How did you prepare for NCLEX-PN?

quiltynurse56, LPN, LVN · Oct 3, 2015

I used NCLEX Mastery PN and the Saunders review book

JustBeachyNurse, LPN · Oct 3, 2015

LPNs: how did you prepare for NCLEX-PN? What material did you find helpful? I've been quizzing myself with Kaplan's RN 10,000 and I'm considering purchasing some review flashcards to use with my classmates, but I'm wondering what products others have used. Maybe someone has already posted a thread about this, but I could not find it. Any advice is appreciated! Thanks!

There are hundreds of threads in the NCLEX prep forum in the student thread.

Nurse_Kimurtle, BSN, RN · Oct 4, 2015

I used my Saunders NCLEX-PN book that they gave us in the LPN program. I bought a Kaplan NCLEX-PN review book towards the end of my program and went through that entire book. I also used the NCLEX-PN Mastery app on my phone. My Saunders book was registered to Elsevier online and that gave me access to THOUSANDS of NCLEX questions, which I answered on the hardest setting and I wrote out the rationale for each question that I got wrong.

I also found this YouTube sight called Nursity that helped me understand and how to answer the questions beyond Maslow's. I concentrated on lab values and had post it notes stuck EVERYWHERE, including on my steering wheel of my car; when I was at a red light, I'd look down at my steering wheel and state those values out loud. I don't do study groups. I study on my own. I've always found that study groups lead into socializing and I didn't have time for that. That's just me, though. Study groups may work for some but they don't for me.

One piece of advice that was given to me was make sure you understand what the question is asking of you. If you understand the question, the answer will be easy to pick out.