blondiedaisy

I used saunders, I waited a year to take NCLEX after graduating, do not focus on saunders questions, look at the rationales and study that, this is what I did and I knew everything on my test, I felt well prepared. I got 75 questions and could pick out the answers right away. You are right about saunders questions they are way easier then the real test, but I am telling you you need to know everything there is to know about infection control, do not get to caught up in weird meds, you should know the most widely used, dig, lithium, cardiac and anti-coag. The rationales when you do study mode is where you will learn all the important info to get you through the test. I made 5200 note card I wrote the saunders question on the front, answer at the bottom and on the back I put the rationale. I would only study one area at a time... This works I am telling you, put away your Kaplan, exam cram K. focus on one book, focus on rationales. I studied this way and I can not tell you how much I learned, things I have never heard in school even, it will work:)

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I just took the RN-Nclex last week, I graduated last june and just sat for boards and PASSED. This is what I did!!!! I tried to read Kaplan, Exam cram, Saunders 3rd or 4th (the new blue book) and even bought the NCSBN (this did not help, I did the pre-test and that was it), do not waist your money. All of theses books had some great info but I felt very over whelmed when trying to study them. What I did was I took the saunders CD went into study mode and did all the questions in each content area cardiac, neuro, resp, pharm when I did each question there are like 5200 I wrote the question on a big note card with the answer at the bottom on the back of the card I wrote out the rationale, the rationales is what helped me the most, when I got to my test I felt like I was well prepared, also you need to know the infection control neumonic, I mean it. When you learn the rationales it really teaches a lot about complications, my entire test was on complications, learning the complications helped me with all my priortization and delegation questions. Then 2 weeks before my test I went over my little cards over and over. I learned so so much.