Need some motivation for NCLEX?

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This was something I came across on a website about achieving your dreams. I know that it can be hard to focus on passing the NCLEX especially if you've failed before. Print this out and keep it as a reminder to keep going!!

1. Set specific goals and action steps, and write them down.

The single most important step in getting somewhere is knowing where you're going and having a plan for getting there. Your goals have to be written out, and so does your plan. Be specific, date each goal and each step on your action plan. Then follow it.

2. Read and review your goals daily.

This one could change your life. Keep your goals in front of you. Always know what you plan to do next. And always take the action your plan calls for. Review your goals, review your plan, change them as necessary, and stay with it. It only takes two or three minutes each morning to read your goals and glance over your plans. You're going to spend the next 24 hours that day doing something; you might as well be doing something that counts.

3. Set daily priorities.

Your goals and action plan will tell you what to do. Next, put your priorities in order. If you make a list, keep it short.

4. Change your old programs by learning new Self-Talk.

Get rid of any old mental programs that could be holding you back. Listen to Self-Talk, practice it, and get it right. Your programs will determine whether you reach your goal or not.

5. Turn off the television.

The less television you watch, the more successful you will be. Most television wastes your time, while it programs your mind with the wrong input to be successful. Do your future and your family a favor. As much as you can, break the habit, spend your time doing something of value, and turn the television OFF.

6. Practice, every day, keeping a positive attitude.

Your attitude actually affects the biochemistry of your brain. A bad attitude turns your success switches "off." A good attitude turns them "on." Never listen to the negative opinions of others, and make the choice to eliminate negativity from your life--completely. A good attitude is not an accident; it is a habit and a skill that you have to build for yourself. Practice going through life with your success switches being turned "on."

7. Associate with people who are more successful than you are.

We become most like the people we spend our time with most. Seek out the successful people; people of quality, honor, integrity, and achievement. Spend time with them in person. Listen to them on tape. Or read their stories in books. We get the most from the people who have the most to give.

8. Live your life based on "values."

Your values are the pages on which the story of your life will be written. Practice the values of honesty, integrity, trust, determination, compassion, patience, personal responsibility, the willingness to work, and the courage to endure. All lasting success is built on positive values.

9. Practice your faith.

In the lives of people who are truly successful in every way, you will always find a foundation of faith. If you want to live your life at your best, practice your faith. Not just an hour a week. Every day.

10. Make the choice to believe in yourself and in your future.

Believing in yourself is a choice. The people who are the most successful learn to tell themselves they can do it. Practice believing in yourself. Practice telling yourself you can do it; no matter how difficult, no matter what it takes. You've got what it takes. You can do it! You are capable of more than you have ever imagined! Now tell yourself that.

11. Do at least two things each day to improve yourself.

This is one of the top ideas on every achiever's list of how to be successful. If you want to get more successful, you have to learn more. Each day, think of two simple things you can do to improve yourself that day. Set some goals about this one. Take small steps. Read something. Listen to something new. Learn something. If you want your life to get better, you have to start by improving yourself, first.

12. Never quit. Never Stop. Never give up!

If you want to be successful at anything, be determined, persevere, stay with it, refuse to give in, don't hesitate, don't hold back, and don't quit until the job is done. If it hasn't worked yet, try harder. If you haven't reached your goal, focus your sights, visualize the outcome, recommit to making it, start again, take action, stay with it, and never, ever, give up!

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This is great PA CoffeFreak. This does bring motivation!!!

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Specializes in Assisted Living.

I cant even start my review and this list is too much already to remember...I failed twice already and im always positive on both..but still I FAILED.. I dont know what to do anymore...Im scared to death to exam again ..but my eligibility is here already and i know i need to pass it..but HOW without getting tru all this sick regimen...I want something that will make me pass this ..thats it?? Who can HELP?

