NCLEX PN Reviewers

[cjman24]

Hello everyone. I want everyones opinions about a good NCLEX PN reviwer.

Let me back track and give some background. I graduated from my LVN program on December 2013. I knew the NCLEX would be a major barrier for me to overcome since I am not a very good test taker. The following year, I signed up and scheduled my NCLEX PN exam for October. I did not do much studying right after graduation up until July. I did practice questions from Kaplan and bought this Kaplan reviewer which I also used. I did around 2000+ questions from June until October..this wasnt an everyday thing for me to do since I had school and work. When test day arrived, I was anxious, nervous and all that jazz and went in with my head held high and took the exam. The computer shut me off at 85 questions and that took almost 2 hours..I left the test center feeling uneasy but I tried to remain positive. Weeks later, I got the letter that I failed and I contemplated on taking the exam again.. Fast track to this year, I registered and payed for my exam and had it scheduled this past Monday. I bought this exam cram book which had an online Q bank that I went over a lot of times. It also had this important things to know paper in the beginning of the book ( lab values, normal vital signs, etc ) and that is all I did to study..I took my exam on Monday and it shut me off at 85 questions again....and it took me almost 3 hours. I definitely had a better feeling than last time and now I am anxious to know my result. It is stressing me out to a point where I am looking to review again, so here comes my question.

What are good NCLEX PN reviewers that you guys used that helped you better prepare for the NCLEX PN?

[whatwasithinking75]

I am waiting for my quick results.

But honestly saunders, nclex- pn didn't help me that much. I focussed on a packet that an NCLEX reviewer gave us.

It goes over all the basics in fundamentals, the important disease processes like Addisons,Cushings,Diabetes. Digoxin, Dilantin, Heparin, Coumadin, You wanna know the normal therapeutic levels and the toxic levels the antidotes and what they can and cannot eat while on therapy. Know foods with purines, tyramines. Know normal INR is 2-3 and your PT and PTT.

KNOW**** POTASSIUM*** If its too high or too low you lidocain and defib.

More importantly then content THINK CRITICALLY. Apply ADPIE and ABC's to most questions. Remember SAFTEY first. You've got this and I'm sure you passed.

I feel horrible for all of the nurses in california who don't have the option of quick results. Thats just CRUEL!!!!!!!!

[tameen]

Hey Cjman24 finally got my letter and I passed.

[cjman24]

Congrats man! We got ours on the same day and the difference is you passed, I failed... So yup. Good job man!