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As the director of health services at an asst living. I'm still blown away that a nurse doesn't have to pass the meds. What did I fo to college for? Well the big pay increase really. Working as a med tech is a fast way to give you a taste od whether nursing s the path for u. Pay is low and the load is heavy like I said you are essentially the nurse on duty. It's hard work.

Don't give up. do the practice CDs now that you know what it's like you have an advantage.....Best of luck!

I used the Made Easy program that came with the book and I also used Lippincott's book.....I mainly just practiced by doing tests. I started work this week as a new LVN. It took me from April 27 to exactly May 27th to get my NCLEX results! Once I got my license I drove down to pay for my temp. license and it took about one week for the permanent license to come in the mail. Good luck

Use the nclex books and computer discs. They will help tremendously. Stay the night wherever you go to test unless it's a super short drive. Go without your family. Stay in a motel/hotel. Relax the night before. Don't study. Make sure you know your labs like ABGs and panels. All the basic functions such as renal, respiratory, cardiac and delegating to a CNA are things I would study. The NCLEX books really are great for reviewing. Good luck!

It's nice to hear that people are trying. Just an FYI for California residents....it's NOT a law that if you purchase alcohol that you MUST put your purchase in a bag. The grocery stores and 7/11 always say it is but they are just continuing to perpetuate this old wives tale. IT's not true. Call the Alcohol and Beverage Control to find out for yourself. Their number is 916 41902530 if you have questions. Stop using plastic bags and buy Chico bags or those 99 cent reusable bags they sell at every store nowadays. You get a 5 cent credit for each bag you use AND they hold way more than plastic or paper and don't rip! Put them in your car and just condition yourself to keep doing it! I applaud only using what you need at the hospital. I see so much waste it's pathetic. I also pass it along to whoever will listen the ideas I come across that can make a huge difference. Keep on talking to whoever will listen.

thanks hippygreenpeacechick.....I like you already!

I am posting a thread to encourage everyone to buy a reusable water bottle. With earth day just recently passing we as medical professionals work in a field that throws away so much garbage that we need to make an effort to make changes for our children's future. I did a whole presentation on hospital waste and I got my information from googling hospital waste. I was shocked and saddened. Did you know that most hospitals use a one time only sharps container but reusable sharps containers are available? They can be reused upto 500 times. If we stop using plastic pitcher liners as our own personal cups and throw them away after one use we can make a difference. Encourage your kitchen to stop using styrofoam which contains carcinogens, they never break completely down and get into the water for fish to eat. IT's a huge cycle that must be stopped. http://www.wwfpak.org/factsheets_hwf.php http://www.h2e-online.org/docs/wsde101505.pdf http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/bizWaste/FactSheets/Hospital.htm It's upto us to stop this waste!!! Please join in the movement to help. If we are healers then we need to heal our planet as well.

Nursing school itself is hard, time consuming, mentally taxing and worth every minute. The nursing instructors are like boot camp sergeants. They will tell you horror stories and check your socks match your whites. They will practically come to your house to make sure they can bounce a quarter off your sheets. I'm not kidding. Nurses eat their young. Don't be afraid of this. Just remember when you are a nurse that the nursing student is there to learn from you just as you did when you were a student. Nurses can be really tempermental and for some reason they like to take it out on nursing students because we are at their mercy. Just remember why you are there.

I took mine on Monday with three of my friends and the computer shut off at 85 for all of us. I had zero math questions which surprised me and I only had a few drug questions but I had a handful of select all that applies. I was more focused on how hot the room was and how uncomfortable the chair was and I hope I didn't screw up by breaking my concentration. I felt confident on only a handful of questions but I definitely thought that the test was easier than all the practice tests I had been taking for the last two months. California, stupidly, is not a 48 hour quick results state. They want to waste our money even more by rechecking our fingerprints, even though we have had them do this upon our application, the state likes to waste money and time by rechecking something already done. Sooooo, I have to wait for ONE MONTH before I can get my results. There are only a couple evaluators who review our paperwork and they move at a snails pace. I have already had to complain twice because I have had a job being held for me since January. I feel horrible that they are waiting for me for this long but they knew that I hadn't even graduated when they hired me.