I just received my letter in the mail today and it's official that I am an LVN! Let me start off by saying thank you to those who's given me encouraging words on this forum, even in times of doubt I found a lot of comfort from this site to connect and relate to all of you!
I passed NCLEX with my SECOND TRY. My school was complete GARBAGE, and told us the exam would be everything BUT WHAT IT REALLY WAS. So my first time I failed I received the letter a week later, I took the page where it shows where you were almost to passing standard and where you were below and I took that to study THOSE SECTIONS over again. I sent in the check and re-application that very day so when I had received my ATT for the second time I would be ready to schedule the following week. My ATT was approved to be scheduled any date after 12/08. I took the exam that following monday (12/10) Both times it took me to 205 questions only the second time around I cracked the code on how to analyze and answer the questions on what they were REALLY asking.
I was lucky enough to have an amazing study buddy throughout this entire time in which we pushed each other to finish what we both had started. She too passed on her second time. DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE. I've read on here many people take it 6 to 9 times and still refuse to give up, keep that spirit alive.
I was raised by a single hard working mother who I've only known to work the minimum of AT LEAST 2 jobs since she came to this country, growing up was never luxurious and my mother sold what she had left of her jewelry to get me through nursing school. I was a trouble child growing up and high school and afterwards didnt make it any easier for her. I had an epiphany to finally get my life straight and wanted a career helping those mentally, physically and all around spiritually. I am a high school drop out and I chose this field to touch lives as my mother has for me. My mother is the best nurse I will ever know and meet because she did what she could to make me well despite the rough patches we've had and as nurses we pave that road for patients even if they don't think we're helping them. In the long run, we heal and I pray the next generation of nurses has heart and passion to make this field excel beyond limits of human health and prosperity.
Materials I used for NCLEX:
PEARSON MARY HOGAN-PN BOOK &CD-ROM(The nurse's note pamphlet helped A TON, I would read the section I was doing questions from before doing the quizzes)
Let me start off by saying thank you to those who's given me encouraging words on this forum, even in times of doubt I found a lot of comfort from this site to connect and relate to all of you!