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Hi, I am in the RN program at a community college and I am in my 4th semester i will graduate in may 2005. I was just curious if anyone can tell me some tips for 4th semster and the best ways to prepare for boards!!!! please!!

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I believe the best way to prepare is to practice test taking strategies. I hope your school offers this in your computer lab. If not, you might want to consider an NCLEX review course. The study guidies with CD's are nice, but you really need to know how to pick the questions apart. Have you been to this site? http://www.ncsbn.org. That is where the NCLEX originates, and they have good info.

Good luck!

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Hi, I am in the RN program at a community college and I am in my 4th semester i will graduate in may 2005. I was just curious if anyone can tell me some tips for 4th semster and the best ways to prepare for boards!!!! please!!

A good NCLEX review would be great for you and your entire class. Look at the forum and check out what folks are saying about Hurst Review. www.hurstreview.com They will come to your school and do a review even. PM me if you have any more questions or go to the website! Good Luck

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sign up for KAPLAN if you can afford it. They teach you test taking strategies as well as a good content review of nursing school. They also give you > 3000 questions (which is recommended to have a good chance of passing). Kaplan is around $400, I am finishing it up right now and it definately makes me feel more confident about boards

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sign up for KAPLAN if you can afford it. They teach you test taking strategies as well as a good content review of nursing school. They also give you > 3000 questions (which is recommended to have a good chance of passing). Kaplan is around $400, I am finishing it up right now and it definately makes me feel more confident about boards

Advantages of Hurst Review over the other reviews....It costs 350.00 for a live review. Cheaper for online, with same content and you see live review online. If someone does fail, they will give you your money back or work with you one on one until you pass...get this...FoR FREE. No other review offers that. Also, Hurst sole existence if for NCLEX and their instructors are trained experts in NCLEX and all RN's. Other reviews just hire a college instructor to teach and give them the info. They also give you tons of questions and a live video explanation of the rationales...along with being able to talk to a live person any time you have a question about anything. If you think about other reviews...you see the instructor for the few days that the review is then there gone. Not with Hurst! Good Luck and I hope the threads here help you to make a decision. Let me just make the point that I am not bashing other reviews, just stating the things that sets hurst review apart from them. In my opinion there is no comparison.

Good Luck again

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Advantages of Hurst Review over the other reviews....It costs 350.00 for a live review. Cheaper for online, with same content and you see live review online. If someone does fail, they will give you your money back or work with you one on one until you pass...get this...FoR FREE. No other review offers that. Also, Hurst sole existence if for NCLEX and their instructors are trained experts in NCLEX and all RN's. Other reviews just hire a college instructor to teach and give them the info. They also give you tons of questions and a live video explanation of the rationales...along with being able to talk to a live person any time you have a question about anything. If you think about other reviews...you see the instructor for the few days that the review is then there gone. Not with Hurst! Good Luck and I hope the threads here help you to make a decision. Let me just make the point that I am not bashing other reviews, just stating the things that sets hurst review apart from them. In my opinion there is no comparison.

Good Luck again

With Kaplan, you can choose to have a "live" course where you go to a lecture and listen, take notes etc. You can also choose to take an online course where you watch online VIDEO lectures and then once you are done with that particular section, you take an online VIDEO question/answer review which gives you a live video explanation of each rationale. Kaplan also offers a money back guarantee if you fail after taking their class (as long as you took your boards within 6 months of graduation), or you can retake their course for free. Granted, Kaplan does more than just NCLEX unlike the review you are talking about. If you sign up with Kaplan, you get 3 months of the online 3000+ question bank available to you, and you can review the Kaplan material as much as you want for 3 months.

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!

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With Kaplan, you can choose to have a "live" course where you go to a lecture and listen, take notes etc. You can also choose to take an online course where you watch online VIDEO lectures and then once you are done with that particular section, you take an online VIDEO question/answer review which gives you a live video explanation of each rationale. Kaplan also offers a money back guarantee if you fail after taking their class (as long as you took your boards within 6 months of graduation), or you can retake their course for free. Granted, Kaplan does more than just NCLEX unlike the review you are talking about. If you sign up with Kaplan, you get 3 months of the online 3000+ question bank available to you, and you can review the Kaplan material as much as you want for 3 months.

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!

