TIPS/Info for passing NCLEX

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Hi,

To everyone who passed recent nclex-rn, can you please share what helped you best (cd's, printed materials, etc..) ? Where to focus? and how did you study/prepare?

thanks... this will help a lot of us who are scheduled to take the exams soon

Hi I am LVN graduate and waiting for Nclex I was wondering if you all would happpen to know about any good review course for Nclex PN i am looking at one that is provided by Hprovider....at Hprovider.com

PLZZ HELPPP...................

I believe that Ready to Pass (www.readytopass.com) does work with LPNs as well as RNs. I took their online review back in September and passed my NCLEX shortly after. Good luck!!

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What helped me prepare for this massive exam?

1. good planning--I needed at least 3 months and could have studied even more.

2. the Saunders Nclex-RN review book was layed out in a way that was organized so that you could skim over those areas you were comfortable with and focus on other weak areas. The content is there.

3. Kaplan helped with the practical aspects of the exam--knowing the strategy of the questions--how to interpret what the question is really asking. QBank and the Question Trainers were good too.

4. Realizing that all other responsibilities in life will take a back seat until the exam is over!

Best of luck!

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This may not be a tip , simple but may help..I dont know the right answers..oh please share the right answers....

1. Who is at risk of Lead Poisoning: is it a child who's parents are artists OR a child who's parents' hobby is collecting antiques and repaints them

2. Under infection control, Is it proper to apply lotion with a gloves on?

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Dear fellow nurses

Thank you for all the tips, very helpful!

To all nclex passers, you did a great job!!!!

Would you like to share to us the type of questions you had encountered in your test?

I know it is not right to take questions from the nclex but are we allowed to share at least a summary and ideas of questions we had encountered in our exam? I recall a few but not exactly of the same words... will this help?

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What helped me prepare for this massive exam?

1. good planning--I needed at least 3 months and could have studied even more.

2. the Saunders Nclex-RN review book was layed out in a way that was organized so that you could skim over those areas you were comfortable with and focus on other weak areas. The content is there.

3. Kaplan helped with the practical aspects of the exam--knowing the strategy of the questions--how to interpret what the question is really asking. QBank and the Question Trainers were good too.

4. Realizing that all other responsibilities in life will take a back seat until the exam is over!

Best of luck!

Everybody,

I took the test last Friday. I'm not sure how to express this - the test doesn't dig DEEP, but it digs WIDE You will never get obscure lab values, but count on the normal ones, and you probably already know this. (Look on the ncsbn.org website at the detailed syllabus - they tell you exactly what labs you need to know.) If only they did the same for medical conditions! I found Mosby's book about priority and delegation to be extremely helpful to see a real pattern in "which patient would you see first," which is a huge classification of question type. I would bet people spend too much time on unimportant memorization. Let's face it, we only have so many organs, and those organs are going to mess up in predictable ways. If I were to take it again, this is one way I'd study: Somebody has (fill in the blank) - what would you expect to see for symptoms? Every so often we run into some odd disorder, but for the most part, most patients will have predictable types of disorders. I think the best advice I could give is to try the test questions from ncsbn.org. After all, they are the ones who create the test. I found their questions to be most like the ones on the "real" nclex. This is not surprising at all. On the other hand, their lengthy review, in my opinion at least, is far too detailed - it runs about 1,000 screen pages. If I had to take it again, God forbid! I would orgainize my studying by putting everything about common conditions on one sheet - what caused it, what are the symptoms, what drugs are used, etc. I agree that Saunders is laid out very nicely for this kind of approach.

