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Yea I lose internet a lot out where I live. Thats good that you are reviewing chemo drugs, we didnt go over any of them in school so that is something i should take a look at. Well I started looking at jobs in November and got hired in January at the University of Maryland Medical Center. I'm starting out on a Medical/Infectious Disease floor so it should be exciting. I start my job sometime in August.

Yea those questions were hard. i've been at a standstill the past 2 days, just cant get motivated. Ive only done 50 qustions yesterday and today. I cant even imagine reading that whole Pharm section. I think Im going to look over my old pharm book. My test is two weeks from today!!! OH NO

nneoma, I took the Kaplan class but if i were you I would just get the Kaplan book with the CD and do the NCSBN. They recommend doing 4,000-7,000 practice questions before taking the exam. hope this helps.

Summit09, I would say either keep using what you have, the Kaplan and Saunders if you feel comfortable with them and are getting enough practice. You could get the NCSBN and easily go through the practice quizzes and Q&A tests between now and the test date. THe only reason to move the test date back is if you wanted to read all the NCSBN content. I am not finding the content as helpful as doing their practice quetions! Hope this helps!

Yea Kaplan is really hard! I've been doing Kaplan and NCSBN. SOme of my classmates that passed NCLEX were only getting in the 50-60% also. I am scheduled to take the test on July 10th! But I started NCSBN last week. I would say it is not realistic to start it now unless you have a lot of time to dedicate to it. I am so sick of studying Im having a hard time staying focused. Hope this helps!

Ok thanks so much I will look for it. Because I always get the transmission of infectious diseases confused!

Cubano30, Hey what is the website or link that you were talking about where you said we could get mnemonics for the infectious diseases and random fact throwing? Thanks!

OMG! thanks, makes so much sense now! Yea everyone I know that has taken it thus far this year had a lot of them! Thanks again!

Hey! It's ok, just started looking over some of the Pharm, just the Cardiac. I have finished some of the sections further down that are short. The alternate format questions are so difficult! I am not doing awesome on the tests but I just hope I can retain some of the information I read. I would think it will take you a little longer than two weeks to get your ATT. And some of the days, depending on your testing center may be mostly booked for July. I know mine was except for a couple of days at 8am. That is crazy about your friend! He must be really smart. I hate the endocrine system, it is so confusing! What are SATA questions? I keep seeing that but don't know what it stands for. Mine ends on the 6th too, and my test is the 10th!! I hope i can keep on target. I am going to try to read, but I want to do All the Q&A tests! They are less time consuming, and give you practice with actual questions. Plus learning some of the content. So stressed about it all, but still having difficulty staying focused. Some days I do really well on practice questions and other days its just horrible!

Yea its really difficult, I honestly didnt even look at that. I am going to memorize the children's but not the adults. They are more likely to ask the children's i think

OMG I know i can't keep all the precautions straight and can't remember how each one is transmitted. You def went overboard printing them out!! haha I went to the CDC website and saw how long it was and didnt even open it. Im going to use my kaplan book for that, there is a chart with the breakdown of the disease and how it is transmitted. If i were you i wouldnt go that far into studying or you will never get through the whole program. You have to cover as much ground as possible. Plus this test is for entry level nurses to be safe and effective, I doubt the test will be that specific.

Hey beachbutterfly! I am starting psychosocial. But like the other girl said i may start skimming or skipping sections and focus more on the questions. I do not have work so fortunately I have most days to study all day. But sometimes that doesnt work out so well because i get bored, lose focus and then its not productive and takes me longer than just getting it done in the first place. WOW you sure have a lot of study materials. I guess I do too but I am not going to use most of them. Im going to focus on NCSBN and Kaplan and maybe ATI(one we used in school). When you asked how much are the Kaplan Qbanks did you mean $ or questions. I dont know if you can just buy the questions alone or if you have to buy the whole package. But there are about a thousand questions in the Qbank plus 7 tests that work up in the number of questions with each one. So the last test has 265 questions. I will keep you posted on where I am at and how it is coming along. Take care!!

Hey thanks so much for the advice!! Its good to know bc it is a bit discouraging looking at all the information to read and cover! I was thinking maybe it would just be best to do the questions like you said. I will do that and let you know how it goes. My test date is July 10th!

I know I only got the 3 week option. It is scary, like 250 pages!! I am going to do a little bit of pharm everyday and use my notebook from my class to see if that helps.

Hmm I cant remember exactly what i got. But i just do them again when i dont get the 75% because they are the same questions then I get a 100%. I think I did bad like 65-70% on Management of care but then did okay on the Health Maintenance quiz. I did the 1st two quizzes, delegation and prioritization. They dont give you a grade though. I am going to try to do one a day maybe in addition to the reading. I have Kaplan too so I am also trying to do those QBank questions. Some of the upcoming sections are really long. I am hopefully going to cover 100 pages a day and try to do 100 questions. It is perfect that we started around the same time cause now we can vent about it and know someone is going thru the same thing. 3 weeks until my test day! Keep me posted with how things are going