CNO EXAM FOR RPN

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I am taking the the RPN in September and I am very nervous!! Just looking for some advice :)

Thanks!

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I am taking the the RPN in September and I am very nervous!! Just looking for some advice :)

Thanks!

Are you talking about CPNRE???? It's a NATIONAL exam, not a provincial one. Look up the correct term and the info is readily available.\

A professional nurse SHOULD KNOW the details of their registration exam.

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Specializes in home care.

I know what exam I am taking and yes it is CPNRE but it's with the CNO so I just wrote that I wasn't meaning anything was provincial/national??? I have the books to study I was just looking for some tips from people who have experienced it already. I AM professional and I WILL NOT be a nurse until I graduate which is in Augest.

Thanks for your 'friendly' message............. :S

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The exam isn't difficult. It covers everything that you have been taught in school. Bring gum, pencils, erasers. Plan your route to the exam centre and give yourself plenty of time to get there because traffic always screws up on the day you have to write.

The exam is prepared to the lowest level of PN education in Canada. Not all provinces use the diploma yet, so parts of it are very basic.

Most of it is psyco-social. The year I wrote, for some reason they seem fixated on pediatric iv fluids and site. Others have said theirs focussed on public health type issues, while a third said it was a mish mash of everything under the sun.

Just figure out what area you have the least confidence in your knowledge base and go for that to study up on. If you are weak on psych issues, refresh that. Mine was iv fluids because I worked LTC and we didn't have an iv in the building.

The CPNRE manual is all you really need.

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are you talking about cpnre???? it's a national exam, not a provincial one. look up the correct term and the info is readily available.\

a professional nurse should know the details of their registration exam.

looks like some nurses do eat their young.

bottomz22 - good luck to you, the second post from fiona59 has some great advice.

you spent two years of your life preparing for this, cramming now won't make you a better nurse or help much with the exam. there is an assessment strategies test (online) for the rpn exam, oh sorry cpnre :icon_roll. it costs about $35, and predicts what your chances are of passing the exam andt tells you what areas you are week in. i think it is great practice. for me it gave me confidence (i had a 95-100% chance of passing) but i knew some who did not do well and chose to defer to the next exam.

good luck, focus on what you're doing in school now and maybe run through some practice questions on you break and before you go to bed.

:heartbeat

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The thing about nursing is a nurse needs to be specific and state their facts. You don't chart you started an iv. You chart location, fluid, rate, size. You give details of all that you did and often why you did it.

Ours is one of the few professions where we hold the wellbeing and life of another human being in our hands.

My education beat these facts into us (OK not physically but verbally). If you did not state clearly what you know and how you know it, you were sent back to rephrase your questions and rationale.

There have been many, many posters on this site who have honestly thought the exam was province specific and wanted details on writing it when they relocated. Other want to know if the exam would be valid for more than one years.

Clarity is key when posting. We've had RNs want to write CPNRE to see if they could pass it just incase they failed CRNE.

Hang around here long enough and you'l be amazed and shocked by some of the questions that keep resurfacing.

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the thing about nursing is a nurse needs to be specific and state their facts. you don't chart you started an iv. you chart location, fluid, rate, size. you give details of all that you did and often why you did it.

ours is one of the few professions where we hold the wellbeing and life of another human being in our hands.

my education beat these facts into us (ok not physically but verbally). if you did not state clearly what you know and how you know it, you were sent back to rephrase your questions and rationale.

there have been many, many posters on this site who have honestly thought the exam was province specific and wanted details on writing it when they relocated. other want to know if the exam would be valid for more than one years.

clarity is key when posting. we've had rns want to write cpnre to see if they could pass it just incase they failed crne.

hang around here long enough and you'l be amazed and shocked by some of the questions that keep resurfacing.

i understand you asking for clarification, as it is extreemly important in nursing, but i think at times you can come off, for lack of a better word (and sleep :o), not nice. it might be that you don't realize it, that its online or my interpretation, probably a combination.

i agree that some people are totally oblivious, but i think they can be kindly educated not made to feel stupid, humiliated or angry. :twocents:

bottomz22-sorry for high jacking your post

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i have just written the CPNRE in january, the test is not hard though it requires critical thinking... there is an exam practise book with multiple choice questions that will guide u as to what type of questions you can expect. make sure you pay attention to words like, "first thing, initially, most importantly.. etc" those r some key words that can change the meaning of the whole question. I am sure you will do fine! :) good luck!

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Specializes in home care.

Thanks everyone! I have purchased the Canadian PN EXAM prep guide book and started working through it last night. I am doing alright so far but I DEF need to slow down and read questions more carefully I noticed they are worded a bit sneaky sometimes. So I have starred those ones off, I start my final praxis May 9th- Aug.. if I start studying now is that a bad thing because it is so far away??

I also purchased mosbys canadaian comprehensive review of nursing- haven't look into it yet though. All the competencies from the prep guide are put into the questions so I think if i review those as well as everything else I should be ok if I keep at it. The prep guide comes with a disc to that tells me where I am weak and where I can improve.

Jme_daisy- Don't worry about! Thanks for the support

Can anyone tell I am extremely nervous for the exam (haha) ;)

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hi bottomz22,

are you ien?

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Hi , what is ien?

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IEN means international educated nurse '

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