PCCN

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Hey all,

I am taking the exam this wednesday 15th sep 2010.I was confident till this am .I paid and took the pretest this am in which I got only 60%.I am afraid and nervous now.Any body had the same experience?.I still have 2 days for the real one.what should I do now?.how should I prepare? Should I postpond or take it.Is the pretest harder than the real one or vise versa?.anybody knows.Please reply ASAP ,THANKS.

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Specializes in Tele, ICU, ED, Nurse Instructor,.

I am planning on taking the PCCN before this year is out. I have brought the David Woodruff's study guide. I like that program. I suppose to take it next month but I dont see it happening. I was told you only need 70% to pass the PCCN exam. I would just study what you weak on. Just my few cents. Good luck and keep us posted.

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Specializes in pcu/stepdown/telemetry.

if you took the test from aacn that is 40 questions for $45 then yes that test is worse than actual test because they cram all the hard stuff. The actual pccn has 125 so some questions were very hard some easy

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Specializes in Tele, ICU, ED, Nurse Instructor,.

Out of the 125 questions only 100 count. The other 25 questions are being tested for to placed on PCCN future tests.

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I am also taking PCCN tomorrow Sept 15th. Also purchased the SAE and felt horrible after I took it! I spoke with two other nurses I work with who just passed and they both said that the SAE was not like the actual PCCN test. That in the SAE the questions were pretty vague and that the actual PCCN test is more direct and concrete. I hope this to be true. I am very nervous about the test tomorrow and sure as heck hope I pass! Good luck tomorrow :D

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Specializes in Tele, ICU, ED, Nurse Instructor,.
I am also taking PCCN tomorrow Sept 15th. Also purchased the SAE and felt horrible after I took it! I spoke with two other nurses I work with who just passed and they both said that the SAE was not like the actual PCCN test. That in the SAE the questions were pretty vague and that the actual PCCN test is more direct and concrete. I hope this to be true. I am very nervous about the test tomorrow and sure as heck hope I pass! Good luck tomorrow :D

Good luck!!! Keep us posted.

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I passed. Woo hoo! I liked David Woodruff's program as well. I found his practice questions to be extremely helpful. I also read the AACN Essentials of Progressive Care Nursing by Chulay and Burns which seemed to include a lot more information than what we were tested on. For PCCN we don't need to know advanced hemodynamics and ventilator settings and that information was all included in the Chulay/Burns text.

It was a pretty hard test but if you focus your study on cardiovascular, pulmonary and ethics/professionalism you should do great.

Quick tip: know your ABGs and 12-lead relationship for MI (ex: anterior wall MI shows changes in leads V2 V4 and effects L-main/LAD). Good luck everyone!

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Me tooooo PASSED!!!whooo hoooooo.Thanks guys for the encouragements and replies.Test was challenging but not hard to pass with hardwork.Whichever authors who follow keep ur accn blueprint for exam to know ur priorities.

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Specializes in Tele, ICU, ED, Nurse Instructor,.

Good job!!! Thanks for the information.

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