Online courses?

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!)

CONGRATULATIONS NURSE ECHO!:balloons:

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.