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I recently took my NCLEX-RN a few days ago, unfortunately I failed. I am looking for advice from other nurses and students who recently graduated or just passed their NCLEX on how to pass. I studied with UWORLD but honestly probably did not do as many questions a day as I should have. When it came to test day I completed 1,000 questions to date. On the day of my NCLEX I had all 265 questions and I sat for 4 1/2 hours. I did not want to take any breaks during the test nervous I would not be able to refocus (probably one of my biggest problems, also because I get so anxious). When I left I felt so defeated and later received the bad pop up. The next day unlike my other classmates I did not receive a congratulations email. I am feeling pretty defeated right now, but I want to be a RN and I want to complete my goal. Looking for advice on what helped others to pass the NCLEX, thanks!

I also went through the same thing last semester. My advice to you (how I got through the semester) is tell yourself you got it! Go through each clinical morning on the way there and say I'm going to do great, I'm going to be a great nurse it is just one persons interpretation of me. Know all your drugs, and what they do. Be great with your patients. Study hard. Know exactly what questions she is going to ask before she even asks them from you so you can be right on top of it. (labs, contraindications, what it does), go to the skills lab and practice how to pass medications again or watch videos if you need to! You will get through it. My clinical instructor made me feel so stupid in front of my classmates, my patient, and nurses. I hated going to clinical, I did not want to go anymore at all. We talked about it and I thought she was going to fail me! She told me I was being to rude about it when I was just trying to explain to her how I felt, but once I did she completely changed how she acted toward each of us. Maybe you want to try that. I CAN say after that semester, even though it was awful I now have an amazing clinical instructor who lets us asks questions, is not confrontational, and trusts us. Just put on your happy face and do great.

Nursing school is stressful, but it is just about making time to prioritize everything. Everyone in each program is different. My best advice would be to get a planner and plan out your whole life basically. When you are going to go to class, clinical, STUDY, doctors appointments, work, and then make a date night with your husband and study every day/night but also spend time with your daughter and him. There is nothing written in stone saying you HAVE to disappear off the face of the earth. You can succeed and still have a life, you just have to put in the effort, especially if you have a great support system. Explain to your husband that you want to have another baby but it may be best to wait till you are further along in nursing school and see how it is otherwise he may have to be the full time caretaker of that baby and you want to spend time with him or her too. Hope that helps :)

Thank you so much! Helped a lot :)

I'm in nursing school right now and have been a CNA for 6 years and it's great experience. I have worked in a nursing home, home care, and now a hospital on a med surg floor. All completely different but I have learned a lot. I still make plenty of time to study just have to prioritize things. I think you should do it the sooner the better to get your foot in the door and experience gained!

I had a patient this week in Peds clinical who was 7 months old and failure to thrive. He got distracted VERY easily so we limited him to a half hour to each bottle and he only drank 5 oz. He had reduced muscle tone, could not sit or crawl. He had a disinterested in food. Mom said he did not like to take food from spoon but seemed to from others. He had changes in his weight (6.3 kg). My first diagnosis was imbalanced nutrition. I cannot think of a second one... Thank you! :)