island6irl1283

island6irl1283 specializes in Respiratory / Tele.

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1. "Nursing students with C's are still nurses".. ?

   island6irl1283 replied to whiteoleander5's topic in General Students

   Nursing school is definitely challenging but it prepares you for real nursing where you have to make your own nursing judgements based on your assessments, your own critical thinking using the data stored in your brain from nursing school. Even thoug...

2. well they closed down a floor of the hospital

   island6irl1283 replied to ohmeowzer RN's topic in General Nursing

   My hospital is the same way, I also think the census was low because of the holidays, and as far as the economy is concerned more people are unemployed meaning less people with insurance. I also had all my extra days for the month cancelled and my wo...

3. Anxiety before work?

   island6irl1283 replied to BeachyRNn08's topic in New Nurse

   Yes you are not alone, I'm a new nurse and I always have anxiety, just because I never knew what to expect each day, as a newbie nurse with no senority where I work I would be floated every day to a different unit, and I would say the patient loads a...

4. Recent NCLEX-RN test takers

   island6irl1283 replied to PennyNickelDime_RN's topic in NCLEX

   I recently took the NCLEX on Aug 18 and found out that I passed on Aug 20. My computer shut off at 76 questions. I also did Kaplan and used NCLEX CDs and the kaplan qbank. I think what helped me was doing questions, understanding rationales, and revi...