Diahni

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Everybody,

I took the test last Friday. I'm not sure how to express this - the test doesn't dig DEEP, but it digs WIDE You will never get obscure lab values, but count on the normal ones, and you probably already know this. (Look on the ncsbn.org website at the detailed syllabus - they tell you exactly what labs you need to know.) If only they did the same for medical conditions! I found Mosby's book about priority and delegation to be extremely helpful to see a real pattern in "which patient would you see first," which is a huge classification of question type. I would bet people spend too much time on unimportant memorization. Let's face it, we only have so many organs, and those organs are going to mess up in predictable ways. If I were to take it again, this is one way I'd study: Somebody has (fill in the blank) - what would you expect to see for symptoms? Every so often we run into some odd disorder, but for the most part, most patients will have predictable types of disorders. I think the best advice I could give is to try the test questions from ncsbn.org. After all, they are the ones who create the test. I found their questions to be most like the ones on the "real" nclex. This is not surprising at all. On the other hand, their lengthy review, in my opinion at least, is far too detailed - it runs about 1,000 screen pages. If I had to take it again, God forbid! I would orgainize my studying by putting everything about common conditions on one sheet - what caused it, what are the symptoms, what drugs are used, etc. I agree that Saunders is laid out very nicely for this kind of approach.

Diahni

thanks for all the tips and info! i went on the ncbsn site and cannot find the area where it tells about teh lab values....can u tell me where to find that?

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the lab tests are in the test plan.. you need to download the 2007 test plan and read it by heart so you'll be guided as to what to expect from the exam ... :-)

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thanks for all the tips and info! i went on the ncbsn site and cannot find the area where it tells about teh lab values....can u tell me where to find

that?

here's the link...you get to it from the "products" menu along the top of the website.

https://www.ncsbn.org/2007_NCLEX_RN_Detailed_Test_Plan_Candidate.pdf

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This may not be a tip , simple but may help..I dont know the right answers..oh please share the right answers....

1. Who is at risk of Lead Poisoning: is it a child who's parents are artists OR a child who's parents' hobby is collecting antiques and repaints them

2. Under infection control, Is it proper to apply lotion with a gloves on?

thenurse2006-

Is this s popup quiz - ? The first one is neither is at risk because lead is now illegal in all paints, though some antiques may have some lead. guess I'd go with the antique collectors. I think you always apply lotion with gloves, whether or not a person has an infection.

Are these nclex questions?

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thenurse2006-

Is this s popup quiz - ? The first one is neither is at risk because lead is now illegal in all paints, though some antiques may have some lead. guess I'd go with the antique collectors. I think you always apply lotion with gloves, whether or not a person has an infection.

Are these nclex questions?

Thanks for your share diahni. I got these questions from a friend's notes I borrowed. I hope these are nclex type of questions.

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What did you do to determine how to answer questions you weren't sure about. I know there is no way I can know everything on the test so is there a way to figure out those questions. Any helpful hints to remember difficult information?????

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What did you do to determine how to answer questions you weren't sure about. I know there is no way I can know everything on the test so is there a way to figure out those questions. Any helpful hints to remember difficult information?????

Carebear: To my mind you could take one of two approaches to questions you don't really know...both have merit, but I picked the second of the two...

The first is to take an educated guess. I don't like this approach because the wrong answers are often written to look like they are right. Maybe your unconscious or your instincts will kick in, but I don't trust this because of the way the test is written.

If answers didn't look right, the test would be a lot easier because of this. I took the other approach. Of course, eliminate answers that you know just aren't right right off the bat. They may sound right, except state the opposite of what's true. Or it has one of those qualifiers that makes it seem unlikely, such as a person taking coumadin should NEVER eat spinach, or other foods with K in them. Once you eliminate the answers you are fairly certain about, GUESS. And I mean guess - I did "eany meeny miney moe" - no kidding. My rationale is if I really don't know, I'm likely to pick the answer that the smart NCLEX question writers know will be attractive if the person taking the test really doesn't know. Does this make sense to you?

For memorizing hard stuff, I think it's important to learn things in context. For instance, learn the meds with the conditions, rather than memorizing a long list of meds separate from other material. I like the way the Saunders book has the meds for a particular body system in the same chapter with the specific diseases. Medicine is full of mnemonics, such as that sentence for memorizing the cranial nerves (which I forget) - the only one I use is "A Delicious Pie" For the nursing process - assess, diagnose, plan, etc.

While it's still fresh in my brain, since I took it last Friday, I think the test is fair - it really is asking you stuff you should know, although there are some weird questions.

btw, don't forget to look at the detailed syllabus on the ncsbn.org site - it actually tells you which lab tests you should know.

Diahni

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