Hurst Review Services

this is probably the worst thing you can use to study for the NCLEX. i took it just this week and even though this review has all good core content, you need to understand how they think and how the questions are written. won’t recommend this to anyone.

Fearing the day I would take on the NCLEX-​RN exam, I signed up for the Hurst Review Service. We had a Southern Belle instructor come to frigid Chicago from warm Miss-​iss-​ippi for three 8-​hour day lectures. The Hurst service is unique with an interactive course where you hear the material from the teacher, write into your manual, then repeat out loud to a fellow student what you learned. It is great because it works for those with different methods of learning and memorizing. I absolutely loved the owner Marleen Hurst who provides a few lectures via video. She should do all the reviews because she has a great sense of humor and reminds me of a fabulous drag queen at times. You then have access to their online materials with videos of the 3 day lectures and a year of extra documents and resource documents. All the instructors are identical and seem like brain-​washed copies of one another. For instance, if you ask a question online, the response matches the student manual identically, and doesn’t help much. While priced kind of high at $ 350 a student (with a money back guarantee if you don’t pass the NCLEX the first time around), it does give you a great all-​around knowledge of medical-​surgical nursing principles, procedures and practices. This is not like Kaplan that focuses only on testing strategies and their ridiculous Decision Tree that doesn’t help answer more than 10 of the 75 NCLEX questions.
After just finishing the NCLEX, I have to honestly say that no review service will truly prepare you for the board exam. Just believing yourself and not getting overly nervous is key. The best way «prepare» is to continually practice hundreds of tedious ‘select all that apply’ and priority patient (i.e. «Which patient would you see first?») questions.