Thankgod i passed nclex...

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Hi AN! I just passed the NCLEX-RN exam the first time last June 10, 2014. I am a foreign grad and to be honest my NCLEX journey wasnt at all easy. Just like most of you, I have sacrificed a lot for this exam: blood, sweat and a lot of tears, yes... I even experienced panic anxiety attacks and depressive episodes. Until now I am still taking medication for that. I wanted to pass the exam so badly because passing this exam would mean a lot to me and my husband.. I studied really hard and pushed myself to the limits which with all honesty I think is wrong.I felt really burned out so what I did is that in the last few weeks of my review, I tried to loosen up, tried to relax a bit and the most important thing that I did was, I gave myself up to the Lord. I asked of Him that if this is really for me, for us, then He would help me to pass this exam the first time and I sincerely believed that the Lord never left me the entire time I was taking the exam. It was hard, yes, but it appeared to me that it wasnt as hard as I expected it to be. Maybe because I knew in my heart that God is with me the whole time. When I started answering, the first 5 questions I really felt anxious so i stopped for a while, prayed to God to give me a calm mind, heart and spirit and to give me wisdom to get me through the exam. I felt at peace and continued to answer the questions. I got a lot of SATA, conference and priority questions. 1 calculation, no hotspot, no ecg question. I think in every question I say a prayer!!! It stopped at 75. I thanked the Lord silently in prayer, quietly raised my hand and walked out of the testing center. It felt weird, but a voice inside of me is saying that I passed.. I tried the PVT trick but it initially said that my results are on hold. I wasnt at all surprised because of some discrepancy in my name, they had to make an incident report. The next day the pop up changed to "our records indicate that...etc". I was overjoyed because I know it was the good pop up people are talking about in this site. But still I was skeptical.. 2 more days passed and I did the quick results and I saw that I passed. I really cried and hugged my mother who was beside me at that time. They are the people that supported me and believed in me.. So I know that no matter how hard this exam is, we can all pass. This is not the basis of who we are and what you are as a nurse and as a person. Godbless to all of you..To God be the glory!

By the way the review materials that I used and helped me tremendously during my review:

HURST old videos ( listened to this one I think about 3-4X )

Saunders 4th edition ( read it cover to cover once )

Kaplan Comprehensive review guide ( purple book ) (read it once then after answering the q bank questions, I read through the chapters to which I scored below 60% overall mark)

Kaplan On Demand

NCSBN Question bank

PDA by la charity

35 page study guide I found here in All nurses

All this books have helped me one way or another but I believed that its the Lord Jesus Christ who helped me to get through this. Without Him I cant do it. Sorry for the very long post but I meant to inspire people here not to lose hope and continue to hang on.

" We can do all things through Christ who strengthen us "