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My husband and I are planing a trip to the UK. We have to start in London because we have a concert on July 4th. After that we have 10-11 days to travel.

We have already been to London, so we will be there 2 days max.

Our plans include taking a train to Scotland, possibly 3 days there, then head to North Ireland drive down the coast to Dublin, where we will be flying home from.

Any suggestions on where to go, what to see, what cities to visit, best places to stay at. We do not mind the city but we also enjoy nature and scenery. Any suggestions welcomed.

So I promised myself that if I passed I would share what I learned and what was useful for me during the exam.

Backstory: I graduated 2020 from a foreign university, never took the nclex before, last clinical experience I had was in 2023 as an aide.

I started with UWORLD, this helped me establish knowledge that I’d long forgotten, very in depth material. I personally needed it being out of the clinical area for a long time. If this is not your case I personally don’t think it’s needed, unless you struggled in nursing school and need to refresh on everything. Did the one month only.

Then I moved on to bootcamp, this was my prayer answered, explanations were short and sweet and the material/questions were similar to the actual exam. Also, bought the 1 month subscription one month before my exam.

Exam: 150 questions total! 15 SATA, 2 Bow tie, 3 stand alone case studies and lots of standalone questions.

Case studies I got adult, older adult and Peds. I know I got the Peds one wrong! Make sure you write down your answer since you can’t go back and recheck.

SATA: do NOT over select. This was my biggest struggle when studying (kept over selecting), during the test, I only selected the answers I was sure about, sometimes only selecting 1.

Bow ties: I read the case and then decided which interventions were the 2 most important, then I could predict what to monitor based of the intervention, lastly I would choose the diagnosis.

Standalone: used process of elimination, if I was between 2 answers, I made sure to look at the wording (first, priority, require follow up, intervene)

Lastly, I used

Mark K: listened to lecture 1 ABG and Ventilation, lecture 10 maternity and newborn ( my weakness), and lecture 12 one day before the exam.

Dr. Sharon: 2 videos, learning how to answer fundamental nclex questions and using common sense to pass the nclex.

If you have any other questions, or I can help in any other way let me know.

Just took the nclex, went up to 150 questions, 5 case studies total, 2 box ties, lots of standalone. By questions 145, my brain was fried. I think I guessed on the last two. Anyone in a similar situation?

First time taker Questions:

1. In the case studies, are you allowed to go back to previous answered questions

regarding the case study?

1. If not how do you go about remembering your last answers.

2.SATA questions, i have an issues over selecting or under selecting? Which is better over or under selecting?

3. How did you prepare mentally a day before the exam?

Any other suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated.