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Unfortunately I'm going through the EXACT same thing, same crime too I shoplifted when I was 18 young and stupid yes. I passed boards in April put in about 50-60 applications here where I live and other cities as well, I've had a few interviews but that's it just interviews, never a call back. I am too in the process of having this expunged and its taking forever! I am currently in school pursuing my bachelors wishing I was working as a nurse part time, I believe it is a waiting game until your lawyers expunged this, then you can apply and get a job (since legally you can mark no to the "have you been convicted for a crime" question, if its been expunged). That really all I'm praying for is a job. School and passing the NCLEX was hard enough you'd think landing a job would be the easy part. I completely understand your frustration I'm there with you good thing is hopefully by the time you're done with school you'll have a court date and it would be expunged by then. Just stay positive, I say you didn't get this far for nothing!

Unfortunately the Pearson Trick is about 99% accurate

Does anyone know if once you get accepted into the school, if you can do the pre-reqs online??

If you made it through nursing school you can definitely make it through the nclex! What I did to pass is I invested in these three things 1.Saunders book 2. Online Hurst Review 3. iPhone NCLEX apps I made a calendar and dedicated a few hours a day (Mon-Friday) to reading and studying. The Hurst Review is really neat because it made learning somewhat fun so it sticks with you. As for the NCLEX apps this was convenient during times I couldn't really prop out my big ol Saunders book like during traffic, waiting at the doctors office etc. this is what I did and passed the second time so its not the end of the world, you just have to really dedicate time. Good luck!

I know how you feel I failed the first time and felt like a complete failure and I was bummed out for a long time but if you made it through nursing school you can definitely make it through the nclex! What I did to pass is I invested in these three things 1.Saunders book 2. Online Hurst Review 3. iPhone NCLEX apps I made a calendar and dedicated a few hours a day (Mon-Friday) to reading and studying. The Hurst Review is really neat because it made learning somewhat fun so it sticks with you. As for the NCLEX apps this was convenient during times I couldn't really prop out my big ol Saunders book like during traffic, waiting at the doctors office etc. this is what I did and passed the second time so its not the end of the world, you just have to really dedicate time. Good luck!

I used Hurst Review and loved it, although it doesn't go into depth about the topics, it is great refresher material I still have membership with Hurst you can PM me if you have questions

Congrats! Great feeling huh :)

Yes. After reading any chapter I would then answer questions on the CD

Do the PVT trick I couldn't wait, as soon as I walked out the testing center I did it and go the good pop up!

At the end of every chapter there are questions to review, and on the CD you go to study then click on content and it lists all the topics you can review individually (cardiac, renal etc)

I used Lippincott NCLEX-RN (still covers LVN material), Lippincott's Med Surg, Silvestri Lite, and NCLEX Qbank. You can easily search NCLEX in the search bar in the App store and all of the apps I listed will show up

I would aim at doing 100-200 a day on the chapter I read that day