mb1949

mb1949

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  1. How I Passed The NCLEX-RN (one take)

    Thank you, thank you, I was just sitting here wondering where to start, did the ATI review, paid for by my school, but I need more, great tips, going online to buy all those books right now,...
  2. What do we new grads have to do to get a job!!! I have a paralegal degree and worked in a corporate law office and am thinking of going back, I can't wait around forever to find a job how sad is...
  3. To say I regret it is a little strong, but if I had known it was so hard to get a job I probably wouldn't have done it, I left a pretty good job for my last year of nursing school and now I am...
  4. last semester and burned out...

    Hang in there, I just graduated and felt that way the whole semester last semester, I couldn't wait to get out of there, didn't feel like studying, really did not look forward to clinical,...
  5. ATI exit assessment

    Good idea, right now we have a mandatory NCLEX review we are attending (ATI) she has broken down the questions and I feel I am getting some info from this, however, I will probably take the...
  6. I just graduated and took the ATI exit assessment RN predictor according to this test I have a 96% chance of passing NCLEX on first try, I know what my weaknessess are (I remember very little...
  7. Class of 2010!! let's hear you!

    Graduated last friday May 28,2010, passed the ATI exit predictor, doing the ATI review this week at school, its over, what a long
  8. I had a friend a few years back who flunked out of a cuny program and went on to become a nurse, he was honest about it, went to Mercy college and brought his gpa up, by taking chemistry,...
  9. Omg I think I just failed

    Oh lawdee, I just did this to myself and do it all the time, I concentrate on the ones I didn't know or weren't sure of, guess wha I spent the whole week=end last week-end in tears sure I failed...
  10. It's official, just got my final grades, I passed with B's my finals were killers, I am now officially a graduate nurse, now just one more step nclex-rn, boy I am excited and wouldn't you...
  11. Advice needed. I don't know how to fix this.

    I went through the same thing, you know what, it depended on the clinical instructor, I could be great if they just stood back and let me do my thing, but if they pushed at me or intimidated me...
  12. Is my school the only one that ends this late?

    We don't grasuate till the 28th too!!!! my final is this week, talk about
  13. May 2010 Graduates Check-in

    I have my last lecture tonight, then final on 5/21, graduation 5/28, and it is finally over, what a journey, so glad it is over, congratulations to all my co graduates!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE DID...
  14. Helpful Advice Needed!

    I see no problems with working full time during pre-reqs, I did it went to school nights and weekends, when I got in the clinical portion, I worked part-time and still due, graduate in 2 weeks,...
  15. I am scared as well two weeks to graduation and then finding a job, which in the NYC area is well daunting to say the least. I also am a little nervous about the responsibility, not having my CI...
  16. Any body had to redo nursing school?

    A satelite clinic, like the one I work in, is a free standing clinic that offers family health, primary care, OB=GYN, pediatrics, etc, it is a part of a major hospital here in NYC, I work...
  17. Any body had to redo nursing school?

    Try to stick it out, I returned to nursing school in my early 50's believe me it was hard, I had instructors just about tell me I was to old. I actually had one tell me I would never make it I...
  18. O.M.G. i hate clinicals!

    Peds is rough, you always have parents who don't want you to touch thier child, the nurses are rightly concerned about thier clients, all in all I didn't enjoy Peds clinical. I am in last...
  19. When ill equipped students affect your grade...

    I am suprised you are "allowed" to say no, in our clinicals the way it works is if you are competent in a procedure you are expected to show or help your clinic mates when asked by your Clinical...
  20. All Nursing Students 50 and older! I need your feedback.

    I am 58 years old and am graduating in May, with God's help and I mean that literally, my pre-regs and first 2 semesters were in walk in the park, alot of work but do able, however, these last...
  21. Professions before nursing

    Legal secretary and paralegal for 20+ years, yikes, now my last year of nursing
  22. Ahhh crap!

    This is why I never put the bed up, it is an automatic fail in my school, last semester a student left the bed up on the last day of clinical and failed, had to repeat the whole
  23. Instructor from hell fails me in clinical!

    My best advice is to suck it up, I have seen mean, petty little instructors on power trips do this to students before, including me, just retake the course and move on, your school sounds like...
  24. Rounding 3rd base, headed for home!

    congratulations, What a job you have done, you should be so proud, i have 6weeks to go, and of course the Nclex, how did you stay motivated at the tend, I am losing
  25. Does anyone else find nursing school... easy?

    Oh I too was lulled into complacency by the ease of the first semester, got all 90's on my test, felt like this was just common sense, I am now in my last semester and this is the first time I...