Just finished NCLEX...

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Ortho, & Tele all on one ward!.

Just finished NCLEX...and I have to ask- where were all the questions about stuff I actually studied? No, really...if I knew my exam would be like that, I would have seriously changed the way I studied. No med calcs, no age appropriate things, no therapeutic drug dosages, no drugs that I had actually heard of or that you could figure out what they were (no nice endings with -lol or -pril, etc)....none of those alternate questions either. I expected more basics- like positioning, testing, procedures, insulin.....

I seriously don't know what test I just took, because it wasn't over stuff in the Kaplan book.

Now the waiting game begins.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Ortho, & Tele all on one ward!.

OHHH! I competely forgot. Here is the absolute best advice I could ever give anyone taking NCLEX:

DONT TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT "LEVEL" QUESTION YOU ARE ON, OR YOU WILL DRIVE YOURSELF NUTS. Seriously. You can't change your answer to the previous question, so don't worry about it- just worry about the current question you are on.

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Specializes in Critical Care.
OHHH! I competely forgot. Here is the absolute best advice I could ever give anyone taking NCLEX:

DONT TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT "LEVEL" QUESTION YOU ARE ON, OR YOU WILL DRIVE YOURSELF NUTS. Seriously. You can't change your answer to the previous question, so don't worry about it- just worry about the current question you are on.

I'm sure you did fine. It's a tough test, what we used to call 'Stump the Chump' tests.

It's not designed to find out what you know, but to find out what you don't know.

~faith

Timothy.

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Hello !

Thanks for the TIP! I bet YOU HAVE DONE WELL! CONGRATS IN ADVANCE!ROZY

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Hi There! I was wondering about you. You are totally correct, my girlfriends and I were saying it was the most random stuff. I don't know if studying really helped or not..

I found out today, I PASSED though! So hopefully I will be hearing the same from you soon!

Jen

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CONGRATULATIONS NURSE JEN!:balloons:

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Congrats Nurse Jen we should celebrate

When did you take you exam I took my 2/28

Jesus is lord

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Please pray for me to pass my boards on 3/8. After hearing you say that everything was unrelated to what we've been studying, I'm super nervous. Please just pray for me.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Ortho, & Tele all on one ward!.

I just found out..... I PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Time to celebrate!!! :)

Good luck to everyone still waiting and taking the exam soon!!!

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Specializes in LTAC, Homehealth, Hospice Case Manager.

CONGRATS TO YOU Armykitten, RN!!!!!!!!!

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CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU! IT'S YOUR TIME TO SHINE! WAY TO GO!:balloons:

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Hey Army Kitten, how many questions did you have and any tips for those of us taking it soon. My test #2 is 2 weeks from today. I have been doing Saunders and Kaplan.

-Cortney

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