DarcyInSATX

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1. Unresponsive patients--avoiding working with them

   DarcyInSATX posted a topic in Home Health

   I noticed that in home health care, HHC, where I work, most of the patients I've been trained on are unable to communicate except in grunts when they are uncomfortable. I also worked Sat Sun Mon and often missed church. I could live with this better ...

2. Incontinent ON PURPOSE

   DarcyInSATX replied to curlyfry17's topic in Wound

   I was looking for something else about incontinence and found this thread, and it reminded me of something. "Adult babies roleplaying as a baby or small child for erotic stimulation is considered the signature expression of paraphilic infantilism. Th...

3. being tested at a home care agency interview?

   DarcyInSATX replied to jennylane1965's topic in LPN/LVN

   I already knew that agency didn't hire novice nurses. The only way I got looked at by that agency was because I knew someone there who could pull my application out of Online Application Hell and get it into Online Application Purgatory. Doesn't any ...

4. being tested at a home care agency interview?

   DarcyInSATX replied to jennylane1965's topic in LPN/LVN

   Why do we need another test after we passed The Big One?? I graduated and passed LVN licensing exam in 2017. Still looking for a job in April 2018. One home healthcare agency had me sign a lot of paperwork and then emailed me a link to an online test...

5. Pre-employment exam, ClassMark

   DarcyInSATX posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm trying to get my first LVN job at an agency that does children's home health care. I have to take a ClassMark exam at home before an interview in a few days. Instructions say 100 questions, no time limit, but must be finished in one sitting....

6. Pearson Vue Trick NCLEX RN 2017 265 Questions Wisconsin

   DarcyInSATX replied to lischka11's topic in NCLEX

   That is the "good pop-up," meaning that in theory, you passed, so you should not be billed for taking that test again. A previous poster misunderstood something. When you "do the PVT" and enter your school info and credit card details, you can type ...

7. Pearson Vue Trick NCLEX RN 2017 265 Questions Wisconsin

   DarcyInSATX replied to lischka11's topic in NCLEX

   Clerk at testing center only knew about the Quick Results, and that wasn't available until nearly 48 hours later. Used the PearsonVue trick same evening, and it said I had already scheduled the exam and another could not be scheduled at that time--th...

8. NCLEX-PN 2017

   DarcyInSATX replied to NurseBri92's topic in NCLEX

   Computer shut off at 85 questions and 25 SATA. I kept track of Select All That Apply on the laminated sheet they let you use. The PearsonVue trick said I had already scheduled the exam and another could not be scheduled at that time--the good pop-up....

9. Pearson Vue Trick NCLEX RN 2017 265 Questions Wisconsin

   DarcyInSATX replied to lischka11's topic in NCLEX

   Took NCLEX-PN today, 85 questions, 25 SATAs. Got the "good" pop-up. Really?! I was prepared to stay for hours with snacks and chocolate-covered coffee beans and L-theanine. Hard to believe I could pass those questions in only 85 questions! (Never go...

10. NCLEX-PN 2017

    DarcyInSATX replied to NurseBri92's topic in NCLEX

    Has anyone tried using caffeine for energy or something for relaxing during the exam? We are allowed some breaks, I'm not sure when, but I am planning to have to go through all 200-some questions in four hours. There are lockers in the waiting room a...

11. NCLEX-PN 2017

    DarcyInSATX replied to NurseBri92's topic in NCLEX

    I'm testing tomorrow, Monday, at 1 pm. Nervous, yes. I have also stopped telling people that my exam is tomorrow. I, too, bought the NCSBN review, have not used it much. Also paid to extend my PrepU because the one-year subscription expired and I can...