Well with the conformation recieved a couple of weeks ago of my place to write the Canadian Registered Nurses Exam-CRNE, (for the 2nd time!) on the 3rd February, the revision is well under way. Although before coming to Canada I purchased a few Canadian Nursing text books and an exam prep guide, I joined the hospital library and got myself a few other book to help me with my revision.
I basically went through every question in the book 100 at a time, marked them and then made a note of those I got wrong. Now I am slowley going through them all reading around the topics, then after I have done all that I will repeat all the questions.
As I have previously mentioned, the format for the CRNE is two 3 1/2 hour multiple choice exam papers. Now although it may sound easy, as my first failure showed, that its very different than passing a nursing exam in the UK which was question and essay format. I tend to find that most questions in the exam have one very definite wrong answer, then two very possible correct answers and then another thrown in for good measure. Now as I have gone through all the test papers etc, i have began to realize that what they want you to do is to not think too much about patients as individuals and just to give a 'text book' 'if nothing else was taken into consideration' answer, which can be difficult to a nurse that has been treating every patient as an individual for the last 6 years!' I am hoping that now i have a better understanding as to what CARNA are looking for that I will pass this time, but not wanting to tempt fate, we shall just wait and see................
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