changeoflife

well, thursday is "d-day" for me. bright and early thursday a.m. i head into the exam room. i'm totally scared! i've been practicing nclex questions for the past two months. i started with saunders, and did pretty good. then i did the drexel u questions and did okay. now i'm doing kaplan, and it seems alot tougher. plus, i'm finding that some of the questions from these sites contradict each other! so that makes it frustrating to get a question wrong, when on another site it would have been correct. i don't know if i'm in "system overload" or what....but it seems like my brain is mush and i'm not sure of myself anymore. it's scary that i'm at this point two days before the exam. it's just sad that my whole nursing career is pinned on doing well on 75-265 questions....and then afterward, i'll never have to take an exam again! and it really comes down to the luck of the draw when you sit down at that computer screen! oh well...i'll ask for you thoughts and prayers, and i'll check back in to let you know how it went. i've enjoyed reading the posts on this site. it's given me some really good tips to focus upon. i hope it helps! changeoflife

Hello everyone! I'd appreciate your help. When I was on clinical rotation at a nursing home, the nurse told me about an alternative treatment for C. difficile that involved inserting a fecal sample from a spouse or relative into the infected person's GI tract (via NG tube or fecal enema). She said that they see a 10-15% success rate. I know this sounds gross, but even a small success rate beats utilizing the gammet of antibiotics. I'd like to write my course paper on this alternative method, but can't really find much in the nursing magazines. The background data has to be from peer journals or other current hospital research within the US. Anyone know anything about this, or where I can look? THanks! changeoflife

Hello everyone! I'd appreciate your help. When I was on clinical rotation at a nursing home, the nurse told me about an alternative treatment for C. difficile that involved inserting a fecal sample from a spouse or relative into the infected person's GI tract (via NG tube or fecal enema). She said that they see a 10-15% success rate. I know this sounds gross, but even a small success rate beats utilizing the gammet of antibiotics. I'd like to write my course paper on this alternative method, but can't really find much in the nursing magazines. The background data has to be from peer journals or other current hospital research within the US. Anyone know anything about this, or where I can look? THanks! changeoflife