NJNursing is testing today!

MiaLyse, APRN · Jul 13, 2006

Sending positive testing vibes.........Good Luck! :)

Kelly

Lurksalot, BSN, RN · Jul 13, 2006

Good luck!!!!!!:balloons::balloons::studyowl:

JenNJFLCA · Jul 13, 2006

Good luck vibes headed towards NJNursing!!:gandalf:

NJNursing, ASN, RN · Jul 13, 2006

Thanks so much everyone! My test shut off at 75 questions and I'm kind of ambivalent. There were like 12 questions I really knew the answers to. I couldn't tell the difference between a tier 1 question and a tier 3 question. They all kind of seemed the same to me. And all of the stuff I busted my butt to really bone up on this week: endocrine, lab values, renal, fluid/electrolytes - there were less than 5 questions on all of that material COMBINED.

I had a ton of priority questions: you have 4 messages which one do you call back first; you have 4 patients, which one do you see first; you have a patient that has x process and is on y medication which side effect would require a priority intervention kind of questions.

So it was like half were priority and half were medication questions involving knowing the side effects (expected and unexpected) or interactions with food/other meds.

I don't know how I did. I'm kind of numb now. I don't feel overly great about it, but I don't feel like I did so horribly either. And the shutting off at 75 is giving me slight comfort, but I'm realistic to the statistics on that now. *sigh* I'll just have to wait until Saturday!

Thanks again to everyone for the warm wishes!

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Jul 13, 2006

Wow, that was fast! Hang in there :)

I'm surprised there were so many questions where you needed to know the side effects of meds....makes me a bit nervous now!

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Jul 13, 2006

And what you said further brings it home that there's no point to cramming before this exam....you can't predict anything on it, and it's almost like what you EXPECT to see you don't!

NJNursing, ASN, RN · Jul 13, 2006

You're exactly right. The stuff I made a point of studying inside, outside and backwards - there was very little of it on the NCLEX. My best friend is taking hers next week (tuesday) and I told her what was on mine, but told her not to use that as a barometer for what she should study. I told her, you really need to know everything about everything because you never know what is going to be on it. I've been reading through these posts and see where someone got a lot of psych (I think I had 3 questions) or a lot of peds or maternity.

I had no math questions and no alternative questions (select all that apply/fill in the blank). Everyone is completely unique.

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Jul 13, 2006

And today I was going over and over the mneumonics and memory tricks for hyper/o calcemia, hyper/o kalemia, etc....sometimes one looks like the other to me (and sometimes they ARE: hypokalemia and hyponatremia are alot alike)....and now I'm thinking enough is enough there.

More quizzes. I have about a hundred unused questions in Q-bank, of course I re-do the ones I missed, so I'll have about a hundred sixty left to try before it throws me out :)

Looks like I'll actually run out of questions before I run out of days! I'll take Trainer #7 tomorrow. I'm going to finish studying anything on Monday evening....told myself I'd do nothing at all for this on Tuesday (test wed).

I'm starting to feel constricted again.....argh....I keep calming everyone ELSE down, but someone's gonna have to give me a shot of Ativan to keep ME in line, lol.....

NJNursing, ASN, RN · Jul 13, 2006

LOL about the Ativan. I hear you. Yesterday I just tried to relax myself a little. Not obsessing about studying. I registered when I got to Pearson Vue then went to the bathroom to just deep breathe and give myself a pep talk.

I was going over growth & development this morning. None of those questions on the NCLEX either. I remember the Kaplan lady telling me: NCLEX loves endocrine, cancer, growth & development and cardio.

Well she was soooo wrong. :no:

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Jul 13, 2006

Got a question for you. I suppose I could do a search for this, but that takes too much effort, lol, and at this point I don't have any left.

I remember you saying that you weren't doing too great in the Q-bank questions, Kaplan questions? Or was it just the Trainer tests? Anyway, if you don't mind me asking, what were your scores for the Trainers? I think you were doing in like the 50s and still only got 75 questions for NCLEX....? Tell me more?

NJNursing, ASN, RN · Jul 14, 2006

Oh it was the trainer questions I sucked at. I got a 55, 51, 47, 57. I never did tests 5, 6 or 7 but I might just to see how I would have done on them.

I did very well on my ATI tests, always scoring above 60%, typically around the 70's.