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NCLEX Preparation

Hello everyone, I am still fairly new here but i've browsed the ol' forums more times than I can count during my adventures through nursing school. I have officially graduated as of December 17th, 2016 and my school is forcing me to do Virtual ATI for a green light before I can take my NCLEX. While I am finishing that up, I have been somewhat anxious about boards and wanted to know everyone's opinion on what to do. I am not a fan of ATI, their tests are brutally hard for me and from what I understand, not very consistent with the way NCLEX is made. I bought UWorld and have been studying from that and I absolutely love it... for test bank questions and their rationales are so in depth and detailed. Now for my question, I am worried about some of the content I learned in Nursing school 2+ years ago and that I may not have retained a lot of the information. Should I buy HURST or Kaplan to brush up on my disease processes or does the NCLEX not really focus a lot on things like that? I hear the the NCLEX has a ton of infection control, priority, delegation, etc but not so much in-depth disease processes.

Bought:

- Saunders Comprehensive Review(Plan on looking over it after ATI)

- LaCharity Delegation book(Plan on looking over it after ATI)

- uWorld(Currently doing around 100-150 questions a day while taking a TON of notes on questions i missed or even questions I got correct. Plan on finishing all 1900 questions)

thanks in advance,

- Kris

p.s. Sorry for such a long topic but I thought i'd give some background first, cheers!

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Congrats, graduate!

I graduated in December as well and am currently preparing for the NCLEX.

Hurst is definitely more content-based. They actually use a workbook and we go through 2-3 systems/day (4 day class). It's been (so far) pretty helpful for me (my first day was today). I also took Kaplan -- they taught me *how* to take the test (they use a "Decision Tree." This was tremendously helpful! You know the "all the answers are good, but which one is the BEST?" -- Kaplan has helped me narrow down my answers.

Hope this helps. You should really have a good understanding of pathophysiology from what I'm seeing; it'll help you answer the questions.

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