Somebody help me! I'm terrified of NCLEX!

[Senior 'n Scrubs]

Hello fellow people-helpers. I'm completely new to this site, about 5 minutes old actually.

I really need help from you guys. I'm a senior in high school, and I'm 4 months away from graduating as one of the 1st 7 students to pass Lennard High's Practical Nursing program.

I've learned almost nothing from these past two years of school.

We've been through 3 teachers since the beginning of the year. The 1st was a substitute that lasted us for an entire quarter our junior year until they could find a permanent teacher. She had severe white/gray matter loss of the brain and highly progressed Alzheimer's. Our second teacher was straight from Michigan (we are located in Tampa, Fl) so knew nothing about the area, going through a divorce and nervous breakdown at the same time. Our current senior level teacher is 70 years old, a compulsive liar, simply cannot remember anything (as I mentioned before, there are only 7 students in our class, which is 6 hours long, and she cannot remember our names), and gets extremely angry with us when we ask her for bookwork. She doesn't even keep grades for us.

To top that all off, our administration has given us no lesson plan, curriculum, time standards to follow, grading system, and we have almost no equipment. What was worse, they had no clinical sites for us!

None of this bothered me that badly, I had always assumed things would get better when the teachers had time to organize themselves. It never did. We went to our school administration about the issue, and we were laughed at. I quote, "It's not like ya'll deserve grades anyways, all you do is change diapers."

Now, we're 4 months until graduation and are on the same level as the JUNIOR PN STUDENTS.

I know this just seems like one long rant for a seventeen year old girl, and it actually kind of is. But what I'm asking for is advice. What were some of the study skills you personally used to pass your NCLEX exams? What do you feel are the Need To Knows? What most helped you pass the test?

An even bigger question: What do you feel are some of the most important things to know about being an LPN?

Thank you!

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

Moved to the NCLEX Discussion forum. Good luck to you!

[caliotter3]

Concentrate on finishing the nursing program for now. When it is time to study for the NCLEX, you will have plenty on your plate at that time. But you have to finish nursing school first.