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Hello everyone. I'm new to this site. I have been practicing nursing for four years as an Licensed Practical Nurse working in a state psychiatric facility. I have no wife, no kids, and I live alone. There is not much for me to say except that I have graduated from RN school with as AAS degree six months ago and that I definitely need help in passing NCLEX-RN exam. Kaplan and ATI (Assessment Technologies Institute, LCC) are absolutely worthless. I will NOT waste any more money on preparatory courses which boast a high pass rate which is meaningless to me. I failed the NCLEX 3 times.:confused:

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I am sorry to hear that you have failed the RN boards three times. I teach the LPN program and I say keep doing the questions in the RN NCLEX book. Have you determined where you are having the most trouble?? Sally

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I always had problems with maternity and pediatrics. But the way the NCLEX-RN exam is structured it emphasize safe nursing practice in which I got a lot of priority questions such as which patient the RN should see first, medication indications, adverse effects, contraindications, and lab analysis. I am good in math and I got 2 math questions in the three exams. With my experience on NCLEX there is not much testing on maternity, peds, or psych to make time to review them worthwhile. I need to get above the passing standard on all eight catergories of the NCLEX-RN exam content. My first exam I had 167 questions, the second time I had 92 questions, and the third time I had 82 questions. I need to reverse this downward trend. The only good thing about the NCLEX-RN is that in my state of residence I can retest in 45 days.

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What state do you live in?? I was very lucky when I took my RN boards. They were all over the place , alittle of everything, like digoxin, coumadin. My machine shut off at 75 and I started to cry because I felt like I just got started. But I passed. I hope your next exam will not be so over run with OB/peds and you do well. Good Luck, keep us posted. We are pulling for you. Sally

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I live in the state of Delaware. I can count on one hand how many maternity/peds questions I have encountered in all my previous NCLEX exams. In nursing school they drill you with critical thinking in how the intructors structured their exams. But I can do 5000 questions on NCLEX-RN practice exams and it will not make any difference. NCLEX is not like any test I have ever taken before. And I think I am a fairly good test taker. You do not know what you are going to get on NCLEX. The NCLEX is an application/analysis test to measure minimum competence. I know I am more than minimally compentent. My best performance was the first time. With one category below the passing standard and all the other seven catergories I was near the passing standard. If just going over NCLEX-RN practice test in review books with the DVDs; I should have already passed. I have 9 different NCLEX-RN review books with DVDs all stored in my computer. I have Saunders, Kaplan, Lippincott, Mosby, Davis, and other NCLEX-RN books. At any given time I am on my computer answering questions. I need something specific that can help me get over this enourmous hurdle. I know I sound extremely negative but with three unsuccessful attempts in taking NCLEX can you blame me?:angryfire

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Specializes in LTC, MDS Cordnator, Mental Health.

one of the posters on this Thread said they were studing a Mosby book that focused on priority questions I bet if you did a search on amazon .com you may run accross it.

when I took my test on the 6/12 the majority of question were about that and Pharm.

have you done a "live revew". Check at the college were you graduated.

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i suggest you focus on one reference material so you will have mastery of the concepts. that way, you can answer with deeper and broader understanding the questions thrown out to you, as you've said you do not know what you are going to get in the nclex. when i took the exam last february, i did self-review using suzanne's plan. i also had different books then but i set them aside and concentrated on saunders and the cd that goes with it. i did the "study mode" to make sure that i get thru all the 4000 plus questions.

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DERNGRAD06 I don't blame you for being upset. I felt the same way about the NCLEX exam so I tell my students that you will never know what questions you will get but embrace your basic knowledge of an area and I help them delete the two wrong answers and focus on the two possible's and we really focus on the rationales. It seems to be working. I agree that staying with one book at this point would be wise. Keep in touch and good luck. shull

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What is Suzanne's plan? Is it a book with a DVD that I can purchase online? I would like more information on it. Thanks

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Specializes in L&D.

PM her with your email addy and ask her to send her study guide.

I did her plan and passed yesterday!!

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What about the NCLEX-RN Made Incredibly Easy? I have quite a few books in the Made Incredibly Easy series. I love them. I dont know it they helped me any yet though. I am still waiting on my results. Try eBay and see if you can find them cheap. Best of luck to you.

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What is Suzanne's plan? Is it a book with a DVD that I can purchase online? I would like more information on it. Thanks

Hi!

Can you send me some information about Suzanne's plan?

Thanks!Domi

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