Nclex Review Notes Pdf

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The NCLEX exam is a licensing exam nurse graduates must pass order to work as a licensed nurse. Students who want to become a registered nurse must pass the NCLEX-RN exam, and students who want to become licensed practical nurses must pass the NCLEX-PN exam.

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I found that I am spending a lot of time writing notes on all the questions I get wrong. This has taken a lot of study time up. Many of my friends keep telling me to just review the test and repeat them. Repetition is the key to these questions. I am afraid that I am wasting time copy information while I can be answering questions. I am trying to know everything.

I reread the subject matter I got wrong, write brief notes, then do a few more chapters and go back to retake the one I got wrong. That way I figure I'll know if I retained anything or just remembered the correct answer as written (having a break between reviewing and retaking).

The thing you're probably getting advice about is that it's rarely a deficiency in subject matter that causes mistakes, but ignorance about the rationales and test strategy. The more questions you do, the better you get at picking up these patterns.

I did take some notes when I studied for the NCLEX, but for the most part I just did many, many, many practice tests. Make notes if you come across something you really don't understand or never heard. Also, if you get many questions wrong from a specific category (ex. cardiac, peds, etc) then you should go probably go back and study that subject before you take another practice test. Anyways, that's what I did. Best of luck to you.

&a's (i sure did). Taking notes especially on the questions that you get wrong help a lot. like you said "repetition is key" and what better way to learn the wrong answers than through note taking? I think your study habits are great and that you should keep it up. Don't forget to read all the rationales whether you get the questions right or wrong. I think as long as you're keeping to your study Rx or study guide as scheduled.. you'll be fine :) took my NCLEX the day before thanksgiving, no results yet but i studied as you did and i'm feelin okay about it. Wish you the best!

Depending on how much time you will have each week to devote to preparing for the NCLEX, you will probably need to begin your review two to four months before the exam date. Test preparation books and programs recommend 80 to 120 hours of study, review and practice questions. So, if you have twelve weeks to prepare, you will need to spend approximately 10 hours per week, if you have eight weeks to prepare, then you will need to spend approximately 15 hours per week, if you have six weeks you will need to spend about 20 hours per week, and so forth.

The NCLEX will provide another opportunity for you to use the category charts, flow charts and note cards you made for your classes. Since you created those notes and have studied from them before, they will make reviewing and remembering what was in those classes much easier than using all new study materials with which you are unfamiliar.

The main advantage of review courses is that they force you to set aside time to prepare for the exam. If your program offers assistance in preparing for the NCLEX, by all means take advantage of it. But you will still need to plan your own review schedule. No general review course can possibly address the individual needs of each student. It is your job to continue to take charge of your learning and develop your own review schedule that will ensure you are fully prepared for the exam.

Begin planning your review schedule by looking back at the courses you have taken in nursing school. This will require some candid self assessment on your part. We recommend you begin your period of review with the topic that is most difficult for you (probably the one in which you received your lowest grade) and work towards the topics or areas that come more easily. This approach ensures that you will spend time on the areas that need the most work.

Students find some organ systems and medical specialties more complicated than others. The cardiovascular system, fluid and electrolyte balance, and renal function are often considered more difficult topics. Your prior knowledge of the subject and your level of personal interest make the order in which you review the topics a highly individual process.

Many nursing programs administer an exit exam before students are allowed to take the NCLEX. There is a high correlation on many exit exams with performance on the NCLEX, which means if you perform well on the exit exam you are more likely to perform well on the NCLEX.

If your schools gives an exit exam you may want to use the preparation strategies in this chapter to prepare for that exam. The results from the exit exam may then be used to help you focus your review and preparation strategies for the actual NCLEX.

The CD that accompanies many of the review books will give you feedback on the type of question and content area. We suggest that you create a tracking grid to record the topics that have been reviewed and learned to the 85% criterion.

As a general rule, you will answer practice questions only after you have reviewed a topic. Using questions as your main review tool will not provide the structure necessary to pin point how to best spend your time. Most review books have short (10-20) sets of questions that are well-suited for self testing. The longer tests (50-200 questions) should be used as practice exams and taken once or twice a week during your review period. Some exam preparation programs recommend that by the time you sit for the actual NCLEX, you should have answered 2,000-3,000 NCLEX-type questions.

Nicole has kept a record of her course grades (as well as individual exam scores for each course) so she knows where she needs to begin. She uses her list of course grades to help her decide which area will need the most review.

Nicole received her lowest grades during the first semester of the nursing program, while she was learning to adjust to the pace and the amount of material she was expected to learn. Since she received her lowest grade in Pharmacology, she lists this as the first area she will review. She will pay particular attention to the topics that were covered in the first semester of this multi-semester course.

The next subject that Nicole lists is Pathophysiology. She was among the many students who struggled with the concept of fluid and electrolyte balance, so that will be at the top of her list of topics to review in patho. One of her teachers pointed out that given the current diabetes epidemic, she could count on seeing several questions about diabetes on the NCLEX exam, so diabetes will be next on her list of things to review in patho. Finally, she knows that cardiovascular disease is likely to be addressed on the NCLEX, so that is the third main are on which she will focus.

Nicole will also review much of what was covered the first semester in Adult Health Care. These three courses continued through other semesters, and Nicole was able to master much of the later material, but she knows this is her chance to review and fill in some gaps in her knowledge from those first difficult months of nursing school. She has already purchased two highly-recommended NCLEX review books. She chose the ones that the students in the class ahead of her said were even harder than the actual NCLEX!

Next, Nicole gets out her calendar, so she can plan her re view schedule and choose a date to take the NCLEX. The job she plans to accept will begin two months after graduation. She and her husband are planning a well-deserved vacation after she takes the NCLEX and before her new job begins. That leaves her about six weeks between graduation and the start of her vacation.

Nicole has already decided which courses and notes need to be reviewed. The review books indicate that she should spend between 80 and 120 hours in review and self test in order to be well prepared. She thinks that it is realis tic to study for about six hours per day, five days a week. If she puts in 30 hours per week, then she needs to schedule four weeks of study.

The scheduling is pretty tight, and she does not have much flexibility in how she will spend her time if any emergencies arise. After talking with her nursing school advisor, Nicole decides to spend eight hours a day studying for the first two weeks, in addition to studying on Saturdays, so she can build in a little bit of a cushion.

Nicole is busy planning for her pinning ceremony and graduation, and she knows she will not be able to do much (if any) studying before graduation, but with the advance work she has done, she will be ready to dive right into reviewing the material immediately after the celebrations are over.

At the end of the first week Nicole is on track and feeling good about the progress she has made. Today she plans to take her first practice exam using the CD that came with a review book. This will be a 100 question exam and she is looking forward to seeing how well she does on the questions.

The score that she receives on the practice exam is a 70%, which is lower than she had expected. Nicole decides to examine the types of questions that she answered incorrectly. She discovers that the items she missed were mostly from topics she had not yet studied. That was good news! When she counted up the items relating only to the topics she had studied her score increased to 87%. Much better.

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