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If you confronted me as a student, I would say "BITE ME!" But now that I'm a staff, I've turned a complete 180 and now will bite any students who dare park in our staff parking.

I'm an AHS employee, it's been hard for me to apply for any positions too. I've applied to many internal postings and no calls so far. It really boils down to your experience and seniority. I can only imagine how difficult it is as an external appli...

No that is a common misconception, getting a lot of SATA questions does not guarantee anything. There are SATA questions that are also at below the line so the SATA's do not mean they are necessarily at a difficult level.

I suppose do what's best for you. I personally did randomized because that is how the NCLEX will be. Also, I'm not fond of doing a systemized test because I feel like time will be spent on various topics, only to be forgotten "later on" while focusin...

To be honest, when I used Saunders, it was information overload. There were definitely a lot of good information to know (especially the red highlighted texts which actually helped me answer several NCLEX questions!). I also used UWorld, and I relied...

A unit manager (RAH) I spoke with stated that it puts a face to the applicant, to which she prefers. To say that it gives some benefits over online application, I would like to say it does -- for some unit managers, not all I suppose.

You used 3 highly reputable resources to study for the NCLEX. Do you think you have difficulty in certain types of questions (ie. Prioritization), do you have a good understanding of core nursing knowledge and are you able to apply them in questions?...

None of us here will be able to give you a response with certainty if that predictor gives a 'good indicator' if you will pass the NCLEX. Obviously it is only a predictor and it appears that you have scored highly to determine just that. I took those...

Can you elaborate on how your experience on the NCLEX vs UWorld? Personally, I found the NCLEX harder than UWorld, but I thought the questions were very very similar in style. In fact, I had a few questions on the NCLEX that was almost like a few I h...

Very very interesting to see 3 brand new members commenting right after the other lol. So let's examine their 3 reasons for not using qBanks.... Right, it's best to use questions banks AFTER studying core content. Though, its not exactly wrong to ...

That looks like a Canadian based exam prep. I'm also Canadian, but I've never heard of it, but it seems to be based in Ontario (I'm from Alberta.) They claim a 99% pass rate which is quite a bold claim in my opinion - who knows what the underlying st...

Hey there! I wrote my exam on April 5 with 88 questions, and I also felt the exact same way in that I walked out of the building feeling defeated. It's understandable for us, considering that this is the single most important exam before finally bec...

Can you explain what you do during the 4.5 minutes per question?

I did not realize that the PVT trick worked in Canada!

I know, but the way the instructor wrote the exam, she definitely wrote it up for failure because the questions were far too specific that you'd literally have to have impressive photographic memory to remember everything you've read on the textbook....

^ I don't believe the post above indicating that UWorld has "over a hundred bad questions with incorrect answer options." Nor was that half of the question bank are repeated questions.... absolutely untrue. I've used Uworld myself and it is a qualit...

I don't know what UWorld you're using, but it was definitely not full of dubious questions/rationales. I've used it, along with others I know, and we live by it as one of the reasons why we passed the NCLEX! There were definitely many times where I f...

I feel like you may have too many sources at one time, especially with how you have time constraints. In terms of content, it's a lot to know, and Saunders in itself is quite overwhelming. Personally, I would choose Hurst OR Saunders, not both. Thoug...

Uhm, but those are all calcium channel blockers, not ACE inhibitors. The suffixes are typically: ACE = -pril ARBS = -sartans Beta Blockers = -olol CCB's = -dipine (but there are cardio-selective CCB's like diltiazem) Answer should be D.

I believe UWorld will help with some of your anxiety simply because the program looks almost exactly like the real NCLEX, and the questions on UWorld are the closest thing to the real NCLEX questions too! Continually practice yourself to UWorld and ...

I used RN Mastery and it was good but I still thought UWorld was way better. RN Mastery had very difficult questions too but I thought their rationales were inadequate in numerous questions and many questions didn't have rationales to the incorrect o...

I had a few open book tests for physiology. I hated them. The questions were made to be extremely difficult and very specific, and the textbook we had to use was well over 400 pages with tiny font. We also had a time limit which made it worse. You sp...

In what context does the RC abbreviation appears on? If pt. is still hypertensive after giving birth, the first thing I thought was postpartum preeclampsia? Or perhaps pt. just had chronic hypertension to begin with. Have you decided on what your t...

As what was mentioned, sputum is significant when it comes to assessments because having purulent/changes in colors indicates infection. Mucoid may be viral bronchitis, pink/colorless tinged mucoid = lung tumor?, froth pink may be PEdema, bloody may ...

Yeah, I also took both assessments. They were difficult but I thought they were a lot easier than the questions I got on the NCLEX. It's perfectly normal to feel that you failed the exam, it's no easy feat. Anyone saying it's easier... well good for ...