by yehs14

Hello guys.

I am an RN from the Philippines. I will start my review classes on Nov. 9, 2009. I am planning to take the exam by December or early next year.

I still don't know what items should I study first.
Please give me some advice. Where should I focus?

Do you have any study plans that you can recommend?
Can I also have list of books that I should buy...

Please help me. I am really clueless on this.

Thanks!!!

Re: I will take NCLEX soon. What should I do first?

Saunders nclex book is a good start! many say just do questions and more questions and read the rationale behind the answers! 1 of my profs stated one should do about 5000 questions before one attempts to write the exam!

I used Saunders and did Kaplan and passed.

Re: I will take NCLEX soon. What should I do first?

Hi flames9.

When did you take the exam?

I am really scared.. waahhh.

you mean you only studied those two books? You did not buy other review materials?

Re: I will take NCLEX soon. What should I do first?

I wrote at the end of July 2009

I did kaplan. Did ALL the questions in the question bank. Listened to about 85% of the online videos. read the book that comes with kaplan at least 3 times and piles of questions from the Saunders Nclex book. I did some questions from websites found on here. I would say 90-95% of my efforts were in kaplan and Saunders. here are some other sites:

2. http://wps.prenhall.com/chet_lemone_medicalsurg_3/

3. http://wps.prenhall.com/chet_london_....cw/index.html

4. http://studentweb.deltacollege.edu/n...B7E66481CEAFCB

5. http://online.medspub.com/meds/login...&classid=28888

6. http://4tests.com/exams/examdetail.asp?eid=78

7. http://caring4you.net/tests.html

8. http://www.nclex-pass.com/sample_questions.htm

9. http://school.discoveryeducation.com...urskills1.html

10. http://www.nclexinfo.com/nclex_practice1-10.htm

11. http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~helene/Nclexfinal.htm

12. http://www.oakton.edu/user/~mikey/Q6a.html

13. http://www.learningext.com/students/qofweek.asp
(Weekly Questions from NCSBN)

Re: I will take NCLEX soon. What should I do first?

hi yehs14,

start with your content first then start answering 100 items a day and read and understand the ratio (correct or incorrect). also before going to bed check your common lab values and your MEDS. If you are sitting the test by December or Jan you should be fine.

The unit tests are also helpful.

books that I used:

Illustrated Study Guide for NCLEX RN Exam 6th Ed (Zerwekh)
Davis NCLEX RN Success 2nd Ed (Lagerquist) finished
Saunders Comprehensive Review for NCLEX RN 3rd Ed (Silvestri) finished
Mosby's Pharmacology Memory Note Cards (Zerwekh) finished
Prioritization, Delegation & Assignment (La Charity) finished

good luck!

Re: I will take NCLEX soon. What should I do first?

agree, study your materials for about a week or two, then start doing questions 100-150/day, people have used exam cram, saunders, la charity

Re: I will take NCLEX soon. What should I do first?

Hello.

Thank you for all your replies. You gave me a lot of info that can help me.
Please do pray for me. I really want to pass the exam.

Re: I will take NCLEX soon. What should I do first?

Originally Posted by yehs14

Hello.

Thank you for all your replies. You gave me a lot of info that can help me.
Please do pray for me. I really want to pass the exam.

as a fellow kababayan ill include you in my prayers

Re: I will take NCLEX soon. What should I do first?

I was looking at Kaplan and its $500?!?!

Re: I will take NCLEX soon. What should I do first?

yes its $500 but i think its worth it IMO, you can easily regain your investment once you become an RN