All right folks, I took my NCLEX-RN this morning, got the good pop-up (yay me), and just wanted to offer a couple of thoughts. First of all, the BEST advice I can give is to NOT do what I did last week, which is: come to this site, start stressing ov...
RachNurse replied to nervousnurse's topic in Career Support
How about sleep medicine? That's what I did for 12+ years while I was raising my kids and waiting for the right time to accomplish my ultimate goal, which was nursing. I am a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist in addition to now being an RN. ...
Congrats on passing!! I would debate the idea that "you will get credit for the second best answer". That is not true. What the NCLEX DOES do, is narrow you down to a competency where you have a 50% chance of guessing correctly (as opposed to gue...
RachNurse replied to emptyboxcars's topic in NCLEX
I keep running into threads where people say Saunders is "too easy", but I actually felt like the questions were pretty on-par with what I encountered on the NCLEX. I did almost exactly what you are doing: the NCLEX-3500, and Saunders. And that was...
Saligurl: Select All That Apply OP: I was very pleasantly surprised with how "easy" the test seemed. OK, it wasn't "easy", but it wasn't as hard as I was anticipating, and oddly, it did seem EASIER than the NCLEX-PN (which I took in May 2012). On t...
RachNurse replied to emptyboxcars's topic in NCLEX
I graduated on 12/14/2012, I gave myself pretty much a clean break for about 10 days. Then I started dipping my toes back in, at that point I did maybe 50 questions a night on the NCLEX-3500. At New Year's, I figured I better really get with the pr...
I noticed that my ESL buddies in nursing school had a more difficult time with the tests, i.e. the HESIs. I remember one coming out and frustratedly asking, "What is 'prudent'?" I don't THINK the hang-up is content, because these same ESL folks see...
RachNurse replied to navynursejoy's topic in NCLEX
Well done!!!! I really think a lot of it is going in with a clear head, and KEEPING a clear head. I kind of freaked out when the first 10-15 questions on my exam were stuff I seemed to know nothing about (and I do wonder if some of those were the "...
RachNurse replied to Superstar1182's topic in General Nursing
I disagree with that, that is not always the case. I have left one employer off my resume, and you will never convince me I should put it back on. No employer has ever questioned whether I have had that job, most employers (even big hospitals) do n...
I remember a couple of A&P related questions (I had a couple of alternative-format inquiring where X was located), and I had a TON of med questions on NCLEX-PN, I knew NONE of the meds, and guessed at all of them (and passed). NCLEX-RN seemed ea...
baby-like I said, I have always felt meds is my weak spot as well (I am *fantastic* at rote memorization, which is what got me A's in my pharm classes.......retaining some of that 1.5 years after Pharm I.....not so much). The meds on my test were al...
Thanks jngo91, caur, and Thanks Dubs2012, and good luck next week, you can do this!!!!! Picture yourself telling friend, "I got the good pop up!!" OR: "Dubs2012, RN" (lol). Believe in yourself!!!
I'm sure this question has been asked before, I've googled a bunch but can't seem to find an answer (which is probably a wording issue, and thank you in advance for your help). I realize the test is pass/fail, based on minimum competency. Let's say...
The only thing I used (and please keep in mind that everyone's different, but this worked for me), was this link: Main Menu - NCLEX-RN 3500 - Institutional Version which was posted in another thread, however that also happens to be my school, but app...
RachNurse replied to muffinmonster's topic in NCLEX
I don't see a follow up, and others may disagree (I do realize the PN and RN nclex are different), but I used only an RN-nclex questions series to study for my nclex-PN and did just fine. If you're going to do that just make sure you understand the d...