Adult CCRN® Certification Practice Q&A – Prep for Success on the AACN Adult CCRN® Certification Exam – Exam Prep

the good:I liked that this book gets straight to the point. There’s a little 5 page blurb about the exam and this book’s formatting, sure, but then it’s just 300 questions.There are two sections— questions by subject area in part I (~20-30 questions per subject area, for a total of 150 questions), and then one full-length practice exam in part II (150 questions). There’s a rationale for each question.The book’s size makes for great portability.The bad:There’s a lot of what I’d consider knowledge-level questions even in full length practice exam, or at least more than I’d like to see. I believe there’s supposed to be a bunch of knowledge level questions in part I, but if you’re using this book, I’d assume you already have a lot of the needed knowledge.The rationales aren’t bad, but some are what I’d call “incomplete,” because they either leave out info on why the wrong answers are wrong, maybe the reason why the right answer is correct is buried under frivolous information, or there are typos/just plain factually incorrect information.I don’t like the format of part I. There are 4-6 questions on the odd pages and the answers with rationales for those 4-6 questions are on the even pages (instead of all 20-30 questions at once, followed by all the answers/rationales). The practice exam is not styled like this. It’s all 150 questions, and then all 150 rationales.Some of the terminology used in the questions seems dated. One particular question asks about the stages of “hemorrhagic pancreatitis.” I challenge anyone reading this review to google this term and find anything from the past five years that details specific stages (like stage I, II, III, etc). I spent longer than I’d like to admit trying to find info on what later turned out to be dated jargon/info for more than one question and I’m salty enough to dock another star from this review for that.Here’s an example of wrong info/typos in the rationales: “…Diabetes insipidus is an overproduction of antidiuretic hormone and doesn’t create ketones in the blood…”Another one: “Clinical presentation is decreased level of consciousness (LOC) and an ipsilaterally dilated pupil on the opposite side.”