Nursing Review Centers: A Must Join?

There are so many nursing review centers that have recently opened around the country. Most of them offer review classes for the Nursing Licensure Examinations and the rest of the five-letter exams as well. But the question remains: is it necessary to join these review centers just to pass the exams?

Nursing students study for four years in college to become a nurse and get a bachelor’s degree. Just when they they think that the worst is over, there is still one more exam to take. The exam of all exams, the make or break exam of all, the one exam that would validate all the four years in nursing school: the Nursing Licensure Examinations. Well, for those who are planning to stay in the country, this would be the last major exam to take but for those who wants to go overseas, that’s another story.

What is so bothering about this is that the students have spent four long years studying. They went through hell and back to pass exam after exam and accomplish all their requirements just to graduate. Why should they enrol in review centers to take the board exam? Aren’t the four years enough to get them through the two days of exams and be successful examinees?

There’s also this issue about nursing schools affiliated with review centers. They let their graduates enroll in a particular review center to study for the board exam. They’re not really forcing their students to do so but they aren’t giving them any other choice as well.

I enrolled in a review center myself but it wasn’t the one that the school was affiliated with. And by doing that, me and a few other students who did the same, were treated like outsiders even by the clinical instructors of our school. I didn’t like the way they talked about us behind our backs but I tried not to mind them.

From what I can remember, I really enjoyed the review classes. I learned a lot too but I can’t really say that I was able to apply them during the exams. The situations, questions and choices were so different from the ones that I have been taught that I felt as if all the months of studying was put to waste.

Thankfully, I passed with the rest of the 28,294 other examinees.

There were several casualties when the results were announced. There were some examinees who enrolled in review centers or studied on their own who passed and there were also some who did enroll in review centers and failed.

Passing nursing exams could be the result of enrolling in a review center or not. It could have also been pure luck or Divine intervention. But what I do know is that it really matters if the student learned anything during the four years in nursing school and if he had been reviewing before taking any nursing exam.

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