NCLEX RN ON 7/8/16

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Hello all!!

This website has been very helpful in all aspects of nursing school and then on to help me prepare for my NCLEX RN examination.

I have been an LPN for 4 years and have just graduated in May from RN.

I take my boards Friday and am looking for some words of encouragement as I wrap up my studying over the next couple of days.. Major areas to focus on..

I have only studied for the last week and a half and have been doing SAUNDERS comprehensive review along with the q&a book, Lacharity PDA book, and NCLEX RN mastery app for on the go.

I have memorized the mnemonics for infectious diseases/ precautions. I have not had time to go through the different infectious diseases and memorize s/s of anything.. Too many of them sound similar to me and I think it would just confuse me. Do you think this is an area that I need to focus on?

I have studied the normal range for all the lab values that I would believe to be on the test.

I haven't focused in on medications.. I feel now that they are only listing generic that I can better allocate my time to studying other weak areas.. feel it is a lost cause at this point to try and memorize a bunch of drugs and get confused. I know the major ones that we learn about in school, and know my digoxin and lithium levels but didn't memorize seizure therapeutic medication levels.

I can identify rhythms on an EKG strip but have read that a lot of tests had EKG strips and you had to select appropriate actions.. Which I am pretty rusty on.

At this point I am just trying to reinforce test taking strategies as I know it is impossible to learn all the content necessary for the test.

Any advice is appreciated.

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Good luck!

You might find this section of the site helpful or interesting:

https://allnurses.com/nclex-discussion-forum/

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Moved to the NCLEX forum

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I think the biggest thing we heard is that if you have any hospital experience (which I'm sure you do since you are an LPN) to make sure that you do things by the book, not by what your experience dictates. (For example, there are some questions that specify delegation, but in certain facilities they may do it ways that aren't "textbook"). Just make sure that even if it wouldn't be realistic for you to have the time to implement an intervention in the real world, or that there is no way you would ever want to delegate X task, that you know how the NCLEX will want you to think about it. It's a perfect world inside the NCLEX!

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Thank you! This has been a big area that is troubling for us LPN's , because you have to go against what you have learned in the real world.

The Lacharity delegation book has really helped me learn exactly what LPN's can and can't do (According to NCLEX) and I was surprised with every answer ( I got most of them wrong but in turn learned what they can and can't do )

Didn't know LPN can insert NG tube and start IVPB medication

Didn't know UAP can disconnect patient from suction..

Lots of stuff like that.

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For anyone reading this post, I took my NCLEX today.

It was definitely not as terrible as I thought.

I think the major points to focus on is Fundamentals, and going back to the basics.

Also memorizing all lab values and what would cause a high or low level, this way if you don't even know what the question is talking about you still have a good chance at being able to figure it out.

I took my test at 8AM and did PVT at around 11:30AM and got the good pop up :)

Although I am skeptical about the pearson vue trick I am hoping that it is correct.

Good luck to all of you!!

I will update with my quick results on Sunday.

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