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student nurse 3, you'll go over a lot of A&P (both) in nursing classes as review. You'll go into more detail. It will be a recall for you and you'll be fine. for example, You'll learn how diuretic meds work in the kidneys in the loops, etc. I think you will be fine. It will be a review for you. Good luck and keep a positive attitude!

Dress professionally and comfortably. Ask about the average number of years tenure for nurses on that unit (nurse turnover) - it shows satisfaction, tenacity, and cohesiveness - some place that's worth tolerating. Be open, honest, and positive. Be able to say what your best abilities are and also what your weaknesses are. I had an interviewer ask me about a good nursing experience I had had. To describe it - like, "describe a time when you had a positive experience with a coworker." Clinicals are not very much to draw from, buts thats all I had. Was also asked about a bad experience ...describe a negative experience with a coworker (staff nurse, clinical instructor, whatever). I guess how you describe it gives a good picture of your attitude and ability to learn from situations. Hope that helps.

I'm still on orientation also - until the end of this month most likely. I had an enlightening experience about dealing with a certain doc. Doc told me to call a certain specialist doc to see my patient. On the phone I told the doc I would call. After I hung up I told my preceptor what the doc told me to do. She freaked out and immediately called the doc back and told him that nurses don't call in consults for docs and why was her orientee told to call in a consult for this doc. It was an eye opening experience for me. The hardest thing is not knowing what I am and am not supposed to be doing in terms of dealing with docs. Will come with time, I know.

You don't need medical experience. A lot of nurses that I went to school with worked as nursing techs to help put them through school and get some floor experience. I didn't have any medical experience and I am now an RN with a BSN since May (RN since Aug). I have been working for 2 months on a telemetry floor. The nursing techs teach me as much as the nurses do, and I do as much tech type work as I can squeeze in so I know what the techs work is like. It has more to do with how passionate you are about finishing school and achieving your goal, doing what it takes, being persistent, and persevering through the frustrations and setbacks, just like you will have to do as a nurse.

In addition to all the knowledge and critical thinking skills that you now have and need to use to pass the NCLEX, you also need to know the test taking strategies that will improve your chances of getting the answer right. Kaplan offers such a strategic system. One strategy, for priority questions, goes like this: out of the four answers to choose from, eliminate the answer that describes the patient who is the most stable. Then, out of those three answers to choose from, eliminate the answer that describes the patient who is the most stable. Then, out of the remaining two answers, use ABCs to decide which patient is the most critical. Your priority answer would be the patient who is the most critical. Hope that helps. Ruth p.s. The actual pass score for nclex is if your 50% correctly answered questions is above the national standard for safe nursing care provided by a registered or practicing nurse, whichever test you are taking. At least, I know that is how it works for RN, not sure about LPN/LVN.

Hugs (((Christvs). Sorry to hear about your stress and frustration. Try to keep the lines of communication open and encourage him to go to counseling with you. I think you will really have to have some strong, deep love for this man to see you through this. Hopefully he is not the kind of person who has always been taken care of as a young person and expects to be taken care of by you. Work through all of the issues that you have together - do you have the history of taking care of others - if so, that may be one of the things that drew you two together. A counselor will be able to help you both figure out what's going on and to set some goals for you both to reach (even though it sounds like you're working on your goals, huh?) :wink2: Marriage is about compromise and persistence, as well as devotion and sacrifice. The scales can stay unbalanced for a while but then it needs to weigh heavy on the other side (see-saw effect) in order for the union to remain healthy. Both of you need to be able to give, and take, when it is your turn. Too much giving and too much taking can kill a beautiful thing. All my best to you in resolving your frustrations and in your awesome endeavors careerwise. Ruth

INR is International Normalized Ratio, also pertaining to clotting tests.

For anatomy, what worked best for my fellow classmates and myself was studying as a group in the lab holding up the bones and quizzing each other. Then viewing slides of tissue types, etc there also. Writing down as much as I could over and over helped too. There are many good websites that let you quiz yourself on the parts also. Your instructor may have a list of some good websites.

Learning how to perservere under extraordinary conditions, not letting the negative words/actions of others knock you off course, and keeping a positive attitude regardless of what others around you are doing, are three of the most useful qualities a person can cultivate within themselves. I want to say about the "berated" incident, to just let it roll off of you like water off a duck's rectal area, but I know it hurts deeply. Some instructors don't know how to teach, especially when they are caught offguard, or they just don't know about patience and understanding yet. I think every road we choose is a hard road, with lots of potholes and boulders to experience and learn from. Keep going. Put your head down (so you don't get hit by any flying bullets or vicious words) and keep pushing forward. You will be thankful when you look back, that you kept going and pushing yourself forward. Stay strong. You can do it.

#1 does not say that the laceration is bleeding. Go with the facts.

check on their website - you can find out who you can email about the status of your application

Hopkins Bayview told me 23.10 recently for new grad BSN.

Learning to think in terms of "nursing themes" that we were learning in school - especially in Intro to Nursing Care - had a hard time morphing my established way of thinking to fit the correct exam answers. Pharmacology - review, review, review, write, write, write, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. Getting videotaped for skills lab to show our ability - "validation". Scary in the beginning. Skills lab using equipment/material no longer used in the "real world" - i.e. trach "ties" vs. whats in current use now in hospitals. And trach suctioning, which we learned by sterile procedure which is done in hospitals by in-line suctioning. Totally different.

I agree with the advice to learn to be resilient, now. From what you wrote, it sounds like most things have come easy to you. This is your chance to learn about temporary setback, tenacity, persistence, and fortitude, in the midst of sorrow, shock, and disbelief. These are qualities you want to develop in yourself to push you through the most difficult times you will face. Take a course like Kaplan if you can. Learn how to evaluate the questions that have answers that you don't know. Learn the test-taking strategies to work through the questions logically and systematically. You can do it.:pumpiron: Ruth