my testimony with nclex-pn

[hansef]

First and foremost am so thankful for this website omg i read it everyday and i get so much information from it. i remember the first time i found out about this site i had failed my nclex-pn the first time and lord was i depressed but so many poeple made me feel better and told me to hang in there although it actually took me like 2 weeks to recover from that depression. so i studied like hell everyday i even downloaded the nclex 4000 for rn's, used the saunders cd and also took the 5 week course from ncsbn which i think helped me so much especially with content coz i paced my self with it and made sure i understood every aspect of almost everything but when i got into the test on fri march 30th i wondered WTH coz it was like i knew none at all.

but well the first time i didnt study much but still had hope in myself but when i got in the test i was getting such easy questions like how to put out a fire, teaching about sti's to adolescents, what an 8 mth old could do if they could sit on their own(surely was dumb coz i didnt know that) but just such easy questions and my test shut off at 85 qn(the minimum) which i didnt even know that it meant u are either too good or too bad and mos def i was too bad cos was done with the test in alomost 40 min it was that bad. reality actually hit me when i got home coz i didnt get home and googled PVT and then reality hit when i got the cc page and was able to register that was when i was like its official am dead.

so starting that same night when i had failed i stayed up studying because i knew it was the reason why i failed and i figured that if its because i didnt study let me do my part of studying starting now and leave the rest to God. and lord did i study my butt off everyday none stop and when i got my second att i decided to go ahead and schedule my test in the 2nd week of the available dates from the att. everyone in my family thought i had sheduled it too soon and that i needed to give myself more time since i had 3 months but i wanted to waste no time so went ahead and scheduled it that soon and told no one about it. when it was nearing my test date my anxiety was out the roof never slept for two weeks straight it was like i had crammed my notes from ncsbn and everytime i thought about something be it a disease, a med, a procedure of some sort anything i would stop what i was doing and try to recall what i know about it, yeah for sure i felt like i had crammed. now since i paced myself with ncsbn i didnt know that the test bank questions were so hard. it was almost like i had wasted my time learning my content and i had read a lot of posts on here where poeple had said that the questions from ncsbn were similar to the ones on nclex and when i did them and was failing horribly i was like lord help me coz i thought it was a sign that i was going to fail. i cried everyday none stop because my time with the prep course was almost up and was doing so horrible on the test bank questions and when time was up i had one more week to nclex i was going crazy but just reviewed most of my notes in the last week and did more questions on the saunders cd which where also hard and i tried to use the test taking tips i had learned from the ncsbn website which i was thinking were not helping. but i just prayed harder and harder and harder as the days were drawing closer.

on the day of nclex this past friday i hardly got any sleep coz i was a nervous wreck but just got up prayed and said to God that i have done my part and now it was all in His hands and up to Him. ok now this is my problem i dont know how to calm my nerves at all coz as soon as i started driving i started to cry all the way to the testing center. i got there early and was so hysterical but those test guys dont even calm u down one bit...and i cried all through my test but all i was scared of was failing because i was sure i had studied and knew my material but i was just scared of failing.

i got so many SATA i didnt even count, i had so many meds, but it was like every after a question there was a SATA which made me cry more, i had a few meds, oh and also infection control omg it was a lot and drug and drop with removing a cathether and putting on surgical attire without contaminating but it was all a nervoues wreck for me through out so i just kept on praying through out my test, before i clicked on anything i prayed, before i read the question i prayed, before i thought of an answer i prayed, before i selected an answer i prayed and before i clicked next i prayed.....thats how much i prayed....and once i read a post on this site where someone said that only God can put you this through this test and it sure was a true saying....so while i was doing the test i was hesitant to get to no. 85 because to me it was the determining no. whether i had passed or failed since it was what happened to me the first time so it def took me two hours to do the 85 qns and when it was time to take my break after two hours i was on qn 79 and was so nervous as hell....i took a 2 min break and went and paced in the hallway while taking deep breaths and still PRAYING so i decided to just go back and do it and when it came to qn 85 i didnt want to leave i sat there for almost 5 min coz i didnt want that screen to turn blue after clicking it.....so i clicked on it with my eyes closed and it went on to the next qn which made feel not so bad and since i was so sure i knew the answer on no. 86 when i clicked next the screen turned blue and then i officially died i just put my head down and cried all through the stupid survey i didnt even read the questions in the survey all i remember i just cliked the first answer all through no matter what they said. left the test crying got into my car and burst out with the loudest cry coz i was just about to give up everything....called my boyfriend on the way home crying he couldnt even understand what i saying but when i got home he had done the PVT already and he didnt even know about it all he was saying was babe am trying to register you all over again so that we can pay and just do it again and this thing wont let me through he was like i think they've blocked your account or something.....and i was just telling him its too soon you have to give it some time...so i kept trying it every 30 min and the pop up kept coming on which made me calm down not confident but a bit calm otherwise i would still be crying up to this time....

so am still waiting till tomoro or monday to officially relax but otherwise until that thing says passed am still praying to the Lord Almighty that that PVT is really what they say it is....but my final word is pray, pray, pray and pray because like some one said "only God can put you through this" and also know your content and use as many test taking tips as you can i tried to apply most of the tips i learned from the ncsbn website but it was like they were not helpful for me in the test generally for me the test was just so hard that for a moment i wondered why i studied that much because i surely studied and still got there and felt hopeless.....but will just update if i officially passed but in all this is my testimony with the nclex-pn......

[karen2012]

Hi,

Congratulations. I am so happy for you. You have done it with God's help. I am taking mine in two weeks and I am also very nervous. Could you please share what will help with sata? did you find nclex 4000 alternate format similar to nclex pn exam? please share what drugs I should be focusing on? I failed my first two times and am feeling sad.

God bless

Karen

[hansef]

Hi Karen,

i totally understand how you feel......will pray for you everyday.....and you are so right nclex 4000 really helped a lot with the sata do the section for sata by itself as much as you can read the rationales and understand them the material will stick i liked to do the study section because if i did the test part i failed so much and just worried everyday that i will not make it but you will do good......my meds were so confusing but some meds i tried to memorize were those meds that made something different or needed to be taken at specific times like if they change the urine orange or something different about them i really cant tell you which meds but remember to know you content very well think about it all the time you have two weeks to go.....just give it your all in these remaining two weeks you will make it coz thats what i did in my last week didnt sleep, kept waking up to look at notes if i forgot something thats how bad it was but am sure hun you will do well this time round will keep you in my prayers dont feel sad it will be ok and just take your time in the test....if it means sitting for 5 min to think of an answer do so but everything will be ok....

[karen2012]

Thank you for your the prayers. I know that everything is possible with Jisus. God bless

[Rofi]

[COLOR=#003366]hansef, do you have a link to nclex pn 4000? and how old is it, do you know when it was published? i can't find any information. thanks

[JustBeachyNurse, LPN]

hansef do you have a link to nclex pn 4000? and how old is it, do you know when it was published? i can't find any information. thanks[/quote']

Here is a link from Barnes & Noble: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/NCLEX-4000/Springhouse/e/9780781777902