March 2008 NCLEX support group

Silverdragon102, BSN · Mar 13, 2008

Anybody out there take NCLEX and get 265 questions? Passed or failed?

If you have a read you will see many have passed with 265

janina08RN, RN · Mar 13, 2008

Found out today I passed. Thanks to all on the boards...loved those mnemonics...actually used VEAL CHOP on the test...and thanks to Suzanne and her plan for adding in that critical sanity factor of an ordered plan. The stress factor is your silent enemy, it saps you and creates doubt, and questions all your hard work. Your nclex is just the last day of your study routine. You can do this just fine.

WOW!!!! Congratulations felixfelix!!!!!!! :yeah:

happynewLPN · Mar 13, 2008

Just took my PN boards yesterday and it shut off at 85 questions. Yikes! I definitely felt neutral, as for how I think I did. There were some questions I found easy, and other ones had me scratching my head. :smackingf

I guess I'll find out soon enough! Will definitely pay the $7.95 to find out sooner rather than later.

Lisa

wishiwereanurse, BSN, RN · Mar 13, 2008

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felix! congratulations!!! :yeah:

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igmirnor · Mar 13, 2008

HEY DEETONIA........

:ancong!:*wine:anpom: :yeah: :balloons::balloons::clphnds: waYYYYYYYYYYYYYY TO GO!!! I AM SOOOOO HAPPPPY FOR YOU!!! Thank you ....btw I really appreciate you letting us know that we are doing the right thing ... about the Suzanne plan i.e...all the best in your future career and May the Lord bless you and keep you .. go have a party ..you really deserve this!!!!

Hey all,
I won't start another thread since I already contributed to this thread. I took my test on Monday and I found out today that I passed, woohoo!!! So here is my experience: I had no nerves going into the test (thank you Lord), it sounds like a complete oxymoron since I didn't get the minimum amount of questions but I don't think the test was that hard at all. I thought the first 30 questions were fairly manageable so I thought for sure it would cut off at 75 but it didn't. I didn't start panicking or anything I just told myself that I didn't fail, at question 100 I decided to take a break (that was my second break) so I went to the bathroom and prayed. About 10-15 minutes after I returned the computer shut off, so I assume I got somewhere between 105-115 questions.
I really do believe that the test gives you question that it knows that you have a great chance of answering correctly (I might be wrong, but that's my opinion). I know people speculate on priority questions being of high-value and the more you see the better your chances but I'll tell you future test takers don't start panicking if you aren't receiving that many because out of my 100+ questions, I would say I got about 15 or so priority questions (if that), 4-5 SATA (I hate those, I truly doubt if I even answered any of them correctly), 4 calculations ( I'm really bad at math so I'm positive I missed at least 1), 3 meds, and a few delegation and teaching. I feel like most of my test was content base and either you knew it or you didn't.
Good luck to you future test takers and believe that you can do it, and for those who believe in the power of prayer........PRAY and try your best to control your nerves while taking the test and don't start panicking if it doesn't shut off at 75!!! For those who weren't successful please don't give up!!!
BTW, I used Suzanne's plan and I followed it exactly how she wrote it (thank you once again Suzanne). I know a lot of people say that Kaplan is the best as far as how the questions on NCLEX are but honestly I really didn't see that much of a difference between Saunders and NCLEX. Yeah the questions in Saunders are sometimes very long but at the end of the day NCLEX is asking for the same answers. Good luck to all!!!
Deetonia, RN BSN

iToniai · Mar 13, 2008

igmirnor,

Thank you for your well wishes, good luck to you. I'm sure you will pass just take each question one at a time and don't think ahead or behind. I really don't think the test was that bad, it's just being able to calm your nerves. I love that I stuck with Suzanne's plan because it actually make you go over content, which I felt I was lacking. I became a bit nervous a few weeks before the test because I kept on seeing these Kaplan is the best and Saunders isn't anything like NCLEX thread...so after I was completely done with Suzanne's program I dug out my Kaplan strategy book a friend bought for me and I went over it and did the 180 questions on the cd. Honestly, the book was good but I don't remember a time during my test that I said let's use one of those strategy. Suzanne's program was definitely sufficient enough and I never second guess any of my answers.

learninglessons12, BSN, RN · Mar 14, 2008

I took the NCLEX-RN on 3/12 and I passed with 75 questions!!!! :lol2:

felixfelix · Mar 14, 2008

i wouldn't sweat the pharm. this is 10% of what i used to study but it's probably enough if you've been doing pharm q's on your cd and have general knowledge. you can get a lot of info out of the drug name if you know your suffixes or just think about what the drug name is trying to convey, though there's plenty out there that don't give you a clue, like strattera, etc.

tricyclics- for depression, neuropathic pain, anti-cholinergic like se's, drowsy, nv, seizures, hypotension, dysrythmias

maoi's- no tyramine (hypertensive crisis) or tryptophan((serotonin syndrome- tachy, fever, sweat, dilated pupils(mydriasis), jumpy/clonus, confusion) neuroleptic malignant syndrome nms has similar sxs, but has mm rigidity, fever, wbc's up)

