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I did speak with my manager asking if I had to float this week and next week, would it be possible to for me do a shadow float so I can get a feel of what kind of patients and what I'm expected to know, including time management. I'm not used to do getting admissions in the middle of night while taking care of other patients. Usually the admissions are done in the day. She said she would take it into consideration. I did voice my concern that I want to float but I'm nervous because I lack the experience/skills that those floors demand. She hasn't responded back. I did talk to the union about the floats not being rotated and their mentor director called me. They will be setting me up with a new mentor because my orginal one never reached out to me and I just forgot about it because I wasn't sure how a mentor would be able to help me. She suggested that I should follow the rapid response team to get a feel of what goes on in a rapid and how to respond to emergency situations in a way where you don't get in the way but still able to help. I said yes, please take me off my floor and send me with someone so I can learn. So we shall see if this really happens. If not, and I have to float, I just hope that the other nurses on the floors won't feel like I'm a burden or get mad when I'm asking a million questions. I did take the BLS class but I feel like it just told me how do CPR if I find my patient unresponsive/not breathingbut nothing about how to handle rapid responses/codes, especially when there is a room full of people. Like heart attacks/chest pains/ strokes, like what do in those situations or how to handle it if my patient is in the middle of stroking out or having a heart attack. My floor doesn't require for me to get my ACLS so they won't pay for it. Once I get to another floor though, I will have to be certified. I will ask my manager if she is willing to let work pay for my ACLS, maybe I will feel more comfortable in those kind of situations. I do watch a lot of YouTube videos on skills. My issue with starting ivs/blood draws is find the vein and going in at the right angle. When I do get a chance to do blood draws and starting ivs, which is rare, I miss the vein or blow it. Any advice on how to practice finding and getting the right angle when I have no patients to practice on?

A hospital came to my school last year basically hiring my entire class. Although I was on of the first people to interview, I was the last to hire. I accepted a position on medical rehab. I was excited just to be in the hospital. Unfortunately because of the overload of new grads, my manager did not give myself and other nurses the proper orientation. I was not put on days, go to GI or ER to learn how to place IVs and do blood draws, admissions, discharges, etc. I was put on night immediately. I learned how to admissions but they are few and far in between on nights in rehab. My orientation was fairly easy, which it shouldn't have been. Flash forward to a few months ago, I was told I have to be in charge when other senior nurses aren't around. I had to learn as I go basically or call my preceptor if I had questions. I got yelled for waiting till day shift came to ask questions about certain duties I had perform because I wasn't taught how to do charge during my orientation. Flash forward to now. I am somewhat "capable" of being charge but I do not like because I'm not familiar with rapids and emergency situations, I have only been in 3 rapids the entire time I've been there. I just stand there looking like a deer in head lights because I have no idea what to do. The most I can do is take the vitals and BS. But knock on wood, it hasn't happened on my shift as charge. All of a sudden our manager decided to have a "designated charge" which means the 2 most senior nurses are charge and no longer have to float. That being said, the patient to Staff is usually 3 nurses for 16 patients or more. Currently our census is 6 and so we do not call for 3 nurses. The issue I'm having, along with other new nurses is that we are now the only ones able to float to other units. We have little to no experience with fresh post ops, hanging iv meds other than antibiotics, no iv push, how to even put in an iv, etc, basic skills that a new nurse should have learned but we have not. I'm scared that my license is in jeopardy if I go to a floor and end up getting patients that I cannot care for because I was never trained properly. I floated once to another floor and I was blessed that all the nurses and charge were helpful and helped me and guided me in my charting and admissions. They showed me how to hang iv Tylenol and chart for ETOH withdrawl, which I have never done because by the time they reach rehab, they have been in the hospital for awhile. I'm not sure what to do. I asked my manager if we are rotating floats even though there is a DC and she said no, That I'm gojng have to float each shift because the other nurses haven't completed their 90 days. I want to float to get the experience because I want to learn. I am just horrified that I am going to screw something up because I am not properly trained and I will ask a million questions but I feel like that is not helpful to the other nurses who are busy with their patients. I just don't know what to do. Idk if I should bring it up my manager why if the other nurses are capable of being charge when the two senior nurses aren't there, why do you we need a DC? Do I just take the floats and pray that I don't screw up? I am stuck on my unit for another 4 months before I can bid off my floor. But I'm counting down the days.

I passed! My unofficial results came 49 hours after I took my test. PVT works!

how do you the check the bon for your name?

I took my test at 2pm today. It just off at 75. I had a bunch of sata and was not 100% sure on any of them. I had one math, and EKG and a one exhibit. I did the PVT like 15 times already and I still got the good pop up. So hopefully its accurate. I haven't heard of anyone getting a good pop up and still failed.

Our records indicate that you have recently scheduled this exam. Another registration cannot be made at this time. I took the exam this afternoon around 2pm. It shut off at 75. I had alot of sata, one math, an en ekg and an exbhit one. IDK how I feel. I never felt 100% sure on any of the SATA. D Hopefully I will get my quick results to see that I passed. Has anyone gotten this and still fail?

Someone asked about the elite review. I just hit reply thinking it would go under comment, but I guess not.

Yes that is the good pop up! Congrats! How was it? I"m nervous but kind of over it. Hopefully I will pass tomorrow.

How was it?

I just took, I don't think it is valid. There were many misspellings and when answering the med questions I got it right, but because I didn't put ml next to it, it was wrong. Even though the question was set up with ....ml so i assumed like Uworld you would have to just plug the number in. I got the 2nd math question wrong because I didn't put a space between the answer and the number. The answer was 200 mcg, I put 200mcg. Alot of the questions focused on the heart and what would the probes on certain EKG places indicate relating to the heart (anterior, internal, etc) I had no idea, there was also some anatomy questions on there too. IDK I failed it. You needed an 80 to pass but I got a 50.

YAS I feel you with the anxiety and stress. If both programs are telling you you'll pass, I feel like you will. You have to let us know how it was. How were the questions on Hurst compared to Uworld questions?

This is a dumb questions but can someone tell me the proper ppe for contact, droplet and airborne? I'm confused on who should get a gown.

I take my exam on Thursday. I am beyond nervous. I used Uworld ending with a 96% chance to pass on the predictor test which is only a 73% on it. I'm currently redoing the questions I got wrong and trying to remember the rationales for it, so my overall average right now is at 58.8% which puts my in the 78th percentile. I also did the questions from LaCharity but did not do the case studies. I also did around 500 questions from the NSNBC test bank. I also did around 100 questions from one of Saunders book and some questions from the NCLEX Mastery app, but I was doing the app during school so I didn't really use it to study. I also took this weird diagnostic test on nclexcracker.com and it said I had good chance of passing. It was only 10 questions mostly about advance directives but idk. I kind of wish I also looked at Kaplan because I saw that the questions are passing level. So now I'm worried and nervous. I just want it to be done.

Are Uworld questions, passing level questions?

How accurate is the predictor test on Uworld. I somehow managed to get into the 96% of passing the NCLEX. I take my exam on Thursday and I am super anxious and nervous.