I have three study guides for the first semester Fundamentals of Nursing class. The study guides are:
Fundamentals Success: A course Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking
Study Guide (Workbook) for Kozier and Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing
Nursing Fundamentals Reviews and Rationales
These are free to the first person who asks me for them. I used all of them throughout my first semester to help study for the tests, but I don't need them any longer, and I don't want them to go to waste. I think they are helpful because they have questions similar to what you will find on yours tests (NCLEX style questions) and rationales to help you understand them. I simply ask that you pass them on when you are finished with them. Anyway, let me know if you are interested.
I also want to pass on a word of advice about study guides. If you want to purchase additional study guides from places such as Barnes and Nobles, Borders, etc., do it earlier in the semester and not a few days before your first test. I did this and had a horrible time finding a study guide because a lot of the nursing students had the same idea and went to buy study guides around the same time. I finally found one after going to about a dozen places. Everybody doesn't use the study guides, but they are really helpful because they give you an idea of what the questions will be like on the tests. Also, I could swear that I have seen some questions on the tests that are almost exactly like the questions in the study guides. This is true of the Saunders NCLEX book also. I know a few of those questions were on the tests, especially during Med-Surg last spring.
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