THANK YOU! No one and I mean no one is talking about the test taking strategies for being successful. They just reinforce studying by your learning style. But overlook the fact that up until now your entire education has consisted of non-critical thinking tests and exams!
After watching your videos, I feel so much more confident to take my test today! I have test anxiety really bad, and tend to panic. The tips you offered really helped me focus, and prepare for my critical thinking questions so much better! Thank you. My practice exam scores went from really low scores to passing scores! I appreciate you taking the time to help!
This is great. We need more Nursing teachers like yourself. Many of my teacher can care less about your grades, you hear more of are you reading everything and taking notes. Please keep making videos.
Most exams are now computerized and do not offer an option to underline, erase, or start at the end of an exam. I think these videos while good, need to be updated.
This is a good reinforcement for me to bring back my confidence psychologically. I didn't get any support from the people around me bec i didn't passed my first board exam. Thanks for bringing it back to me!!!
These were great test taking tips and I found my particular problem of narrowing down to 2 and picking the wrong one. I do think its a little difficult to bounce around on a computer based test (working backwards, skipping questions, leaving questions blank and going back to them). I think if the tests that we take were paper and pencil that would work great, but not so much on the computer based tests. However, the tips themselves were very helpful. I will watch more of your videos and hope that I can get through this semester with improved critical thinking skills. Thank you!
Emily Ski try to get key words by memory and then re read the question again. This is the alternative because nowadays you can't bring extra paper inside the test area
You are such a great instructor! I just want to say thank you. I have learned a LOT about what I do wrong when it comes to nursing exams. At our school, we have a 78% cumulative test average that we need to surpass in order to even pass the class. If we get anything wrong such as our labs, clinicals, tests, or homework, we fail the class. I am going to take this with me into my final tomorrow and I hope that I can pass!!
I failed my exam today. Failed the 3rd exam of this semester & I needed these tips. I swear I studied & knew my stuff yet failed. This video really helps.
That's a great idea and is exactly what my research found too. Try to think of it as just 5 or 6 different questions instead of freaking out about it being a multi-answer question. Answer each choice as true or false in relation to what the question was asking.
I would definitely ask about getting a little bit of extra time to take the exam. Not all programs require that you have a learning disability to get this extra time. It's always No until you ask!!! If you get some extra time use that time to improve your test-taking skills because you won't have extra time on NCLEX. If you keep getting distracted, wear earplugs. Can make a huge difference!
This is a great resource. Thank you. I would like to see videos about how to define;"what should the nurse for FIRST?""What intervention should be implemented?""What is the first priority? "What should the nurse do?""What should be the first action?"
Wow, that was an amazing again. In the morning I'll have a midterm on a medsurg 6th last semester, I'll try this tips(some), will update later with the results. Thanks again, for sure I'll sate this video with others.
Thank you for this video. I just did much worse than I thought I had on a test I took today and can see how some of these tips, especially the underlining key words and answering the questions myself then choosing the correct one, will help me. I'm looking forward to using these techniques on my next test.
I answer game show questions using, "I don't even know what that is." Admittedly, I've done this in school, too. If 3/4 choices have something in common to me, I always pick the remaining answer. I figure this has to be the right one (like a potential trick answer).
I just found your page and OMG, THANK YOU!! You are great this is so verty helpful all instructors should teach like you. I'm in school now and my first exam is 9/20/17 I'm going to apply what I've learned from your page!
I wish I had found this video at the beginning of my class! My teacher was very little help when I'd ask her where I was going wrong on my tests. She'd just tell me to go back and study on the NCLEX site we used for homework.
if you could go through specific questions and go through the logic of why each is right and wiring that would be great … I like the videos with the actual process of what you do and talking through the questions .. thanks
I have been having d's lately. mostly cos I don't read carefully enough. This video is really helpful. I will let you know when I get a 90 in my next exam. :) Thanks a lot.
This was very helpful. Love the video as well as the test taking tips. I do have some concern on how to read my text book. Some instructors states to read it all and others states just read the bold, tables, boxes, and/or figures. I have tried both and don't think is helping. I tend to read into the not so important info. Any tip on that? Thanks.
Just took my first 2 exams in semester 1 of Nursing school. I rly need test taking skills and this was very helpful. Thank u. Hope I don’t fail the next😭😭😭
I am glad that I listened to this video. Wished I have this advice last year I might have passed my exams. But I have another chance so I would definitely try your strategy.
