NCLEX LPN/RN Study Guide and Suggestions
EducationHealthCareGroup LLC
Hi, Nurses/Future Nurses, my name is Carolyn and I am a Pro-
fessor/Instructor of RN/LPNs, Medical Assistants, and CNA. I
have experience teaching in Universities/Colleges, Clinical,
Online Classe/Tutors. I have 18 years of Nursing experience
in the ER, and Cardiac Surgical Step Down care (Teaching
and Community Hospitals).
The truth the real world, the school you attended world, and
the NCLEX world are different. Somethings that you need to
learn to pass the NCLEX may or may not be what the actual
real world is doing. Below is about the NCLEX World !!
Study Habits
1. Know your Anatomy and Physiology of all the organs espe-
cially the Liver, Brain, Kidney, Heart, Liver
2. Know the Pathophysiology of the disease utilizing various
layers of education (ie books, videos, test questions)
3. Read the chapters 2-3 times
4. Learn to speed read the chapters the 3rd time
5. See the resources at the very last pages for resources for
above
6. If you are in any accelerated program you should be study-
ing 30-40 hours a week! Non-Accelerated 20-30 week!!
7. Don’t spend your time focusing on what the school/in-
structor is not doing for you, Nursing is for independent
thinkers. It’s designed to get you to think and prioritize on
your own. Don’t forget the school/instructor won’t be their
with you when you have your own team of patients. 80-
90% of Nursing school is self taught.
8. Don’t pay for test bank questions, and companies
hundreds of dollars to get you to pass NCLEX. ATI
, and other free school resources are adequate if you
utilize them correctly.
9. Increase your free resources (HEISI, ATI etc) usage. It’s
proven that this works
Categories of NCLEX Questions
NCLEX Question Category
1. Knowledge based
2. Nursing Intervention,
3. ABC, CAB (Circulation, Airway, Breathing)
4. Maslow Scale
5. Reassurance Question
6. Select all that apply combo question (usually Nurs-
ing Interventions) Criti- cal thinking prioritization,
conceptualized care answer yes or no with se-
lect all that apply, they are rarely in-be-
tween,
7.Ethinic Question
8. or combination
9.Cognition
Maslow Question
Prioritization:
EducationHealthCareGroup LLC
Hi, Nurses/Future Nurses, my name is Carolyn and I am a Pro-
fessor/Instructor of RN/LPNs, Medical Assistants, and CNA. I
have experience teaching in Universities/Colleges, Clinical,
Online Classe/Tutors. I have 18 years of Nursing experience
in the ER, and Cardiac Surgical Step Down care (Teaching
and Community Hospitals).
The truth the real world, the school you attended world, and
the NCLEX world are different. Somethings that you need to
learn to pass the NCLEX may or may not be what the actual
real world is doing. Below is about the NCLEX World !!
Study Habits
1. Know your Anatomy and Physiology of all the organs espe-
cially the Liver, Brain, Kidney, Heart, Liver
2. Know the Pathophysiology of the disease utilizing various
layers of education (ie books, videos, test questions)
3. Read the chapters 2-3 times
4. Learn to speed read the chapters the 3rd time
5. See the resources at the very last pages for resources for
above
6. If you are in any accelerated program you should be study-
ing 30-40 hours a week! Non-Accelerated 20-30 week!!
7. Don’t spend your time focusing on what the school/in-
structor is not doing for you, Nursing is for independent
thinkers. It’s designed to get you to think and prioritize on
your own. Don’t forget the school/instructor won’t be their
with you when you have your own team of patients. 80-
90% of Nursing school is self taught.
8. Don’t pay for test bank questions, and companies
hundreds of dollars to get you to pass NCLEX. ATI
, and other free school resources are adequate if you
utilize them correctly.
9. Increase your free resources (HEISI, ATI etc) usage. It’s
proven that this works
Categories of NCLEX Questions
NCLEX Question Category
1. Knowledge based
2. Nursing Intervention,
3. ABC, CAB (Circulation, Airway, Breathing)
4. Maslow Scale
5. Reassurance Question
6. Select all that apply combo question (usually Nurs-
ing Interventions) Criti- cal thinking prioritization,
conceptualized care answer yes or no with se-
lect all that apply, they are rarely in-be-
tween,
7.Ethinic Question
8. or combination
9.Cognition
Maslow Question
Prioritization:
