Online courses?

[snoopyleader]

Hi,

Has anyone taken the online NCLEX-RN prep course that is designed and managed by the organization that writes the NCLEX-RN? How did you find the course? Was it helpful? What part was helpful? What of the following things are important for you in a course: nursing content (info about nursing), critcal thinking skills (that helps you apply your nursing content to answering actual NCLEX-RN questions), or just NCLEX-type questions.

Thanks. snoopyleader

[suzanne4, RN]

You are not going to see actual NCLEX questions in their on-line program.

But that is not how to prepare, you need to understand the material, then it doesn't matter at all the type of format that the question is in. Memorizing will not work.

[EchoOfThoughts]

Hi,

Has anyone taken the online NCLEX-RN prep course that is designed and managed by the organization that writes the NCLEX-RN?

Yes, I did!

How did you find the course? Was it helpful? What part was helpful? What of the following things are important for you in a course: nursing content (info about nursing), critcal thinking skills (that helps you apply your nursing content to answering actual NCLEX-RN questions), or just NCLEX-type questions.

Thanks. snoopyleader

I found it on a rabid, last ditch effort Google search less than a week before my NCLEX. I think it was helpful, I really like it when prep-things give rationales for answers. It does reccomend that you take 80 hours to do the course, but I didn't find it until less than a week before my test; so I signed up for the 3 weeks. For me personally, it would not have been useful for any time longer than 2 - 3 weeks since the quizzes were always the same in each section.

But I do think it was helpful. It used wording that was easy to understand. I found myself recalling items from it while taking my NCLEX. I took the NCLEX Friday... and today got my "unofficial web results" that I have passed.

Yay!

Echo, RN (woo-hoo!)

[Rozy]

CONGRATULATIONS NURSE ECHO!:balloons:

[snoopyleader]

Hi,

I would strongly recommend anyone contemplating taking that course to strongly think again. If found it not only unhelpful but discouraging. It just gave me pages and pages of content/theory. There was nothing to relate it to answering actual NCLEX-RN questions. I know my content upside down but I can't apply it to answering questions. I like to call this gap in knowledge critical thinking skills. Also, looking at a computer screen for so long was tiring...more difficult than looking at a page.