Just posted it, but this won't let me add the link (let me know if you can't find it). Sorry it wasn't available like I said :) Also, sorry these tips were too late to help you, but I would love for you to share my website and these videos with others at your nursing school so we can spread the information. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
I love your videos so far, but what do you do when your professor does not really pay attention when you meet with her or him to review your exam questions and is always rushed? It just frustrates me even more.
Unfortunately I have no advice for those. I hate those type of questions myself, but I know they are on NCLEX. I'll do some research and see if I can find anything.
depending on the question I have been guilty of all of these at least once. my test are computerized and we are not allowed to go back to questions (to simulate the NCLEX). I study enough I do know that, I never get the knowledge base questions wrong and I can always narrow it down to two. In lab and clinical I excel. I usually pass my exams but not by much. Sometimes as soon as I click next I instantly know I should of picked the other one. literally, the moment I click it. I have a medical background in nuclear medicine that does get me into trouble as well, then again sometimes it helps. My class has had a few exam questions from portions of our book that our instructor specifically said to omit (but I wont go there). I am passing right now but I want to be more confident and comfortable with exams. All of my classmates always compliment me and say they are impressed with how knowledgeable I am because I put in the time and effort to know the material and apply it. In clinical its as if I have more clarity, the patient is in front of me... I see it I'm not just reading exam questions in front of a computer screen. A girl who would have made a wonderful nurse just recent failed out. She knows it, she's was amazing with patients but the exams got her and not by much. I know regardless, I need to refocus and get better at taking exams because this is the way things are done right now. Its all about the NCLEX exam. If only the exam was someone texting you on your application in front of a mannequin or actual patient. Obviously if I have a patient in front of me having severe chest pain and other stressors I'm going to administer their prescribed pain med then call the doc. But in a test with your mind going a million miles a minute your not thinking as clearly and practically your thinking well wait their blood pressure is low, their respiration are high maybe they are going into shock and you grab that exam phone and call the doctor while your patient is sitting there cussing you out because their chest still hurts lol. but you dont care you just want that exam question gone... let the doctor take that exam question away from me lol. be gone you evil tricky question. Then your confronted with your 50th exam question, your 50th patient that you just mentally pictured in your mind, your mentally drained this hypothetically hospital has 11 dead patients already and you just need to get that last question right to pass.. to not get fired... if nursing were like these exams and we saw 50 patients in a day without a formulary or google lets face it a lot more than 11 would be dead. You finish your exam and realise pt 12 should of gotten O2, question 40 you should of turned the patient on the other side, that patient needed to ambulate, this patient hasn't peed after surgery so what I should just keep monitoring... what am I so quick to touch peoples privates in an exam when in real life id be assessing and avoiding those privates for a long as possible. lol I could go on for days.
This was an awesome video!!!! Wish I would have been given this link earlier in the semester!!!! If your teacher gave you this link....please listen to the whole thing!!! I think these suggestions will really help me in the future!
Hi. You're videos are more than helpful. I'm learning and connecting stuff I learned in 1st semester, and I'm in fifth!Would you post one educating nursing students about ICP, Neurological alterations and organ donation, and cardiopulmonary alterations??? I deeply appreciate your work.
Thank you for your help. I knew what my problem was but didn't know how to fix it. Your video shows me exactly what I need to do. Do you have any tips on how to answer "select all" questions. This one is truly a challenge for me. I always manage to leave out one answer choice. Please help.
I really enjoyed listening to your video. I really believe it will help me in the future. I look forward for my scores to go up higher.... I'm glad your reaching out...:) I WANT to SURPASS...
You talk about a learning styles video, but I'm not sure where that is. I really love your tips! Wish I would have found them before Med Surg II, though! LOL
I really liked your rationales for this video, I will make sure to practice (it's usually choosing the wrong one out of the 2 for me). Anyway, we're getting a lot of select all that apply on our test bc the NCLEX is going crazy with those style of questions. Can you create a video for test taking strategies for that? Also could you do a video shock/mods, rhythm strips, cancer, end of life? Thanks
excellent tips ! these test taking strategies are helping me with my test anxiety as now I have a technique to answer nclex test questions. Thank you ! =)
I do not have any videos on Mental Health or Pharm. Right now my focus is on getting all of Med Surg I and II out there and then I'll branch out. Sorry I can't help you right now :(
Great job Megan! These tips are helpful. I will play this again and again to master the tips. Please is there any tips you can offer per "select all that applies" and "arrangement of procedures" as well as "hot spots" questions in nclex. I really need help in those areas.
I want to focus more on the key words, but the problem is I take computer tests. So how would i circle key words to focus me? i think this will benefit me for my final on Thursday. (In neuro)
depending on the question I have been guilty of all of these at least once. my test are computerized and we are not allowed to go back to questions (to simulate the NCLEX). I study enough I do know that, I never get the knowledge base questions wrong and I can always narrow it down to two. In lab and clinical I excel. I usually pass my exams but not by much. Sometimes as soon as I click next I instantly know I should of picked the other one. literally, the moment I click it. I have a medical background in nuclear medicine that does get me into trouble as well, then again sometimes it helps. My class has had a few exam questions from portions of our book that our instructor specifically said to omit (but I wont go there). I am passing right now but I want to be more confident and comfortable with exams. All of my classmates always compliment me and say they are impressed with how knowledgeable I am because I put in the time and effort to know the material and apply it. In clinical its as if I have more clarity, the patient is in front of me... I see it I'm not just reading exam questions in front of a computer screen. A girl who would have made a wonderful nurse just recent failed out. She knows it, she's was amazing with patients but the exams got her and not by much. I know regardless, I need to refocus and get better at taking exams because this is the way things are done right now. Its all about the NCLEX exam. If only the exam was someone texting you on your application in front of a mannequin or actual patient. Obviously if I have a patient in front of me having severe chest pain and other stressors I'm going to administer their prescribed pain med then call the doc. But in a test with your mind going a million miles a minute your not thinking as clearly and practically your thinking well wait their blood pressure is low, their respiration are high maybe they are going into shock and you grab that exam phone and call the doctor while your patient is sitting there cussing you out because their chest still hurts lol. but you dont care you just want that exam question gone... let the doctor take that exam question away from me lol. be gone you evil tricky question. Then your confronted with your 50th exam question, your 50th patient that you just mentally pictured in your mind, your mentally drained this hypothetically hospital has 11 dead patients already and you just need to get that last question right to pass.. to not get fired... if nursing were like these exams and we saw 50 patients in a day without a formulary or google lets face it a lot more than 11 would be dead. You finish your exam and realise pt 12 should of gotten O2, question 40 you should of turned the patient on the other side, that patient needed to ambulate, this patient hasn't peed after surgery so what I should just keep monitoring... what am I so quick to touch peoples privates in an exam when in real life id be assessing and avoiding those privates for a long as possible. lol I could go on for days.
THANK YOU! No one and I mean no one is talking about the test taking strategies for being successful. They just reinforce studying by your learning style. But overlook the fact that up until now your entire education has consisted of non-critical thinking tests and exams!
After watching your videos, I feel so much more confident to take my test today! I have test anxiety really bad, and tend to panic. The tips you offered really helped me focus, and prepare for my critical thinking questions so much better! Thank you. My practice exam scores went from really low scores to passing scores! I appreciate you taking the time to help!
I just heard the test taking skills and it is so so good .. I came to this to hear more
This is great. We need more Nursing teachers like yourself. Many of my teacher can care less about your grades, you hear more of are you reading everything and taking notes. Please keep making videos.
Most exams are now computerized and do not offer an option to underline, erase, or start at the end of an exam. I think these videos while good, need to be updated.
I am a bad test taker, glad I found this. Thank you!
Who down votes this? This information is gold.
Thanks for the videos. I'm in 3rd level and I watch this video and "Test Taking Tips for Nursing Students" once every semester. They really help.
Thank you, so much. This is a good start. Some instructor just tell you, study smart not hard but they don't offer any solutions.
I wish I would have found this channel before wrote exam.its so help full thank you so much.
This is a good reinforcement for me to bring back my confidence psychologically. I didn't get any support from the people around me bec i didn't passed my first board exam. Thanks for bringing it back to me!!!
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These were great test taking tips and I found my particular problem of narrowing down to 2 and picking the wrong one. I do think its a little difficult to bounce around on a computer based test (working backwards, skipping questions, leaving questions blank and going back to them). I think if the tests that we take were paper and pencil that would work great, but not so much on the computer based tests. However, the tips themselves were very helpful. I will watch more of your videos and hope that I can get through this semester with improved critical thinking skills. Thank you!
Elle Gee i do the same thing and im going to try focusing on key words this time. i also use computer based testes. any tips?
Just hang in there and when you want to give up, don't. You will make it, you just got to keep plugging away at it. Good luck in your studies!
Emily Ski try to get key words by memory and then re read the question again. This is the alternative because nowadays you can't bring extra paper inside the test area
This is the most helpful, practical advice for how to improve your nursing test taking skills that I have ever seen. Thank you!
You are such a great instructor! I just want to say thank you. I have learned a LOT about what I do wrong when it comes to nursing exams. At our school, we have a 78% cumulative test average that we need to surpass in order to even pass the class. If we get anything wrong such as our labs, clinicals, tests, or homework, we fail the class. I am going to take this with me into my final tomorrow and I hope that I can pass!!
Great job in identifying multiple possible weaknesses! Thank you!
I'm starting nursing school in 2 weeks and like everyone, I want to do well! Thank you, can't wait to apply what I've learned.
I failed my exam today. Failed the 3rd exam of this semester & I needed these tips. I swear I studied & knew my stuff yet failed. This video really helps.
That's a great idea and is exactly what my research found too. Try to think of it as just 5 or 6 different questions instead of freaking out about it being a multi-answer question. Answer each choice as true or false in relation to what the question was asking.
I would definitely ask about getting a little bit of extra time to take the exam. Not all programs require that you have a learning disability to get this extra time. It's always No until you ask!!! If you get some extra time use that time to improve your test-taking skills because you won't have extra time on NCLEX. If you keep getting distracted, wear earplugs. Can make a huge difference!
How come you are no longer making videos? This is really helpful!
This is a great resource. Thank you. I would like to see videos about how to define;"what should the nurse for FIRST?""What intervention should be implemented?""What is the first priority?
"What should the nurse do?""What should be the first action?"
Wow, that was an amazing again. In the morning I'll have a midterm on a medsurg 6th last semester, I'll try this tips(some), will update later with the results. Thanks again, for sure I'll sate this video with others.
Thank you for this video. I just did much worse than I thought I had on a test I took today and can see how some of these tips, especially the underlining key words and answering the questions myself then choosing the correct one, will help me. I'm looking forward to using these techniques on my next test.
I sure wish I would have found you a long time ago.
I feel like I should pay you! I am so thankful that I found your videos!! Thank you thank you thank you!!
Thank you for sharing this video. I really think this may be able to help me in my future tests.
50 question test, that would be nice! My instructor loves these 30 question tests..
Can you help on the all that apply questions thank you
This is gold, didn´t even realise I had some of the problems you mentioned, thanks!!
This video was helpful and easy to follow. I will be be putting the information learned into practice.
I answer game show questions using, "I don't even know what that is." Admittedly, I've done this in school, too. If 3/4 choices have something in common to me, I always pick the remaining answer. I figure this has to be the right one (like a potential trick answer).
I just found your page and OMG, THANK YOU!! You are great this is so verty helpful all instructors should teach like you. I'm in school now and my first exam is 9/20/17 I'm going to apply what I've learned from your page!
I wish I had found this video at the beginning of my class! My teacher was very little help when I'd ask her where I was going wrong on my tests. She'd just tell me to go back and study on the NCLEX site we used for homework.
if you could go through specific questions and go through the logic of why each is right and wiring that would be great … I like the videos with the actual process of what you do and talking through the questions .. thanks
I have been having d's lately. mostly cos I don't read carefully enough. This video is really helpful. I will let you know when I get a 90 in my next exam. :) Thanks a lot.
This was very helpful. Love the video as well as the test taking tips. I do have some concern on how to read my text book. Some instructors states to read it all and others states just read the bold, tables, boxes, and/or figures. I have tried both and don't think is helping. I tend to read into the not so important info. Any tip on that? Thanks.
But now test are on a computer, you can't write on them, and you can't go back.
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Just took my first 2 exams in semester 1 of Nursing school. I rly need test taking skills and this was very helpful. Thank u. Hope I don’t fail the next😭😭😭
thank you for the tips, helps me to recognize my area of mistakes !!
I am glad that I listened to this video. Wished I have this advice last year I might have passed my exams. But I have another chance so I would definitely try your strategy.
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Just posted it, but this won't let me add the link (let me know if you can't find it). Sorry it wasn't available like I said :) Also, sorry these tips were too late to help you, but I would love for you to share my website and these videos with others at your nursing school so we can spread the information. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
This is really great! I wish I had this last semester. Super excited I have it now. I'm ready!
