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I'm a brand new RN and landed a 3-11 shift at a LTC facility. I can sum it up in a few words: I HATE IT. Everyplace wants experience around my area so I took whatever job I could get. I had orientation on 7-3 shift and didn't think it was so bad...

It's a challenging program, but overall it's great. Never realized how much driving was involved with nursing school until I was assigned a clinical over an hour and a half away. That's one of the things that sucked majorly... people would camp out...

Congratulations

Congratulations. I am happy for you as well.

A+P is important and will help you in your nursing courses. The nursing courses I took expected us to know how the body functioned. They never retested us on that content. If you didn't know something it was expected that you review the A+P conten...

I post stalked you, sorry. Lol I was just seeing if anyone went to LCCC. And this is a really old post, so sorry for bumping it. I graduated May 2010 and unfortunately quite a few people failed the final. I personally know of 3 people who failed ...

Case studies help. We did so many of them in school for this extra class my school had us take.

Sorry if "nut job" offended you or anyone else... but I'm sticking to my guns about thinking those who take classes besides their regular nursing courses are very brave. I'm sure it is possible to complete the program in 2 years, but I can't imagine...

Before I went in for my test I reviewed labs and tried to grasp why they might be low or high. Dosage calculations were also reviewed along with metric conversions. So glad I did that because I had some conversions I had to figure out. I looked at...

You are going to concur this test! I have faith in ya! But try not to just memorize the lab values. Instead, try to grasp the reasoning in why a lab value might be low or high. I took the nclex-rn on Friday and it needed more knowledge than just...

Were you accepted into the nursing program or advised to take the gen eds? My advice to you is to get all your general classes out of the way before starting the nursing classes. I went to an ADN program and although it says 2 years, only the brav...

Awesome!!!!! Crossing my fingers for you. The PVT worked for me, so I'm positive you'll see a big fat R.N. next to your name soon. :)

Oh dear, first year of nursing school was sooooooo expensive. I think I spent over $700 on books and supplies including a stethoscope, BP cuff, clamps, scissors. The only good thing about the books was they were used throughout the entire program. ...

Oooh, you would like to know what was in my bag when I went to school? Ok well, I wish I had gotten one of those bookbags with wheels. I didn't, so I carried around a tote. We were required to bring our books to class. For my notes I would write t...

The worst that could happen is that you'll receive plenty of tough love. Clinical instructors will push you to your limits to try to break you out of your shell. First year of nursing school I was sent home because I wasn't assertive enough. The t...

Congrats! I just checked my BON site today and my name was listed. Nice feeling! Have a great day at work. I am very happy for you!!!!!

I think the last one was 61? And I took that in May! I had my exam Sept. 10th and Kaplan expired back at the start of August. I wouldn't really go by your kaplan scores. Just keep doing your nclex questions, remember lab values, go over some calc...

Good luck. You're going to do just fine. :)

That is awesome news! Congrats

I should've added in that I was one of those people who never knew what they wanted to do when I started off in college. I went to a major university majoring in something related to science. Got so burned out so I transferred to the CC because oth...

I took it on Sept. 10th and just found out through the quick thing that I passed. I'm relieved.

I think it really does work because I got the "good" pop up. I didn't trust it so I dished over the 8 bucks for the quick results and got the unofficial pass.

I have an AS in business administration and after I graduated transferred into the ADN nursing program. I was able to use some of the credits toward the nursing degree. Didn't really knock off a ton of the courses, but helped a little.

I hate SATA questions. There were a few on my NCLEX, but don't have to worry about me breaching the contract since my mind is shot. I can't remember much of anything what the questions were even about. They were a lot like nursing school. Anythin...

I took the test yesterday and wound up getting all 265 questions. My nails are bitten way short from being a nervous wreck. We went for a 4 hour trip after my test and came back today... so between the nclex and being on the road for a total of 8ho...