I've been working through the Relias certification for about three weeks now and I'm hitting a wall with some of the behavioral health modules. My employer requires a 70% pass rate on each module, and I'm consistently scoring around 65-68% on the substance abuse sections. Anyone else run into this?
I'm spending maybe 1.5 hours a day on the material, mostly reading through the slides and taking notes. The problem is the questions feel really application-heavy, like they want you to know how to handle a specific scenario rather than just recall definitions. I passed the first four modules no problem but these last three are killing me.
Currently on attempt two for the Crisis Intervention module. Passed it 72% this morning, so that's done. Still got Trauma-Informed Care and Documentation Standards to go. If anyone's got advice on how they approached the scenario-based questions specifically, I'd really appreciate it. Especially the ones about de-escalation protocols - they seem to have multiple 'correct' answers that all feel plausible.
The scenario questions on Relias are tricky because they're testing clinical judgment, not memorization. I found that reading the rationale after every wrong answer helped way more than re-reading the slides. Took me about two weeks at 45 minutes a day to clear all eight modules.
I passed my Relias cert in January, scored 78% overall. The documentation module was actually the hardest for me - way more detail-oriented than I expected. Make sure you know the difference between subjective and objective documentation, they hit that hard.
Also check if your employer gives you extra time to complete - mine extended the deadline twice with no issue.
Crisis Intervention and Trauma-Informed Care are the two hardest modules in my experience. The de-escalation scenarios have a specific framework they're looking for. Once I memorized the steps, my scores jumped from 67% to 84%.
What version of Relias are you on? My org uses the healthcare worker track and it's pretty different from the behavioral health one. 70% cutoff is standard though. I'd suggest doing the practice questions at the end of each lesson twice before attempting the final assessment.