Jamie2887

Hello everyone, I am in my next to last semester of nursing school, we are studying the DREADED cardiovascular system right now...learning how to read EKG strips, our teacher gave us an EXCELLENT website for learning how to read them, and I thought i...

As far as points, it changes every year, and I don't rememeber what it was for LPN/RN when I entered in 2006. I have heard rumors of the entrance exam, but dont know any truth too it. As for NCLEX scores, I just graduated in May, and we had 197 gra...

The thing with HURST is they guarentee passing if you MASTER the content, meaning the whole book they give to you, simply going to the review does not mean you get the full affect, or even glancing through the book, you must study the book and withou...

It's called Prioritization, Delegation, and Assisignment, but Linda A. Lacharity....I bought my copy at Barnes and Noble, for $29.95, I'm finishing it up today, I test tomorrow :-D So far it seems to be very helpful for answering priority, has great...

I LOVED hurst review, it's a good way of refreshing all of the content you've learned, you only do questions on the last day, which i enjoyed, our school payed for a review, and we did questions for 4 days...8 hours a day...she just read them to us, ...

On my floor, as a nurse tech (and in my last semester of NS), I do VS's, FSBS, I&O's, baths, helping pt to BSC, toileting, answer call lights ect. We can suction with a yanker our trach pt's, I'm on respiratory. Help feed patients. We do not d...

No ones mentioned it yet, but I live in Huntsville, it was recently on the list for one of the greatest cities to raise a family. I've lived here all my life, and absolutely LOVE it. Take a look at www.huntsvillehospital.org that is my workplace, H...

A techs job?? From my understand YOU are the tech while you are the nursing student...I am also a nursing student, and in clinical, we do the Tech's job, we bath the patient, assist them with their ADL's...and I have cleaned many poop off floors, bed...

I didn't read every single post, but so far I havn't seen anyone with a system like ours...so this "call light" thing seems odd to me. We have a central station at our hospital where whenever the patient presses their nurse button, it gets sent ther...

I know 2 girls that are in my current class (4th semester of 5) and both failed out last year due to trying to plan weddings, and had to rejoin my class this summer. So I would advise against it, unless your planning something very small that wouldn...

to clear up confusion about nclex and (some rumors i've seen here on this site) and just some tips... ~nclex is not graded like nursing school exams, where you have to make a certain score to pass. ~you must show that you are more consistently ri...

In Calhoun's program, ERI is not just one exam at the end, you take them your entire 2 years in the program, you take an online exam, much like a nursing school exam, multiple choice, its timed, and if you score poorely, you listen to lectures on the...

ktaylor, every year is completely different, depending on who applies, the total points flucuate greatly, I cannot remember the points accepted when I applied, but the cut off was pretty high for the RN program, and alot of people from my biology cla...

Hankins, I know school has started for you now, but still, if you have ANY questions at all, feel free to send me a message, I am in Calhoun's RN program 4th semester out of 5, due to graduate in May. I know i was really nervous this time last year ...

I was in your shoes 1 year ago, we start our second year tomorrow. First off, if you ever have any questions, feel free to send me a message, i'll even give you my email, because i know how you feel, I was so nervous when we first started and would ...

I recently bought "pathophysiology made incredibly easy 4th edition", you can find it at Amazon, and Books a million, its a GREAT book, and it'll help you understand things and be ahead before you start, lots of good colorful pictures and diagrams al...

With 265 questions, you have a 50/50 chance, even the NCLEX officials will tell you that, and like everyone said already, that means you were borderline the whole test and it couldn't make up its mind whether you had gotten more correct than incorrec...

I have something to add, I mentioned about the pilot questions, turns out there are 15 on the NCLEX RN and 25 on the NCLEX PN

I too am entering my 4/5 semester, and my mother passed away during my first semester of nursing school, so i understand what you're going through. Although my mom died of lupus, and she had been sick for a while so we knew what was coming, but that...

Personally, there is NO way I would have time for this, given the speed of our lectures, I type around 120 words per min and still struggle to keep up, everyone is always asking me to email my notes because I do catch almost everything. It would be ...

I have done this to all my huge books, and LOVE it, however my staples said they did not have a machine big enough, whatever they meant by that. I had mine done at Kinkos. With my HUGE fundamentals book, this helps tremendously, at by the end of the...

I am a tech at my local hospital, on the respiratory care unit, I actually love it there, and all the nurses make you feel like part of the team, I always work weekends, which i love because theres about 1/10 of the doctors cycling through, usually n...

my #1 is probably; SHOPPING and coffee (or the two combined) Sex would be a very close 2nd Playing with my Dog Scrapbooking (always a HUGE stress reliever) Ice cream, milkshakes, or something equally sinful always makes me feel wonderful also.

And another thing, how would you know where to begin? Theres 1000's of drugs, and our school asked for about 10 at a time, but we have no idea which 10 until the assignment is posted. You'd be better off studying out of Saunders comprehensive NCLEX b...

Honestly, that probably wouldn't be very productive, I've seen every NS's "drug card" be different than the rest, and you'd probably end up re-doing them. For instance, my school wants Broad classification, specific classification, generic name, bran...