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For me, being self-confident means it can help you pass your exams and achieve great outcomes in nursing school. You can also gain high confidence when you put the time and effort into learning and studying, and practicing.  

After you put the time and effort in, it is good not to doubt yourself. Always go with your instincts and believe in yourself. You should strive to have confidence in your answers and your knowledge.  

Don’t doubt your correct answers and overthink and change the answer.  

Having good confidence in my knowledge and test-taking abilities has improved my grades in nursing school. I have been using the Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX®-RN book and the online quizzing it comes with to do practice questions. I complete practice questions in the Saunders book every week, and review all of them before the exam.  

Doing practice questions has helped me gain confidence in my knowledge because it helps me understand what I know and what I am struggling with. I make sure to read the rationale for the right and wrong choices for every question. This helps me understand how to critically think for different concepts and increased my self-confidence in my critical thinking abilities.  

It is also important to continue to take your confidence with you to the clinical setting. In the clinical setting, it is important to have confidence in your patient care and critical thinking. This can help save a life.  

Confidence does not mean knowing everything – it means that you will be able to ask questions and help when needed. It is important to believe in your knowledge and have self-confidence in yourself. This will help improve your critical thinking and patient care.