Do you find the National type tests easier than your NS ones?

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.

We don't have HESI or NET or whatever else at our school. We do take the NLN at the end of each class. I have done ok on them before but it was pretty equal to how I did in class. The med/surge one was frustrating because it went over a lot of stuff we didn't go over in class. They don't count against our grade either or help our grade so I usually don't put forth an effort on them.

Well we found out there is some fine print in our handbook and if you have to retake a class and there is a "tie" between places and students that they will use these scores as the final determining factor.

Needless to say I put more though into our one today. It was over Peds and Maternity and I ranked 92% of 6025 students in 88 RN programs. Felt pretty dang good, BUT I have to admit, the test seemed very easy, especially compared to our Pediatric and Maternity final which was cumulative.

There were a few things we never learned in class like some Denver 2 test thing. But overall it was easy.

Does anyone else find these tests are usually easier than their school program?

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Specializes in Family Medicine.

We take the NLN tests twice a semester now. This semester I took the two med/surg ones. I found the tests difficult (because some of the information we have not been taught yet) but I did well on both of them and was really surprised...

Great job on the Peds/OB NLN. I don't think I'll be taking that one because I had Peds/OB last semester and our program wasn't doing the NLNs at that time.

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
We take the NLN tests twice a semester now. This semester I took the two med/surg ones. I found the tests difficult (because some of the information we have not been taught yet) but I did well on both of them and was really surprised...

Great job on the Peds/OB NLN. I don't think I'll be taking that one because I had Peds/OB last semester and our program wasn't doing the NLNs at that time.

Yeah I found a lot of the stuff on the Med/Surge we hadn't covered yet either. We have 3 semesters of Med/Surge so I don't know if that was why but it made me worry if we needed to know the stuff for NCLEX There were only a few things on this Peds/OB one we didn't cover.

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Denver 2 test

Denver Developmental test :lol2:

And I know that b/c I finished OB/Peds 2 weeks ago and we had a test question on it. We had to go over it in post-clinical .

Anyhow- my school doesn't use any national tests either. As a resourse, we have something called Medspub that has NCLEX type questions, and after the last 2 classes we had mandatory tests, and then we had to spend 30 minutes in review.

BUT- we were just told yesterday (I started medsurge) that in June they're being sold to ATI and we won't have access to them anymore. There's something on our syllabus called ATI testing- don't know what that is. And I don't think even if we had to take them that they'd be counted b/c we're the last diploma RN class, and I don't think the BSN program even uses medspub.

Cheryl

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Denver 2 test

Denver Developmental test :lol2:

And I know that b/c I finished OB/Peds 2 weeks ago and we had a test question on it. We had to go over it in post-clinical .

Anyhow- my school doesn't use any national tests either. As a resourse, we have something called Medspub that has NCLEX type questions, and after the last 2 classes we had mandatory tests, and then we had to spend 30 minutes in review.

BUT- we were just told yesterday (I started medsurge) that in June they're being sold to ATI and we won't have access to them anymore. There's something on our syllabus called ATI testing- don't know what that is. And I don't think even if we had to take them that they'd be counted b/c we're the last diploma RN class, and I don't think the BSN program even uses medspub.

Cheryl

I live an hour from Denver and never once was this mentioned in my Peds/OB class :|

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It's a test they use to assess children under the age of 6.

It can give you an idea if there's any kind of delay.

Come to think about it now- I don't even remember having a test question on it. But we HAD to go over it in post-clinical

Cheryl

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
It's a test they use to assess children under the age of 6.

It can give you an idea if there's any kind of delay.

Come to think about it now- I don't even remember having a test question on it. But we HAD to go over it in post-clinical

Cheryl

AWESOME that means I did answer it right with my best guess!

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Congrats :D

Cheryl

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