PrettyInPink978

hello all! currently a nurse in cleveland, ohio and i really want to relocate somewhere warm, that is close to the beach! so i need some help!! any recommendations on where to live? i am an icu nurse, and would like a large teaching hospital that does big surgeries, and preferably has a good reputation (i am not a community hospital kind of nurse). Interested in approximately what nurses make in NC and any other information you may find to be helpful, thanks!!!

i work in a CVICU, we focus mainly on vascular patients....AAA repairs, lytics patients, fem/pop, ect

you cannot record lectures, but they offer, for 50 bucks, after the review to be able to access the lectures onlone for 30 days, and the dvd includes a peds lecture, management and delegation lecture, and rationales to their mock nclex

oh, i am sorry...did u happen to contact Hurst when you failed? Don't they intensively tutor you afterwards?

i really enjoyed the Hurst review. I did the 4 day live review which covers a variety of pertinent nursing content (not a review of nursing school) but a really good refreshed, straight and to the point. There is also a CD and a DVD they give you, a variety of practice questions, and a Mock NCLEX. If you know her information very well, and use her test takign strategies you should do great on boards. I beleive people who don't do well on the NCLEX who take the Hurst review did not study the study booklet well enough. I took it and passed at 75 ?'s

I took a review class, called HURST. She says that you should know certain information without a doubt when you go into the test in order to stay out of low level questions. I found that her review really helped me, because she knows the most popular content that is asked on boards. The way I studied I would not recommend. I seriously had 6 or 7 review books and was paging through them, not doing anything consistantly. If i could do ti again I would stick to the Hurst content and probably a Kaplan or Saunder's book. I would study more content instead of just doing question after questions, also.

It is on my board of nursings website, says "approved" next to my name

Thanks guys, I just wanted to let you know that I actually passed. I cannot believe it, but I did. I guess that goes to show you the NCLEX is truly unpredictable.

Ok I took the NCLEX yesterday and I am freaking out today. I really really think I failed. Here's what happened. I was a good student in school and no one will expect me to fail but I really honestly think I did. I got some basic questions at the beginning that I know I got wrong. I got a basic calculation question, which has to be a low level question. I missed stupid questions that I shouldn't have, I got a few priority questions, i feel ok about, no delegation! I got tons of meds and pharm is my weakest area, I know I missed them all. I got 3-4 select all that apply. I only got 75 questions. Ok, I know I wasn't doing good, but I must have really bombed it for it to shut off at 75. I hate this waiting and I am totally freaking out, I want to go back to yesterday to prove that I am competent.