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I cant even start my review and this list is too much already to remember...I failed twice already and im always positive on both..but still I FAILED.. I dont know what to do anymore...Im scared to death to exam again ..but my eligibility is here already and i know i need to pass it..but HOW without getting tru all this sick regimen...I want something that will make me pass this ..thats it?? Who can HELP?

Im sorry to hear you ALSO failed twice. I stress the also, because I did too. I eventually took it for a 3rd time, July 2009, and I PASSED. You can do it. Here's my story..

I graduated PN school on June 21, 2007. I took my NCLEX shortly after that, July 2007. I did every single question. All 265, and I left feeling really good, very confident, and to find out that I failed!! Well, of course, everyone in my class had passed. I was really embarrassed to tell my family, because I had done so well in school..even graduated with a 97 average. Anyhow..i eventually took the test again October 2007. I felt completely unprepared, nervous, & anxious to get it over with. But, again, I left feeling pretty good. I thought I "knew" most of the answers. Well, $7.95 & 48 hrs later, I checked pearson vue only to find out I bombed it again. Well, that was that. I had given up. I figured maybe nursing wasn't for me after all. I ended up getting a really good receptionist job in a doctor's office, and thought nothing more of taking the NCLEX again. Well, needless to say when my co-workers found out that I had been to nursing school, everybody pushed me to register for my nclex again. So almost 2 years after I graduated, and more than a year after I took the NCLEX last, I took out the same book I used to study the first time. I read 1 chapter a day & did the practice questions at the end of each chapter. That took about a month, and i was pumped & ready to go. I just started to remember everything that I had learned in school. So, I took the NCLEX for the third time, $600 in registration fees, 2 years later, and here I am, an LPN. I couldn't believe it. The most elating thing that has ever happened to me. You have to tell yourself you are NOT a failure, and you CAN do this. I remember reading a post that said, on the day of your NCLEX, use the bathroom before you take it, look in the mirror and literally, out loud, say to yourself, i CAN do this. I KNOW this stuff. Also, don't over study, don't overload your brain. It might take you a month or 2 to read the book chapter by chapter, but im telling you, from my own experience, it pays off! Sorry my story is so long, but I just want you to see that there ARE other people with your situation, and I don't want you to get discouraged!! And by the way, I am now enrolled in the accelerated RN program at my community college. You can do it!! GOOD LUCK! :D:up::nurse:

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Specializes in Assisted Living.

I just feel like I lost the courage to study again. But i told myself today.."Just Do It". I love your story. I hope can get back to my feet again. But sometimes failing it twice makes it too difficult. The last time i took it i thought i did really well because i took it for 2 and 1/2 hours, understanding and reading the questions carefully..but i FAILED again. Its my 3rd time..I pray that this is the last time. I just dont know what i'm doing wrong..Im not stupid i am also on top of my class..but somehow i cant understand why i cant figure it out...why i still below passing in some of the areas...Wish me luck this time..I really hope i pass cause my life its been on HOLD for a long time now and spending too much money for this crap...(I mean the exam)..

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I cant even start my review and this list is too much already to remember...I failed twice already and im always positive on both..but still I FAILED.. I dont know what to do anymore...Im scared to death to exam again ..but my eligibility is here already and i know i need to pass it..but HOW without getting tru all this sick regimen...I want something that will make me pass this ..thats it?? Who can HELP?

There is no one-size fits all NCLEX studying program that will work 100% of the time for everyone. That's why it's so important to know what your weaknesses are. You have to tailor your study to what best fits you. Please explain how you studied the first two times for the NCLEX. Let me know what your results were (did you fail physiological adaptation both times?). Have you taken diagnostic tests? Do you score within the passing standards of the NCLEX review books that you're using?

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Specializes in Assisted Living.

First time i took the exam is self study. I only took it an hour an a half..FAILED. I was not confident enough im going to pass. I stopped at 85. The second time, I went to Chicago for a review class on Excell. I thought i was ready, i dont do practice test that much. Didn't work , I FAILED again stopped at 85 for the second time. Now when i get my result, i am weak on the same areas...Safe and Infection Control, Physiological Adaptation...Pharmacology, and Some of them are Near passing..and one Above passing which is Basic Care. Right now i'm using Kaplan PN..but i get low all the time..i think the question is a little harder than Saunders..i get 60% in Saunders sometime 70%...So now im so worried and scared that im not going to pull tru on this exam..thats why i dont want to schedule it yet and wait maybe a month or two..i dont know...I need HELP BADLY...

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Specializes in Assisted Living.

Here are my score.....

Coordinated care....below

Physiological Adaptation...below

Pharmacological therapies....below

Safety and Infection Control...below

Its just CRAZY!..I dont know what to do...I NEED HELP..I WANT TO PASS this EXAM...im sorry im frustrated.

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NCLEX was a great challenge for me too. I had my first try right after I graduated Nursing School way back 2006, it was already 4 years ago. I failed during that try, but I knew my focus was not into NCLEX but with something else, something personal. I was very disappointed that time so I decided to try other fields but medical. I landed a job in retails and was promoted 4 months as a full timer, offered a job as assistant manager after 6 months. Nevertheless, I was not happy of my job because I know I have a better future in the degree that I graduated. I started to consider taking NCLEX again but like everybody else I am scared to give it a try since I have set it aside so long. I am very clueless what to do, how to start, how to get back on track again, if I should enroll to a review center. I decided to give it a shot one more time so again I opened my books esp LIPINCOTT ans SAUNDERS and tried to review. As much as possible I read 100 or more questions each day (questions and rationales), but since I wasn't used to anymore there was a sort of fluctuation of my concentration. I still never gave up and tried to get my focus back on the review....Six thousand questions (online and book) later with the majority of PRAYERS I finally passed NCLEX 2 weeks ago. Thank God because I know it was his major help. I made it! I made it! I am now a REGISTERED NURSE of CALIFORNIA....

To all the nurses who are preparing for NCLEX I only have two reminders to give. Simple and straight. First, PRAYERS. PRAYERS. PRAYERS. God always find a way, and in every thing in this world has reasons. If He sees you are ready He will give it to you in no time. Second, Do your job as well. Work and God will help you. Start with 50 questions a day, then gradually increase it. If there are questions you cannot understand, open your nursing books and read the topic again. I hope this will help you. Good luck. Good luck. Good luck. GODBLESS!!

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First time i took the exam is self study. I only took it an hour an a half..FAILED. I was not confident enough im going to pass. I stopped at 85. The second time, I went to Chicago for a review class on Excell. I thought i was ready, i dont do practice test that much. Didn't work , I FAILED again stopped at 85 for the second time. Now when i get my result, i am weak on the same areas...Safe and Infection Control, Physiological Adaptation...Pharmacology, and Some of them are Near passing..and one Above passing which is Basic Care. Right now i'm using Kaplan PN..but i get low all the time..i think the question is a little harder than Saunders..i get 60% in Saunders sometime 70%...So now im so worried and scared that im not going to pull tru on this exam..thats why i dont want to schedule it yet and wait maybe a month or two..i dont know...I need HELP BADLY...

So you're seeing a pattern. Safety and Infection Control, Physiological Adaptation and Pharmacology. Are you scoring low in these same areas when you do questions? How many questions do you practice with per day? Are you reviewing all the rationales? How are you studying pharmacology?

Since you've taken the test and reviewed the content several times you should be aiming at 90% or above with Saunders. 60% with Saunders is too low and so your primary weakness may be a lack of knowledge. It's hard to learn test-taking strategies when you don't have the necessary knowledge base.

Kaplan is harder than Saunders. The Kaplan standard generally tends to be 60% - 65% for the RN exam (depending on the section you're doing.) I'm not sure what their standard is for the PN exam so you'll have to check that out.

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