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hi all. with a week until ANESTHEISA boards, i was wondering what everyone's suggestions are with respect to getting the most out of the next several days of studying. thanks in advance.

sorry - i edited the heading to avoid confusion.

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Don't study the Night before the Exam. I would do practice questions if I was you, especially ones which make you critically think. Because if you do not know the answer to a question, the practice w/ the critical thinking questions may help you deduce the answer to the question.

Good Luck, and Let us know how it goes please.

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Hi,

I can only tell you from my own experience. I studied for a good month prior to taking the NCLEX. I tried very hard to study at least 3 hours per day during the week and a couple more per day on the weekends. I took the HURST review class, studied the KAPLAN and LIPPINCOTT books, answered hundreds of practice questions on their CD's and finally got a motel room on Saturday and Sunday prior to taking my NCLEX on a Monday morning. I took the phone off of the hook and studied really hard for the whole weekend. All of the little tricks that these books and classes tell you really was a waste of time for me as the NCLEX was not at all what the books or my review class (which cost a couple of hundred $) led me to believe. There really is no way to Maslow any of the questions, or try to decipher if the question is asking you for an assessment prior to an implementation and then you can figure out the answer. My screen shut off after 75 questions and I was sure that I completely bombed the NCLEX as I had no idea how to answer most of the questions and took an educated guess on many of them. When I got done with the NCLEX, I sat in my car and wrote down as many of the questions that I could remember, and what I answered, then went home and looked up the answer... I was wrong on most of them. However.... I ended up passing the NCLEX and have no idea how I did it ? I passed nursing school with a 3.9 GPA and was at the top of my class. I actually felt kind of robbed that I could pay the money that NCLEX requires you to pay and then was given a test which really didn't focus on nursing curriculum. From what I've read on the Internet about this topic and discussions with other nursing students that I went to school with, most people have the same general feeling about taking the NCLEX... it really is not the traditional type of test that you are used to taking from nursing school. Just keep studying away and be familiar with your basic nursing skills, however don't expect to use any of the tricks that the books and review courses try to teach you because it simply aint so when you take the test. Eat a nice dinner the night before and get a good night's sleep without staying up all night studying. Take a deep breath, take your time and you should do just fine.

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What the....

Watch those "basic nursing skills." They might trip you up on that CRNA board!!

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Sorry.. should have read the header.. didn't see you were going for your CRNA certification

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That's cool dude, just joshing with you :)

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Don't study the Night before the Exam. I would do practice questions if I was you, especially ones which make you critically think. Because if you do not know the answer to a question, the practice w/ the critical thinking questions may help you deduce the answer to the question.

Good Luck, and Let us know how it goes please.

Agree completely, I loaded up my brain with so much info that it was clogged up and I had tremendous trouble critically thinking and that made it tough. The verdict is still out on my exam result.

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Agree completely, I loaded up my brain with so much info that it was clogged up and I had tremendous trouble critically thinking and that made it tough. The verdict is still out on my exam result.

I know you did great, friend!!

My day is coming on Tuesday at 0900, so send up some prayers!!!

Sprout :nurse:

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