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Mar 31, 2009 03:35 PM

psychiatric nursing test questions


Hi all,

I'm having a difficult time with my psychiatric nursing class. I'm reading everything and going over NCLEX questions. Other students in my class don't even read and they get better grades than I do! Now I know each person is different in their study habits but a lot of people in my class are not doing well, that usually do well. The NCLEX questions that I review over seem a lot easier than the questions we have on tests. This is the class that many people fail and have to retake.

Do you have any pointers on things you did in psych that can be helpful?

Thanks!

HB


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Old Mar 31, 2009, 04:47 PM

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I understand your pain. I'm in that class too. My suggestion is to review the test with your instructor. I asked my teacher today to please look at a question with me and tell me what I missed that would have made the answer C instead of A. Funny thing (and this is why I don't like this class) she agreed with me that both answers were correct and that if I needed the extra point at the end of the semester, she would give it to me. This happened on two different questions.

But my point in reviewing is to see where you read the question wrong or rather what they saw as important in the question that you missed as being important.. If the teacher can guide you it should help on future tests. To me, this material is more about interpretation of question than it is about memorizing black and white information.

Good luck to you.
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Old Mar 31, 2009, 11:08 PM

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thanks for the advice!

will try to set up an appt. with my teacher.

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from tomyrmc
Old Mar 31, 2009, 11:28 PM

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Hi my friend. You're right this is an easy class for some but a hard class for others. I had to retake pysch twice, which was a huge setback for me but I would strongly suggest to really look at what is the question asking you, doing some high application pysch questions from an nclex book and knowing the concepts of the material presented to you in class. Also know youre pyschiatric meds. Good luck!! Don't feel discouraged. Pysch is a hard class regardless of what anybody else might say to you.
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Old Sep 09, 2009, 09:54 PM

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I totally agree, i am in this class also and having a very difficult time. It's not like me to flunk a test so i have been very nervous. I will look around the internet and if I find any good info I will pass it along to you. Good Luck! We have to remember to stay possitive, we can do it, it's just going to be a little harder for us, but that's ok
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