CarolinaRN1111

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1. 42 Years Old - Is it too late to become a nurse?

   CarolinaRN1111 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   I almost let my age deter me from starting nursing school at 42. It was estimated that I would be 47 when I graduated because of having to take every prerequisite known to man. I was inspired to change careers after caring for my Dad when he was di...

2. Hardest class in nursing school

   CarolinaRN1111 replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

   No, it is the UWorld NCLEX, by USMLE. It has its own app and even looks exactly like the NCLEX. The best advice I can give you is to not sweat anything except the classes you are in right at that moment. Worrying about it only made my stomach hurt, s...

3. Hardest class in nursing school

   CarolinaRN1111 replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

   My most difficult class, and the hardest for my classmates, was fourth semester Med/Surg - Critical Care. We started the semester with 83 students and lost 38 by the end of finals. It was the beginning of Prioritization and Management that took mos...

4. To tell or not to tell?

   CarolinaRN1111 replied to nursingRN123's topic in General Students

   Our class happened upon a Prioritization textbook that our instructor obviously used for our tests. By studying that book, we were guaranteed to have studied all of our test questions word for word. That helped many students pass the class, but if t...

5. Being Ordered to Give Whiskey

   CarolinaRN1111 replied to purplegal's topic in General Nursing

   I had a patient with an order for 30 mL with meals and HS. Without the whiskey, we would have had much more serious problems than his recent amputation. There was a bag in the med fridge with pre measured prescription bottles of whiskey. When we we...

6. Just took the NCLEX, UWorld is amazing

   CarolinaRN1111 replied to Underdog7112's topic in NCLEX

   I consistently scored 55 to 65% on each test. I did about 800 questions leading up to exam day. The UWorld analytics put me in the 90th percentile.

7. Help! It's been 3 weeks since I've taken the NCLEX and no results.

   CarolinaRN1111 replied to CrabClam's topic in NCLEX

   There is a guy on YouTube who shows a "back" way to check CA license results that looked legitimate. Search for NCLEX CA results. The name of the poster is Paul Lorenzo. I hope this trick works for you!

8. Just took the NCLEX, UWorld is amazing

   CarolinaRN1111 replied to Underdog7112's topic in NCLEX

   I took the NCLEX on the 7th and passed in 75 questions. UWorld was my hero in that quest. My school used ATI but I took issue with a lot of those answers differing from our textbook answers. UWorld had much more detailed rationales and even includ...