ANCC and AANP Board Exam

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I just wanted to share my exam experience with those colleagues stressing out there! It is possible, I passed! After failing both the ANCC and AANP exams I truly thought I was a looser...my 3.9 GPA on grad school was not helping and I could not figure out why I couldn't pass this exams...Reflecting upon my failures, I realized that my program curriculum wasn't as strong as it should have been (forget about the 45K it charges on tuition fee) and that the review I took (Barkley) was only bits and pieces...the books were ok (Filzgerald and Leik) but I needed the structure and the actual test environment simulation (someting that some people advice against of...non-sense!).

After searching the web, asking around and reading blogs, I came across national healthcare institute review for FNP, I called them and the actual program faculty called me back (Surprising because I called Barkley when I failed and never heard from him...so much for money back guarantee) He explained how the program works and truly convinced me that with a full self-paced online review and over 1000 sample questions with rationales to practice I could do this...I when to their website and registered www.nhinstitute.com let me tell you...I think I paid 200 something dollars but it is the best money spent in my entire nursing career...no only the review was amazingly complete but the questions were SO similar to the actual exam that I found the board exam very easy this time around...I just wanted to share this with you because, just like you, I spent hours looking for hope online until I found it...message me if you have any question...good luck

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What was the exact name of the course on their website that you took? Was it Mosby's?

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Yes, it was the the Mosby's FNP review. I was very impressed by the review and they even have all that apply and picture questions just like the ancc exam. Plus having the option to email the instructor with questions did it for me. I took and passed both the ancc and aanp exams...I studied for a month and took both exams, I just wanted to prove myself a point :)...Let me know how it goes and best of luck!

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My school is requiring us to take the Barkley review, did you find it helpful?

I found what seems to be the same program on the elsevier website and it is $196 instead of $275.

https://evolve.elsevier.com/cs/product/9780323053631?role=student

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My School did the same thing and made us paid for it too and to me it was a waste of time and money. Sitting down on a hotel conference room listening somebody talking nonstop didn't help me at all. On top of that there was no mention at all about things I was actually tested on while wasting time talking about DKA and acute care stuff. I paid for the Mosby review gladly, I wish I knew before paying and failing boards twice.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Moved to Student NP forum

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Specializes in Internal medicine/critical care/FP.

i think fitzgerald, barkley, and motz are all acceptable according to people from my class. i used fitzgerald. just pick one and stick with it, if you go back and forth between materials too much you'll confuse yourself and worry about inconsistencies more than learning the material.

good luck and congrats to the OP

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I took the AANP a few weeks ago and did not have any trouble passing on first attempt. I bought review books from Leik and Fitzgerald and reviewed from cover to cover. I also attended a review course by APEA. It was excellent. I truly believe reviewing scenario based questions helped me more than anything. It took about 2 weeks.

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I just wanted to share my exam experience with those colleagues stressing out there! It is possible, I passed! After failing both the ANCC and AANP exams I truly thought I was a looser...my 3.9 GPA on grad school was not helping and I could not figure out why I couldn't pass this exams...Reflecting upon my failures, I realized that my program curriculum wasn't as strong as it should have been (forget about the 45K it charges on tuition fee) and that the review I took (Barkley) was only bits and pieces...the books were ok (Filzgerald and Leik) but I needed the structure and the actual test environment simulation (someting that some people advice against of...non-sense!).

After searching the web, asking around and reading blogs, I came across national healthcare institute review for FNP, I called them and the actual program faculty called me back (Surprising because I called Barkley when I failed and never heard from him...so much for money back guarantee) He explained how the program works and truly convinced me that with a full self-paced online review and over 1000 sample questions with rationales to practice I could do this...I when to their website and registered www.nhinstitute.com let me tell you...I think I paid 200 something dollars but it is the best money spent in my entire nursing career...no only the review was amazingly complete but the questions were SO similar to the actual exam that I found the board exam very easy this time around...I just wanted to share this with you because, just like you, I spent hours looking for hope online until I found it...message me if you have any question...good luck

Hi Chris . I am about to graduate and was wondering was this the Mosby review offered by the nhinstitute?

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Yes. I truly would not have passed if I didn't do that review. They even have an NP instructor available for questions. I didn't use the instructor except for one time but it was nice to know that I had the ability to reach out.

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