My advice...
~look at your grades from PN school - what did you do well in, what did you not do well in. Focus on the units of study that gave you a hard time then do the easy areas last.
~don't forget to look at your anatomy grades too - NCLEX questions can evaluate your knowledge of anatomy through different types of questions
~know nursing interventions for the different disorders/diseases you learned about. All nurses must be good at figuring out what to do to help the patient through their situation - and interventions are the key. Years ago the answer "call the doctor" or "notify the supervisor" would be THE answers...now, the LPN must know what to do to help the patient before (or at the same time) you are calling for help
~ pharm is a toss up - look at common endings of the generic names of drugs - these are clues to you regarding their classifictaion Ex: -- pril endings are ACE inhibitors, -sone endings tend to be steroids...If you can do this, then even if they throw a drug at you that you never heard of, you may be able to figure the answer out
~ EAT before taking the test - your brain energy source is glucose...you need food in order to keep your brain snappy
~ before you answer a question - put yourself in the question - and review the disorder/disease/pharm classification in your head BEFORE you choose an answer.
These ideas might help...and get a good review guide. I hear Saunders is hard - so that's the book you want. If you can do the hard questions, you can get through the exam. Goodluck to you!
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