There are some similarities between the two, but there is no comparison. You can find this out on all nurses and on the Hurst Review site from those that took Kaplan and failed, then took Hurst. Hurst Review cost 350.00, but there is an option to view the lectures by website again...it's just not forced on you. If you want it you can pay for it, but we already spend so much as students it's nice to have the option. If you fail boards, Hurst Review will remediate you individually, not just let you retake the course. Also, once you pay for the course once you never have to pay for it again whether you fail or not. For instance....if you take NCLEX in a month you can come to 2 seperate live reviews before your test and you only pay once. And the biggest difference b/w Hurst and "other" review Courses is the faculty. The faculty at Hurst are specially trained in NCLEX. How Kaplan gets their instructors is they tell the students who want a review to find an instructor at your nursing school who can present the material and then they send the material to them. I don't know about you, but after I was done with school I wanted a fresh perspective on the material that I spent the last 4 years on, not the same teacher reading the material to me. I know my school did a Kaplan review. Hurst Review does not read to you!! All of the information and test taking strategies are fresh and have humor too. Not picking on Kaplan here, they just happen to be someone to make a comparison to. Maybe the most important thing is how they teach...they teach "WHY". You can to 3000+ questions and that's great because now you know the answers to those questions, but will you get any of those on your exam?? Probably not! You need to know a certain amount of content and be able to apply it to any question they may throw at you. Alright, I rest!

Good Luck again!

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With Kaplan, you can choose to have a "live" course where you go to a lecture and listen, take notes etc. You can also choose to take an online course where you watch online VIDEO lectures and then once you are done with that particular section, you take an online VIDEO question/answer review which gives you a live video explanation of each rationale. Kaplan also offers a money back guarantee if you fail after taking their class (as long as you took your boards within 6 months of graduation), or you can retake their course for free. Granted, Kaplan does more than just NCLEX unlike the review you are talking about. If you sign up with Kaplan, you get 3 months of the online 3000+ question bank available to you, and you can review the Kaplan material as much as you want for 3 months.

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!

There are some similarities between the two, but there is no comparison. You can find this out on all nurses and on the Hurst Review site from those that took Kaplan and failed, then took Hurst. Hurst Review cost 350.00, but there is an option to view the lectures by website again...it's just not forced on you. If you want it you can pay for it, but we already spend so much as students it's nice to have the option. If you fail boards, Hurst Review will remediate you individually, not just let you retake the course. Also, once you pay for the course once you never have to pay for it again whether you fail or not. For instance....if you take NCLEX in a month you can come to 2 seperate live reviews before your test and you only pay once. And the biggest difference b/w Hurst and "other" review Courses is the faculty. The faculty at Hurst are specially trained in NCLEX. How Kaplan gets their instructors is they tell the students who want a review to find an instructor at your nursing school who can present the material and then they send the material to them. I don't know about you, but after I was done with school I wanted a fresh perspective on the material that I spent the last 4 years on, not the same teacher reading the material to me. I know my school did a Kaplan review. Hurst Review does not read to you!! All of the information and test taking strategies are fresh and have humor too. Not picking on Kaplan here, they just happen to be someone to make a comparison to. Maybe the most important thing is how they teach...they teach "WHY". You can to 3000+ questions and that's great because now you know the answers to those questions, but will you get any of those on your exam?? Probably not! You need to know a certain amount of content and be able to apply it to any question they may throw at you. Alright, I rest!

Good Luck again!

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Hi, I am in the RN program at a community college and I am in my 4th semester i will graduate in may 2005. I was just curious if anyone can tell me some tips for 4th semster and the best ways to prepare for boards!!!! please!!

I didn't study for the Canadian exam or for the NCLEX, and I didn't have any problems. I finished the NCLEX in 75 questions. And it's not because I'm Einstein either! lol

This may sound overly simplistic, but don't psych yourself out. Give yourself a little credit. You have been doing this for a while, and you have retained information. Take your time, read the questions well, and pick the safest answer. Always make patient safety top priority.

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Hi, I am in the RN program at a community college and I am in my 4th semester i will graduate in may 2005. I was just curious if anyone can tell me some tips for 4th semster and the best ways to prepare for boards!!!! please!!

I didn't study for the Canadian exam or for the NCLEX, and I didn't have any problems. I finished the NCLEX in 75 questions. And it's not because I'm Einstein either! lol

This may sound overly simplistic, but don't psych yourself out. Give yourself a little credit. You have been doing this for a while, and you have retained information. Take your time, read the questions well, and pick the safest answer. Always make patient safety top priority.

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