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So I wrote a post before about how nervous I was to take my NCLEX, but I passed in 80 questions so WOO HOO!!! Honestly, when I left I really thought I failed the test so that's a normal feeling. I tried the pearsonvue trick and it worked! I recently got a job at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, I got into their new graduate RN program, and my orientation starts soon!!!

I know I have to take a pharmacology/EKG/math test sometime during orientation (hopefully towards the end of it) so I was wondering if anyone has taken a new RN Hire pharmacology exam and what it was like!

When do they normally give the pharmacology exam? We have a 2 day hospital orientation and then after we have nursing orientation so I'm hoping it's towards the end of the nursing orientation! They gave us a really general study guide with some EKG rhythms and treatments, but they didn't give us any other meds to look at or drug calculations so I'm not sure what to study!

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Telemetry.

They won't expect you to know what the meds are for. Well maybe the basics, but nothing in depth. I would assume it's mainly dosage calculations. If you're good at dosage calculations, then are you good to go. Don't be nervous. I've never taken a pharmacology exam when I was a new nurse, but I did take pharmacology dosage calcuation exam, which I aced.

i'm curious, how long did it take you to get a job?

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Most of the drug exams I have taken for facilities included how to calculate for an IV medication---how to do cc/h, usually had a picture of a syringe and mark where the dose they want you to give, the same for a medication cup. Maybe a calculation for how many doses you can give with a generic type medication---the medication is 40mg per 6cc, the order is for 20 mg, how many cc's do you give? those type of questions. For EKG I can't see they would want you to know more than the very basics, NSR, V-tach, V-fib, A-fib, S. Brady etc. Good Luck!!

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Specializes in Emergency Room, Trauma ICU.

The testing is usually unit specific. ICU is different than tele which is different than the floor. It all depends.

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Congrats!!!

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Great job. Nclex is nerve wrecking but its over now!

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sorry i'm just replying now!! i'm hoping it's not too bad!!! my first day of nursing orientation is tomorrow and i'm praying they don't give us a test hahaha! i'd feel better if they told us it was a dosage calculations test or a test on medications and their actions/side effects but they haven't really elaborated :/

i spoke to another person who was in a program similar to mine in the past and she said her test was difficult and the questions weren't calculations alone

i passed my nclex towards the beginning of august and then a couple months later i accepted the offer for a position in the new grad program!!

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sorry i'm just replying now!! i'm hoping it's not too bad!!! my first day of nursing orientation is tomorrow and i'm praying they don't give us a test hahaha! i'd feel better if they told us it was a dosage calculations test or a test on medications and their actions/side effects but they haven't really elaborated :/

i passed my nclex towards the beginning of august and then a couple months later i accepted the offer for a position in the new grad program!!

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Congrats on the job! During my orientation it was basic med calc. Not much on pharm beyond that, and everything else was critical thinking stuff. You really don't have to study much. We did not have any unit specific stuff that we had to test on. I went in nervous, mainly because I was thinking about nursing school exams and NCLEX, but compared to what you have already been through, the facility testing is a piece of cake, so don't stress!

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