Passed with 75 Questions and the odds were not forever in my favor

nadu13 · Oct 3, 2015

Congratulations

Flnolegirl · Oct 3, 2015

Congrats & thx 4 the encouragement

hm1987 · Oct 4, 2015

I have done Hurst reviews.. I bought Kaplan Qbanks my average are 50-60 I have done so far 500 questions.. I have two more weeks to practice more..How did you approach the priority questions.. I am studying pharmacology from my friend notes of Kaplan videos... what was best way to eliminate questions did you use any strategies? Thank you! Congrats on passing.

SunkissedRN2b · Oct 4, 2015

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laurster1991 · Oct 4, 2015

I studied my pharacology by classes. I highly suggest getting their 300 drug cards, the kaplan ones. They do the most seen drug on the nclex and you can quiz yourself and review them everyday. For priority and delegation questions, I was taught in kaplan to look at time frames. Like when you're looking at which patient to see first, ask yourself this: is this person stable, yes or no? If it's a diabetic with a BG of 186, that's considered somewhat stable because it's expected. If a client comes in whose 40 whose got a fever and who has a diagnosed cold, that's expected and therefore not is somewhat stable. You want to ask yourself first which patients are stable versus unstable, which problems are expected versus unexpected, and which problems are potentially problematic versus an actual problem. It sounds confusing at first, but that's the strategy I applied. I had a lot of problems with those types of questions, so I went to uworld, it's a qbank that's available as well for a relatively low cost. I would suggest google g uworld 7 day free trial and doing it. Their questions are harder than kaplan and their rationales are so much better. I user kaplan primarily, ut you know how when you do the kaplan qbank you can pick with categories you want to do for your test? I picked priority and delegation, or management of care, and did the uworld q bank quizzes of 75 questions of jist management of care questions. They have a 1600 questions qbank to chose from. I think you should google the kaplan decision tree. If you don't have access to kaplan stuff, give me your email and I'll send you my notes on the decision tree so it helps you to understand it better. I was in your boat about 3 weeks ago. I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong and I started like reloading at the decision tree and approaching differently how I looked at the questions. I am NOT a test taker AT ALL. My weakness were management of care, pharm, and basic care and comfort. If you want I'll also email you the 35 page study guide that floats arnd here alot. It's got really awesome acronyms for rememberING the infectious dis eases and what precautions were needed for what. I had alot of those types of questions on my test. You have 2 weeks, that's plenty of time to get your scores up. I got mine up the week before and the fricking nclex is easier then uworld and kaplan. At least I thought. And I was no a student and scraped by nursing school. But don't give up and keep your head up and keep working hard. Do 75 questions a day. If you need more study advice jus reply to my comment anf I'll try my best to help.

laurster1991 · Oct 4, 2015

Hey I can't PM you back at all. It's disabled on my account because I haven't posted enough posts on here.