British nurse sitting Nclex in USA

Belinda-wales, RN · Oct 22, 2006

Welcome - Sauders review I used when preparing for nclex and I highly recomend it. I am a midwife and managed to pass first time with no obs questions at all where as my husband who knowes nothing about obs had loads of obs questions even some on breast feeding.

english_nurse · Oct 22, 2006

Hi I am in Texas , moved here jan06 from Scotland has taken all this time to get work authorization ss number etc, waiting for the all clear from the texas licensing board to sit my nclex. All my experience is in Midwifery in the u.k . Anyone here from the u.k sat Nclex what did you think, I am using kaplan, saunders princeton for studying getting between 60-70% consistantly correct is this ok? Just dont want to fail and put off working even longer!
Any tips or advice thanks

sauders is very good, my recommendation is to get the books with the cd roms and do as many questions as you can, ebay or amazon can be a good place to look

belinda, jeremy and breastfeeding!! for some reason this made me smile!!!

RGN1 · Oct 22, 2006

Saunders is indeed good. Kaplan is great for homing in those critical thinking skills.

Good luck!! there's many a UK nurse whose beaten this beast - hope you join us soon!!

RGN1 · Oct 22, 2006

Just wanted to add that I had abosulutely no maths at all, or any breastfeeding questions! :lol2:

I would say almost 50% of my questions were which telephone call you would answer 1st! at least that's what it felt like to me. I had a few tick all that apply, mostly drug related, which in retrospect I think were probably not scored because of where they were compared to the other questions I had.

thistlegirl · Oct 22, 2006

Hi there, I sat the NCLEX last week in the states while on holiday. Thankfully I passed. I cannot recommend enough Suzannes study programme! (Look at the NCLEX discussion forum on this website for more info) Good Luck!!

Silverdragon102, BSN · Oct 22, 2006

Hi there, I sat the NCLEX last week in the states while on holiday. Thankfully I passed. I cannot recommend enough Suzannes study programme! (Look at the NCLEX discussion forum on this website for more info) Good Luck!!

Congratulations on passing :balloons:

thistlegirl · Oct 22, 2006

Thanks Anna:cheers:

woodhill30 · Oct 23, 2006

I am going to try and get more cd roms, thanks for the advice, did you all study for months or weeks , and how many hours a week did you put in?

Did you find the drugs questions difficult?

madwife2002, BSN, RN · Oct 23, 2006

Hi there, I sat the NCLEX last week in the states while on holiday. Thankfully I passed. I cannot recommend enough Suzannes study programme! (Look at the NCLEX discussion forum on this website for more info) Good Luck!!

Fantastic news I am really pleased for you:balloons:

Silverdragon102, BSN · Oct 23, 2006

I am going to try and get more cd roms, thanks for the advice, did you all study for months or weeks , and how many hours a week did you put in?
Did you find the drugs questions difficult?

Sauders is the best book I wouldn't spend money on anymore. I tried to do atleast 1 hour a night when working and a couple of hours when not. Try not to overload yourself. I even made a few cards that I could take about with me especially if I was finding it hard to remember

Good luck

Belinda-wales, RN · Oct 23, 2006

Our advice thats og and I is get the cd rom from sauders start doing the questions seta of ten at the time and then review the anwsers have a look at what areas u are falling down on . Start building up the number of test questions untill you are doing sets of fifty then week or so befor the exam do a good few sets of 75 or more questions to get use to consentrating for that length of time.

This is the method we used we both past first time not bad bearing in mind that either of us have done any general nursing for years.

Good luck and remember it is the nursing anwser u are looking for.