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all right hey everybody so as you guys can tell also within this title i finally passed my insights on my second attempt the first time i failed my nclex um just to give you guys a little bit of an overview so i was scheduled to take my nclex on june 26th and i hadn't really started studying until june 20th i did 500 euro questions i didn't write down any rationales really and i just rushed it because i wanted to compare myself to my friends who are all taking the nclex my biggest advice to you is be yourself do not let others in your friends group others in your university try to tell you that you're ready to take the nclex because truly you're the only one that can um say whether or not you feel ready and i 100 agree with everybody else is saying that going in with confidence will get you so far when um actually taking the nclex because if you go anything like you're going to pass i am confident in saying that you more than likely will pass so i just want to break down the things that i did so to give a little bit of an overview of what i did on my first attempt was i was scheduled to take my nclex june 26th and on june 20th i started really is when i started studying i did about 500 new world questions and i wrote down maybe half of those but really giving yourself only a week to study for the nclex i think is absurd because there's thousands of questions that they could ask you and so i don't know if you are coming right out of nursing school and you feel prepared then i i guess say go go for it if you feel confident but i definitely recommend using some type of review really utilizing new world your world comes with an amazing question bank and i'll get a little bit more into that in just a second so like i said i did 500 questions about one week before my exam one week of trying to memorize 500 questions was just something that i mean even i told myself like wow that was just stupid so before my exam i took my first uh assessment i bought the u world with two assessments and i got a borderline with passing which was kind of kind of discouraging i that definitely made me feel down but i was like eh i typically you know it's a 50 50 chance i'm sure i'll be the one that passed well long story short i failed that time i was very um very upset i cried uh you guys can watch my first youtube video um that was like maybe three days after i found out i failed um but yeah so go ahead and watch that one if you guys want to kind of see the aftershock of what um the nclex is and kind of just give you a little bit of motivation to keep going so i took one week off uh just a lot for me to regenerate give me that energy back that i needed and during that week i watched youtube videos during that week i watched youtube videos i watched or read reddit posts i googled things just kind of figure out okay what am i going to buy what am i going to utilize and so i want to talk to you guys a little bit today about some of the things that i use that i felt were 100 worth to buy the first thing i want to talk about is first review first review is an online program you can you have different options of how you want to utilize hers so hearst comes with a good amount of [Music] different videos that you can watch they come with a live lecture if you want to purchase it that way so it's three days of live lectures and it goes system by system um i didn't want to use that because i think it showed maybe like an eight to five for three days and i didn't want to feel rushed really want to take my time watch these videos and so i just went and bought the first now hers now yes hers now gives you the videos so with hers i'm not i can't really show you the inside um just because i don't want to get in trouble but anyways this is the booklet and i'll kind of skim through it so um the booklet is a fill in the blank booklet and as you watch the video you want you fill in the prints and i feel like this was really good because when i got my cpr back i noticed that i was below on most of them and so i didn't have a solid foundation of the different systems now did i pass nursing school yeah i did but with that i think we forget a lot of these systems because of your senior year you're so focused on patient care that you're not really incorporating all these systems um like you should be when preparing for that nclex that's just my personal opinion but anyways i 100 recommend hers i used it so much during my nclex um there's one specific thing in here where you're gonna meet someone called the nclex lady and they talk about it in such a cool way i'm not going to get too much into detail but when i went into my nclex i told myself that i was going in to have an interview with the xbox baby and this helped me i don't know why but this helped me with kind of um selecting my answers because something that aunt marlene says we don't mean if you purchase first is that the nclex is all about safety and that's what had my mindset when i went to go take the nclex when i went to go interview with the nclex lady was safety safety safety so i 100 percent recommend hurst hearst um i believe they have a pn but the one i did was nclex rn so that's something that i used um that took me about two weeks to finish because the videos some of them are a little longer than others and i really want to take my time with that they throw out every once in a while different inflex tips that helped too but after i used that i really didn't touch it again until the last week of before my exam just to give myself an overview again um the second thing i want to talk about is this amazing book by the charity it's called prioritization delegation and assignments so if you are one of those people where you don't understand what an lpn and uap and an rn can do and cannot do i definitely recommend this book and i also recommend it if you had struggles