Peds ccrn review please

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · May 12, 2014

That's the way that I would go. Although... when I decided to write the Canadian version of the CCRN exam, I knew I wouldn't find any review groups - I was the only nurse in my province to write the peds critical care certification exam last year. After I reviewed the competencies to be evaluated and their respective weights, I thought about it for a while. My strategy was to write as many practice exams as I could lay hands on. Lucky for me, one of my friends is a clinical educator who had three different CCRN practice exams that she happily let me use. I didn't start prepping until about a month before the exam, then I started practicing. I'd do about half the questions on one test, check my results, make a list of the questions I had wrong and then group them by theme. I'd do some reading (Core Curriculum is excellent for that!) then I'd do the rest of the test. Lather, rinse, repeat. By the time I'd done all three exams, I'd brought my mark up from 50% to 88% and that's when I stopped studying. I passed the real exam, which only took me just a little over half the time allotted. And other than the exam fee, it cost me nothing.

meanmaryjean, DNP, RN · May 13, 2014

I used the online review course from the AACN themselves. Six two-hour modules. And at the end of each module, there were practice questions and (the best part) an explanation as to WHY each choice was right or wrong. Extensive, printable study guide. I passed on the first try, and so have several of my co-workers using the same review.

NYSNOWBUNNY007 · May 15, 2014

Thank you for your responses janfrn and meanmaryjean, I greatly appreciate it!