NCLEXWhat YOU Need To Know

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NCLEX-What YOU Need To Know

• L Andrews
• NURS 2221

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Licensure Exam

• Purpose
• Legal requirement

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Test Plan

• Criterion-referenced
• Norm-referenced
• Computer adaptive test
• Components
• client needs
• level of cognitive ability
• integrated concepts and processes

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Client Health Needs

• Safe, effective care environment
• Physiologic needs
• Psychosocial needs
• Health promotion and maintenance

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Safe and Effective

• Overt safety issues
• restraints
• medication administration
• dosage calculation
• isolation
• special safety needs
• Conducive to therapeutic care
• 13-24 of questions

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Physiologic

• 50-55 of questions
• adult med surg, pediatrics, gerontology
• common diseases
• diabetes, cv disorders,neuro, renal
• growth-dev, congenital, child abuse, burn,
  fractures
• Pharmacology
• Reduction of risk

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Psychologic

• 10-12
• psychiatric client
• coping
• anxiety disorders, etc.
• therapeutic communication

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Health Promotion

• 15
• maternal-child
• labor-delivery, newborn, prenatal
• STDs
• teaching, counseling

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Levels of Cognitive Ability

• Knowledge-comprehension - 15
• Application-analysis
• Synthesis-judgment-evaluation
• 85 at level 2 and 3

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Integrated Concepts and Processes

• Nursing process
• Caring
• Therapeutic communication
• Cultural awareness
• Documentation
• Self-care
• Teaching-learning

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Exam Format

• Stand alone questions
• four answers
• 75-265 questions
• 5 hour time limit
• Sylvan Learning centers
• pass/fail
• results in 7-10 days

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Study Strategies

• YOU MUST STUDY
• Reviews courses
• ERI review is free, at ORU in May
• Review ERI reports
• Review ERI PreRN
• Review books
• Group study
• Individual study

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Strategies

• Review written strategies in book
• Review video-tape in library
• Retake the CAI
• Use the CAI after graduation
• If you dont pass, use the CAI again