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4 Studying Mistakes to Avoid in Passing Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification Exam

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One of the classes that nursing students take requiring a combination of knowledge in pharmacology, pathophysiology, and health assessment, is medical-surgical (med-surg) nursing. Med-surg nursing is one of those classes that demands extra study time. In this class, students learn about the processes of disease and how to treat patients with specific diseases. As there are critical-thinking questions (opposed to "fact-based" questions) in the NCLEX format included in medical-surgical certification exams, memorizing material will not be adequate. Students must completely understand the material. For instance, a student must understand the pathophysiology of why a patient is having certain symptoms of a particular disease.  Avoid these 4 Common Studying Mistakes in Medical-Surgical Nursing Reading every page and chapter of your textbooks verbatim.  This is ineffective since most medical and surgical texts are enormous and have too much information to understand. You must unders