I started the Kaplan review today and the woman there said many strange things. What does everyone think?
1. Do an average of 200 questions a day, just take them and then review the results and rationales.
2. Do 6000 questions before you take your NCLEX (in whatever time frame one has, not specific to anyone)
3. All review books are more or less the same because they all include questions from the bank of NCLEX questions. Get whichever one you want.
4. Don't bother reading the review book and don't bother getting a review book you need to read, just do questions.
5. **THIS YEARS TEST HAS MANY PRIORITY QUESTIONS SO STUDY THOSE THE MOST**
6. In 'NCLEX WORLD" some things are true that do not necessarily correspond to things we were taught: UAP's/NA's can do sterile dressing changes and NG feedings; all answers supplied are possibilities so that if an answer looks wrong because it would need an MD order that is not the case; Treatment of pain is not always the right answer.
7. One practice question stated that a nurse is preparing a woman w/ a ruptured ectopic pregnancy for surgery. What is the MOST IMPORTANT post-operative goal to address now?
a. Fluid volume
b. Pain
c. Emotional support
d. Respiratory therapy.
Most of us thought pain, the answer was respiratory therapy. The woman said that any postop patient needs turn cough deep breathe. Which we all know. But pain is huge here. Anyway, that's an example of how things work I guess.
I would love thoughts or comments. I cannot believe she expects us to do 200 or more questions a day. I will fry my brain learning my new job, working full time for the first time in 12 years and doing practice questions! Plus we got there and were not told in advance we would have a 180 question NCLEX style pretest. Then we had 3.5 hours of sitting around and answering questions--taking individual turns. And we were NOT allowed to just say the answer, first we had to say which two answers we would immediately discard and the rationale and then the right answer and why. BOOORRRRIIINNG. There are about 40 of us, give or take, and we only covered about 55 questions in that time. It was awful.
very true. But most of us thought of respiratory therapy as the specialty, and not as tcdb.
Just remember, you will be answering questions in the "NCLEX world" which is not the real world. Just don't read too much into the question. I've been practicing with some books and found if I go for the most "obvious" answer without over analyzing it, I'm fine. Good luck.
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Just remember, you will be answering questions in the "NCLEX world" which is not the real world. Just don't read too much into the question. I've been practicing with some books and found if I go for the most "obvious" answer without over analyzing it, I'm fine. Good luck.