Took NCLEX-RN today and got the good pop-up w/ PVT

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Specializes in Anesthesia.

The PVT trick worked for my NCLEX-PN, so I'm hoping it works this time.

I ended at 75 Q's and had about 20 SATA questions. All of my family, friends, and coworkers knew I was taking the test, so I was REALLY nervous about failing. So nervous, that I woke up this morning with palpitations.

I graduated 3 weeks ago, and I didn't study nearly as much as I could have because I work full-time. My ATI predictor said I had a 97% chance of passing, and it was accurate for my PN, so I figured the sooner I took it, the better. The majority of my studying was done by doing questions on the Saunders CD, which made me nervous because all of my coworkers were telling it was a mistake to not do Kaplan, but I thought it would be wise to save my money and just rely on my test-taking skills. Another big help was the Random Fact-Throwing NCLEX thread here on AN.

I feel like I could not have studied for a lot of the questions that were asked. There were some medications I've never heard of, and the majority of questions were not very specific. Understanding and applying concepts was key. To be honest, I felt like I was doing a lot of guessing, and was never really 100% sure about any answer.

The biggest difference between the NCLEX-PN, and NCLEX-RN is that the NCLEX-RN required a lot more critical thinking. However, the PN required that you know more specific facts. IMHO, both tests were equally difficult given the level of education required for each test. Taking an NCLEX before this one heled BIG TIME. Just my two cents.

Anyways, good luck to all future NCLEX takers!

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Specializes in peds-trach/vent.

congratulations!:)

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Specializes in orthopedic & HDU.

Awesome. Congrats

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Congratulations!!!

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Specializes in LTC.

Congrats!!! and thanks for sharing. I'm planning to take RN boards in Feb and I took PN boards 3 years ago...

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Specializes in Anesthesia.

Good luck! I think you will do great.

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Hi,congratulation.please can you explain me one things ,i don't understand, sometimes i do question and see in the questions What nurse need follow up ?what does it means ,i have to chose correct statement or incorrect or its priority question or which patient need nurse first ?You recently took exam please explain me Thank you.

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Specializes in Med Surg.

If I understand your question without any specifics, I would say that if a patient says something like, "I couldn't sleep last night", that statement needs more follow up. You, the nurse, need to find out why. If the question states a scenario in which a patient was recently medicated, that requires follow-up on the part of the nurse to see how effective the medication was. Anything that makes you want to know why or what happened, requires follow- up.

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Specializes in Anesthesia.

I passed! The PVT works. If I could do it all over again, I wouldn't have taken the NCLEX on a Thursday. Waiting over the weekend is no fun.

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ok im new to this and very lost can someone explain to me what the 'pvt' is????????????

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ok im new to this and very lost can someone explain to me what the 'pvt' is????????????

https://allnurses.com/nclex-discussion-forum/pearsonvue-trick-does-621075.html the first post is exactly how and what the PVT is. hope this helps =)

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