 Hi guys, so let's talk about some tips on how to pass the NCLEX. This is probably hands down one of my most frequently asked questions is how can I pass the NCLEX, what are some tips to help me better prepare, how can I pass it the first time, and all that good jazz. So we're going to cover my top three tips for passing the NCLEX. These are things that I did and little backstory I passed the NCLEX my first time within 75 questions and I took it like less than two weeks after I graduated. So it is possible you can do well on it the first time and I'm going to give you my tips. But before we get started I want to let you know that this video is sponsored by PicMonic. PicMonic is an excellent resource for passing the NCLEX and I'm going to show you how you can use PicMonic to help you prepare for the NCLEX. I am so bummed I did not have this when I was preparing for the NCLEX because it literally it it fits everything that I believe in for preparing for the NCLEX and now there's this awesome resource that basically walks you through that. Also I'm going to link PicMonic in the description box below because you can get two weeks free when you use my link. Okay, my number one tip for passing the NCLEX. Hands down is doing a ton, a ton, a ton, a ton, a ton of NCLEX prep questions. Literally think of your goal NCLEX date and you should be doing questions probably three, four, five months in advance. There's really no maximum amount of time that you should be doing questions but really like even if you're graduating in a year start now doing NCLEX prep questions. So many people are like I'll do it when I graduate and whatnot but if you start now then by the time you graduate you will be ready to take the NCLEX, trust me. The reason why PicMonic is such a great NCLEX resource is because they provide all of these NCLEX style questions for you and the awesome thing is you can make up your own question banks. So if you want to do maybe just 10 quick questions you can do that if you want to do a whole like 265 questions to prepare yourself like if you sat down and got the max questions on the NCLEX you can do that as well. Which leads me to my next tip and that is when you're preparing for the NCLEX it is a marathon not a sprint. The people that do well on the NCLEX for the most part are people who start preparing early on and gradually work their way up to doing more and more questions versus people that just cram and do it in a week or two. I have not seen as good of results from that as I have from people who practice for a long period of time. So you can use PicMonic to do this and what I mean is start now go on there do five questions and maybe do that every single day for the next week and then the next week start doing 10 questions the next week start doing 20 questions and what's awesome is these question banks can be either customized to content that you are learning in nursing school or you can make them randomized and they even can pull questions that maybe you've been struggling on and didn't get correct to help you with that repetitive learning you get it wrong you read the rationale and then you come back to it on a later date just as if you're preparing for a marathon you would not prepare for a marathon a week prior to it right you would start by running one to two miles a day work your way up to two to three and three to four and so on and so on so when you're preparing for the NCLEX start small and gradually work your way up to sitting for about three hours and answering questions and then I recommend like the week or two prior to the NCLEX kind of like taper back and don't answer as many questions because you don't want to burn yourself out it's kind of like that recovery time right before a marathon you do not run 26 miles the day before your marathon right you take a little break so one to two weeks prior to the NCLEX take that little break and slowly just answer a couple questions every day to kind of give your muscles in your brain a rest my third tip and my this is my last tip is to make sure you read the rationales of your questions and what you're getting wrong and pic monarch does this for you if you've got a question wrong you can read the rationale and what's nice is that when you get it wrong it pops up with the rationale and you can immediately go reference the pic monarch that it's referring to that way you can have a visual diagram picture of what you actually missed so that way the next time you have that visual memory cue pic monarch creates funny visual stories for you to help remember the stuff you're already learning in nursing school warfarin shown in this pic monarch as a warfare is an oral anti-coagulant that could lead to excessive bleeding if taken in excess thus in the case of an overdose it's important to be familiar with his associated antidotes vitamin k illustrated by the viking k king is an important antidote used as this stimulates the production of coagulation factors to seven nine and ten along with protein cns keep in mind this does not have an immediate onset of action accordingly in the setting of an acute bleed or extreme coagulopathy fresh frozen plasma is another effect of antidote depicted by the frozen plasma tv i think this is so helpful for the ed plex because have you ever found yourself kind of coming back to the same questions over and over like you you know certain things but then you the things that you don't know you keep forgetting and then the question comes up you're like oh yeah i don't remember that still well with pic monarch you can go right away look at the pic monarch get that visual memory cue so that way when you come back to that question you got it okay i know i only said three tips but i want to give like a couple more little general tips for you guys first don't compare your journey to taking the n-clex to anyone else so many people may not pass the first time and that's okay you just have to change your study habits change your study routine so that way you can pass the next time don't get discouraged that if you fail the first time that you're going to keep failing and that you're not meant to be a nurse that's not true at all i've had friends that are now icu nurses pediatric icu nurses who fail that several times before passing it passing the n-clex is literally you're just passing a test it does not define who you are as a nurse it does not mean you're going to be a crappy nurse it's literally just a test and the nursing world you're not designed to think like a test my next little tip is to whatever you're doing to study the n-clex really just be consistent with it don't cram and study for one week and then don't do anything for a couple weeks just consistently study every single day over time and that's going to benefit you if you do all these tips i guarantee that when you graduate you can take your n-clex sooner than most of the rest of your class i took my n-clex i think 10 days after i graduated because i was like i don't need to study anymore i've been studying for months and months and months and months whereas some of my classmates did not study and they wanted to take a month or two to prepare for the n-clex after they graduated which is totally fine but in my opinion i was like i've been studying for a long time i'm just ready to go i want to thank picmonic for sponsoring this video honestly guys if you don't go try picmonic right now you're gonna be disappointed click my link in the description box you get two weeks free and just just trust me guys let me know if you guys have any other n-clex tips in the comments down below make sure you give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel and i'll see you next time bye