Some tips for those taking the nclex

[newpedirn08]

Hi everyone,

I used this website a lot when I was studying for the nclex, so I figure I owe it to you guys to post some tips for studying- I passed with 75 questions.

I can tell you that the infection control/precautions section on this website was huge! I had a lot of these types of questions, and all I had to do was think back to DEARPPPPMMSSI (search for infection control if you have no idea what I'm talking about).

Other than that, there was a lot of priority (I bought the priority & delegation book that a lot of people had posted about- I didn't do the whole book, but it helped to practice a bunch of questions)

I also had a lot of drugs, a lot of which I didn't recognize the names, but I could figure it out by looking at the ending of the drug name (e.g. pril = ACE inhibitor)- for studying drugs, if you are a visual learner, I would highly recommend this book of notecards that I bought at Borders, the company is mosby, and they're basically just flash cards with cartoons- these are fabulous! you can take them with you everywhere you go (and trust me, I did) and I found myself trying to picture the cards in my mind when I was taking the exam- there's another set of cards for fluids & electrolytes that was just as awesome

And finally, I would just recommend that you do lots and lots of questions (I probably did about 3000, maybe more, I wasn't really keeping track)- and I would focus more on strategies for answering the test questions versus trying to study and relearn every single thing in your review book- there's just no way you're going to know everything, so if you're taking the test and you get a question and have no idea what the answer was (which definitely happened to me many times) you have to use test strategies- this is where doing one of the test prep courses comes in really handy- my school did MedsPublishing (you can check it out online if you're interested), we had a woman come in for a few days and it was awesome, we also had online practice questions available to us for a few months- I never did Kaplan, but it sounds like this was also helpful for a lot of people. I also tried out the NCSBN website- let me tell you the questions on this website are much harder than what you will see on nclex! so don't freak out...

I also want to mention that I didn't sit there and go through every single section in my review book and do all the questions- that would just be too much for me. Instead, I did tons of questions like I said, and if there was a question that I had a really hard time with or didn't understand the rationale, I would go to my review book and look it up (I had a Saunders from a couple years ago- it's super intimidating because it's so huge). I would myself notes about it somewhere (my computer, flashcards, etc.) -I didn't always need to look at it again because I think the process of just writing something down for me was really helpful to learn stuff.

Hope this helps!!

Good luck everyone!!

[Silverdragon102, BSN]

Congrats

[Gretel01]

hello laugroez....I like the way that you relates your experience,could you tell me whish is the exactly name of the flashcards and concerning the way to understant to apply the strategies,I have the test in the next month and in this moment I'm boring to study....could you helpme ...please...I appreciate that and besides CONGRATULATIONSSSSS:yeah::balloons:

[jadu1106]

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[shiina,RN]

Congratulations Laugroez!!!!

[babygirl1470]

congratulation. what does dearppppmmssi stand for?

[Melinurse]

:balloons::prdnrs::balloons:

[GretaRN]

congratulations nurse

[wahala]

the explanation was helpful to me

[BettyBoo706]

congrats

[ste94ie]

Congratulations!! :wink2:

[gwafuh_rn, BSN, RN]

congrats