The website says:needscoffee said:RN_0001 do you have any review materials? if so, where did they buy it or can I borrow it? thank you vey much
Review documents such as:
Entry-to-Practice Competencies for the Registered Nurses Profession
Practice Standards for Regulated Members with CNA Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses
current (published within the past 5 years) Canadian medical/surgical, maternal-newborn, pediatric and mental health nursing textbooks.
There is also some information here: http://www.touchstoneinstitute.ca/assessment/arnap/exam-details.aspx
Entry to practice competencies are very important:
http://www.nurses.ab.ca/content/dam/carna/pdfs/DocumentList/Standards/RN_EntryPracticeCompetencies_May2013.pdf
I would also review the Nursing Interventions Classification
http://www.nurses.ab.ca/content/carna/home/professional-resources/practice-resources/competency-profile.html
Review standard assessments. Remember that what makes Canadian/US nursing a bit different from some other countries is the emphasis on therapeutic communication with patients. This is always important in everything we do.
I would ask CARNA what the furthest date is that you are able to register for this exam. They might have a limit on the amount of time between when you tell them you will take the ARNAP choice and when you actually do the ARNAP exam. In Ontario we have free practice sessions that each person registered for the IENCAP is allowed to attend once. It is held at Touchstone Institute in Toronto and it's a full day with an instructor who walks the group through the expectations of the exam. It might be good to ask CARNA and/or Touchstone and/or any IEN advocacy groups (we have one in Ontario called "CARE for Nurses") whether they know if such sessions will be held for ARNAP preparations. Since it's new, they might not yet, but they might be able to tell you if that is an idea they are considering or not.