**VENT** Medical/Surgical Class

[David Offenbaker, BSN, RN]

OK. This week we had our first test in Med-Surg. I felt good about it, and here's why.

We went over Fluid and Electrolytes, perioperative, etc. So, like the instructor said, it's best to study NCLEX-style questions. So, the recommended book was the Saunder's NCLEX-RN book, so I bought it. I read the appropriate sections, took the 3 exams for the pertinent chapters, and guess what! I did great on them: 90, 90, 100.

Here is where I vent! :typing

The highest grade on the classroom exam was 76! (I made a 72). The questions are written by staff members and in a 3 hour time frame the instructor and us went over the questions. So many of the answers were scewed and we all realized, these answers were right according to the instructors experiences-- they weren't actual test bank questions. The instructor, who gets really defensive when asked to explain questions, told us, "Don't read into the question", and 5 minutes later she read into a question and said "what if these vitals were taken by a CNA, and not you", one of the students exclaimed, "Why are you reading into the question".

Ugh! So frustrated!

Dave

[ShannonRN2010, BSN, RN]

yeah that would be very frustrating.

Maybe you could approach the director of the program about the inconsistancies and suggest that all the TQ be taked from the test bank questions in the future to avoid any misunderstanding.

[SmilesNoir]

I like the response of the student.. lol