I was a nurse 18 years ago. I worked NICU mostly. I also worked at the eye hospital in Miami. (best job I ever had) I have home educated my children for the last 18 years. My oldest is 21 and married now and I am hoping to get back into nursing. For financial reasons from the past, I couldn't keep up with my license. But now, I am going to retake State Boards to get it back. I could go the route of endorsement. But was hoping to do it this way just because it is quicker. In the stone age of 1980, I used Mosby's and passed just fine. I'm not even sure there was a Saunders back then. So I purchased the 2009 Mosby's because I thought it being copyrighted from 2009, it might be more current than Saunders which I believe is 2007. (wish I had read this message board first). :sstrs: Anyhoo, I have been using the CD that came with this book and have been doing ok. My answers are no where in the ballpark of where I want them to be. Unlike many of you, I do have a base knowledge of drugs but mostly with children, not with adults. So that is the part that I consistently have to review and know. Plus, I have to refresh my memory on adult disease processes. Where it comes to neonates and L&D, I usually get the questions correct. I get all those stupid psychology questions right that nobody ever does in the real world. I wish so much these folks that write these tests would recognize that it is the nurse's aids that sit and chat with the patients, not the nurses and yes I'm going to call them patients because that is what they are.
Here are my questions:
1. Is it still the policy of the NCLEX that if you do not know the answer to a question, you can skip it and you will not be counted off for that question. IOW, if there are 200 questions and you only answer 195 of those questions, the five that you didn't answer will not be marked as incorrect since it is obvious you skipped past them? Also do I understand most of you correctly that there are 70 questions on this test?
2. Is the NCLEX computerized like these CD questions?
3. Does anyone know if Mosby's 2009 addition has improved from the past? I can see that many of you did not like it but I need to know if that was this edition.
4. Does Saunders do the same thing where it asks you sample questions? How does this compare?
5. I saw on the NCLEX web site a download sample of questions. Has anyone looked at that and downloaded it? If so, did it help?
I noted one other thing about Mosby's and I am wondering if anyone else noted this and that is answers that are incorrect. For example, the question is:
To promote comfort caused by back pain during labor, the nurse teaches the client to avoid the
1. Supine position
2. Sitting position
3. Side-lying position
4. Sims' position
I selected #1 and it marked it wrong. It said that the correct answer was #2. On their rationale area for #2 it said this, "Low back pain is aggravated when the mother is in the supine position because of increased pressure from the fetus." I read that and thought, "What!!??" :anbd:
Any help you can give me would be most appreciated!!
