Hello, I am proud to say that I just passed the AANP exam for FNP. I have been reading this site for a while and thought I would give my input and tips.
REVIEW:
I attended Hollier's review in May, it was a good refresher and start to my studying.
Fitzgerald CD's and review book. Listened to CD's in my car on the way to and from clinicals and work! Review book was a wonderful reference for school and the BIG DAY!
Leik's fast facts on my kindle. I LOVED the layout (danger signs, summaries, questions..) and i think the questions on my review most reflected the questions in BOTH Leik's and Fitzgerald books. (scored around a 70% consistently on these questions).
NOT VERY HELPFUL--> Winland-Brown & Dunphy's review questions and strategies w/ CD ROM. The questions were very obscure, difficult, and did not represent the questions on the test. Still good to review because of the rationale but also lead to a bit of anxiety (I was scoring 40-70% on these exams!)
"Family Nurse Practitioner Exam Secrets"- 2 smaller condensed books with several typos and not alot of pharm...still and easy read and helped drill s/sx and terms into my head (and it was cheap! around $35).
Our program required us to take a Proctored FNP HESI exam and I scored an 87% which was a HUGE confidence boost!
I paid $50 on the AANP 75 question practice about a month ago to gauge where I stood and what my weaknesses where and i made a 62% ( and "FAILED" popped up! HORRIBLE feeling!) So i knew i needed to hit the books HARD!
DAY OF EXAM:
I reviewed the notes I had made and listened to the Peds Derm lecture on the way there...which completely helped since Roseola showed up!
That's all i can think of! It was really worded very easily and didn't seem to be tricky in any way. GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!!!