purines- yeast, meats, seafood

tyramine- cheese, beer, red wine, yogurt, liver, fish, processed meats

drug suffix

example

action

-azepam

diazepam

benzodiazepine

-azine

chlorpromazine

phenothiazine

-azole

ketoconazole

anti-fungal dark urine

-barbital

secobarbital

barbiturate

-cillin

methicillin

penicillin gi probs

-cycline

tetracycline

antibiotic

-ipramine

amitriptyline

tricyclic anti-depressant

-navir

saquinavir

protease inhibitor bleeding

-olol

timolol

beta antagonist fatigue

-oxin

digoxin

cardiac glycoside

-phylline

theophylline

methylxanthine s. mm relax

-pril

enalapril

ace inhibitor

-terol

albuterol

beta 2 agonist

-tidine

ranitidine

h2 antagonist

-trophin

somatotropin

pituitary hormone

-zosin

doxazosin

alpha 1 antagonist

-icin,mycin genta-,streptomycin aminoglycoside oto, nephrotox

-mycin etrythromycin (mt stom) macrolide ototoxicity

-amide cyclophosphamide anti-neoplastic hematuria

-sone betamethasone steroid edema

cef- cefazolin (ancef) cephalosporin pt, wbc, no if pen allergy

-acin ciproflox,levoflox fluoroquinolone cns tox, photosensitive

vanco- red-neck if given too fast, 2gm in 24hrs max, d5 or ns, use separate line linezolid is a vanco alternative

congratulations

how did you study for pharmacalogy? any tips? how to remember all those exact doses? 3 times a day, 4 times a day etc?

how are you march and april guys preparing for ur pharmacology part? how do you remember all that hard names and their side effects and dosages?

happynewLPN · Mar 14, 2008

I passed my LPN boards!!!!! :nurse:

felixfelix · Mar 14, 2008

you can't out-exam the exam. it's all in the rationales. I went thru the whole saunders book and rarely scored above 60% first time around, barely scored that much better 2nd time after reading the chapters!....but I connected the dots on the rationales, and that's what worked for me at crunch time. maybe it's the anxiety that's getting to you. try to have a plan to deal with the anxiety or it can bite you when you sit down to that pc. plan in your mind what you're going to do if you start freaking out to get you back in your body and ready to pass that test. :typing good luck everyone!

hi everyone:nuke: im just wondering do you really need to have a score above 70% when doing the practice test in the cds to pass? or what really matter is that during the actual exam is that you may be able to have clusters of correct answers? i really dont get a score above 70% most especially with kaplan though i have clusters of right answers in my test. im just really worried. my exam will be next week already. though i feel like im prepared to take it.i actually dont know what im feeling right now. haha:bugeyes:

MomenTs · Mar 14, 2008

i wouldn't sweat the pharm. this is 10% of what i used to study but it's probably enough if you've been doing pharm q's on your cd and have general knowledge. you can get a lot of info out of the drug name if you know your suffixes or just think about what the drug name is trying to convey, though there's plenty out there that don't give you a clue, like strattera, etc.
tricyclics- for depression, neuropathic pain, anti-cholinergic like se's, drowsy, nv, seizures, hypotension, dysrythmias
maoi's- no tyramine (hypertensive crisis) or tryptophan((serotonin syndrome- tachy, fever, sweat, dilated pupils(mydriasis), jumpy/clonus, confusion) neuroleptic malignant syndrome nms has similar sxs, but has mm rigidity, fever, wbc's up)
purines- yeast, meats, seafood
tyramine- cheese, beer, red wine, yogurt, liver, fish, processed meats
drug suffix
example
action
-azepam
diazepam
benzodiazepine
-azine
chlorpromazine
phenothiazine
-azole
ketoconazole
anti-fungal dark urine
-barbital
secobarbital
barbiturate
-cillin
methicillin
penicillin gi probs
-cycline
tetracycline
antibiotic
-ipramine
amitriptyline
tricyclic anti-depressant
-navir
saquinavir
protease inhibitor bleeding
-olol
timolol
beta antagonist fatigue
-oxin
digoxin
cardiac glycoside
-phylline
theophylline
methylxanthine s. mm relax
-pril
enalapril
ace inhibitor
-terol
albuterol
beta 2 agonist
-tidine
ranitidine
h2 antagonist
-trophin
somatotropin
pituitary hormone
-zosin
doxazosin
alpha 1 antagonist

-icin,mycin genta-,streptomycin aminoglycoside oto, nephrotox
-mycin etrythromycin (mt stom) macrolide ototoxicity
-amide cyclophosphamide anti-neoplastic hematuria
-sone betamethasone steroid edema
cef- cefazolin (ancef) cephalosporin pt, wbc, no if pen allergy
-acin ciproflox,levoflox fluoroquinolone cns tox, photosensitive

vanco- red-neck if given too fast, 2gm in 24hrs max, d5 or ns, use separate line linezolid is a vanco alternative

thank you felix. how did you prepare for your infections studies? or how are you march/april guys preparing for infections? what materials are covering? thanks guys

worrier · Mar 14, 2008

hi everyone:nuke: im just wondering do you really need to have a score above 70% when doing the practice test in the cds to pass? or what really matter is that during the actual exam is that you may be able to have clusters of correct answers? i really dont get a score above 70% most especially with kaplan though i have clusters of right answers in my test. im just really worried. my exam will be next week already. though i feel like im prepared to take it.i actually dont know what im feeling right now. haha:bugeyes:
and oh! by the way, congrats to all who recently receive their results and passed the exam. you really deserve it. i just hope i was able to find this site before i did my review so i could also try suzzane:bow: i really heard lots of good things about it. but i pray, i too will pass the exam.hehe:nurse:

Not really, my scores in kaplan trainer ranges from 50-65% but i passed on my first try. concentrate on the rationales coz it will you help analyze why you they come out of the answer. i did 100-150 q's/day religiously on teh last 4 weeks.

i concentrate on pharma 2-3 hrs/day on my last week. refresh your memory by reading infection control (droplet, airborn , contact precaution), prioritization and delegation (i used saunders as reference). if you can access kaplan, i suggest to go back and re-do them again if you have time. it will help.

i stopped at 145 q's. 2 SATA, 1 calculation. lots of prioritization, delegation, infecrion control and loads and loads of pharma.

Good luck on your test!:loveya: