March 2008 NCLEX support group

Nursing Students NCLEX

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A thread for all those in March who are planning to take the NCLEX offering both support and any hints or tips that help

Good luck to all :D

it really doesnt matter weather you took a review class or not. just focus your study and know as much content as possible.

there are thousands of wiered questions but knowing more content in one way or another u will be able to navigate your way through them.

i took the borad this past wednesday with no review class and passed.

good luck and stay positive.

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Specializes in PACU.

I passed with 75 questions on 2/1!!!!! You guys can do it! I will still be around:) Thank you all for the encouragement and support!

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Specializes in OB/GYN/OR.

:ancong!: way to go!!!!RN!!...

I passed with 75 questions on 2/1!!!!! You guys can do it! I will still be around:) Thank you all for the encouragement and support!
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Specializes in Psychiatric Nursing.
I passed with 75 questions on 2/1!!!!! You guys can do it! I will still be around:) Thank you all for the encouragement and support!

Congratulations Miss JKm!!! Good luck with your nursing career:)

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Specializes in OB/GYN/OR.

Hi

I was doing drug s/effects and got this mnemonic for neuroleptic malignant syndrome seen in people taking antipsychotics and sometimes l-dopa....

Mnemonic

A mnemonic used to remember the features of NMS is FEVER.[4]

Treatment -Dantrolene/symptomatic

Another s/e=Malignant hypertthermia

seen with anesthetics like halothane, and more commonly with muscle relaxants succinylcholine...

Familial tendency....

s/s=very high fever(hyperpyrexia),muscular rigidity, met acidosis can lead to rhabydomylosis

treatment is Dantrolene..

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Specializes in My first yr. as a LVN!.

Have any of you found a link that talks about religious/cultural nursing points? Such as a Jewish pt. or Islamic pt.? I have been looking and havent seen anything quite yet ... I have only 3 days and I dont knwo what it is, I feel like everytime I do questions, I cant remember? I am overloaded. I am only scoring 53% on my Kaplan Qbank? I printed out meds. one more time to study along w Erikson stages and also some mental health defense mechanisms such as compensation, regression, displacement... I just dont know? I feel I know this but when I look at ques. I draw blanks? I have a feeling Im going to fail ..

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I passed with 75 questions on 2/1!!!!! You guys can do it! I will still be around:) Thank you all for the encouragement and support!

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:balloons::balloons::balloons::up::up::up::w00t::w00t::w00t:

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Specializes in Psychiatric Nursing.

Musculoskeletal System

posted by Bambury https://allnurses.com/forums/f197/i-need-help-musculoskeletal-system-123545.html

There are three types, but only the 3 point gait is the non-weight bearing, while the others - the two point and four point - are partial weight bearing.

Three point gait

This is the R2-D2 Robot of Star Wars walk. You advance with the crutches, then the good leg follows.

So it's: crutch, good leg, crutch, good leg, crutch, good leg.

This is, all the while, your bad leg is off the ground.

Both the four point and the two points are similar. So that makes it easy.

Two point:

Pretty easy. Just walk as you would, with your extremeties in opposition. So everytime you advance with your right leg, your left arm advances in parallel. Then, as you advance with your left leg, your right arm swings in parallel. That's easy. Now, imagine you have crutches on each arm, as extra appendages, and basically you follow the same pattern of oppotional movement between the extremeties.

So it goes parallel like this:

Right leg with Left Arm AND Left Crutch then,

Left leg with Right Arm AND Right Crutch.

Try walking, and then imagine having crutches under the arms, and walking normally with them. That's it.

Four point is just like 2 point except, instead of thinking of as "one-two, one-two, one-two), you have 1-4 steps to think about. Again, it's oppositional extremeties, they just don't advance together though.

Here goes:

Right crutch (split pause)

Left foot (split pause)

Left crutch (split pause)

Right leg.

It's oppositional movement, but just not at simulteneous.

By the way, when you have to manage the stairs, it's always "up with the good (foot) and down with the bad (foot). That's the order.

Cane:

Cane on the good/strong side. When you advance, cane and the weak leg move parallel and simulteneously together, followed by the good leg.

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Specializes in OB/GYN/OR.

Hi Heartjulz

First and foremost.... relax... you have worked and studied... not everybody gets the same kind of questions... the only book I have seen has the religious and cultural aspects is Saunders ..check chapter 6... and the day before .. try to just divert yourself...one relaxation technique that works for me is I just close my eyes..take a deep breath and then from the top of my head ..i start to relax the muscles like i think that my forehead is relaxed then my eyes then my chin then my shoulders... I know sounds weird but it works for me...also If I am getting overwhelmed I open the word of God and read a psalm... and just trust the lord...thats what works for me..I will be praying for you!...we can do this...:up:

Have any of you found a link that talks about religious/cultural nursing points? Such as a Jewish pt. or Islamic pt.? I have been looking and havent seen anything quite yet ... I have only 3 days and I dont knwo what it is, I feel like everytime I do questions, I cant remember? I am overloaded. I am only scoring 53% on my Kaplan Qbank? I printed out meds. one more time to study along w Erikson stages and also some mental health defense mechanisms such as compensation, regression, displacement... I just dont know? I feel I know this but when I look at ques. I draw blanks? I have a feeling Im going to fail ..
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Specializes in My first yr. as a LVN!.

Heres an awesome website that has anditdote meds, lots of insulin info. along with the onset, peak and durations... thought Id pass it along while Im still sitting here studying! I had a ques. on my Kaplan Qbank about an antidote to..? forgot already and it was theophylline (mis sp?) and I have never even heard of it...not theo itself but having an antidote to the first but cant remember now what the heck it was... maybe Synthroid? heck I cant remenber... how in the world are we suppose to know all antidotes? or maybe just main ones like Lith., Theo., Vit K and so forth? ugh...

http://learn.sdstate.edu/nursing/Medication.html

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Specializes in OB/GYN/OR.

AWESOME SITE!!

Heres an awesome website that has anditdote meds, lots of insulin info. along with the onset, peak and durations... thought Id pass it along while Im still sitting here studying! I had a ques. on my Kaplan Qbank about an antidote to..? forgot already and it was theophylline (mis sp?) and I have never even heard of it...not theo itself but having an antidote to the first but cant remember now what the heck it was... maybe Synthroid? heck I cant remenber... how in the world are we suppose to know all antidotes? or maybe just main ones like Lith., Theo., Vit K and so forth? ugh...

http://learn.sdstate.edu/nursing/Medication.html

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