PCU RN

i have no clue what it means.. it scared me though! i have talked with a few other people and some had as many as me and others had as little as 7!

i took it june 3rd. i thought it was pretty hard. i had 75 questions total and passed. i had 20-30 SATA, 1 math problem, 1 ECG strip. i used hurst review and PDA by lacharity mostly.. those 2 helped me tremendously!

5th day material on infection control, PPE, lab values, and stages of development were what i focused on

i used hurst. i just took the nclex on monday and passed! i didn't use any real stretegy for answering questions (besides ABCD's). i definitely think hursts core content helped me alot, but every time i tried to answer a question as "if i can only do one thing what would it be" i got it wrong! just like they said something about "if the nurse is not able to fix the problem you should call the physician".. but that advice made me miss practice questions too.. alot of times there was still at least one intervention or assessment you should do first. i found that if i just read the question and used my own knowledge and judgement on what i think is correct then more often i got the question right vs using some universal rule for answering questions. i used NCSBN and those questions were very hard for me at first!

which prep courses are you referring to? hurst review was very cohesive, grammatically correct, and did not contradict itself

i tested monday at 0800 and had 20-30 SATA.. i lost count there were so many!! my computer shut off at 75. i left there feeling like i definitely failed. I got the good pop up, and am still getting it (i keep checking every couple of hours! lol) i just hope i'm not that.01% that the "trick" doesn't work for!!

no:( i checked the BON website and i still just have my graduate nurse license.. i will have to wait till tomorrow morning to check the quick results!

have you tried hurst review? they cover content and make it really easy to understand

hurst and lacharity definitely helped me the most. qreview and lacharity both have alot of SATA to practice with and i think reading their rationales was good because it told you how to select the right answer

i'm not sure that the NCSBN questions were that helpful for me. i think the PDA book by lacharity and hurst review are what helped me the most

Thank you!!!! :) i'm so excited! i just have to see my actual result before i can fully believe it!!! nand yes, those SATA are something else!

thanks!! :) my computer cut off at 75! i though the questions were hard and i literally had 20-30 SATA!! they just kept coming!!

i finished my exam at 8:40, as soon as i got home (at 9am) i checked and had the good pop up!!! PRAYING IT IS ACCURATE!!

i just hope its right!!!

@arrisub I GOT THE GOOD POP!! :-)