CarieLyn

I have wanted to be a nurse since I was a little girl.... NOTHING ELSE! I graduated hs in 2001 and immediately entered work in the hospital as a ward clerk in the OR, then went to be a CNA on the med surg floor. I worked throughout college in a hospital and my last year worked as a PCT in a children's oncology unit where I hoped to continue working as an RN. I failed my test three times out of college. I lost total confidence. I'm not a good test taker at all and feel also as if my experience in a hospital made the test worse because half the things you DO versus what the books tell you to do are two different things! I gave up. I haven't worked in the nursing field in 4 years now. I miss it terribly as I do feel it's my calling but don't know what to do in order to jump back in. Can I still take the NCLEX? what would anyone recommend? Can I work as something else in a hospital with decent pay since I have my BSN in the meantime?