NCLEX advice/help

[whit9448]

Hello everyone! I am scheduled to take the NCLEX PN on February 13. I took my exit Hesi in December and failed with a 72%. I have been studying everyday since then but still feel really unprepared. I have being using the Hurst review book for about 6 weeks and am now going through the 1,000 questions for the second time. I have also been taking some Kaplan practice tests online and have been averaging 50% on them. I just printed off the Allnurses review and will be reading that intently until my test day. Does anyone have any advice regarding what topics to really focus on? A classmate told me that her NCLEX test was a wide variety of things, that nothing really stuck out to her. This is crunch time for me so I would appreciate any advice from people who have already taken it. Also, has anyone on here used the Hurst review book and really noticed that it helped? Please let me know. Thanks!

[AwesomeGod]

Know your acid base/electrolyte, endocrine,cardio, GI, renal, respiratory, oncology peds/mat, psych and pharam....in short they are summarized on the study guide here.

[Dumplins, MSN, RN, APN]

yup. use some of the study guides that are floating around. it's good to get a good grasp on everything. just know that they will try to bombard you with questions on a topic that you got wrong. i would download/buy nclex 4000. the more questions you do, the better you'll be. so do as many questions as possible from now til your test. look up tips on answering questions. even if you dont have any idea what the question is talking about, sometimes if you can still pick out the answer with some simple question/answer tips