Taking nclex pn soon!! would greatly appreciate study material advice please!!!

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Hello! I've been out of nursing school for a year now and have studied off and on throughout the year. I'm waiting on my ATT number and hopefully will be testing by the end of next month. Right now, I'm doing Lacharity, Kaplan qbnk, and kaplan-pn strategies, practice, and review.

I feel like I don't have enough content but sitting and reading these books (kaplan and saunders), I find it hard to retain the info needed. I'm scoring the 50's on kaplan qbank, and some 60's. I'm terrified of the SATA lol! I have therapeutic commun down, delegation, and confident with prioritization questions, but everything else..mehhh! any advice would be helpful on how to get the best content. thanks!!

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I'm preparing to retest in late October (1st run was in Aug) this time around instead of studying from different text books I'm going to concentrate on 1! I read up on the NCSBN and I'm leaning towards that since they do make the exam... I feel I flooded my brain with soooo much info EXAM CRAM, KAPLAN, VATI, SAUNDERS.... that when it was time to sit I was full! Is there anybody that can share some insight on this site and whether or not its helpful.. I read some post but I also read good post for VATI that I DO NOT LIKE so I need help also

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Yikes! I feel the same! Using so many different materials because I'm scared on specific one won't suffice. Do u feel like kaplan, ncsbn, or exan cram were anything like the nclex questions? I'm trying to find practice questions that are most relevant to the boards?

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Yikes! I feel the same! Using so many different materials because I'm scared on specific one won't suffice. Do u feel like kaplan, ncsbn, or exan cram were anything like the nclex questions? I'm trying to find practice questions that are most relevant to the boards?

To me the ATI was most like the NCLEX! Kaplan questions seem extremely long, and Saunders seemed easy.... I just found out about the NCBSN so i cant really speak on that one but i think i will do the Kaplan although i don't want to spend the 400 but i will to pass this second round .... That first run was HORRIBLE!

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I took and passed my PN boards earlier this month. I used one book at a time. I studied from Exam Cram and Saunders. I did the saunders questions off the disk it comes with. I did 100-150 questions a day starting three weeks prior to the test. All together I did almost 3000 questions. Just make sure you know your therapeutic levels ie blood work, drug levels and you should be good.

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We didn't have ATI at my school at the time. I don't even know what that is lol. I guess I will stick to kaplan questions :(

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Good luck to everyone who is testing soon! I feel like exam cram is pretty hard! I need more content. I will keep doing practice questions and read my saunders for content and hope that's enough!

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For the PN NCLEX, remember your ABC's and if you can't narrow it down like that, do your Maslow's. Read the questions slowly and carefully and take a break when needed! I studied the Elseveir NCLEX-PN book. The chapters go hand in hand. For instance, one tells you all about respiratory, then the next chapter is your respiratory drugs. I also bought a notebook and took notes. Another thing, look up nmenomics online for certain things such as isolation things. Good Luck!!!

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im on the same boat, im testing in november and i feel like im wasting my time reading because i dont retain the information :(

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im on the same boat, im testing in november and i feel like im wasting my time reading because i dont retain the information :(

same here! i CAN NOT sit and read saunders, kaplan, etc thats nothing but pages of info. its way tooo much info and i develop DUMPING SYNDROME ;). i feel so lost right now. i so awesome on the saunders cd but those questions have to be wayy to easy to be nclex style. i feel Kaplan q bank is medium/hard. i hope they are more nclexy because those are the questions im doing as practice. ughh! i just wish there were the real deal questions that pretty much mock the level of diffiiculty for nclex.

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