Senior Year - Feeling Anxious

[Khaan]

I just started my senior year in my BSN program and I'm getting really nervous. My program has us doing Kaplan review tests already (about 10 tests a week; 5, remediate, retake, so effectively 10). I feel like I know nothing. How am I suppose to know that you doppler a person's leg for a popliteofemoral venous reconstruction every hour, not two? I even forgot how the parathyroid glands altered calcium. What makes it worse is that I'm at a top 10 nursing school. I don't say this to brag, but if I'm in a top school and having this much trouble, it must reflect really poorly on me, or everyone must feel this way.

Does everyone feel this way? Shouldn't I have learned the content I need to know for the NCLEX already?

[rnccf2007, BSN, RN]

I sure felt the same way. The NCLEX is a different breed of animal in test taking. AFTER you graduate, get a few reputable books on taking the NCLEX and take as many tests as you can, or take an NCLEX review class...many are very expensive. I opted to self study. Since you are in your senior year, there is enough anxiety. Concentrate on your classes right now.

[Khaan]

I sure felt the same way. The NCLEX is a different breed of animal in test taking. AFTER you graduate, get a few reputable books on taking the NCLEX and take as many tests as you can, or take an NCLEX review class...many are very expensive. I opted to self study. Since you are in your senior year, there is enough anxiety. Concentrate on your classes right now.

I hear you. We are required to do NCLEX questions throughout our entire senior year, so I have to focus on it. It's hard when you get questions like how to position a patient after liver biopsy when you've never had any education on it, even after taking all those classes that were suppose to teach you that stuff.