Can Someone Help - Psychiatric Technician Student

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I am a psychiatric nursing student and I will graduate in four months I wanted to know if anyone has taken the nclex and any tips you could give me to pass the first time

what to study that would be nice

actually I would like to know the set of the test like kind of what it looks like

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Specializes in Cath/EP lab, CCU, Cardiac stepdown.

What in the world is a psychiatric nursing student? Do you mean you're a nursing student with a rotation in psych right now? I've never heard of a nursing school that specializes other than having rotations.

It causes me some concern that you don't know what to expect from the nclex but you're graduating soon. You should have been practicing nclex questions since the start of nursing school and your school exams should closely mirror them, otherwise I feel that they have done you a disservice.

I've heard great reviews about Kaplan and saunders to prep for the nclex. I would imagine that the nclex Will cover a wide spectrum but generally have priority and delegation questions, nursing management, pharmacology, med math, and scope of practice questions while incorporating some pathophysiology of diseases like diabetes, hypertension, copd, etc.

I hope this doesn't offend you but the content of your post really makes me want to ask: are you really a nursing student that's graduating soon?

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It concerns me that you don't what a psychiatric technician student if you are not please allow me to direct you to google. If I was a nursing student doing a clinical rotation in psych I would have stated so..

How am I suppose to know what out Nclex looks like if I have never taken it ??? To answer your question your ignorance did indeed offend me

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

Are you studying in Canada? The US does not have psychiatric nurses while a few western provinces in Canada have psychiatric nursing programs. You need to check with the CoN as the US only has a generalist NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN. I know the. UK has specialist training as a mental health nurse. Most of the posters in the NCLEX forum are US license candidates so generally not familiar with requirements for other countries.

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I heard of a psychiatric nurse but not a psychiatric nursing student... Anyways Nclex is similar to a test you take in nursing school but harder. Go to the library, rent a nclex book. Read it and do all the questions. Just don't memorize, but know the contents. There's lots of practice questions online too that u can study off. Good luck future nurse!

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Oh yeah! I would recommend exam cram and saunder.

- To the other person. Google on how to be "respectful".

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

The NCLEX is for nursing students not psych tech students.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
Are you studying in Canada? The US does not have psychiatric nurses while a few western provinces in Canada have psychiatric nursing programs. You need to check with the CoN as the US only has a generalist NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN. I know the. UK has specialist training as a mental health nurse. Most of the posters in the NCLEX forum are US license candidates so generally not familiar with requirements for other countries.
California has licensed psychiatric technicians, and according to the tags on the original post, the OP is in California, so she's probably studying to be a psychiatric tech. If she is in a psychiatric technician program, she does not need to take NCLEX.
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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
California has licensed psychiatric technicians, and according to the tags on the original post, the OP is in California, so she's probably studying to be a psychiatric tech. If she is in a psychiatric technician program, she does not need to take NCLEX.

Makes sense. I can't see tags on the app.

NCLEX is not applicable to psych techs. Refer to the BVNPT for certification requirements.

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Thank you ! our school keeps telling us that we need to study Nclex to be prepared for state testing to become a Tech .. so thats what they keep telling us to review

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Thank you

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

You don't take the NCLEX as a PT candidate you take the California Psychiatric Technician Licensure Examination

A little googling and I found the candidate bulletin for the psychiatric technician examination for CA:

https://candidate.psiexams.com/bulletin/display_bulletin.jsp?ro=yes&actionname=83&bulletinid=240&bulletinurl=.pdf

It doesn't make sense to take the NCLEX-PN as you are not eligible or educated to pass the exam.

You are likely eligible to use this review site: Psychiatric Technician Review Exam from the CA association of psychiatric technicians.

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