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So I work in the OR at a small surgery center. Although we aren't very big, we do 40+ surgeries a day and have a lot of foot traffic. During our surgeries, there is a camera attached to the microscope. The surgeries are then broadcasted live to ot...

I'd give it. They've probably had dirtier things in their mouth before.

I took my NCLEX yesterday, February 2nd, 2018 and received ALL 265 questions. I actually felt like I was doing pretty well in the first 75 with lots of priority/delegation questions so I was a little shocked when the exam kept going. Then it got to...

I work in the OR. One day anesthesia was putting a four-year-old child under, and he became combative and starting kicking and screaming. As I was holding him down, he stared deep into my soul and screamed "YOU ARE NOT INVITED TO MY BIRTHDAY PARTY!"...

As long as your "friend" has a prescription for whatever they test positive for, it will be fine. I tested positive for methamphetamines when I had to take my drug test. I had a prescription so it was no big deal.

I just graduated with an ADN in December and was hired at a Magnet facility, in an RN position, three months before I even graduated.

Lol, I did that all the time during clinicals. I'd just bring the documents to school with me the next day and put it in the shred bin. No big deal.

During exams at my school, we weren't even allowed to bring bags into the classroom.

From what I understand, if lab values are abnormal on NCLEX, they will be either very high or very low. You won't have to be guessing as to if it's abnormal or not as long as you know the general ranges. For what it's worth, I just took the NCLEX l...

I'm not sure exactly, but I started nursing school in January 2016 and our instructors told us to only expect generic names. They were right. I just took my NCLEX this past Friday, had 265 questions with many drug questions (no drug calc, though) a...

On a side note, your school should also be teaching you the generic names of the drugs instead of the brand names. NCLEX changed a while back and you'll no longer see brand names. So instead of Lasix, you'll see Furosemide.

My state doesn't use Breeze so I'm afraid I can't help you there.

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What did you use for resources while studying? I'm using strictly Kaplan and I get MAYBE 10% of the SATA questions correct. Did you think the NCLEX SATA were easier than your resources for studying? I'm taking the NCLEX February 2nd and, needless ...

I'm surprised your school gives people the option to not get a flu shot. My school required it or we were not allowed to go to clinicals.

Does anyone have any good NCLEX cheat sheets to look over while studying? I've got a good one with lab values and a couple other things, but was curious to know if anyone that has taken the exam already used anything that they felt was a big help wh...

Your description of your clinicals is exactly what I experienced all throughout nursing school. I just graduated this month and my clinicals were always the same. I had MAYBE 5% RN specific duties and 95% CNA tasks. I thought it would get better a...

If your chief complaint about a bridge program is that you will not be respected enough, then you're better off in that warehouse job you spoke of.

I heard the same crap all throughout nursing school. I can't even count the times I heard "You will start off on a med-surg floor to gain some confidence before moving onto something else." If that was true, I would have dropped out of nursing scho...

I'm probably going to be in the minority here, but this seems like a case where honesty is not the best policy. You said the school is working with the publisher to find out who bought test banks from a website. Common sense tells me there is absol...

When you say a 76%, does that mean you have to score a 76% on the actual test, or you have to score well enough to where Kaplan says you have a 76% chance of passing the NCLEX? At my school, we had to score a 60% on the Kaplan Predictor, which trans...

I have a total of seven nursing ebooks downloaded onto my iPad and it takes up less than 3GB.

Agreed, 100%. The ONLY issue I've had in nursing school was during my OB rotation. Even then, I only had one patient politely tell me they preferred a female nursing student. I've had the occasional "So you're going to be a male nurse?", which I k...

I'm in my last semester of nursing school and all I heard about the first three semesters, from students and instructors, is that if I don't get a tech job first I'll have a hard time finding a nursing job. Well, I'm about seven weeks away from grad...

Just so I understand this correctly, you think you should drop out of your final year of nursing school because you forgot to turn on a bed alarm? Something tells me you're looking for us to tell you everything will be okay, that it happens to every...