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Asics GT, amazing shoes - made a huge difference for me!

"Stay out of drama" is the best advice I was ever given by a seasoned nurse!

Respectfully, I disagree - yes, maybe I wouldn't bring your academic success up during the actual interview but I would definitely leave it on the resume. You don't get good grades simply by being "book smart", it also means you are focused and not afraid of hard work.

LPN is not a nursing assistant. There are two types of nurses in Canada: LPNs (aka RPNs, licensed/registered practical nurses) it's a 2 year program, and RNs (Registered Nurses) with a BScN degree.

That's wonderful news - very happy for you!

I'm really sorry you have to go through this...good luck!

I would suggest emailing instead rather that calling and putting people on the spot. Thank them for the interview and inquire whether you're still considered for the position. I do, however, think you read too much into what they said, they were just answering your "what if" questions, not actually offering you the job.

I disagree...yes, the OP is responsible but so is whoever prepared the vancomycin and did not label the bag, that's an even bigger mistake, in my opinion. How was she/he supposed to check the medication if the bag did not have any identification/label on it and looked like a regular bag of fluids?

oh sorry, missed that part :)

Actually the minimum number of questions is 75, not 85 - sounds like you were getting higher level questions though, I'm sure you did well. I didn't do the pvt for the same exact reason, didn't want to risk getting charged. Good luck!

You know what I mean, yes technically we pay for it with our taxes - however, we definitely do not have the financial resources available to the US hospitals.

I also work in a major Canadian city, my unit is considered acute/RN only - we have one patient care assistant for our entire unit, so naturally most times you end up doing everything yourself. We live in a country that provides free healthcare, of course we are on a tight budget.

I almost passed out once when I was a student, watching a resident starting an epidural anesthesia...she was good and she got it, but it took a long time to find the right spot initially, and the idea of a gigantic needle going near someone's spine really irked me. I also got to watch a pretty intense and complicated c-section and one of the observers, also a nursing student, passed out. Not from the site but from the smell of cauterization. It is not uncommon, you just need to get used to it.

If it makes you feel any better, I cried pretty much non-stop from the moment my test shut down at 75 questions until I got my results, and I passed :) it is normal to feel nervous and unsure.

Thank you so much for your encouragement these last few days!

Oh my God, praise the Lord, I passed!!! I just got my results in the mail!

Saturday - I wish you all the best!

Please do, and thank you so much!

yeah, same here - dream job on the line, so I'm praying for a miracle! Results probably in 3-4 days

We don't have quick results where I'm from... I don't know, I know most people feel this way after the test, but I feel like I really bombed it. I'm one of those overachievers and this is a hard pill to swallow. I haven't been this upset in a long time.

hi, I decided not to do the pvt - the more I think about my answers though, the more I am convinced Ididnt make it. I'm absolutely devastated.

I just wanted to reach out to you because I am in the same boat... I studied like crazy and I've always been an excellent student, I had one of the highest gpa's in my class and graduated with honours. I was in the 97th percentile on uworld and I re-did the whole q-bank after I finished it. I did lacharity twice, hundreds and hundreds of questions on Saunders, read the damn book cover to cover..I feel like I let everyone down, and am extremely disappointed in myself, and I've been crying non-stop for the last 2 days. Feel free to pm me, you're not alone!

I'm trying, but it's really hard :) people keep telling me it's normal to feel this way. But I feel I got a bunch of questions wrong - it was one just one sata after the other, I wanted to scream at the computer. Thank you for your encouragement though, I really need this right now. I was a straight A student in nursing school, but I felt like the dumbest person on earth sitting there.

Thank you...the problem is that I have already accepted a job offer and it is going to be super embarrassing having to tell my employer that I failed, that's the part I am upset about the most. And it's my dream unit too.

My last questions sound like yours...also shut off at 75, but I'm not sure its because I completely bombed it ((( I studied every single day for 2 months, went through uworld twice, lacharity, saunders, but on the actual exam I wasn't sure in any of my answers. Most of the questions were sata, with quite a few delegation/prioritization towards the end. I don't know what to think, I'm absolutely devastated as the exam was not at all what I expected it to be.