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i did take my test in cali on the 12th and i found out on the 18th that i passed. so did you look? let me know if you passed!!!

Well after 6 long days of waiting, I got my results this morning and I passed! It seems as though all my praying has paid off! Good luck to everyone still waiting!! And thank you guys for all the support and encouragement!

Nothing today, but I am not sure why I was expecting to see my name there today because the CA BRN was closed the 12th and the 16th so today would only be the second business day after my test and they may be behind due to the closures for the holiday. So I am guess that at best I would see something tomorrow or Thursday, I think Friday is out because now our BRN is closed the 1st and 3rd Friday of the month. SIIGGHH!! I am enough of a stress case as it is so it is starting to get really hard for me to stay calm and positive, I am doing my best though. :scrm:I will keep updating! Good luck to everyone awaiting results and those waiting to test!

I checked..but nothing there yet. The last update was from yesterday, so I am guessing that we may find out tomorrow if we are lucky. Good luck to you!

Still waiting. I am in CA and we do no have quick results. So hopefully if I passed I will find out Wednesday or Thursday. The waiting is torture!!

Ok so now that this whole thing is starting to sink in. I am starting to feel less than hopeful that I made it, I told myself I wouldn't do this. But the more I think about it the more likely I feel like I failed..I know everyone says that. And I am hoping that this is just a normal reaction to the whole process...It is going to be a LONG weekend!!!! :hngon:

Well...3 hours and 75 questions later (yes it really took me 3 hours to do 75 questions) I am done. How do I feel you may be wondering...I don't know how I feel. I don't feel bad about it, but I don't feel great about it either. There were things there that I knew and there were things that I took a shot in the dark at..but that is kind of what I had expected. I think I got like 15 SATA's...which some say it's a good thing to be getting them because it means you are answering higher level questions. I don't know...I just don't know. I have decided to try to stay positive and find things to pass my time so that I am not sitting and stewing on whether or not I passed (don't get me wrong I it will still be on my mind, I just don't want to let thinking about it consume me). So now the hardest part begins...waiting to see the verdict. Have my fingers crossed that it worked out, and if not I now know where I went wrong.

Wow thanks for the good info. Some of was stuff that I hadn't really thought, hopefully it will help me out!

Wow that is only 4 days!! EEkkk! It really snuck up on me and I am starting to worry that I didn't study as much as I could have. I have done in the area of 3,500 review questions, and my scores have been all over the place. I have to admit that I don't take doing questions when I am studying as seriously as I do when I am actually testing...that fact right there leads me to worry a bit. I did make sure that I took the time to read and understand all the rationales, as well as reading over any content area that came up that I just didn't feel very comfortable with. I did really well in school, I finished with one of the top GPA's. And I did really well on my ATI predictor. One would think that this would really be a confidence booster, but it made me feel like I couldn't take the need for studying for granted. This is the MOST stressed out I can ever remember feeling, I am seriously starting to make myself sick over taking this test. I thought about rescheduling, but changed my mind as it would only be prolonging the inevitable. Now I am having insomnia, GI distress, crying spells, and just a general feeling of anxiety. I am already working as a GN, and so far I LOVE my job it couldn't be more perfect for me and I don't want to lose that. I guess that only adds to my stress. To make matters even more stressful, I have to go to new grad class the day before my exam and have to work the day after (I guess that may help keep my mind off of the situation). Everyone that knows me keeps telling me I will be fine, one of my instructors from my last semester of school even told me she has no doubt that I will be one of the ones that is done with 75 Q's. But I can't help but worrying, what if I don't make it. I guess I tend to worry too much about the possibility of failure. I wish there were some magic way of just knowing when you are ready to take the NCLEX, but since there isn't I am just going to suck it up and get it done. All that said, please any words of wisdom to help me get over my freak out would be more than welcomed. Also, please send positive vibes my way and send out a prayer or 2 or 3 on my behalf (Lord knows I have been praying everyday). One last thing Good luck and best wishes to everyone else testing soon...my thoughts and prayers are with you!!!:plsebeg:

Thank you so much for your post! I test on Feburary 12th and so far everyday that passes just makes me feel less prepared and more anxious. I have thought about rescheduling my test but that will really get me no where, except for more anxious and more stressed out! Reading your story made my anxiety ease up (at least a little). I guess I just thought that one day I would just wake up and say "Hey, I am so ready to take the NCLEX"...LOL yeah don't think that is going to ever happen. So I guess I will just keep on doing what I am doing and hope for the best! Congrats on passing NCLEX!!! And good luck to everyone else waiting to test!!!!

So I couldn't help but throw my in. I have noticed that the majority of male nurses I have had the pleasure of working with have been very caring, compassionate, and intelligent. They are so easy to work with, non of the cattiness that you can tend to get from female nurses. I think that confident, intelligent and hard working male nurses are very attractive (even without taking into consideration looks...but I personally find intelligent men attractive). Any woman that thinks a male nurse is not manly obviously has no idea the types of things a nurse does on the job.

Well I think the title of the post was HILARIOUS as well...I took no offense, and I have given birth twice, and I must admit that when I was in labor I would not have cared if CNN were in there filming every minute of the expansion of my lady parts...I just wanted that kid out and the pain to be over. And I was actually thinking that they title is very fitting...the kid was in the uterus, came out of the lady parts and is now in the world. So you have literally followed the child out of the lady parts and will now focus on what is going on with the child as an individual pt. Good luck to you (PS I too was not a fan of O.B.; but more power to you guys who do it you are truly great!!)

Lesson 1: Never, never assume it is just a fart when diapering a pt. you are most likely to be surprised to find out that it was really massive amounts of diarrhea. Lesson 2: Always make sure the IV tubing is hooked to the patient before starting the IV pump...if not it makes a nice puddle. Lesson 3: Never underestimate the strength of a little old lady when she really doesn't want that NG tube shoved up her nose, she will pull it right back out. Those are just the ones that really stick out in my mind.

We don't have on in our program. However, I did do Advanced Med/Surg rotation this semester on an oncology floor. It really isn't that bad, but it is very sad at times and you do see some very young people who are very sick.

First I must admit that I think most of us have experienced less than pleasant nursing staff. But it is just a taste of what the real world has in store for us. Nurses can be snippy with each other and they can be extra snippy with students. The things that really sucks for us is that we have to bite our tounge and smile through the crap that they give us. My best suggestion to you is for your next clinical day you should approach the appropriate person and let them know these are the things I can do, HOWEVER, my instructor requires that I ask you before I do these things. They may feel less like you are incompetent, if you let them know up front that it is not you being stupid it is that your instructor has set certain standards for you and you must follow them. Another was around this would be (which may not be following the rules exactly so use your judgement) to ask for help or permission the first time you do something for the nurse, then ask if the next time this situation happens if the nurse would mind you just going ahead and doing it yourself. Just hand in there, it gets better as you advance in clinicals. Make the best of your situation and do all that you can. Good luck to you and just know that you are not alone.

Just don't quit whatever you do!!! You are in this to better yourself, to do something you want to do, and the only person that is going to help you achieve your goals is you. So like the others have said lay low, stick to yourself and be the loaner. Afterall these classmates don't sound like people you are going to want to maintain friendships with after you graduate! Best of luck to you!!

Okay I am so not going to take sides here. I can totally see where you are comming from and it would be very frustrating!! But I think that maybe it could have a lot to do with her being a new nurse, maybe she is not confident in her skills or her knowledge and it causes her to doubt herself and seem like she is lost. I think the best thing that you can do is just to help her when she needs it (which it seems as though you already do that). Hopefully you will see her confidence grow, and you never know maybe she just needs one person to have faith in her and she will be able to perform her job better. I am really hoping that she doesn't do anything that would compromise the saftey of your patients, and if in fact she does I think you would have no choice but to report your concerns to your supervisor. I hope your situation gets better, I know how hard it is to work with people that are kind of clueless.

