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ANCC Cardiac Vascular Certification Exam

For those of you that have taken the exam, did you find it challenging? I'm thinking of taking it and I'm trying to put together a study plan. How many hours a week would you recommend to study? I'm relevatively new; I just barely have the minimum number of hours to qualify for the exam.

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I studied for about 6 hours using the mometric studyguide. I have been working on a cardiac/tele for a little over 2 years, so my experience did help. The book does cover most of the subjects well.

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Thanks! I took it and passed. It was pretty easy, in my opinion.

On 6/15/2019 at 3:54 PM, NucRN said:

I studied for about 6 hours using the mometric studyguide. I have been working on a cardiac/tele for a little over 2 years, so my experience did help. The book does cover most of the subjects well.

Thank you for this tip - I passed today as well. I only used the questions in the study guide that you have mentioned to review. As you said, experience helped as well (cardiac tele for 5 years now).

On 6/15/2019 at 3:54 PM, NucRN said:

I studied for about 6 hours using the mometric studyguide. I have been working on a cardiac/tele for a little over 2 years, so my experience did help. The book does cover most of the subjects well.

Really??? Only six hours total study time? Damn, maybe this is all in my head LOL. I worked inpatient interventional cardiology and outpatient cardiodiagnostics. I will say I feel like the Mometrix Study Guide was good enough. But the questions seem difficult and had lots of questions on topics that were not in the reading material.

Was it really not that difficult? I pushed my test date back a couple weeks based on how I did with the Mometrix questions LOL. I got between 63-68% right on the 4 practice tests between two separate books.

I had leadership questions and a few questions on PAD/Claudication. Concentrating on those sections helped me out a bit.

I tend to wing things like my certification exam and NCLEX without much prep work. I think as long as people do a complete Qbank or questions, that should be enough to prepare them for any certification.

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