Filipino Nurses who passed the NCLEX without the help of Review Center

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Hello i would like to invite those who passed the NCLEX but without Review Centers. Please share your experiences, strategies and methods of study to inspire and motivate those future nurses like me who will take the NCLEX by self review. Please take time to answer the following questions:

1. What are the materials that you used?

2. How many hours per day did you study? how many questions did u answer per day?

3. How many days or months in total you studied before taking the exam?

4. What are the specific strategies that you used or the the test taking skills you applied during the exam?

5. Take one or take two?

Thank you.. This will be a great help for us...

Hi! Yeah, too late for me to realize that. I should have just go on with the 3rd editon. I have my 3rd edition but i still went on to buy the 4th edition just today! i looked at the 4th edition right away and compare, chapter by chapter! they are very much the same except for few pictures! even the questions are the same.. only that the critical question (1 every topic) was replaced by 1 new-format question. I should have just borrowed a 4th edition CD from a friend and if i can't find one, bought delegation book by la charity and saunders Q&A new format. :(

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I am planning to do self review too, thanks so much for all the comments here, now i can continue reading my saunders book as almost everybody is recommending it.

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I am planning to do self review too, thanks so much for all the comments here, now i can continue reading my saunders book as almost everybody is recommending it.

saunders is the bible for people taking the nclex. wish you all the best in your nclex exam

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I"m reading Saunders now and my graduation date isn't until March 2009. By the time I get my ATT it'll be about June or July of next year. I haven't taken the exam but here's what I've been doing since June of this year 2008.

Here's what I do every day for 4 Hours....(2 1/2 hours in the moring and 2 1/2 Hours )

> Reading Saunders every day. In addition I'm making flash cards as I go.

>I'm answering at least 75-100 questions a day including the rational.

> Reading Prioritization and Delegation by La Charity

>Kaplan In Dec (Q -trainers)

>Prayers of course!!!Asking for Guidance and Knowledge!!!!!!

*My test date won't be about another year, but I'll be ready. By that time I would've read Saunders at least 3 times cover to cover and would have answered at least 10,000 questions with understanding* -Macky c/o 09

"A winner is someone who, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."

Larry Bird

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Hi! Yeah, too late for me to realize that. I should have just go on with the 3rd editon. I have my 3rd edition but i still went on to buy the 4th edition just today! i looked at the 4th edition right away and compare, chapter by chapter! they are very much the same except for few pictures! even the questions are the same.. only that the critical question (1 every topic) was replaced by 1 new-format question. I should have just borrowed a 4th edition CD from a friend and if i can't find one, bought delegation book by la charity and saunders Q&A new format. :(

The books may be similar, but the CDs are quite different. If you are already spending close to $500 US to test by the time that you are done with things, makes no sense not to have the book that has the most up to date style of questions included.

Sorry, but makes no sense to me. The third edition was written years ago. Chapters are edited as well in the book, they are not all word for word the same with each other.

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I"m reading Saunders now and my graduation date isn't until March 2009. By the time I get my ATT it'll be about June or July of next year. I haven't taken the exam but here's what I've been doing since June of this year 2008.

Here's what I do every day for 4 Hours....(2 1/2 hours in the moring and 2 1/2 Hours )

> Reading Saunders every day. In addition I'm making flash cards as I go.

>I'm answering at least 75-100 questions a day including the rational.

> Reading Prioritization and Delegation by La Charity

>Kaplan In Dec (Q -trainers)

>Prayers of course!!!Asking for Guidance and Knowledge!!!!!!

*My test date won't be about another year, but I'll be ready. By that time I would've read Saunders at least 3 times cover to cover and would have answered at least 10,000 questions with understanding* -Macky c/o 09

"A winner is someone who, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."

Larry Bird

Actually not a good idea as to what you are doing, you are focusing on memorizing and that does not work for this exam. There is so much more into preparing for the exam, than just doing questions. REading the book is not even necessary if you have the information fresh in your mind. It may help with school work now, but not for the exam.

Also you need to be aware that it will be at the minimum of four months or so after you graduate at the earliest to sit for the NCLEX exam, so you have all of the time to prepare then. Your focus should be on getting thru your program now. And that more and more states are requiring the local license, so that will add time on as well.

