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I AM!! I ride my 2003 HD Road King to work at the hospital and every chance I get when off work. I don't think that I could handle the stress of being a new(9 mos) nurse without having my bike. Harley's(especially mine) are my favorite but I'm sure a...

I've only had one interview and had NEVER worn a suit before. When I finally got my license, I bought a suit. I had to look on the internet to see how to tie a tie the night before the interview. Monday morning I looked in the mirror and it looked li...

I PASSED!!!! Thanks Allnurses. Wow, what do I do now? I think I'll watch a movie and not study anything.... Mark (Almost RN)

Well, the trick worked for me. I got the pop up about three hours after testing. I read the first 80-90 pages of this thread and felt a lot better about how I did on the test. Did the quick results thing today at noon and I PASSED!!! Thanks to everyo...

Congratulations pkid !!!!!!!!!!:yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah::yeah: Hoping to find out if I passed tomorrow. Mark

I don't know if I passed or not (according to the pearson vue trick,I did, but taking that with a grain of salt). Mstefano, I really feel that the style of the questions was similar to ATI(Meds Publishing), Saunders, and NCLEX 3500. None of these, in...

Well, I took the NCLEX-RN today and it shut off at 75 questions. When I tried the trick, I got the pop-up that, according to many posts in this thread, means that I passed. I sure hope so, because I have no idea how I did on the test. I will do the q...

Thanks pkid, I just got back from the testing center. The test cut off at 75 questions and I was glad it was over. I don't know how I did. It seemed to get hard after the first few questions, but hopefully I did OK. Good luck on your results too pki...

Wish me luck, I take the NCLEX at 0800 tomorrow morning. Congratulations to all who have passed:yeah:and good luck to those yet to test . Mark

Hey yall, I'm taking the nclex on Aug 22 at 8am. After pinning we had a live ATI review and they put up about 3500 practice questions online for us to use. I also use the Saunders Comp Review. I kind of slacked off studying after hearing that our ATT...

Congratulations on getting accepted! I didn't get the impression that you thought nursing was easy. You were just voicing some concerns. For myself, nursing school (ADN) is much more difficult than pre-reqs were. It's a lot of information to process ...

Well I've got two more quarters in my ADN program-critical care and 180 hrs of preceptorship. Our last exam is June 18th and pinning is a few days later (hopefully on June 20th-my 45th birthday). For some reason our graduation is not until July 16th....

When I was much younger, I would have done the easier thing and thrown down with the redneck-no problem. You basically did what a mature, responsible man should do. There is no way that we should let another person hold the kind of power over us that...

LOL, Im not sure that hip is groovy anymore-or groovy is hip-but, cool is still cool:smokin:

Well, as an RN student, I would absolutely NOT go along with the instructor in the same situation. I would have asked the CI what determined that the client was "not in her right mind" besides the CI's own judgement. I'm fortunate that my instructors...

There are several big ladies in my class. While I'm not overweight, I sure don't see why it would hinder performance in NS. As a matter of fact, being tiny seems like it would be a bigger problem. As a guy, I'm always asked to help with heavy patient...

ER for a few years then psych. I loved my psych rotation, but would like to be well rounded.

You'll be fine. In three quarters of clinicals, I have not seen any attitudes like the OP of this thread. When you get in lab, practice, practice, practice all of the procedures. Knowing the procedures very well will help keep your nervousness at bay...

I work full time and I am halfway through my ADN program. If you can find a job with flexible hours, it will help a lot. If something happened to my job, I would deliver pizza, clean office buildings or whatever I had to do. Some students get on as n...

I'm halfway through my ADN program and I have to agree with others- NS is what you make of it. I think that the instructors are great, but a few students complain about them. I think that the nurses in clinical are helpful and friendly, while others ...

We had to take a dosage test at the start of our second quarter. We also had to make 100 and got three tries. If we could not do that, we failed the course. I agree with others here. I don't think that it was unreasonable at all. We all had to take C...

I think you are right. I don't see how anyone who is a nursing student or nurse could possibly compare the insertion of a Foley catheter to rape. It's just bizarre to me that this subject was raised. As a student , my main focus has been maintaining ...

Ditto and mine does anything I need to do for school.

Congratulations and good luck in your sobriety. I hope all goes well with your pre-reqs and the admission process. God Bless and may the miracles keep coming. Mark

Hey Marie, thanx for the update. I'm glad that your resolve about what you need to do doesn't appear to be shaken. Staying sober in AA is the only thing that helps me grow through pain and it will help you get through this. I hope that your nursing c...