ANCC - Family psych NP - just passed

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Thank you all for the great posts here. One of the weirdest exam I have taken so far. So many policy questions, conflict questions, research questions. I felt like it was equally divided in three portions, the way ANCC mentioned on the website.

Preparation - Online Fitzgerald course (not the audio cds), family prepnp.com - 10 bundles with 1000 questions, 2 ANCC practice tests. I resigned from my RN job and prepared for 5-6 weeks on and off, 5-7 hours reading a day excluding weekends. I had 3-7 similar questions from my preparation. After first 50 questions, if there was an option to walked out of exam room, I had chose that option. When I left the exam room, I was pretty sure I am not gonna make it. Thank god....... I think when you felt that you fail, thats where you did good.

Seriously, the exam is not easy. Prepare well and dont be overconfident. I am open for any questions.

Thanks.

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Specializes in Mental Health.

Congrats!! I'm taking it in a year. I haven't looked too much into it, but I do find it strange how much non-clinical material is on the exam. And there are non-psych primary care questions as well, like about athletes foot, etc, right? So weird...

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Eeek! I take mine on July 24. What was harder the clinical or non-clinical part?

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Specializes in psychiatric.

What did your readings consist of, just the tests or did you use the ANCC exam prep book or other resources? Congratulations and thank you for posting, we rarely see anything about the psych exam, I take mine in a year and I am starting to study this summer already. Do you have a job lined up yet?

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