Well you all have made me fell like I am either lucky or just assertive enough to have had the chance to practice most of my skills. In clinical I have done several dressing changes, started too many IV's to count, I've done blood draws, placed foley's (one on a pt. writhing in pain), I've done IV push meds, many many IM injections, I attempted placing an NG a couple of times but even the nurse I was working with couldn't get it in we wound up having to insert it as an OG tube. I will have to admit though that I didn't get most of these opportunities on the med/surg floor (and I agree that opportunities there seem to be few and far between), I was able to get these things done in my ER and ICU rotations. I knew I needed to practice these things, and luckily I was always with a nurse that wouldn't let me watch them do it I had to do the skill if the opportunity presented itself. I also let the other nurses know that if they had a pt that needed any type of skill performed that I would be more than happy to do it for them. And guess what I found myself getting more opportunity than the other students in my clincal group, because I vocalized my desire to learn. I had nurses comming to find me to ask me if I wanted to do XYZ with their pt. Luckily I had a clinical insturctor during this rotation that did not make us wait for him to perform skills. My best advice to you guys is to let the other nurses on the floor know what types of things you are able to do, and that you would love to practice your skills on their pt.'s as needed. Just remember that you do have to have an idea of what is going on with the pt before you just go in there doing things. Good luck to all of you! Remember you aren't quite done with school yet so you still do have the opportunity to practice before you get out in the workforce. Once you get a couple IV starts under your belt it makes you much more confident and it doesn't seem as intimidating.

You are great!! Thank you so much, you have helped so many on this site and I hope you know how much your time is truly apprecitated!

I am not 100% sure, but I think it has something to do with calculating drips in the ICU setting. I know it has something to do with mcg/kg/min. It is what my school calls these calculations, and when I did my ICU rotation I got scolded from not knowing how to do these. But the school never offered any teaching about it either. I was so counting on you knowing what I was talking about Daytonite.

I was wondering if anyone has any good websites for x-factor calculations. I have been browsing around the web and haven't found anything. They didn't teach us this last semester but we are held accountable for it so I just wanted to find some examples so I can practice doing them. Thanks for any help

Only thing is that just because someone is in an ADN program doesn't mean they aren't book smart too...not to brag but I am, I ask my nurses in clinical questions they can't answer all the time and my instructors are alwyas impressed with the questions I ask as well. People have different reasons for choosing to pursue each degree, so I don't think we can generalize the student in either program. I really just think it somes down to the individual and not the degree type of progam. (Yeah I am in an ADN:D) I have noticed that when my clinical groups have been on the floor at the same time as the university students, it seems that they are more timid when it comes time to patient interaction. Maybe because they haven't been in clinical as long as we have...just my guess. That and none of the university students have been able to answer questions asked by doctors, nurses or whoever that I did not also know the answer to. It's all individual...really it is.

Honestly my stress relief is: Coffee in the morning, alcohol at night, repeat....LOL. I think I am in a class full of drinkers because our alcohol consumption skyrockets when we are in school!

I have a Neuro test comming up and there is much confusion about Cushing's triad and reflex. I am also getting conflicting information about what Cushing's triad is, some resources say that it is widening pulse pressure, bradycardia, and hypertension; while others say it is hypertension, bradycardia, and irregular respirations. From what I understand Cushing's triad is the signs you would see (i.e widened pulse pressure, hypertension) and Cushing's reflex is what is going in the body that is causing the signs of Cushing's triad. Is this right? I'm hoping someone can lend a helping hand because I am driving myself crazy trying to figure it out.

Great quiz. It was pretty right on for me. I got 100% for Critical care and nurse educator...so watch out I'm going to be teaching the future someday...LOL.