I graduated from UCO in 2005. WONDERFUL program, and I can tell you that now, after working for almost 2 yrs in Med-Surg. Compared to my fellow coworkers that graduated the same time I did from other...
ok...scenario.... a patient of yours comes to the floor after surgery with a pca pump. policy is that the pacu nurses hook it up prior to leaving recovery room then once to the floor, pacu nurse and...
Wow, this thread came at the perfect time!! I had the weirdest dreams last night! I dreamt I overslept and called into work at about 7:30 and asked to speak to our charge nurse. she wasn't there, so...
Hi! I'm a new graduate, have been on my med-surg floor since june. typically our ratios are 5-6 patients per nurse. On a great day, it's four, bad day 7. We get lots of abdominal surgeries, such as...
Hi! I am a new nurse working in Med-Surg. I had a patient today that had a picc in her arm...I noticed slight swelling when I did my morning assessment. Pt said it has been like that.She left the...
Hi! I'm a new grad and yes, we learned that demerol is pretty much being "phased out". HOWEVER, I just had a post op patient today on a Demerol PCA! Very interesting. I have had demerol IV before and...
Hi!!! I graduated May 6, took boards June 7 and have been actually practicing as a RN since June 9!! I started full time on the Med Surg unit of my hospital this week! What a wonderful feeling to know...
This same thing happened to my daughter a week ago. The bite on her leg got very swollen, red, hard, and hot. Looked like an infection. The back of her leg was swollen 2X normal. I took her to the Dr....
HI! Well my computer shut off at 75 and I did pass. Of course, I couldn't tell you at that time that I did or not. Very hard test. A classmate of mine also had 75 questions and failed! So you really...
Hi! Well I started looking for jobs a little before spring break of my senior year and actually applied during spring break. I had a job that week. The hospital said that their new grad positions fill...
Hi! I just took the NCLEX and passed with 75 questions. :) A lot of the questions were almost identical to Kaplan's review questions. Kaplan's tests, were, in my opinion, hard. You feel like you're...
Hey!! Sounds like you have prepared very well. I took the NCLEX on Thursday and I also took the Kaplan review course. I will have to say that the majority of my questions were very very similar to...
HI! I got my results this morning (Saturday) on Pearson's website!!! I passed too by the way!!!! :) Finally a RN!!! I took the NCLEX on Thursday at 9 am. When did you take yours? Good luck to