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  1. It's not an entire question that is highlighted. It is just one word. It is done to highlight a specific instruction or a word that the examinee needs to pay attention to. Such as, which would you...
  2. I just took the NCLEX - PN, my thoughts.

    You had provided partial information and not quite accurate information. I am filling in the gaps. And those numbers are not really your chances of passing. Those percentages are passing rates....
  3. highlighted questions in nclex exam

    The words are highlighted to assist the examinee. They are not put there to indicate if a question is hard or not. Now, having said that, do you remember which words were highlighted? If it is a...
  4. I just took the NCLEX - PN, my thoughts.

    If taken with 26 days of graduation, it is 84.6%. If taken 27-39 days it is 80.5 days. If taken 40-62 days, it is 72.4 days. If taken 63-1565 days (4 years) it is
  5. I just took the NCLEX - PN, my thoughts.

    Schools do not have access to old NCLEX exams. The exams are comprised from a pool of thousands of
  6. Medication Nurse Assistants

    A very well-known university in our area did away with a separate pharmacology course a few years ago. They believed that they could integrate pharmacology into other courses. After a couple of...
  7. I just took the NCLEX - PN, my thoughts.

    You cannot tell if you passed or failed by the number of questions or by if you got the last question right or wrong. 85 is the minimum number of questions for the PN exam. You have to answer at...
  8. Sigma Theta Tau

    If you are going to join, I recommend that you do it now at the baccalaureate level. The GPA requirement is a little tougher at the master's
  9. Bad Success Rates

    The new format questions are meant to be more authentic measures of
  10. Bad Success Rates

    I say that all the
  11. Bad Success Rates

    A study was done by the National Council and they found that after 60 days, the likelihood of passing is in the 70th percentile. After 6 months, it drops to the 40th percentile
  12. Odds of failing NCLEX at 85 ?'s?

    Someone could fail (and they do) at 85 questions. So sooner isn't always
  13. Odds of failing NCLEX at 85 ?'s?

    NCSBN doesn't publish the odds of passing at any certain number of questions. They do publish the following: Pass rates (around 85% most of the time for first time test takers); average number of...
  14. Medication Nurse Assistants

    All of the states have different requirements for medication assistants and all of the states have different requirements for pharmacy techs. The regulation of the pharmacy techs at this point is no...
  15. taking NCLEX tomorrow.....again

    Suzanne is right. Review the rationales. NCLEX questions are written at the application level or higher. That means they are not testing your recall and recognition. You have to use more than one...
  16. Medication Nurse Assistants

    There is some info in this link about what the exam covers:(Assisting the Pharmacist in Serving Patients, Maintaining Medication and Inventory Control Systems, and Participating in the Administration...
  17. Medication Nurse Assistants

    I believe pharmacy techs have to register with their states, but national certification is not required in all states. Indiana requires that you graduate from an educational program OR take the...
  18. No calculations?

    Excellent and accurate NCLEX
  19. No calculations?

    I took the pencil and paper test. You still walked out of there not knowing how you did and worrying till you get the
  20. Medication Nurse Assistants

    So, will the title change to LPhT? Is the same certification exam used in all 50 states, like the NCLEX exams for
  21. Medication Nurse Assistants

    Do they have licensure or
  22. In some states if the patient is being actively investigated for a crime, i.e., DUI, the information can be released to the police. In Indiana, for instance, by law the ER has to give the info to the...
  23. My take on NCLEX=RN

    The exam is geared toward testing competence at an entry level. The level of difficulty has to do with the cognitive level and how candidates perform on the question. That is part of the pretest...
  24. My take on NCLEX=RN

    That is actually not correct. NCSBN is made up of member boards of nursing from all of the 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, the Mariana Islands, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, and American Samoa....