New nurses, help me out please

I am looking for new LVNs who have recently taken the NCLEX state board test. I don’t know if that applies to only a few states or maybe most of them use NCLEX to test their new grads. I am teaching LVN students now and it would be immensely helpful to know what type of questions are on the test. My students will not be taking the test until next March but I have heard that they only change questions every 2 years. Even if you failed the test (and I think the pass rate is somewhat low for first time test takers), if you remember how the test was composed and what subjects / topics were addressed - that information would really help.

Also, if you have any study resource guides (either in book form or online) that you used before you took the test, that would be helpful as well. My students are freaked out and it’s another 6 months until they take the boards! Thanks in advance for any info or advice you can offer.

There are NUMEROUS study guides available in any good bookshop for the NCLEX - last time I was in Barnes and Noble there were review and study guides available from what seemed to be literally a dozen different publishers, for both the RN and the PN versions of the test, revised on a yearly basis. You’ll get a much better idea of the test from those. (Amazon confirms the large selection of these volumes.) That might work better for you.

Edit - My understanding is the NCLEX is a national test used by all the states. What varies from state to state are the passing requirements. The test is computer-administered, with questions drawn from a pool. There isn’t really ‘reuse’ of the questions from year-to-year as such; different students taking the test may receive different questions asked from the ‘pool’. So knowing one year’s questions from one taker would be of dubious help. :frowning:

I took the NCLEX-RN a bit over two years ago. At the end of the test I could only remember one question! My friends were the same way, we were so intent on the test that no one remembers much of the actual test.

The only question I remember was about a kid who was having an allergic reaction and listed 4 drugs you might expect to give. The stem of the question mentioned angioedema of the lips and tongue, in my head I was saying “screw the benadryl, hand me that epinephrine! This kid isn’t gonna die on me”:cool: