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I have always wanted to be a L & D nurse but I am scared of the highly litigious environment in L & D these days. I hear of MD's just quitting because insurance is soo high and one of my friends works at a hospital where they lost their two ...

The test is computer adaptive. There can be anywhere from 75 questions up to 200+.(can't remember the exact amount) There is no set # of right or wrong questions. You start with with mid level questions, if you get that right they get harder, wron...

The test is the same for everyone everywhere and is run by a national testing company. Just curious, did your cousin go to Holyoke Community College? Lori

There was a big note on the pyxis the other day that there is a shortage of the prefilled PCA syringes of Dilaudid. We are in CT.

I just graduated in June and I know the reason they kept us in the dark was because they were scrambling to find us all a place and an instructor. One of the local hospitals funded 8 extra slots in the program, but they had a hard time finding facul...

I had to take them during orientation as well. There were a few tricky ones in there. One of the IV's was a cracked bottle, which it was hard to see. The biggest thing is get as close to the TV as you can because some of the things are hard to pic...

Hello, I am a new RN (June03) working in Hartford Hospital. So far so good, I just got off orientation this week. Lori

I work in Hartford Hospital and it is a great place to work so far!! New grad June 03, just off orientation!) Lori

We had to take the worst test I ever had as part of orientation. It was called PBDS. They showed us videos with patients having various problems. They give you some basic data (labs,vitals,etc) then you would have to figure out what was going on w...

We were told basically the same things as you were, with the addition of "NO NIPPLES" I almost choked!! I found out after they have had problems with tight shirts and no bras in the past. Add that to cold air conditioned classrooms, well you know w...

It was really hard, but I made it! I want to have a fire and burn my study books!! Good luck to those who still have to take it. Lori

Thank you again to everyone and good luck to all who are scheduled to take it!! Lori

WAY TO GO!!!!

Soon2bnp, They must like the dying ritual thing because I got one about Jewish Orthodox dying issues and the one thing I could remember was not one of the answers!! Lori

Thank you everyone!! Good luck to you on your upcoming test lovelylpn. Kimmicoo, isn't the wait horrible. Especially since the questions were soo hard and unlike anything that was in my reveiw books!! I am sure you did fine. Lori

Wow, I just found this thread, but I saw a Dr do this in my OB clinicals. My instructor was appalled. She did it to a young (16)single girl who was alone. It almost she was teaching her a lesson. i found out after that this dr does this alot beca...

Glow worm, I just took mine on Monday and I felt the same way. The questions were so "different" than all the test prep stuff out there that I was floored!! I shut off at 75 as well and I feel like I failed. I am hoping the results will be up soon...

I just took the NCLEX today and I have to agree with fourbirds about the questions being different. I got very little actual disease type questions. I only got 1 delegation. I got ALOTof psych (yuck!!) 3-4 OB, 2 pharm, 3 nutrition, 3-4 assessment ...

I too e-mailed them. I suggested they try coming and working with a nurse on a busy medical-surgical floor and see who does the work of caring for and curing pts. I also mentioned that the majority of education provided to pts is provided by the nu...

We had this problem in our program with one particular student. They could never 100% prove it and she threatened to sue when confronted. We were all really pissed off about it. We got the last laugh when arnett came in and she was up to about 150...

I live in Ct and just started working in hartford. I heard that they are paying even more down near New York. Lori

As a new grad working fulltime nights (3-12's) I will be grossing a little over 56,000 without overtime. Add one overtime shift a month and it's 61,000. I think that is pretty good just out of school. Lori

I work as a float PCT and have been on the Ortho unit in my hospital several times. I know learning the nursing part is important, but if you don't have a lot of aide experience, I would suggest learn great body mechanics and use them!!! Ortho is a...

Hi I live in Ct and I knew about Bridgeport, where are the other two programs? Lori

We just had Arnett at our school and did the a practice version of the NLCEX. I was wondering if anyone alse had them come to their school? I got a 0.83, I was really happy to be so far above passing, but does anyone know how close to the real thing...