FutureRN20190

Hi everyone, I am looking for advise on how to study for this test. I just graduated last week from nursing school. I did good on my exit hesi (958). I had completed the hurst review before going in to the last semester of school. I am feeling really overwhelmed at this time, I do not know how to study, what to study, for how long. I don't know if reviewing my hurst notes will be enough. And also, I feel like if I sit there and try to read the whole saunders book would translate to info overload. Does anyone have any advise as to how I should study for this test. I plan on taking it early January. P.S I am also a lvn - I passed my nclex pn first try with 85 questions and all i used to study was the hurst review but I literally made flashcards on the entire saunder's book - and honestly, I rather not do that again for nclex rn. Thanks in advance.

Wow thank you both sooo much for taking time to provide such amazing tips!!! I really really appreciate your wisdom!!!

Hi, I am going into my last semester of nursing school and i still have not been able to figure out a way that i can handle full assessments, med pass (on time) and documentation of assessments by a certain time as required by my school on more than 2 patients.This last semester, we will be in charge of 3-4 pts and i am freaking out as i can barely handle 2. In what order do you all organize your mornings to accomplish these tasks on time for more than 2 patients? Do you all just do focused assessments initially, and then go back for the rest at anlater time? I always try to go a full assessment in the morning just so that i can monitor changes throughout the day, but this has not been working, i always seem to be running late and i cant pin point the reason. Any other tips/advise would be greatly appreciated as well.

Hi everyone, I am looking for any general tips and tricks to being able to safely care for more than 1 patient during clinicals. I would appreciate if you could share your routines/ time management tips that you use to care for multiple patients and still pass your meds on time. Currently, I am struggling with two patients in clinical. Not sure what I can do differently. I think part of my problem is that I do really comprehensive assessments to make sure I get all info I need, but i don't know how to make that part faster. Everything seems important. Usually I am talking with the patients and writing down abnormalities so I don't forget but this seems to take forever. By the time I am even done with one patient, is almost 8 am, and time for meds and i haven't even gotten to my second patient yet. Last week I got so overwhelmed I had a breakdown in clinical. I would prefer not to have to go through this again. Please help, I appreciate your responses in advance.

For me it was good, I pretty much read the book/powerpoints and spent a little extra time outside of class practicing skills and it went by super fast...it is totally doable if you put in the time and effort...

I did! and most of the people in my 1105 class did too. good luck!!

I screwed on the needle as you normally would, not any tighter than usual. Could this have been a factor?

Yes, could it be the consistency of the med.. Would a bigger needle help? If there is even a bigger blunt needle...

Hello all, I am fairly new in the field and i have encountered this problem twice already and wanted to get some input from all you wonderful nurses out there. My question is what would cause a medication from a single vial not want to draw up? I inject the amount of air equivalent to the amount of med i am drawing up using a blunt tip needle into these vials but when I go to draw it up the med nothing comes out, my syringe fills with a bunch of air and it's very frustrating. What am I doing wrong? Has anyone encountered this before?

I was in the same boat 2-3 years ago I was ready to apply and they kept on making changes everytime I was about to submit my app. So I got tired of it and decided to go for lvn first and see how it went... got through that program and now i am back to tackle this monster again hopefully with better luck this time.

I am a fairly new nurse (less than a year) I have been working in the clinic environment straight out of school. For anyone who has worked in a clinic before you know that it is required that the nurses intake the patients and get them ready to see the doctor all in 5-10 minutes. I have had a couple of instances where a patient will inform me one of their family members has passed away. My nurse instinct says comfort them, listen, be empathetic. However, I am not sure what is the best way to do that in a clinic environment where everything feels rushed. I do not want to be that robotic nurse, I want my patients to know and feel that I care for them. How do I do that while still getting my job done?

Can't go wrong with teal lol... Did you already get all your background check stuff done?? I heard that some people are being turned away because they did not have it..

I got my email too :) surprising I was not expecting it, my ranking score if I did the math right is not that great. I guess that does not mean I am accepted but still exciting! Yes first time applying too. wonder how skills class will go, 8 week courses are kind of scary to me.

Awesome, congratulations... is this your first time applying?

Yikes! I am anxiously refreshing my email every 2 minutes lol.. for some reason I thought that the petition emails were already sent out... good luck!! keep us updated when you get yours..