I help prepare students all of the time to pass the NCLEX exam, and always they get the same answer from me. It is too far out to begin to prepare for the exam. You may actually cause more problems for yourself with what you are doing at this time. The exam is not concerned with what you had in school, but how you will use the information that you have learned and you do not even cover much of what you will be tested on until your last semester of school.

If you are attending school full-time and then spending 4 hours per day preparing for the NCLEX, your school work or something else is going to slip. You also need to take into account that there is a five year wait plus for a visa, and probably longer by the time that you are done.

Best of luck to you.

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I'm a U.S. citizen studying in another country. I'm not a dual citizen , I have a social security number and i've lived in the U.S for over 25 years.

I just went to PI for nursing school. Unless laws change in CABON website then I would have to take my local license. But as of this moment, PRC told me that I wasn't eligible for the exam because only filipino citizens or dual citizens can qualify for the exam. I asked them if I could take the exam in case CA would require me and they told me NO. What they told me to do is go to thier legal dept pay a fee and have them send a letter to CABON stating that I'm not qualified because i'm a U.S citizen. From that point, CABON can come up with aa decision.

As for my school, our program is structured in a way where the first few years is mainly theory( funda, Maternal, Pharma, Patho, Med Surg etc..etc..etc...)..The last year of our program focuses on NCLEX review, being in the hospital Mon-Fri (OR, labor deliv, Peds, ER, ICU , Ortho, Mental etc...etc....etc....) Sat , Sun NCLEX and Local review at school. We do this entire rotation with other dept every 3 weeks giving us hands on exposure with different kinds of patients. Man I've seen everything and have done a lot. ...The ratio here is 1: 20...Mutlitasking is a must skill..So by the time I"m done I'll be more than ready. I've graduated in the U.S with a Bachelors so I preety much have an idea of how to prepare my self. In addition my whole entire family are RN's working in CA for over 20 yrs. In mental health anxiety can cause problems especially during test taking. Memorizing I understand won't help me pass the exam, but it's refreshing myself for some of the things I've forgtotten to give me a sense af confidence when that time comes. -Macky

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You will need an actual letter from the PRC that you cannot write the NLE and that needs to be included with your application to CA BRN. That is all that you will need to submit.

Not sure of which program that you have attended in the Philippines, but all need to be aware that not all of the programs there meet all of the requirements for licensure in all 50 states. We have seen schools that did not have programs that were accepted by CA.

Same way that not all RN programs in the US meet the curriculum requirements for all BONs in the US. Each state has their own requirements and they can be different. The cores are the same, but then some have additional requirements.

Best of luck to you.

(p.s. Check out the NCLEX Forum that can be found under the student tab for assistance in preparing the NCLEX exam)

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Hello. im new here. Did anyone of you took the NCLEX exam this month or the previous month? can you please share with us what questions or topics you remembered? I'm gonna take this October 1 and i really need your help. as for my review, im using Saunders 3E and NCLEX 3000. help appreciated. Thanks.

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Hello. im new here. Did anyone of you took the NCLEX exam this month or the previous month? can you please share with us what questions or topics you remembered? I'm gonna take this October 1 and i really need your help. as for my review, im using Saunders 3E and NCLEX 3000. help appreciated. Thanks.

Moved your other question to our NCLEX forum. It is illegal for you to discuss questions from the exam and people sign to say they will not do this. Please take the time to check out the NCLEX forum in the student section

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3rd edition is also a bad idea, none of the newer format questions are on that edition since they did not exist when that book was published.

You really should be using the 4th edition to have the best chances of passing the exam.

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:nurse:hi everybody,

Saunders is good only if u can concentrate on rational rather than question.I myself think that saunders question are much easier than real nclex.In some questions you even do not have to look at question for making answer correct.But for subject matter, its really good if you can concentrate on rationals.

Next thing, we cannot develop our critical thinking in Saunders

because all are kind of straight questions.Nclex is not like that, we have to use critical thinking to answer nclex question.

In my view Kaplan questions are real like nclex.I myself did all saunders questions from cd and book. A week before my exam,I took Kaplan trainer test 1 and got only 50%.It was so horrible.I got nervous.I didnt have much time.I had scheduled my nclex on last date of ATT.I had no choice.Finally I failed .:cry::cry: Best of luck for all of you who are going to take exam..

Well,now I am planing of taking Kaplan to build my confidence,hope it works.

thank you

Suju

:bow::bow:

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