know most of the material because you passed nursing school; begin to do questions related to each concept; review all questions and rationales; ANY rationale you struggle with, THEN review content. Lather, rinse, repeat.

When practicing the questions, prepare the questions like a mock NCLEX exam, review the minimum and then work up to the maximum for endurance purposes.

After looking at your report, focus on the weakness and review questions and rationales; make mock NCLEX tests and start with the minimum and gradually until the maximum; you have to have an endurance in answering application questions.

After each "exam", make sure you are reviewing the rationales; any rationales you are not clear on THEN look up for content.

Psychologynurs · May 21, 2015

Hello I am a nursing student preparing for the NCLEX second attempt. I now notice I am slowly going into depression over it. All I do is cry and sleep. I can't seem to do anymore, you name it, I have reviewed it but still feel anxiety and despair. What can nursing students do when nursing is the very thing that is making them sick?

plastic100% · May 24, 2015

Hi,
i am am taking my nclex for the 4th time in June. Does anyone have any advice, tips, or suggestions on study materials and techniques? I'd really appreciate any help. I want to pass and be successful this time just like anybody else. Thank you in advance â¤ï¸

Hi please read my story under plastic100% thank you, with God all things are possible.

Nurseinthemaking90 · May 26, 2015

Hi, thank you for responding to this post. I'm honestly on the same boat. I graduated in Nov 2013 and attempted to take the NCLEX in CA 3 times and still haven't succeeded. I've always prayed to God for positive results yet maybe it wasn't my time yet. There were times that I wanted to give up and never wanted to touch my nclex books anymore because I was not motivated at all after not passing. I just recently found encouragement to pick up and open the books again but now I don't know where to start. I have Saunders book, Mosby, Kaplan, Exam Cram, and Nclex made easy books but I don't even know which one to use now. I also have this NCLEX RN app on my iPad where I can answer thousands of questions. Sometimes I just want to cry because of the fear of failing again