RPN Exam Prep: Everything You Need to Know

 

Two Nursing Candidates Flipping Through a Prep Guide for the REx-PN Exam

As of January 2022, the CPRNE for aspiring Registered Practical Nurses or RPNs in Ontario was replaced by the Regulatory Exam – Practical Nurse (REx-PN). According to the College of Nurses of Ontario, this exam will also apply to aspiring Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) in British Columbia.

Described as highly beneficial for nurses and the people of Ontario, the REx-PN exam was introduced to better assess the knowledge a nurse must possess to provide safe patient care. Unlike the CPRNE, which limits you to three attempts, the REx-PN is open to candidates all year round, and they can attempt the test as many times as they want, whenever they feel ready to test their knowledge.

Here is how you can prepare for this test at home and with the help of a prep center like ModernTech.

What to Expect During the REx-PN?

Although similar to its predecessor, the REx-PN is still a mystery for many aspiring nursing. You can only prepare for an exam when you know what to expect.

On that note, here are the eight components on which you’ll be tested during your REx-PN:

 

· Health Promotion and Maintenance

· Management of Care

· Safety and Infection Control

· Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies

· Psychosocial Integrity

· Reduction of Risk Potential

· Basic Care and Comfort

· Physiological Adaptation


An Aspiring Registered Practical Nurse Sitting in a Coffeeshop Nursing a Coffee While Solving Test Prep Questions

The above components will make up a test of 90–150 questions. Out of these, only about 60–120 questions will be counted in your final score. The remaining 30 are considered a “pretest” for possible future exams apart from your territory’s jurisprudence exam that you’re also required to write after the REx-PN to prove your knowledge of the healthcare system and government policies regarding your profession.

Successful Exam Prep Begins Right Away

While many want to take their time after completing their two-year diploma, others begin prepping for the big exam right away because the clinical instructions learned at university are still fresh in their minds.

Give yourself a week’s break, and start studying for the REx-PN. You can be ready for the test even if you dedicate three or four hours daily for a month.

Personalize Your Study Plan

While many paid study plans on the internet claim to be the fast track to RPN, there’s no guarantee that they’ll work for you. It would be better to adopt a method that has worked for you in the past.

This time, however, make space for distractions, mental health breaks, and social commitments in your calendar. If you want to commit yourself to the study plan—make things more official—apply for the REx-PN instead of planning towards a tentative date.

A Study Plan Calendar with a Coffee Cup on Top

Practice Makes Intuitive

Although study plans can be customized, you might want to make your study materials similar to the contents of this exam. Practicing questions and tests and following each with review and remediation works for most REx-PN writers.

Even when you know the study materials, in theory, you’re unlikely to know how to use them when answering the exam questions. The more you practice and review your answers, the better you’ll understand how the test makers expect you to answer each question and the fewer unfamiliar questions you’ll encounter.

Since you can’t exactly go back and change your answer, you should get it right on the first attempt, which is only possible through practice.

Use University Materials to Study

Your nursing school prepares you for the road ahead. Thus, a condensed version of the materials (practice tests and study guides) that helped you then can also help you now. Go back and review these materials when preparing for the test. It’ll also save you a lot of time coming up with new study materials for the REx-PN, which will be more of what you already own.

Four Study Guides for the RPN Exam Open and Stacked on Top of Each Other

Take a Review Course to Jog Your Memory Effectively

If you’re already starting to forget about the body systems, you might want to take a review course to revive your memory. Even if you remember the components vividly, you might want to join a review center, as they can teach you some useful methods to remember the test topics should they start getting hazy.

Suppose you’ve taken the exam before and failed to get enough points to qualify for the jurisprudence exam. In that case, you can use a review center’s input into what you might’ve gotten wrong to improve your chances of passing the second attempt. While there’s no limit on how many times you can pass the REx-PN, there’s a limit to how many times you can pay and spend time studying for one.

Learn from Your Mistakes Under the Mentorship of Priya Basil

Join Priya Basil’s ModernTech, a nursing review center in Ontario, to prepare for your next REx-PN exam. Basil’s courses NCLEX review courses are informational and interactive. They replicate the exam’s environment to lessen the mental impact of writing one in person and provide a jurisprudence exam review to ensure you review your RPN or LPN certificate.

Get in touch once you’re ready to take your nursing exam in Ontario.

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