JJL618 RN

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1. Your most bonehead moment in nursing. Or 2. Or 3.

   JJL618 replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

   This was what I did yesterday. Coworker needed a catheter placed in a women, so I told her I would be glad to do it for her. Everything went without a hitch until I went to pull on the cath to make sure the bulb inflated. The cath came straight out, ...

2. How are you/did you study for NCLEX

   JJL618 replied to JJL618's topic in NCLEX

   Ya'll. I passed! I cannot believe it. I had the worst feeling and literally woke up at 2 am shaking I was so nervous. Then I couldn't go back to sleep. God is good. Thank you for all the good vibes sent my way. I appreciate it!

3. Nclex was awful

   JJL618 replied to medsurgRNCali's topic in NCLEX

   I know it is adaptive and all that, but with the questions I got, I don't see how it determines if you will be a competent nurse. I mean I was asked stuff that I probably will never even think about again because it doesn't have anything to do with p...

4. Nclex was awful

   JJL618 replied to medsurgRNCali's topic in NCLEX

   I felt the questions were a lot different than I was used to. I didn't use Uworld, though. The majority of them were simple one maybe two sentence questions. Then the answers were elaborate and hard to narrow down to two by the way they were worded. ...

5. Nclex was awful

   JJL618 replied to medsurgRNCali's topic in NCLEX

   I took my Nclex today and I have to agree with everything you all have said. It was the hardest and weirdest exam I have ever taken. I got the first question right I know for a fact, but then it was downhill after that. It seems like I would spend se...

6. How are you/did you study for NCLEX

   JJL618 replied to JJL618's topic in NCLEX

   I just got done. I got 75 questions with 17 of those SATA; 2 drag and drop. It took me over 2 hours to do that amount. I felt I didn’t know anything they were asking. I don’t have a very good feeling and I just got done crying a little over it. But i...

7. How are you/did you study for NCLEX

   JJL618 replied to JJL618's topic in NCLEX

   I take it at 8 this morning. I slept like crap, which I usually do before a big test. Hoping and praying for a clear mind and less nerves as I am a little anxious right now. LOL.

8. How are you/did you study for NCLEX

   JJL618 replied to JJL618's topic in NCLEX

   Our school made us take two exit HESI's in our last semester. Both 165 questions. They were a total of 50% of our grade, so I know the pressure they induce. I used the green HESI book and did practice questions. Our school has made us do prepu and pa...

9. How are you/did you study for NCLEX

   JJL618 posted a topic in NCLEX

   I graduated on May 10, got my ATT last week and scheduled my exam for June 5. I was out of the country until this Monday and I started studying on Wednesday. I have been doing practice questions about 100-200 a day. I have a Saunders book, but I don'...

10. Better unit for new grad?

    JJL618 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I will be graduating in May. I have two job offers but I’m struggling to figure out which would be best for a new grad with no healthcare experience. Both are day shift offers. The first is on a general surgery floor with 41 beds. This will be lower ...

11. Best way to prepare for interview questions

    JJL618 replied to JJL618's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the tips. That sounds better than what I said ? The only other thing I remember her saying was the one BP was 70/40. But she was talking too fast like she just wanted to be done with the interview because she had two pages to get through o...

12. Best way to prepare for interview questions

    JJL618 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I’m about to graduate, so I’ve been applying for jobs. What is the best way to go about practicing or being prepared for interview questions? I don’t have much experience in interviews, and today I had a question in one that I didn’t know how to answ...

13. Calhoun Community College Fall 2017

    JJL618 replied to JROY1982's topic in School Programs

    It was towards the end of the week they told us. I want to say it was a Thursday. Good luck!

14. Having to teach yourself?

    JJL618 replied to JJL618's topic in General Students

    Thanks for the tips about IO. One problem was like half a page long. And it said at so and so hour you stop the continuous infusion because your giving an IVPB and it had 3 BM on there. We didn't know how many mL we were suppose to count for that, if...

15. Having to teach yourself?

    JJL618 replied to JJL618's topic in General Students

    The syllabus just has vague topics for instance it only states nutrition, elimination, mobility/immobility, etc. Then when we get to the topic they give us a concept map that lists the exemplar. So like the exemplar for elimination had bph, urinary ...