CDN Exam

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Anyone done the CDN/CNN exam and any study materials they feel like sharing? Please share! Thanks.

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AREP  has many good materials as well as credit hours.  I also go the book set from ANNA, helped a lot!  Good luck

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I'm currently studying for CDN exam (scheduled to take the test within the next month). I'll let you know...

As far as guides, I'm using Mometrix, Core Curriculum, and Youtube. I also bought ExamEdge (EE). Although I think any study guide will help you increase your chances to passing the exam, I find a lot of EE's questions absurd, rationale to the answers are very weak, they repeat a lot of questions from one exam to another (I bought 10 packs, 100 questions/pack).

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1 hour ago, integrativenurse said:

I'm currently studying for CDN exam (scheduled to take the test within the next month). I'll let you know...

As far as guides, I'm using Mometrix, Core Curriculum, and Youtube. I also bought ExamEdge (EE). Although I think any study guide will help you increase your chances to passing the exam, I find a lot of EE's questions absurd, rationale to the answers are very weak, they repeat a lot of questions from one exam to another (I bought 10 packs, 100 questions/pack).

My nurses said the same exact thing. But they say that test is hard and leave you feeling like you're as dumb as a box of rocks! They both passed 1st time and each has 20+ years experience apiece. Even though I'm management,  I'm considering taking it, in case I choose to go back to the floor

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1 minute ago, Hoosier_RN said:

My nurses said the same exact thing. But they say that test is hard and leave you feeling like you're as dumb as a box of rocks! They both passed 1st time and each has 20+ years experience apiece. Even though I'm management,  I'm considering taking it, in case I choose to go back to the floor

Have they taken it recently?

I've been is dialysis nursing for less than 20 but long enough (14 years) that I should know more than I should. But I don't. Just reading through Core Curriculum and other dialysis/renal study materials make me feel inadequate and unprepared. At least techs are nationally mandated to take certification but not RNs. *I believe VA dialysis techs are not mandated. I could be wrong.

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They took it within the last 6 months.  

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Just CDN exam today and passed it!

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How did you feel about it? I plan on taking it, as I may return to the floor someday

 

Congrats!

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Thank you. 

I say half and half require critical thinking and others questions are black and white. For example, I clicked through a good chunk of questions because the answers were so obvious. On the other hand, questions that I knew the right answers but the selections were a little deeper.

Since I don't have PD experience, I heavily relied on what I read/studied.

 

Good luck!

 

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