What to do now?!?!?!

Published

So today is D day! I was an okay student in school making A's and B's, studied using Saunders, ATI, Exam Cram Kaplan, and the NCLEX study guide floating around herem I sat down to the NCLEX PN exam and got 13 SATA, 1 Math, 3 Exhibits, 2 pictures, 3 drag and drop and a WHOLE lot of Priority and Delegation questions. So when I got to #85 I said a prayer and clicked only to go to the next question. I ended up answering all 205 questions but was pretty confident that I still passed since others in my class passed at 205 and failed with less than 100. I rushed to the nearest Wi-fi hotspot longged on the Pearson, tried ro register and prayed.........and there it was the CC page. I did it multiple times and the same result. I secretly hoped that I was the 1% that had a false failure but I am pretty sure I failed. Now what do I do?!?!? Give up I suppose. I worked 2 jobs through nursing school, did all the suggested study materials since I felt the school taught me how to pass their exams not take the NCLEX. I feel like a complete idiot especially since the exam pretty much told me I am not competent and/or safe enough to be a Nurse. I'm tiried of fighting against the odds, preparing, and studying. My life is now on hold and I pretty much want to climb in the biggest dark hole possible and cover it with the biggest boulder possible. So again, what do I do now? I prayed, fasted, studied, practiced atleast 300 questions a day, and used practice materials that everyone said helped them. And yes, I feel horrible, especially when the least safest person in class passed with 85 questions. The pass rate for 2nd time takers is less than 40% so really what point. Vent overm :(

Up Vote Up Vote ×

I am so sorry to hear. Since you had a whole lot of prioritization questions did you get the La Charity book?

Up Vote Up Vote ×

No, I didnt since I used pretty much every other resource that everyone said they used in order to pass the exam. IF I decide to take it again, I would hate to focus on Priority and Delegation questions only for everything else to be given to me on the exam. I just hate that I dont know what to study for. Nursing is a whole lot of information and putting it all in context with content, lab values, etc is too much for one brain. :(

Up Vote Up Vote ×

(((hugs)))) you are not an idiot....just study more and you can do it

Up Vote Up Vote ×

You gotta pick yourself up, girl. (hug):hug: It sounds like you had a lot of stuff to focus on--could it be possible to over-study or have too many study options? I know of people who did very well in nursing school and failed the NCLEX. I do not think you should compare yourself to anyone else--it doesn't do any one any good. Timing is everything and maybe for reasons bigger than you're aware of, it's just not time for you to have this in your life. Sometimes it's those struggles in life that help us learn more about ourselves and life.

This is what I did. I purchased Kaplan (the live classroom section--the one with a teacher and you go to class for 4 days). I think it is much better than the online portions bc you can interact with a teacher who can give you more tips/strategies/answer questions than pre-recorded sessions. Kaplan has a blue book that I read cover-to-cover before I went into class. This way I was prepared to learn testing strategies and not focused on learning knowledge/information (which should be already under my belt bc of nursing school). Then I went home and did 3 tests of 75 questions per day and reviewed ALL rationales for EVERY question right or wrong. I learned so much content that was not covered in nursing school and solidified knowledge that I already had. Anything that I didn't know I would wright it on a post-it and stick it to the walls in my home--grouping like topics. I did every single Q-bank question and the multiple-answer questions. I did NOT look at anything else. I didn't even review tables/lectures/books from nursing school. It's soooo much information, you'll never have enough time to really learn it all. I focused on getting scores on Q-banks tests between 65-80%. There were a few tests that I didn't make those scores, but I reviewed the rationales. It took a lot of time doing those Q-bank questions and the other tests (no social life or any life other than Kaplan), but it was worth it. When I was done with all the questions, I reviewed those post-its for a few days before the exam. And the day before the exam I only looked at the post-its one time in the afternoon, and tried to relax the rest of the day. You have to go in with confidence and believe in yourself. If you go in this next time feeling defeated, you are only hurting yourself. Be your biggest supporter and fan. You had your time to be upset, now you need to do what it takes to pass this test--and dwelling on failing isn't gonna put your mind/heart in the right place. The last thing that I did right from the beginning was tell myself constantly all day long, every day was "I WILL pass the NCLEX the first time with 75 questions." (but you can say THIS time and believe it when you tell yourself.) I made a Kaplan hand-out if you want it (it goes with the live classroom section). I can email it to you in a pdf file. You'll do great this next time and it will make you a better nurse.

:w00t:

Up Vote Up Vote ×

Sorry to hear that KTeacher2Nursing. But there's always another chance; to make it through and pass the exam. I might not have the best advice for you but if you just think about everything you did and sacrificed at school then you'll be able to have the courage and motivation to take it again. Goodluck. :nurse:

Up Vote Up Vote ×
+ Join the Discussion