edisonnurse

I have been a psych nurse for 10 years now. To say I hate it would be a HUGE understatement!!! Honestly, I deal with very few true psych patients and more with drug addicts. I have zero respect for these people. They lie, steal, manipulate, have no a...

I graduated nursing school one year ago and started working in psych upon graduation. No med surg for me!!! (although I question that decision daily). I really thought had I worked med surg I would have quit nursing immediately. I hate anything medi...

I promise, I won't put up post after post, but I do want to tell my nclex story in the hopes of easing the anxiety of those of you who are struggling with even the thought of the exam.. A little about my background. I started nursing school at the ag...

I work as a psych nurse in an adolescent facility and I distinctly remember our medical director, who has been a psychiatrist for over 29 years, telling a patients family that very same thing...the lower the dose the more drowsiness the patient exper...

I just recently graduated from nursing school and went immediately into psych nursing because it is my passion, but something happened today and I'm so upset. I was told that when giving Ativan to small children to just go ahead and give Cogentin wit...

Hello everybody...I've been on the student forum and I found it to be very helpful, so I thought I would come here for some advice.. I just graduated on May 11th and took my Nclex on June 13th and passed..praise the lord! I thought that all my anxiet...

A little about me....I just graduated nursing school May 11th and took my Nclex on June 13, passed, and got hired in an adolescent behavioral unit. I just completed my first week of work last Friday. When I got hired at this facility I was told that...

Well today was my 4th day and I made my first big mistake. Here's the story... We have a book with the names of the people who are allowed to talk to the patients on the phone. The people in the book must know the password before we can confirm that ...

Hello everybody...well tomorrow is the BIG day...my first day of work. I wrote another post a while back about how stupid I feel. That has changed somewhat. I certainly don't feel ready, but I did pass nursing school and the evil NCLEX, so I couldn't...

Hi,I am a nurse who graduated from Edison in Ohio...I wish it were Florida!!!! ....

I don't have any expert advice, I just had my first day today, but I just wanted to say I'm so sorry that you are being treated that way. You graduate, you are excited to start a new career, then BAM, you are hit with that!!! Nasty, Nasty women!!!No ...

Thanks everybody...well I did survive. I really just watched and tried to take in everything. Obviously some of it I have already forgotten, but thankfully they don't expect me to come in tomorrow and run the unit. The people were nice, I love the fa...

wow i knew the answer when it wasn't even there!!!!..guess all that nursing school did teach me something...

my two cents...pain... I would have picked vitals first, but that wasn't an option..my rationale..the question doesn't say anything about them losing blood or experiencing any fluid volume deficit so I would discard IV fluids, it didn't say anything ...

That is a good question. I think it depends on the person. The optimal situation for all nursing students would be.....dedicating 100% to school only, unfortunately that isn't reality for most people. I know many of my fellow nursing students worked ...

For me, it was fourth semester. I was so burnt out by then that just studying became an overwhelming task, and I think the fear of "Oh my gosh I am about to graduate and become a REAL nurse" scared the daylights out of me. Part of me wanted to be abl...

I felt that way the entire time I was in nursing school!!! It was so much new information that after each test I felt like I cleared my brain of that information in order to make room for the new stuff....the reality is that although you probably don...

I too graduated in May (the 11th to be exact) and took and passed my nclex on June 13th. I remember thinking to myself, wow!! why did I wait until I graduated to start studying for the nclex...I should have started many, many months ago...but to be h...

That is NOT a stupid question. I was thinking the exact same thing. Why in the world did my SON require me to buy all those books that have NO questions like I took on my Nclex. We used ATI which I was told was most like Nclex....that was not the cas...

Please don't get hung up on the number of questions. You will drive yourself crazy. People pass and fail at 75 and people pass and fail at 265. It is very rare for someone to walk out of that test thinking they passed, but most do. I also had no calu...

I just wanted to send out a quick thank you to everybody who replied to my posts..... I have woken up several nights in a row with my stomach in knots. It feels like I am riding a roller coaster in my dreams. Just the thought of starting my new job i...

Hope this helps: 1. 75 very hard questions.. mainly priority questions (which patient would you take care of first etc) 2. Saunders, and 3 FREE books I checked out at the library (I forgot the names of them, but they were filled with tons and tons of...

Congrats......can you believe it's over!!! That's a great feeling...Good luck to you.

Can I give you some free advice? Please go to the library and supplement your studying with another book. The reason I say this is because I did some of the questions out of Saunders, and althought it's a great book, it doesn't give you questions lik...

Here's my free advice...practice prioritizing questions...lots of em...they are plentiful on the test and the most difficult because they require critical thinking...good luck...you will do great!!! Let me know when you pass