Preparing for Your License Exam So, you made it through nursing school, and you are ready to take the final step before starting your career. You will take a License Exam in the state you plan to work in, and this will entitle you to practice nursing. Tips on Preparing for the Exam Keep in mind, this is not a short or simple exam, it's more like summary of everything you have learned. There are review centers that can help refresh you on everything you've learned, and help you prepare. The good thing is, they really do help, the bad thing is, they are costly. So, you have the option to self prepare, which can certainly be done, just plan on lots of study time. Plan a schedule to study for the exam, and treat it as if you were going to a class. That means, no interruptions or distractions. The general time span most people need to prepare is around 3 months, however it varies per person. Plan to study a couple sections, each week, and stick to it. Take 1 day per week off to relax, but keep at it the other days, this is for all of the hard work you have put into school. One benefit to studying on your own and not in a review center, is you can control how much time is spent on each subject. Say you already understand human anatomy, you can breeze past that portion, but in a review class you would sit through the entire talk on it. Seriously, get rid of every distraction. The more times you are interrupted, the less you retain on what you just learned. Put an automated message on your phone that says you are unavailable during study times. Related: 5 Reasons why Nursing is a work of Heart Take advantage of free or inexpensive eBooks to help you prepare. There are also some podcasts that can help you study, just be sure it is a legitimate site prior to signing up. You may find it beneficial to study at the college library. You can refer to a professor if there is something you don't understand. Study and read, but do not plan to carefully read every word of every book, if you do, you will take that exam at about age, say 100. Spend extra time on what you feel your weakness is, and skip over what you excelled at. Are you familiar with selective reading? It will really help you along in this process. For the first day, you could study about Fundamentals of Nursing. All you have to do is to answer at least 100 nursing questions about Fundamentals of Nursing. No pre-studying, just answer. After answering 100 nursing questions. Obtain your score. If your score is 65 over 100. It means you have 35 wrong answers. All you have to do is to focus on your wrong
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