Accredited Online Universities Facilitate Nursing Education and On-The-Job Training

It's not an easy road to become a nurse. The students have to attend for four years at traditional or accredited online universities and then spend a year or more gaining hands on experience. If that was just you, then congratulations! You've graduated from nursing school and now you've walked the floors as an LPN for the last year or more. It's time to take National Council Licensure Examination (NYCLEX). Pass it and you are officially a Registered Nurse.

Yet, like passing the Bar or getting taking the CPA Exam, the exam comes with its share of nightmares. You've heard many young nurses don't pass. You don't want to be one of them. It is true that slightly over one out of eight nurses don't pass the test the first time. This does not mean the words "abandon hope all ye who enter here" is carved on top of the exam room door. Quite frankly, there are a few things a young nurse can do to set the odds in her favor, making this one time the only time.

No matter how you look at it, a young nurse about to take her exam has usually only been working at a hospital, clinic or similar health organization for one to two years. One of the points of the NYCLEX is it tests general knowledge of all aspects of registered nursing. There is no way a young nurse can have worked every department of a hospital in that amount of time. Her brain has become specialized by the departments she has worked in; pushing other things she might have learned to the back burner.

So the first thing to do is sit down with your personnel director or a career counselor and review what you've done since gaining your work experience. Review what areas of the institution you've worked in and, more importantly, which one's you haven't.

Now it's time to take an online college prep course. Make sure to find out what their success record is before signing up. The higher the success rate, the better the school.

You should not ignore any aspect of the review, but pay special attention to areas you didn't work in. Most senior nurses report that if they were hung up anywhere in the exam, it was in these areas. Also check to see if the prep course comes with sample questions. Don't ignore these drills as they are probably the best prep you'll get from the entire course. Even if they aren't the questions you'll face in the exam, they'll give you an idea of what to expect.

Of course, another advantage of taking the prep online is you can do it when it's convenient to you. As you've already found out, being the rookie on the team means you get the odd shifts. The online prep exam doesn't care if you take your sessions at three in the afternoon or the morning; just make sure to take all of them.

One last important note: Even if you fail the first time, the profession is forgiving. Many of the best RN's in the field admit they had to take the NYCLEX a second, even a third, time. If anything, with further prep it made them better RN's because they now knew what they really were facing.

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