or if you feel like you're going to have struggles with prioritizing patience because within this book and all this book is just questions there's a little bit of content to read in the beginning but typically it's just all question based and what what it does is it breaks down system by system and that is an amazing tool that i really liked um it's also purchased or it's by elsevier but you'll hear the charity more than elsevier when it comes to this book this is the fourth edition i believe this is the most up-to-date edition but i 100 recommend this like i said it breaks it down system by system and truly shows you what uaps which a uap is like a it's an unlicensed assisted person now that's what they're going to use in the nclex that's why i say that and it also shows you what lpns what nurses can do and how you prioritize patients were there questions from this book on the nclex no but it allowed for me to really see who was my prior priority when it came to patience because it's all about the nclex is all about safety um and also what i could delegate and what i could not do i just want to quickly talk about the study guide that's kind of roaming around i 100 truthfully can say that i cannot find this study guide anymore i don't know where it went but if you go on reddit and search for allnurses.com maybe if you search and collect study guide you might be able to find it on there i'm not 100 anyways this nclex study guide is amazing with the fact that it helps with mnemonics so there was one that was talking about chest cubes and if you remember um the acronym hold hold you know that high pressure alarms mean obstructions and low pressure alarms mean disconnection and that was just something that blew my mind something so simple for us to understand and um i may or may not have had a question on the nclex about that all right i wrote notes so let me get back on track i'm going to talk about mark clement and i'm going to talk about you world so mark clement if you have not heard of mark clement i 100 recommend that you go and watch his lecture videos so mark clement is kind of like first review kind of like all those other reviews that may have came to your school and talked about um the nclex broke system by system and mark clements is one of those people well something different about mark clement is that he actually wrote the nclex questions for many years and he doesn't do it anymore because there was a new rule with the national council board of nursing people said that you can't do a review and write the end text so he chose to help students which i felt was a wise choice anyways so like i said i'll put mark's video link in my in the description down below but um mark just helped i don't even know how to explain it all i can say is thank you mark for doing this but um he has 12 different videos and he kind of goes system by system but he more so just points out like the things that we need to know for the nclex and so it starts out with acid bases and ventilation goes into alcohol cardiac and farm um canes crutches walkers and sites who would have thought that we didn't know that the inflex but you do diabetes such a good one um endocrine was amazing and this very last one if you are like days away from the nclex i actually watched this video the day before my nclex the prioritization and delegation one like i said this book helps but mark really helps with that and he also gives some great nclex tips um at the end of this video these videos range from an hour to two hours long i think the last video is the longest and that's about two hours long but anyways so when you go to the website that i'll post down below you're gonna find a study guide and what i did was i wrote the whole entire study guide in this notebook and um it just helped me with remembering things i was very shocked to to kind of like see how much of this information that mark gave us stuck in my head and so i definitely recommend mark clement he is like a god of the nclex i don't even know how to explain him but i will tell you that taking that nclex made me feel so much more confident because of the way that he was telling us how to take the nclex so definitely 100 recommend that um i like i said i just i don't even know how to explain it it was just some it was a blessing in disguise and it's a free link so you have that um the next thing i want to talk about is view world so i mentioned before that i used uworld for my first nclex and i failed but that's just because i was not taking the time to actually read rationales i was honestly more concerned about the percentile than i was with the amount of questions that i was getting through and look at me in the eyes for a second and tell yourself this don't focus on the percentiles why do i say that if i can post images up above or whatever maybe at the end i'll do that but i will tell you this now that i had 459 questions left in my q bank out of all questions that i did which i don't even know if i had 459 incorrect questions left out of a total of 2191 questions okay when you go on the world and you click performance and i'm doing that live as we go and you hit reports it's going to pull up this graph of how many questions you got correct how many you got incorrect what's your ranking um and like where you should be like i said if i can post pictures i will do so somewhere but anyways so my ranking was in the 25th percentile 25th percentile they wanted me to be at the 48th percentile which is almost half of where i was in order for you to really feel confident with taking the nclex guys don't focus on the percentiles do not focus the percentiles and i'll say it one more time don't focus on the percentiles the percentiles mean nothing okay i'm not going to get into detail of why it doesn't mean nothing because u world is a very very very very very good resource but what i will say is only focus on the rationales ask yourself why did i get this question wrong if you can tell yourself why you got this question wrong then move on if you can't read the rationale more because the rationale gives you a lot of information which is something i liked about eworld but i cautioned you on that just because that you world will ask more in-depth questions or provide you with more information than what the ncx will ask you um i can't get into detail with the nclex but there's just a lot less information that the nclex will provide you it felt like there was only like one to two sentences per endless question so what i did with view world was i wrote down the rationales in this notebook i used a good amount of it um but i would just write down rationales things that i felt like um i would not understand so there was something that i was actually pretty shocked about so tv tests i did not know that immunocompromised patients and patients from different foreign countries and healthy patients they all had different ranges of a positive tb test and so that was pretty interesting but i wrote it down because i didn't know that so um like i said u-world's amazing what i would do was i would take 75 questions a day i would do an exam and then i would read through all the rationales and i would write down which ones i felt that i wouldn't understand and then about three days before my nclex i went through all my i went through most so i did i took a lot of tests um i would read the rationales through those and something in the beginning of doing the nclex that or doing you world sorry being a little mixed in my words um something that i found was i was just memorizing and i knew that that was wrong so i started writing down notes and i started hiding the answers and saying okay why did i choose this why didn't i use that and that really started to help me understand um the content that so let's talk about the assessments like i said i got borderline on the first assessment so the monday before my nclex i took my influx on a saturday so that prior monday i took my u world assessment and i took it at noon because i was taking the end class at noon and um i wanted to see if noon was a good time and it was i'll be honest newton for me was a good time um i took the nclex there was a hundred questions on this one i think the first assessment had 125 this one had 100 questions i took it um i didn't second guess myself i just said okay it's going to be this answer because this is this if you can explain why you chose an answer and you are confident with the reasoning behind that then more than likely it's correct um and so i took that exam and i got a 71 which is like a really high chance of passing the nclex i got 71 questions out of 100 questions correct pretty much how they should or they tell you and so uh i felt really confident i was like oh yeah so much confidence and so the next day i took a nurse achieve exam if you guys don't know what nurse achieve is it's a mock exam that gives you that um that cat assessment it's literally the nclex where it gives you for covid 60 is the minimum to pass at 130 is the max and it will actually shut you off if you are above or below the line when it feels confident in that so my first attempt i gotta pass slightly and that was i think two weeks before met in class and then that tuesday before my enclosure took another one i got a pass pass which is kind of like the middle of highly passed past pass and pass slightly and then fail so i did that and i felt really confident with myself with that too so the last couple of days leading up that wednesday and thursday i went over all my notes i did more view world and i listened to some of mark clements and i looked through the different systems that i felt i was struggling with through first on the last day i solely focused only on going over vital signs watching simple nursing videos which i didn't mention simple nursing is amazing too i only watched it for the pharmacology portions um specifically the cardiac drugs the site drugs and the gi drugs were the three main ones that i watched through simplenursing.com or simple nursing on youtube and nurse mike if you're familiar with nurse blake he's on there too um so i watched those farm videos while going on a hike and then i also listened to mark's prioritization and delegation video one more time but that was it um they always say don't study don't study the day before i didn't really study i just kind of reviewed the content i didn't learn anything new um that was a huge thing so you don't learn anything new because you're not going to learn it within the day before your exam um what else can i say about that went on a hike watch those and then i just kind of rested for the rest of the day i watched a movie and went to bed and i woke up the next day and i was a little nervous um but i just reminded myself i was so positive the last couple of days before the nclex and even the day of the nclex i was saying that i got through nursing school um you know i passed nursing school and i i sacrificed so much and let me talk about that for a second too i actually this isn't the last video maybe not um i quit my job i quit my part-time but full-time job because i felt that that was the biggest stressor that was going to distract me more than ever within the 45 days of taking this influence so i quit my job and i utilized the time that i'd be working to study for the nclex i studied for about five to seven days or five to seven hours about six five to six days a week depending um i did take a couple of days off in between that uh just to go to a cabin and rest for a couple days um burnout is a huge thing guys it's so important that you're not burning yourself out because i got burnt out i went to a cabin for four days and i came home and i was so unmotivated to study i would lay in my bed and say all right i'm gonna study and then the hours would just go on and on and on [Music] so um the day of my nclex sorry i kind of went off on a soap box there but the day of my nclex i um i woke up and i prayed a little bit and i was taking my flex at noon so i left the house around 10 30 i got to my testing center around 11 and i just listened to some calm some um music that i knew that was going to make me at peace give me you know take away all that anxiety and then i had one pump up song it was a christian song um it was uh you'll always be by kim walker smith i know it's not really like that rock type of song but it kind of reminded me that all my cares and anxieties will be wiped away because there's nothing else that matters at the end of the day so taking my nclex i've said this mentioned this before but i walked in thinking that i was going to meet the nclex lady and i was going to prove to her that i was going to be a competent nurse who was going to show that i was a safe nurse as well and i was going to provide the care needed for my patient one thing that i did that my friend taught me was you're gonna get a white board through pearson great tool to utilize um while the before i started the exam i wrote down like just like the nursing professor says write down everything that you feel like you knew for some reason i only wrote down a couple of vital signs and some first tips and mark's tips um but something that my friend taught me was when you come to select all that applies now this is gonna be a little bigger so you guys can see it but write down on your whiteboards one two three four maybe there's six six plus or six answer choices but as you are reading the select all that apply you want to say okay one's wrong and four is wrong i know that for a fact this really helped me because u world allows me to cross out but the nclex doesn't so i'd cross up those two and then i would have two and three left and once um i could tell myself okay why two is wrong or why three is wrong i would ask myself i would if i did two i wouldn't do three if i did three i wouldn't do two and whatever one sounded more clearer to me i chose that answer and so i just crossed out and i i'd select it and same thing for select all that applies if you have six of them maybe i'd cross out one three and five and two four and six would be my um answers really helped with that um and that's really it for the nclex uh i took a break at the 30 question mark and then at the 60 question mark [Music] i took another break the 30 minute the 30 question mark break i actually walked out of there in the 60 question i didn't walk out um 161 hit i took a big deep breath and i thank the lord for still allowing the system to um figure out if i was going to pass or not don't assume that you're going to get 60 don't assume that you're going to get um you know even 70. always assume that you're going to get the 130. so what's some something funny that i found was when i hit the two hours either two hours or two hours and 30 minute mark it asked if i wanted to break and i was on question 100 yeah 100. and um i thought that the system shut off because the screen turns blue for a second when it asks you for a break and i was like yes i'm done and then i saw i said do you want to take a break and i was like oh man so i said no i wanted to keep pushing forward and when i answered question 101 the screen actually shut off and my test was complete and um i took a big deep breath and i said that it's it's over with and i can do nothing else and so i i said okay it's done i went back to my car and i felt so much more confident i did not have any tears in my eyes i said that i did everything that i could and if i failed i'm just gonna have to figure it out and so i went home told myself at first i wasn't gonna do the pearson view trick i could not get myself to do it but that night my friend talked me into it and i did it and i got the good pop-up which like i said if i can show the good pop-up i will um and that gave me so much more confidence i was uh i was ecstatic i was in shock because i thought that i could never do this in the beginning and i gave myself the confidence and i gave myself the determination and i sacrificed the things that weren't needed in my life at the moment and so my advice to you guys is that is this one thing and i want you to answer these questions as i'm asking you them were you called to be a nurse did you pass nurse in school [Music] do you believe that you're gonna pass your nclex do you believe that you have to put effort and maybe make some sacrifices in order to successfully pass the nclex okay if you answered yes to all those and at the end of the day nothing else matters nothing else it doesn't matter if your friends pass their nclex on the first try with 60 questions it doesn't matter um if it takes you two three months it doesn't matter if it takes you five attempts to pass this end class now some of you are probably thinking well you're just saying that because you passed the nclex for a second time no i've had so many failures in my life and i've learned from that i failed ob i didn't get into the nursing program right away but what i've learned is that failure gives us the gasoline in order to make our fire bigger and brighter and that fire should be your goal so the words that i just told you i hope that you take with or i hope that you take with you along your nclex journey but remember the nclex doesn't define who you are as a nurse okay i wish you all the best of luck you can comment down below um with any questions that you might have i definitely recommend going on reddit and finding the r slash pass nclex um and reading some positive uh nclex stories maybe link up with someone who also is in your same shoes and just remember guys like you're gonna be a nurse one day and so i wish you guys the best of luck and yeah talk to you guys soon the shore into the west