Hi all other future and current nurses!
I wanted to thank all of you for your stories and inspiring encouragement about your NCLEX experiences. I really feel like this website is the reason I passed my NCLEX-RN this passed weekend.
First off, making to graduation was my sole priority throughout nursing school. I never thought at all about NCLEX until I recieved my ATT. Even while registering on PEARSON VUE, I still had another 8 weeks to finish school and never gave it a thorough thought as to what I should do to pass it. School was tough and I figured I had to make it to graduation before I even consider NCLEX.
When I recieved my ATT, I had been out of school for maybe 2 weeks. I was just starting to somewhat relax.....then the chaos started. I didn't have the money to pay for fancy prep classes and scoured the internet for days trying to find the 'BEST' study materials, but that was fruitless as well. Then I found this website and I was positively thrilled to find a collaborative site with real forums of people just like me trying to make it through NCLEX-RN alive. The resources suggested on this site were truly helpful and I wanted to pass them on to others. There were many suggestions so I only picked these because of the price and constant attention they recieved on this forum.
1. KAPLAN 2012-2013 NCLEX-RN (the green book. I found it on amazon for 20.00)
2. LACHARITY Priority,Delegation, and Assignment (amazon 16.00)
3. Mosby's medication cards w/ mneumonics (flashcard set- amazon- 25.99)
Other than those, I researched any unclear information in my textbooks from school. I really felt like the questions on NCLEX-RN were very similar to these 2 books. Whenever I didn't get a question correctly, the books offered clear reasons why the choices were right or wrong. If I was still unclear... I looked it up to clarify further. Nclex asked so many different types of random information that it was ideal that I studied every page in both of the books....TWICE. For me, it helped me to retain the information better. I also made a point to memorize the important reference ranges listed in the Kaplan book. VERY HELPFUL!!! Knowing what is normal vs. abnormal is a huge advantage on NLCLEX.
I hope this helps someone else and thanks again for helping me!