hi every one here ,i love this website, this is my story am international nurse , graduated 5 years ago, mother of 1 year old and pregnant 8 months. i took my nclex on 29th of march, i felt that the exam was very easy and i was sure i passed, 36 hours later checked mn board of nursing to find out that i passed. i studied saunders, la charity book, and finished hurst review online 2 months before my exam. i concentrated on knowing the content more than doing questions,and it paid off. any way this is my advice for future test takers, study your content first then practise how to answer nclex style questions. from my experience, the questions were very clear , and direct and i did practise for only 1500 questions. i had select all that apply 25 questions, infection control, no drug calculation, no maternity ,one pediatric, some drugs that i didnot know abut, and my test shut off at 75 question. iam happy am done with it so i will be able to enjoy my new born baby. i want to praise hurst review, i think without it , i couldont passed. wish good luck for every one.
thanx for this comforting adea, I have study a lot and now I even lost focusing with studying I dont know what to do now. and am am taking this exam by the end of this month. :crying2:
hi every one here ,i love this website, this is my story am international nurse , graduated 5 years ago, mother of 1 year old and pregnant 8 months. i took my nclex on 29th of march, i felt that the exam was very easy and i was sure i passed, 36 hours later checked mn board of nursing to find out that i passed. i studied saunders, la charity book, and finished hurst review online 2 months before my exam. i concentrated on knowing the content more than doing questions,and it paid off. any way this is my advice for future test takers, study your content first then practise how to answer nclex style questions. from my experience, the questions were very clear , and direct and i did practise for only 1500 questions. i had select all that apply 25 questions, infection control, no drug calculation, no maternity ,one pediatric, some drugs that i didnot know abut, and my test shut off at 75 question. iam happy am done with it so i will be able to enjoy my new born baby. i want to praise hurst review, i think without it , i couldont passed. wish good luck for every one.
I agree. the nclex pn was very easy. actually, the saunders review was more harder as in more complex senerios than was asked on the nclex. i was expecting a really hard exam with lots of acid base imbalance or cardiac questions. maybe i would have gotten some if my computer didn't shut off at 85 (the min.for lpn). the questions were clear and direct, not tricky at all.
that's an excellent question for a new nursing student!!!! :yeah:
know your "content" means just that.... :) it means...know the information being taught in school...
know medication administration (im, subq...); know legal terminology (assault, battery...); know what the ana does; know your body positioning (low fowlers, fowlers, sims, side lying...); know the appropriate way to walk up the steps/down the steps with a cane/crutches; know your common meds within each category while in school (cardiac, l&d, gi, psych, etc.); know common diagnostic tests; know the signs/symptoms associated with increased icp, cvp, shock, hyponatremia, hypercalcemia, dka, hhnk, diabetes insipidus; fat embolism, pneumonia, chf, etc., and many, many other common (and some uncommon) diseases; know the difference between a gastric ulcer versus duodenal ulcer; know signs/symptoms for communicable diseases along with the the protective gear needed for airborne/contact/droplet precautions; know when immunizations are administered to childre; know the nursing considerations (what a nurse should be aware of...) and patient teaching for common diseases, equipment, etc.; know the various types of therapeutic communication; know the 12 cranial nerves and what they are associated with; know where the mcburney's point is located; know your heart sounds; know your lung sounds--normal and adventitious (...heard on inspiration, expiration or both??...); know and be familiar with common ecg strips (p-wave, pr interval, qrs...); know where the fundus should be located at 38 weeks or 2 days after delivery....
if you prepare yourself now to know all this....not just memorize the information "temporarily" while in school--to pass the upcoming test/exam...it will be much easier to take/pass your nclex because you will only need to "review" content after you graduate (to refresh your memory) and you can focus on how to "break down" (answer) the questions (assessment versus implementation, physical versus psychosocial, maslow's hierarchy of needs, identify answers that are similar...) to pass the nclex.
suggestion: go to your local bookstore and purchase an nclex-rn (or pn) review book--now. use this book as you progress through your nursing program. but, don't read ahead!!! if you are studying cardiac in school, read the cardiac chapter in the nclex review book and see if you can answer the end-of-chapter (and some have beginning of chapter) questions. you will see that the nclex questions are much different from the questions being tested in school. nclex requires "critical thinking" while your nursing program will probably teach you important "facts" to remember. by the time you finish your nursing program, you will have completed 3,500-4,500 nclex style questions. you may not realize it now; but this along with what you study throughout your nursing program will have you fully prepared to take/pass the nclex the first time.
I didn't think the NCLEX was too bad myself...Saunders Comprehensive Review 3rd Edition was very helpful for me. I focused a lot on my weakest area which is Maternal/Child nursing and hardly got any questions on it. I think Saunders have some good test taking strategies that helped, like visualizing the answer choices. Answering questions from the NCLEX 3000 site was helpful too. And last but not least, the Random Facts thread on this site, ESPECIALLY the Infecion Control mnemonics! They're awesome!
Thanks for the post. After reading it I am not too afraid of the big bad dragon. Don't get me wrong I am afraid but you have made it a bit more maneagable.
i wish someone had given me this advice when i first started my nursing program. you're welcome!! :)
let me also say....enjoy and cherish the many, many friendships you will begin to build with your fellow classmates and instructors (who will be easy to approach for letters of reference after you complete your nursing program and begin searching for your first job as a nurse :)). you may not realize it now, but the friendships you build now (...in class lecture, through study groups, clinical rotations, ...semester-after-semester..., graduation and preparation for the nclex), will last you a lifetime----long, long, after you finish school.
use this book
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thanx for this comforting adea, I have study a lot and now I even lost focusing with studying I dont know what to do now. and am am taking this exam by the end of this month.
:crying2: