So Nurse Lexi, congratulations first and foremost, welcome to
your side. I'm going to ask you a couple
questions so you can share with people that were just in your
shoes on what to do to get to the other side.
So first and foremost, what attempt was this for you?
This is. My first attempt.
One and done. So people that are coming out of
school that are like, I don't know what to do.
You decided to go with NCLEX high yield.
How many questions were you? 85 questions deep and it set off
on me. 85 and out 85 What made you choose NCLEX high yield?
Well, I actually volunteer. I have several opportunities
through volunteering in different hospitals.
And so I interact a lot with new graduate nurses especially.
And I have a very close friend of mine who I met through
volunteering, who told me about NCLEX high yield and she said,
I'm going to go home. I'm don't even stress.
I promise you doctors is great. I'm going to send you all the
resources and you'll be fine. Take the self-paced course and
that's all you need. And doctor Z.
And so I go home, she sends me the, the details and I look into
it and I'm like, wow, this looks great.
So I gave it a shot And I looked at your into your podcast,
listened to some testimonies and I was like, OK, this, this
sounds reassuring. I'm going to go with this.
I, I trust this. So that's what I did.
There you go. And so now my question is
because again, the reason why we do these testimonials is 1.
There are so many people that are in your shoes right now and
they need to hear from somebody like you.
Like I said before, I was like, I can tell you it'll work.
I know it works because I've got a track.
But you are that student. You are that person that has the
ability to offer advice to people that are trying to get on
the other side. What is your advice?
My advice is to 1st off, take the course that is the I.
I've had so many people come to me and ask for advice, people
who graduated with me, who didn't pass their first time,
and tell me, what did you do? Because you know you passed and
I see that you're successful. How did you do it?
And the first thing I offer to them is take the course.
I feel that nursing school only prepares you so much.
And I mean, it's great, right? But most of these programs,
they're one to two years and they go over things very quickly
versus how you go over things in the course.
It's very organized. It's separated.
There's sections for pharmacology, which was my
weakest subject and in nursing, and I feel that I saw a lot of
pharmacology on the NPLEX. Oh yeah, I needed those acronyms
that you went over that helped me remember the airborne versus
droplet. Those things saved me.
And especially the AB CS. I used to think that that was
applied to everything. And then learning the aspect, I
was like, wow, it really is just this simple it.
It's a game changer. It really is a game changer.
Yes, but my advice is just not to give up.
So I had a fear even before nursing school of taking the
NCLEX, before I even stepped in foot into a nursing program into
nursing school. I, I was always scared of the
NCLEX. And I realized as I went through
the course, I, I felt confident. I, I did, I felt ready to take
my test. And so there were days that I
wanted to give up when I was studying, but I stuck to your
videos. I on my free time, even when I
wasn't watching lecture videos with you, I was listening to
your podcast. I was showering, cooking, doing,
listening to this while I was doing everything.
And so it really did make a difference.
And it, it does stick. It's not a trick.
Yeah, there's not a trick, I think.
So there's a couple of things that you hit that I think are so
important. The first thing is, is that you
said the word confidence. When you are confident in the
material that you know and you're testing strategies, it
affects your anxiety levels when you take the exam.
The second thing you said was that whether it be cooking,
cleaning, walking around, whatever it was, you had my
annoying voice stuck in your head.
And I know you're laughing because you know, I say that
and, and on test day, hearing that voice during studying, it's
annoying. On test day, a little
comforting, let's be real. And then the last thing, it's so
important that everything that we did is not about a trick.
The content that you learned, you're now practicing.
How much of that stuff did you just forget or are you actually
like, wow, this is stuff that I actually truly understand now?
Oh, I am for sure understand a lot more on a deeper level than
I did in nursing school. There's a lot of things that I
know that I'll, you know, I still keep in touch with touch
with my friends and we'll talk about certain things with topics
that we learned and they're like, how do you know that?
And I go, well, I took and I clicked force and it taught it
to me. So it's it sticks, it sticks
with me. I see it.
I again, I still volunteer in hospitals and a lot of what I
see I'm like, wow, Doctor Z showed me that.
And, and I think that's, that's so cool because the goal of this
program is in just to help you pass the exam.
That is obviously the primary objective.
However, making you into a strong, confident nurse is the
ultimate goal because you're going to be touching people's
lives every single moment of your career.
So I think that that's so great that you're able to experience
that. I'm so glad that and
appreciative that I was able to be a part of your journey.