3gheel

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1. Dia knowledge of the patho helped you to pass the NCLEX?

   3gheel replied to beachbutterfly's topic in NCLEX

   Our school used Judy Miller videos from time to time and I loved them. She has a way of explaining the patho so that the s/s of a disease process make total sense. I used a lot of what I learned from her videos as background knowledge while studyin...

2. windows vista on kaplan

   3gheel replied to aleena23's topic in NCLEX

   I used Kaplan on a home PC with Vista. Worked fine and I'm no computer wiz, or anything.

3. Which reason is it that people say meds on the NCLEX are foreign to them?

   3gheel replied to kgh31386's topic in NCLEX

   I also had heard that there would be drugs I had never heard of, but I actually had heard of most everything I encountered on NCLEX. Maybe even knew what the drug did for the most part. I really believe I saw both names of the drug on the test. I ...

4. How long for boards?

   3gheel replied to SoClose!'s topic in New Nurse

   I think I took about an hour and a half or so from going into the building to going back to my car. I test quickly, but I made myself slow down. I took the tutorial because I was nervous and needed to settle down. Then I reread all questions/answe...

5. New Grads- What floor where you hired for?

   3gheel replied to ibme's topic in New Nurse

   I was hired on a telemetry floor at a large teaching hospital. I'm looking forward to starting in August, but I'm also a bit nervous/excited. I don't have an actual shift yet - it was just listed as "rotating" and it will be worked out as I get int...

6. Do you know your 'stuff'?!!!

   3gheel replied to sunkissed75's topic in General Students

   I don't have cable or satellite at my home, but my father has it at his house. I stayed up until 2 AM the last time I was over there watching medical shows! I could not stop watching because it made me think of things I had learned. I would be a t...

7. Silly question--what to wear for class

   3gheel replied to knittingmonster's topic in General Students

   At my school, we may have all tried a bit harder the first few days, during orientation and all. But in the end, we were mainly in sweats or worse for most lecture and lab classes (unless for some reason our uniform scrubs were required). I felt li...

8. Correlation Between High GPA & NCLEX Pass Rate/Nursing Care?

   3gheel replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Students

   In general, those with good grades in my nursing school also tended to do well on NCLEX. I'm sure there were exceptions, but most with higher GPAs tended to pass. Most of those people also came into the program with high GPAs. In the end, though,...

9. which is the best NCLEX-RN book to study with during the nursing program.

   3gheel replied to kgorndt's topic in General Students

   During school it's hard to beat Saunders. In fact, before my second year med surg tests I would sometimes do all of the online questions for whatever specialty we were studying. Helped me very much on exams to do that. La Charity is also very goo...

10. why they say the REAL NCLEX is not what they expected

    3gheel replied to bodz01's topic in NCLEX

    I believe the drugs were listed with trade and generic names anytime a drug was used in a question. Questions and answers seemed much more straightforward on NCLEX than on Kaplan - more like you either knew it or not. I had heard of all the drugs o...

11. KAPLAN SCORES!!

    3gheel replied to ~Grad-2009~'s topic in NCLEX

    I agree that Kaplan, while very helpful, is also just a bit harder than the actual NCLEX. The Kaplan questions are more complex, while NCLEX seemed to me to have thoughtful, but more straightforward questions. I think if you are in that "60 or abov...

12. Any employees of High Point Regional??

    3gheel replied to QueensNurseNY's topic in North Carolina

    I was recently at HPR in a student nurse capacity and found the employees to be happy working there. In general, the nurses I spoke with had only good things to say about their jobs at HPR. Their new nurse orientation program seems thorough and it ...

13. Going to RN program at age 40--crazy?

    3gheel replied to Teapot12345's topic in General Nursing

    I'm 42 and will be 43 when I graduate. I was in my late 30's when I thought about nursing school and began taking classes necessary for admission. My feeling was that I had another 25 to 30 years that I wanted to work and I wanted a job that was mo...