Nclex Strategies?

[sweetmya]

Anyone know more good strategies that I could possible use during the exam. My exam is coming up pretty soon and I found the following strategies helpful. Please, share some of the strategies you might have read during your prep for nclex. Thanks.

I found these (source) >> http://www.studyguidezone.com/pdfs/nclexpnteststudyguide.pdf

General Strategies

Strategy 1: Understanding the Intimidation

The test writers will generally choose some material on the exam that will be completely foreign to most test takers. You can’t expect all of the medical topics to be a topic with which you have a fair amount of familiarity. If you do happen to come across a high number of topics/cases that you are extremely familiar with, consider yourself lucky, but don’t plan on that happening.

Each case and scenario will be slightly different. Try and understand all of the material, while weeding out the distracter information. The cases will also frequently be drawn from real world experiences. Therefore, the passage that you will face on the test may almost seem out of context and as though it begins in the middle of a medical process. You won’t have a nice title overhead explaining the general topic being covered but will immediately be thrown into the middle of a strange format that you don’t recognize.

Getting hit by strange sounding medical topics that you don’t recognize, of which you may only have a small exposure, is just normal on the NCLEX. Just remember that the questions themselves will contain all the information necessary to choose a correct answer.

[sweetmya]

Mods: If this is something i wasn't suppose to post then my apology. =)

You may discard this thread. I wasn't sure If I could post these strategies or not. Thanks

[railroadearth]

I think the best strategy is to just weed out the fluff and don't be too impulsive and TRUST your judgment! Do as many practice Q's as you possibly can. Answer the SATA questions like T/F Q's, breathe, and have the confidence in yourself that others have in you. Good luck!

[sweetmya]

I think the best strategy is to just weed out the fluff and don't be too impulsive and TRUST your judgment! Do as many practice Q's as you possibly can. Answer the SATA questions like T/F Q's, breathe, and have the confidence in yourself that others have in you. Good luck!

Thank you. I will keep this in mind also.

[toniann22h]

see patients in this order:

1. abc's

2. changes in loc

3. changes in vs

4. unstable metabolic disorders (hypo/hyper glycemia, electrolyte shift)

5. patients in pain

6. patients with treatments you should perform

7. family calling for you and discharge teaching