Peds CCRN

Good for you! Studying for the CCRN took me 6 months of fairly intense review. I used the Core Curriculum, Hazinski's reference on Pediatric Critical Care and the audio CD's, which were fantastic. If you are an audio learner, the CD's are great. I would listen to lectures while driving the kids around and going to work.

If you are committed, you don't need to attend a review course. It just takes time. Interestingly enough, the areas I thought I would hit out of the park (respiratory) were the hardest and the things I really had to study (cardiac, heme/onc) I did well on.

Overall, I have rarely been prouder of myself than when I saw my passing score on the exam. I felt validated and more confident in my abilities to care for my patients. That is worth any amount time and money to me.

Good Luck and happy studying!

I have just completed (and passed) my peds CCRN.

Several nurses on my unit have done the the same. We found it very helpful to attend a systems review class.i think that it gave some useful info and study tips. I also read Core Curriculum for Pediatric Critical Care Nursing by Slota. There are also Pediatric sample tests available with explanation.

I think that overall, my experience at the bedside was my greatest tool.

Good Luck

I am new to PICU from med surg. Is there a seperate CCRN cert for Peds?

Kenny

Yes, there are separate exams for pediatrics and for peds critical care.

Congrats to you all!

I took two weeks off work to study for the CCRN and REALLY studied hard the last 5 days (maybe too much?).

I listened to the CCRN review on audio CD, made flash cards of the concepts in each systems lecture (I ended up with about 150 flash cards) and I took the test a week ago and failed by 9 questions out of 150! .

I hear that Kaplan is coming out with a review book for the Pediatric CCRN in December and I think I will wait for that to come out before I retake it. The test was really hard and only 50% of it I recognized from the lecture CDs. I feel like alot of the questions threw in terms I had never heard of and were never mentioned in the lectures. I didn't have a bank of questions to practice with and I think that will help alot. Also there is a set of study flash cards off the internet from morrison media which I got and found helpful but again it doesn't have questions...

My plan is to get some of the books you mentioned above and study some more and try again! :loveya: Any suggestions?