I love your videos so far, but what do you do when your professor does not really pay attention when you meet with her or him to review your exam questions and is always rushed? It just frustrates me even more.
I would just like to say thank you , I wish that you were my nursing instructor.
Unfortunately I have no advice for those. I hate those type of questions myself, but I know they are on NCLEX. I'll do some research and see if I can find anything.
depending on the question I have been guilty of all of these at least once. my test are computerized and we are not allowed to go back to questions (to simulate the NCLEX). I study enough I do know that, I never get the knowledge base questions wrong and I can always narrow it down to two. In lab and clinical I excel. I usually pass my exams but not by much. Sometimes as soon as I click next I instantly know I should of picked the other one. literally, the moment I click it. I have a medical background in nuclear medicine that does get me into trouble as well, then again sometimes it helps. My class has had a few exam questions from portions of our book that our instructor specifically said to omit (but I wont go there). I am passing right now but I want to be more confident and comfortable with exams. All of my classmates always compliment me and say they are impressed with how knowledgeable I am because I put in the time and effort to know the material and apply it. In clinical its as if I have more clarity, the patient is in front of me... I see it I'm not just reading exam questions in front of a computer screen. A girl who would have made a wonderful nurse just recent failed out. She knows it, she's was amazing with patients but the exams got her and not by much. I know regardless, I need to refocus and get better at taking exams because this is the way things are done right now. Its all about the NCLEX exam. If only the exam was someone texting you on your application in front of a mannequin or actual patient. Obviously if I have a patient in front of me having severe chest pain and other stressors I'm going to administer their prescribed pain med then call the doc. But in a test with your mind going a million miles a minute your not thinking as clearly and practically your thinking well wait their blood pressure is low, their respiration are high maybe they are going into shock and you grab that exam phone and call the doctor while your patient is sitting there cussing you out because their chest still hurts lol. but you dont care you just want that exam question gone... let the doctor take that exam question away from me lol. be gone you evil tricky question. Then your confronted with your 50th exam question, your 50th patient that you just mentally pictured in your mind, your mentally drained this hypothetically hospital has 11 dead patients already and you just need to get that last question right to pass.. to not get fired... if nursing were like these exams and we saw 50 patients in a day without a formulary or google lets face it a lot more than 11 would be dead. You finish your exam and realise pt 12 should of gotten O2, question 40 you should of turned the patient on the other side, that patient needed to ambulate, this patient hasn't peed after surgery so what I should just keep monitoring... what am I so quick to touch peoples privates in an exam when in real life id be assessing and avoiding those privates for a long as possible. lol I could go on for days.
This was an awesome video!!!! Wish I would have been given this link earlier in the semester!!!! If your teacher gave you this link....please listen to the whole thing!!! I think these suggestions will really help me in the future!
Hi. You're videos are more than helpful. I'm learning and connecting stuff I learned in 1st semester, and I'm in fifth!Would you post one educating nursing students about ICP, Neurological alterations and organ donation, and cardiopulmonary alterations??? I deeply appreciate your work.
Thank you for your help. I knew what my problem was but didn't know how to fix it. Your video shows me exactly what I need to do. Do you have any tips on how to answer "select all" questions. This one is truly a challenge for me. I always manage to leave out one answer choice. Please help.
I really enjoyed listening to your video. I really believe it will help me in the future. I look forward for my scores to go up higher.... I'm glad your reaching out...:) I WANT to SURPASS...
You talk about a learning styles video, but I'm not sure where that is. I really love your tips! Wish I would have found them before Med Surg II, though! LOL
AMAZING! Thank you! 👍
I really liked your rationales for this video, I will make sure to practice (it's usually choosing the wrong one out of the 2 for me). Anyway, we're getting a lot of select all that apply on our test bc the NCLEX is going crazy with those style of questions. Can you create a video for test taking strategies for that? Also could you do a video shock/mods, rhythm strips, cancer, end of life? Thanks
So beyond helpful! Thanks so much!
This is GOLD
Well done, thanks for taking the time to help us..
This video has AMAZING info and advice - thank you!!
excellent tips !
these test taking strategies are helping me with my test anxiety as now I have a technique to answer nclex test questions. Thank you ! =)
Sounds good we will see my final is coming up soon.
