CarolineRn

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  1. preparing for the NCLEX

    CarolineRn replied to nerdynurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    If you can get Lippencott's review for the NCLEX, get it! Excellent book. Also, if you're a visual learner, you may want to get Nursing made insanely easy by SYlvia rayfield. It uses pictures,...

  2. NCLEX Score Review

    CarolineRn replied to mary761's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thanks Mary! Just found out this AM, I passed! IF you take the boards through Pearson learning center, you can check their website withiin 24 hrs of your test (In you sit on a Fri-- then no results...

  3. don't know if I can go on

    CarolineRn replied to amanda44's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Don't give up, Amanda you have put so much into this. Have you tried the Lippencott NCLEX review? IT's very comprehensive, and covers everything. ALso, I was recently given a copy of a book called...

  4. Failing the NCLEX at 77 Questions

    CarolineRn replied to CarolineRn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    CseMgr1, As soon as I finished the test I called my best friend and she said basically the same thing as you. I don't know HOW you withstood the two month-long wait. That's just torturous. But having...

  5. Failing the NCLEX at 77 Questions

    CarolineRn replied to CarolineRn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    WEC, Sue, Yvonne, Thanks so much for your support. You have no idea how much it helps right now. I'm trying so hard not to stress this whole thing, but I think some of it is payback-- sent from my...

  6. New Nurse Salary

    CarolineRn replied to murnahan5's topic in First Year After Licensure

    LOL! Annie, it's all in the way we perceive it, isn't it? See, for me I don't want to work the standard 8 hr shift with only 2 days off. I love 12's, and the option of having 4 days off. I love the...

  7. Failing the NCLEX at 77 Questions

    CarolineRn replied to CarolineRn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi Yvonne! Well, I can tell you this, the NCLEX test is like no other test I have ever taken. You'll understand exactly what I mean when you take yours. I was questioned about blood administration...

  8. NCLEX Score Review

    CarolineRn replied to mary761's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi Mary! I'm sitting here with sweaty palms as I type this, because I take the NCLEX TOMMORROW MORNING. I am soooo scared. I didn't think I would be THIS nervous. :uhoh21: Here's a heads up on...

  9. Best nursing shoes?

    CarolineRn posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi there! I'm wondering what kind of shoes nurses' consider "the best?" I've had several people tell me birkenstock makes a great line of nursing shoes, but man are they ever expensive! Some nurses I...

  10. Anyone know what the status of the "no more overtime for RNs" bill is?

    CarolineRn replied to AmyRN1227's topic in General Nursing

    Here is the link:

  11. New Nurse Salary

    CarolineRn replied to murnahan5's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've just got a question for everyone who has been making the big $$$ pulling overtime. With the passing of President Bush's plan to take away overtime pay, how long do you think it will be before...

  12. Gifts from Patients?

    CarolineRn replied to C'wing's topic in General Nursing

    As a second semester nursing student, I was assigned to a gentleman who kept telling me how many businesses he had owned, all the countries he had traveled to, etc.. he was a veru nice man, never...

  13. OT.. Did you all know that your PET can become diabetic?

    CarolineRn posted a topic in General Nursing

    This may seem silly to some, and for that I apologize. However, I don't know why this never occured to me before. I have a cat who is about 12 years old now, and for the majority of his life has been...

  14. Male nursing students/nurses

    CarolineRn replied to krebs.cycle's topic in General Nursing

    My 14 year old son tells me from watching this movie that he thinks its embarrasing to be a male nurse. I think that movie did a huge disservice to our male counterparts. When, when, when?? will men...

  15. OT.. Did you all know that your PET can become diabetic?

    CarolineRn replied to CarolineRn's topic in General Nursing

    All of these stories make me sad. I absolutely love animals, the elderly, children, and the mentally disabled. This compassion could have had something to do with me wanting to be a nurse, ya think?...

  16. Low Down on Nursing Education

    CarolineRn replied to ADNRN's topic in General Nursing

    Well, as a new nurse (ADN) at this point, I feel having honest compassion and concern for the sick is my number one priority. Learning everything I can, on the job from the people I am lucky enough to...

  17. I'm getting tired of taking people to the bathroom, pericare, & empowering cna's!!

    CarolineRn replied to ilovetheelderly's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Oh my, ilovetheelderly... You DO need a break, bless your overworked soul. You simply "can't" do everything, although I do understand the pressures (both internal and external) to do so. Vent away, my...

  18. Male nursing students/nurses

    CarolineRn replied to krebs.cycle's topic in General Nursing

    Dude. All I know is that if you go into surgery, or some other such place where you spend hours on end with a doc, you will gain respect. (as long as you are intelligent) Yet these same docs have...

  19. Low Down on Nursing Education

    CarolineRn replied to ADNRN's topic in General Nursing

    ADNRN, I hope you dont feel that we all think you're acting elitist. I dindt get that feeling from your posts at all. I think opinions like yours are to be valued, as they open the door to intelligent...

  20. flipped out

    CarolineRn replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe so, but at least your a sensible one! That's one thing I love about this board-- all kinds of survival tips from the pros! If I had been that head nurse, I would have been po'd at you, but I...

  21. ICU visiting hours

    CarolineRn replied to NeuroICURN's topic in General Nursing

    I work in the CVICU, and visiting hours are at the nurses discretion also. Most nurses allow family at anytime unless the PT has just come into the unit, has to have some kind of procedure in the unit...

  22. Low Down on Nursing Education

    CarolineRn replied to ADNRN's topic in General Nursing

    BRAVO!! BRAVO!!! Symbiotic.. THAT was the term I was looking for! I was going to make a lengthy reply, but read this post and found this had all been said.

  23. Why is the term client used instead of patient?

    CarolineRn replied to LauraLou's topic in General Nursing

    LOL!!!! I am so glad I am not the only one who thinks this way! I don't like the term client. I've resisted it so much that when I was in Nursing school, when my texts used the word "client," I...

  24. I really need help

    CarolineRn replied to catrn10's topic in General Nursing

    cat, please take the advice of these fine nurses and do what you know you MUST do. Now is not the time to concern yourself with prom dresses for your daughters, and if they aren't mature enough yet to...

  25. ? 4 those who went to RN school without previous experience

    CarolineRn replied to BrandiE's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I can't help you with the first question, since my family and friends were all very supportive of my decision to become a nurse. But I can tell you that when I started my nursing program, I had...