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OK I may get flamed big time for this and I am not trying to insult anyone but I have a question. Does anyone else ever think that some people should choose a different professional path when they read posts about having failed the NCLEX multiple times? I did read one post from someone who failed 14 times. I mean really? I will admit that I am Canadian and I have no experience with the NCLEX but do you really want a nurse that had to write dozen times before they could get a license? We get three shots and that's it you are done. I think three times is plenty. I can't imagine writing 10+ times and not questioning that maybe I shouldn't be a nurse. I know some people say it due to being a bad test taker but how did they get through school?

What does everyone else think?

Specializes in Oncology/hematology.

We were addressed as seniors from day 1 this year. I was surprised too, but it is what it is. The funny thing is that I found out today with all my prereqs and my extra classes for my BSN bridge, I will be graduating with 2 associates degrees in May. A nursing associates degree is certainly like no other.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
A senior in a two-year college? I thought that term only applied to four-year institutions...(as in freshman, soph, junior, senior)?
NO.....many community colleges/2 year programs (4 semesters) apply that terminology to their programs referencing to what semester they are in.

While many believe 4 year colleges/degrees superior.......Four years colleges don't have exclusive rights to the terms Freshman(first year/first semester) , Sophomore (second year/second semester), Junior (third year/third semester), and Senior (fourth year/fourth semester).

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

Considering that to get into the "2 year" program that I teach in, students have quite a few prereqs, and could actually be in their 4th or more year of study. Enough credits to graduate? yeah, you can call yourself a senior. I'd rather just call you successful! and a graduate! :roflmao:

I with the remedial reqs crowd, can't pass, go get some more help.

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NO.....many community colleges/2 year programs (4 semesters) apply that terminology to their programs referencing to what semester they are in.

While many believe 4 year colleges/degrees superior.......Four years colleges don't have exclusive rights to the terms Freshman(first year/first semester) , Sophomore (second year/second semester), Junior (third year/third semester), and Senior (fourth year/fourth semester).

Oh, I never suggested one was superior (ADN grad, remember?) but rather that it seemed an odd choice of language, never having heard that myself before. We certainly never referred to semester one as "freshman" nor semester three as "junior" semesters. And that applied to my first Associates degree, decades ago, as well.

Still seems odd, frankly.

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Specializes in Oncology/hematology.

I actually feel that I was a junior my first year of nursing school. I had to take 2 years of full time pre reqs to qualify, so it's really 4 years.

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I actually feel that I was a junior my first year of nursing school. I had to take 2 years of full time pre reqs to qualify, so it's really 4 years.

I know what you mean! I already had an A.S. and had 3 semesters of pre-req/co-reqs before I set foot in Foundations for Nursing :)

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On the theme of the thread, I came across this: Would anyone here have thought to go to Wiki How to find out how to pass the exam? :)

How to Pass the NCLEX RN Exam: 19 Steps - wikiHow

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
On the theme of the thread, I came across this: Would anyone here have thought to go to Wiki How to find out how to pass the exam? :)

How to Pass the NCLEX RN Exam: 19 Steps - wikiHow

No...because..

1. Everything I learned for the NCLEX was taught in nursing school; test questions were similar to the NCLEX;

2. I learned how to gather my learning style and my own study struggles and make it successful; I learned how to utilize my care plans to help me build my nursing practice and think like a nurse; clinical opportunities were presented to give me extensive learning.

Now, granted that liability and time constraints, and other internal and external factors does not equate that every nursing student have that luxury...that doesn't mean they cannot transition into a competent novice to expert nurse; but again up to the nurse. :yes:

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.
No...because..

1. Everything I learned for the NCLEX was taught in nursing school; test questions were similar to the NCLEX;

2. I learned how to gather my learning style and my own study struggles and make it successful; I learned how to utilize my care plans to help me build my nursing practice and think like a nurse; clinical opportunities were presented to give me extensive learning.

Now, granted that liability and time constraints, and other internal and external factors does not equate that every nursing student have that luxury...that doesn't mean they cannot transition into a competent novice to expert nurse; but again up to the nurse. :yes:

I agree with number one. It puzzles me why people study for the NCLEX by trying to learn the stuff they supposedly already learned in school.

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Specializes in CICU.
I agree with number one. It puzzles me why people study for the NCLEX by trying to learn the stuff they supposedly already learned in school.

I did study by doing practice questions. Obsessively, as a matter of fact. First, because I really didn't have anything else to do (was contingent and census was low). Second, because I am by nature a worry-wart. I ONLY did practice questions, though. I didn't re-read any materials, or anything like that.

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I know someone (not well, acquaintance) who took an eight-month review course. I was floored at the time duration, and she said she was learning all this stuff, that it went over every single thing she learned in school. And all I can think of is "you went to a 2-year school, and need an 8-month review?!? What the hell DID you learn--if anything?"?

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Seems there are a lot of opinions on this thread about the many paths we take to becoming a nurse....Who cares, since the consensus on allnurses.com is that we all start out needing intensive learning on the job. If we can't cut it on the unit/job within a reasonable time, it will become apparent. We each have obligations to report unsafe/incompetent care.

How much do the posters know about the theory and development of NCLEX and other competency exams, and their ability to predict performance? (Or about predicting performance based on type of nursing education programs, for that matter.)

Perhaps we should all do some fact-checking on our own assumptions before presenting them as fact. So much here seems to be about building ourselves up by putting others down. There's too much of that in nursing already. In my opinion.

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