CRNE prep guide

I moved your thread to the Canadian Nurses forum for better response.

I have the Mosby book but I think it's very techinically based. It will be good for content but I feel that it is closer to what I experienced on N-CLEX question wise. From what I gather from reading threads on here the Canadian exam is based more on nursing processes in Canada than being heavy on technical content.

I think you'd be better off getting the CNA book - but their website has a glitch on the payment page which levies a charge of $188 for international shipping!! I'm sure it's a mistake & I have emailed them about it but haven't had any reply. You will have to source the book elsewhere!

Mosby book is very very usefull . for my CRNE i did study mosby book and prep book.

try to review all multiple questions in mosby book at least 3 times. there are lots of simillar question in exam that if you know mosby book it will help you to answer those questions. especially medical surgical part.

I did the CRNE last June and found that the Mosby book was terrible. I only used it for the parts that were specifically Canadian, and the long tests at the end of the chapters. Otherwise I used the NCLEX guide. I liked it better because I was able to quiz myself with chapter specific questions, and it was not a long comprehensive test at the end of the section. I was able to do the quiz at the end of each chapter first so I could figure out what parts I needed to focus on and could skip studying some stuff. I also found it was laid out better and easier to understand (even though they are similar). I also used the prep guide a lot, but only as the exam got closer.
Use what you feel comfortable using because everyone learns and remembers things different.
Good Luck,
Kristen

Do you think N-CLEX guides are any use then? I had formed the impression, from other Canadian nurses on this forum, that the CRNE was nothing like N-CLEX because it was more psych-social & based around what a nurse in Canada would be expected to do.

That's why I thought the Mosby book wasn't going to be much help because the questions to me seemed more like the ones I did when I took N-CLEX!

Luckily I will be working in canada prior to actually taking the CRNE so i'll have some time to get used to things there first & to crib from colleagues what the exam is really like!

Anyhow the lowest score I've got on Mosby so far is 80% so I figure that's Ok for now!

I'm answering from the PN perspective. The Mosby's was far more technical than the Cdn. exam. The exam was much more psycho-social, delegation of duties, interpersonal, with small set areas relating to drugs, iv fluids etc. ie: what solution would you admnister to a peds patient in x situation via which vein.

I found that when studying patho, and treatments for illness that the NCLEX book was laid out better then Mosby and easier for me to use. It's all the same stuff regardless of where you live. I made sure to study the parts in Mosby that were specifically for Canada, as well as CNA stuff and delegation, and bestpractice guidelines. I used a variety of books to study from.

Hi, I took CRNE this Feb and I've passed, thanks God~
I have been following this topic for quite awhile but want to write something only after I have good news to share (at least I can prove my strategy works)...

So what I suggest is to spend time revising what you have learned in school first (e.g. textbooks and lecture notes, especially on psychosocial subject, A & P etc.) then use CNA prep guide to get a general picture of what the questions will be like in CRNE, you have to fully understand the rationale for the correct answers.

Revise again the areas that you are weak at (according to the prep guide analysis). Do Mosby Canadian prep guide while you have done CNA's thoroughly. I found Mosby very useful in confirming how I should choose the correct one, and i think the method they suggest you to answer the questions make sense too (i dont remember all of them now but they suggest e.g. you can consider the longest answer when you find it difficult to choose 1 out of the 4 choices, I think it's because the longest answer usually has a better description/explanation to the nursing action).

Mosby's questions look like more technically based but it's not, they are more specific to each area which are good to identify your weaknesses. Also, I find Mosby's and CNA's have similar questions even with similar choices! I'm also surprised that some questions in CRNE are very familiar to those in Mosby's. If you're running out of time to finish the whole book, concentrate on their comprehensive test (I didnt manage to get a hold of the Mosby until 3 days before the exam, but I'm glad that I have spent three whole days working on it!)

Online readiness test is a good tool as well, it isnt as useful as CNA prep guide and Mosby but it boosts up my confidence...readiness test really can make me feel "ready"!

I have tried NCLEX prep guide as well but then I gave up working on it cause I found what NCLEX wants from nurses is totally different from that in CRNE, the latter concerns more on your critical thinking and the use of nursing process.

Sometimes, I think CRNE just want us to know how to practice safely and ethically more than any technical things...

that's all I want to say, good luck~