flemmac

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1. what do you all think about 12 hour shifts?

   flemmac replied to emmycRN's topic in General Nursing

   I definitely know it increased stress for me. Twelve hours of stress mentally and physically (turning 300-500 lb. pts. every 2 hours) isn't good for anyone. I don't care if you do have 4 days off. In the long run what do you think is going to happ...

2. what do you all think about 12 hour shifts?

   flemmac replied to emmycRN's topic in General Nursing

   I'm right there with you on working 8 hour shifts. People think that working 8 hour shifts every day are awful, but I just did 3 years in CCU of working 12 hour shifts and I felt like crap the other 4 days. It took me 3 of those days to get over th...

3. I need help with this survey please

   flemmac replied to flemmac's topic in General Students

   What state are you in Todd?

4. I need help with this survey please

   flemmac replied to flemmac's topic in General Students

   Thanks Stacey.. Before i sent this e-mail I had sent another one and people jumped all over me saying I was blessed to get an opportunity to take this test before I actually took the RN boards. Me and my classmates are not disputing that this is a g...

5. I need help with this survey please

   flemmac replied to flemmac's topic in General Students

   From what I'm understanding everyone that has answered said they have to do remediation, but are you actually held back or you can remediate on what you need to learn as you move forward.

6. I need help with this survey please

   flemmac replied to flemmac's topic in General Students

   Anyone out there at a State Institution and being held back?

7. I need help with this survey please

   flemmac replied to flemmac's topic in General Students

   We have to do the remediation and get held back 5 weeks and then re-test, and not promised a seat back into the program because they don't know about available spaces and this is only a semester before you're due to finish the ADN program. This was ...

8. I need help with this survey please

   flemmac replied to flemmac's topic in General Students

   Thanks PJ

9. I need help with this survey please

   flemmac replied to flemmac's topic in General Students

   HESI stands for Health Education Systems Inc.. Its a company that supplies an LPN Exit exam and RN exit exam and the exam I would be speaking of is the LPN exit exam.

10. I need help with this survey please

    flemmac replied to flemmac's topic in General Students

    Thanks

11. I need help with this survey please

    flemmac posted a topic in General Students

    I need help with a little survey. I'm just curious about something. For those of you that have heard of the HESI test please reply. Can you tell me if it is a requirement to take the HESI test and if you take it and fail or you held back for doing ...

12. ADN penalties.. please read & reply

    flemmac replied to flemmac's topic in General Students

    Thank you for talking with me. I'll keep you posted. How does that saying go, "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." Steve Bartkowski.. Football player I like this one too.. "A man may fall many times but he won't be a failu...

13. ADN penalties.. please read & reply

    flemmac replied to flemmac's topic in General Students

    We're being tested on the disease, characteristic, etiology, s/sx, treatments, teaching points, risks/complications, any lab values associated

14. ADN penalties.. please read & reply

    flemmac replied to flemmac's topic in General Students

    OH ITS POSSIBLE.. We're doing it and stressful beyond your wildest imagination! My mom said to me one day, "I'm much older, but even I have sense enough to know that you can't retain anything that fast." Like I said in an earlier e-mail, we take o...

15. ADN penalties.. please read & reply

    flemmac replied to flemmac's topic in General Students

    The pass/fail rate is okay for the Nclex but not for this Hesi test, figure that one out???? I've already completed a year.