Night shift GI nurse here, 4 years in. Finally sitting for the SGNA certification next month. Finding time to study is rough when you're flipping between days and nights every week.
Currently squeezing in 45 minutes before each shift. That's about 5 hours a week total. Not sure if that's enough with 5 weeks to go. Scoring around 65% on practice questions right now.
The endoscopy procedures section feels natural from day-to-day work but infection control and reprocessing questions are killing me. Anyone else find those areas disproportionately represented on the exam?
Night shift studying is brutal. I did mine in 6 weeks with 3-4 days off per week for dedicated study blocks of 2 hours each. Way more effective than daily small chunks for me.
Passed last year with a 77. Reprocessing is heavy — easily 20% of the exam. Know Spaulding classification and high-level disinfection vs sterilization cold.
The patient care and sedation monitoring section surprised me with how detailed it was. Capnography questions showed up more than I expected.