I do not have any videos on Mental Health or Pharm. Right now my focus is on getting all of Med Surg I and II out there and then I'll branch out. Sorry I can't help you right now :(
these tips really do help thank you!
Thank you so much!! This video was so helpful!!
Great job Megan! These tips are helpful. I will play this again and again to master the tips. Please is there any tips you can offer per "select all that applies" and "arrangement of procedures" as well as "hot spots" questions in nclex. I really need help in those areas.
Videos are great. Do you have any videos on Mental Health and Pharm. Would appreciate it, but if not thanks for all you do.
can you do a lesson on pediatric nursing for Nursing student
this video was extremely helpful thank you!
Enjoyed this thoroughly!
My school only gives exams on the computer. What tips do you have for us?
Thanks for the tips!
we do not have exam review. And dont hold your breathe when you ask for one because they never do a one on one with you.
Thank you so much for this video was so helpful!!!
Thank you, very helpful video.
Awesome! Thank you so much!
I love your tips but my test are on a computer and once you hit next you cant go back to that question.
Great video! Do you have one for "select all that apply" questions?
I wish you were an instructor at my school.
Love this! Thank you!
What advice can you give on how to approach the "select all that apply" questions? Do you have or could you make a video that addresses that?
Great tips. Thank you.
Mrs. McLin awesome tips. Do you have any tips for non native speakers in nursing. Thanks
Great video. I really think this will help.
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!!!!
Could you do a respiratory assessment video?
love your advice!
We don't have exam review at our school due to a cheating scandal years ago :(.
A friend of mine told me to address multiple response questions as "true or false" statements.
How about some study tips for the last course in the nursing RN program...
This video was so helpful.
Thank you!!!!
I want to focus more on the key words, but the problem is I take computer tests. So how would i circle key words to focus me? i think this will benefit me for my final on Thursday. (In neuro)
How can we apply these tips to computerized testing in nursing school where you can't back track? @MeganMcClintock
Please see my reply above to another student with a great suggestion.
Life saver!!!
Do you have some videos on Immunity?
This is all me when taking my nursing exam.
do you have any tips for OB/PEDS
Med Surg....Please
Doing Nursinge My Help me, Teacher
nursing students are on more meds that patients
depending on the question I have been guilty of all of these at least once. my test are computerized and we are not allowed to go back to questions (to simulate the NCLEX). I study enough I do know that, I never get the knowledge base questions wrong and I can always narrow it down to two. In lab and clinical I excel. I usually pass my exams but not by much. Sometimes as soon as I click next I instantly know I should of picked the other one. literally, the moment I click it. I have a medical background in nuclear medicine that does get me into trouble as well, then again sometimes it helps. My class has had a few exam questions from portions of our book that our instructor specifically said to omit (but I wont go there). I am passing right now but I want to be more confident and comfortable with exams. All of my classmates always compliment me and say they are impressed with how knowledgeable I am because I put in the time and effort to know the material and apply it. In clinical its as if I have more clarity, the patient is in front of me... I see it I'm not just reading exam questions in front of a computer screen. A girl who would have made a wonderful nurse just recent failed out. She knows it, she's was amazing with patients but the exams got her and not by much. I know regardless, I need to refocus and get better at taking exams because this is the way things are done right now. Its all about the NCLEX exam. If only the exam was someone texting you on your application in front of a mannequin or actual patient. Obviously if I have a patient in front of me having severe chest pain and other stressors I'm going to administer their prescribed pain med then call the doc. But in a test with your mind going a million miles a minute your not thinking as clearly and practically your thinking well wait their blood pressure is low, their respiration are high maybe they are going into shock and you grab that exam phone and call the doctor while your patient is sitting there cussing you out because their chest still hurts lol. but you dont care you just want that exam question gone... let the doctor take that exam question away from me lol. be gone you evil tricky question. Then your confronted with your 50th exam question, your 50th patient that you just mentally pictured in your mind, your mentally drained this hypothetically hospital has 11 dead patients already and you just need to get that last question right to pass.. to not get fired... if nursing were like these exams and we saw 50 patients in a day without a formulary or google lets face it a lot more than 11 would be dead. You finish your exam and realise pt 12 should of gotten O2, question 40 you should of turned the patient on the other side, that patient needed to ambulate, this patient hasn't peed after surgery so what I should just keep monitoring... what am I so quick to touch peoples privates in an exam when in real life id be assessing and avoiding those privates for a long as possible. lol I could go on for days.