New grads - how much are you studying?

[krenee]

Just curious - I graduated May 11th, took a week off, and was planning to study 3 hours a day for the NCLEX. Well, I'm thinking it was a bit ambitious and now I'm studying usually an hour or hour & a half a day . . . I do have other things I want to do besides study, and let's face it, I want to take it easy for a bit! After I pass the NCLEX I'll have to work after all, for probably 20 years! It's also hard to focus when I can't even schedule the NCLEX yet. I do better with a deadline.

So I'm wondering how much time other new grads are spending studying.

Thanks!

[Cinqly, BSN, RN]

cingly

can you let me know how the hurst review goes, plz. i was thinking about doing the review myself but i have mixed feeling as to if it will help me. are you going to be doing the live version or online. any advice will be a big help. thanks and good luck.

if anyone else has taking hurst and would like to share there experience plz help.

i think that so far the review has been very helpful. i am taking the live review, but the online review is probably just as good because the videos are of marlene hurst herself, and she is very entertaining. the live review are taught by nursing educators, and the teacher for my class is entertaining and thorough. the hurst review reviews content as well as some test taking techniques, and they use solid educational techniques. i think that already i have been more accurate on my questions.

when i pass my nclex and start my job, my hospital will reimburse me for the cost. so, it makes it completely worthwhile for me to take! i would recommend it to anyone if they can afford it.

[Jamie2887]

I LOVED hurst review, it's a good way of refreshing all of the content you've learned, you only do questions on the last day, which i enjoyed, our school payed for a review, and we did questions for 4 days...8 hours a day...she just read them to us, it was awful! Hurst also sends you home with 2 CD's, one that contains a mock NCLEX, the other has LOTS of useful info on things to refresh on, immunizations schedules, insulins, ect.... I highly recommend it!