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if this were an nclex question the answer would be D. always remember maslow, psychosocial takes last priority, physical over psychosocial....etc

do what calms and relaxes you be it aerobic exercise or yoga or screaming at the top of your lungs. stress is best let out and not kept in. it helps most to have friends in nursing school to talk to since they are in a similar situation or even find someone that has finished school and is happy in their chosen nursing career to help you get through things. good luck to you :)

kaplan QBank questions

Kaplan Q-trainer questions are very similar to those on the nclex. some of kaplan is confusing, actually most of it is and i found the course useless and a waste of time, QBank was the only worthwhile part of the course i paid $350 for. best way to explain how nclex world thinks is they want to know how YOU will react and YOU are not to react by "passing the buck" ie call the doctor, ask another nurse, etc. when it comes to the junior psychiatry, that only really pertains to questions that deal with psychosocial (and remember in nclex pain is psychosocial not physical) so if the question does not pertain to psychosocial just scratch those answers. my best suggestion for preparing for nclex is PRACTICE, the more questions you answer, the more you get used to what is being asked. in my few weeks of preparing for nclex i must have answered close to 6000 questions.

Congrats!

1: 75 questions and passed 2: i took a useless kaplan course which i believe was a wast of $350 3: yes, I had to do ATI and NCLEX 3500 in order to graduate 4: unofficial results were available 48 hours later, official results came 2 weeks after that 5: comeplete uncertainty....... 6. yes it was

I just began a new OR job in a teaching hospital and was an extern in the OR for a year before taking an RN position. I know that all the patients that have surgery in this hospital are worked on by an attending and a resident and quite possibly a med student as well as an anesthesia attending and his resident and med students that may follow them. I don't see it as a problem that they are not on the consent because the residents always introduce themselves before the procedure, the surgical residents even do the 24 hr physical before the surgery starts and anesthesia residents start the IV lines. In essence the patient meets almost everyone that will be in the OR room except for the scrub. If patients have an issue on who will be in the room it is within their rights to refuse. From what I was told at another teaching hospital when the same question came up, is that patients enter a teaching hospital knowing that it is a teaching institution and will be worked on by students and residents. How that works for people entering the ED i don't know.

Hi Crawlyberry I'm only 5'1" and yes some parts of the OR can be challenging, but growing up being short, I've learned to adapt to my height. Just make sure there are steps available for you if you scrub :) There are actually quite a few nurses that I work with now that are shorter than me and seem to have no problem.

Congrats on your accomplishment, I know what a relief it must be, I just graduated in Dec of 06 myself. I like you heard from many people to get floor experience first before going into the OR, and I obviously did not listen. I took an OR externship a year before graduating and found that most of the technical nursing skills I learned in school (ie ng suction) did not pertain to much of what I have to do now but the critical thinking and multitasking is very important. If you KNOW you don't like floor nursing the OR is for you, just go into it. I feel bad for the person that got pulled to a med-surg floor, but from what I've seen that's pretty rare. Good luck :)

Congrats on graduating, I just graduated this past december as well and have begun my orientation as an OR nurse and where I am at the nurses are terrific and helpful. I think in any facility there is that one nurse who will be particularly nasty to the new nurse, it's to be expected in any profession. If the OR is where you really want to be, don't let it get to you because with some people respect only comes with time. Good luck to ya!

Hi I am a new grad that just entered the OR and was told by one of my instructors that OR nurses are being phased out and much to my suprirse they are not anywhere close. Yes it's true that there are many RN's that do not get a chance to scrub due to cheaper labor of the surgical techs but the facility I work at many of the seasoned RN's still scrub and scrub training for any RN entering the OR is required. So I'd have to say that whether or not you scrub is dependent on the facility. I recently visited a facility that had no scrubbed RNs and only circulating....chances are I will not be working at that hospital. I hope you find what you are looking for :)