alc4522

alc4522 specializes in Cardiac surgery and percutaneous interve.

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1. Praying with your patient

   alc4522 replied to MShell's topic in General Nursing

   I have worked in a cardiac ICU/Step down for 5 years and I have been asked to pray with a lot of patients in that time frame. I am atheist and tell the patient that I am uncomfortable with that and I would be happy to find a chaplain to assist in pra...

2. Has anyone gone through an RN to BSN to MSN program?

   alc4522 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hey everyone! I was looking into starting an RN to BSN to MSN program. I am a new RN and was wanting to start my BSN in the fall and came across one of the masters programs... I was wondering if anyone had enrolled in anything like that and how labo...

3. Help answering questions on Nursing tests...

   alc4522 replied to brandilovesaaron's topic in Student Assist

   I just graduated a couple months ago and was struggling with my tests! Granted some of it was the style of the questions in nursing and I did the ABCs, maslow, and all of that, i knew the info like the back of my hand and I still couldn't pass- i did...

4. Funniest thing a confused pt. has told you...

   alc4522 replied to GrnHonu99's topic in General Nursing

   just thought of another crazy one-- I worked in cardiac surgery and an old man was in and out of confusion all night... when the nurse checked on him he was sleeping- about an hour later, the cops called to make sure everything was okay- the patient...

5. Funniest thing a confused pt. has told you...

   alc4522 replied to GrnHonu99's topic in General Nursing

   These stories are absolutely hilarious! I worked in Cardiac surgery and we had a patient once with a long list of psych history... she had wigs she wore for her different moods and personalities- if she wore her braids- don't mess with her! She had ...

6. Thesis Survey!

   alc4522 replied to amb123456's topic in General Nursing

   good luck on your thesis!

7. Anyone taken 75 questions and only use kaplan and fail?

   alc4522 replied to alc4522's topic in NCLEX

   Thanks to everyone who responded! I found out this morning that I PASSED!!!!! I have no idea how it happened or what the state board was thinking and I have no idea how 75 questions can measure competency, but it did and thank God! I wish everyone lu...

8. Anyone taken 75 questions and only use kaplan and fail?

   alc4522 replied to alc4522's topic in NCLEX

   Thank you so much for the encouragement! I started really reviewing the kaplan at about jan 10, it was when i registered to take the exam.... and i actually without even realizing was doing about 200-300 questions a day! I would do qbanks with 5, 10,...

9. Anyone taken 75 questions and only use kaplan and fail?

   alc4522 posted a topic in NCLEX

   Hey- I took NCLEX on Monday and still waiting for results, but I feel awful!!! I have been crying for days, Im a mess! I took 75 questions and the whole time i was saying "please don't shut off at 75 cause that means I just failed this test cause I d...

10. i'm nervous

    alc4522 replied to babe35's topic in NCLEX

    Hey- I just took the NCLEX on Monday, so I have no results yet... I only did Kaplan review, I took the class, did the trainers and did 94% of the qbank. my scores were not good... 50-60's every once in a while I would get a 70-80. The computer shut o...

11. i'm nervous

    alc4522 replied to babe35's topic in NCLEX

    Hey- I just took the NCLEX on Monday and still don't knw my results, but I only did the Kaplan review. I did 94%of the qbank and all of the trainers and I took the class. The questions on the test were very very similar to the questions on Kaplan... ...