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CAN SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO GET MY MONEY BACK FROM THE COLLEGE NETWORK. This is not working for me and decided to take classes at the local college for my RN. TCN doesn't, of course, want to give me my six thousand dollars back. What do I do?

I have only been doing this for 2 months and I feel the same way at times. My big thing is documentation. I need to find a book that will show me what a good note is supposed to look like when a patient has an issue. I have Smart Chart but that's too high level. I'm in a Nursing home and need something for LTC. I get frustrated when I have 21 patients on 3-11 and you have families asking you what's going on when you have finger sticks and blood sugars that read "HI" on the glucometer which forces you to call the Dr get new orders right them up chart them blah blah blah. It's frustrating cause I feel like a walking pharmacy. What happened to ASSESSING each patient and talking with them to find out what's going on? Who has time for that? Anyway, if you know of such a book that will help me with LTC documentation please let me know. Thanks.

Excellent, it seems it was meant to be. The migraine helped : )

Good job, congrats!

Pudding, I hated the Kaplan. Not that the questions were terribly difficult but some of the answers seemed to go against what I had learned in school so I stopped using Kaplan. I liked the NCSBN.org website. They are the ones that make the questions and I felt their review was comprehensive. I passed the NCLEX two weeks ago with 136 questions.

Kaplan was horrible. I heard rave reviews about Kaplan but when I started doing the questions online I thought to myself, something is not right with these questions. I didn't have a problem if I was getting them wrong but the logic they used and priority on some of the questions were going agains anything I knew so I stopped using it. I took my NCLEX last Tuesday and PASSED with 136 questions. I liked the Saunders Strategies for Success. This book I feel is a must have. The strategies are good. I also found that the NCSBN.org website, that review was good. I didn't read all of the study stuff but I did a lot of the questions and it helped.

I Passed I Passed Wahooo!!! 136 Questions

I took my test today 136 questions.. I feel like I failed here in Delaware. FAILED. I called the Board and they said they could know today what my results are YIKES. I am a grown man gonna cry.

Not to take the focus off of your nerves but I am taking my test tomorrow and I am nervous as heck. I have to say STOP THE SMOKING. A smoking nurse, lol. Here is Delaware we have to wait 3-4 weeks also but I've contacted the board who is really nice and she told me if I take my test tomorrow she would be able to tell me if I passed or not by the end of the week. YIKES wish me luck and I will do the same for you.

Thanks Rizza, I seem to be doing ok with the NCSBN prep course, Kaplan, Davis, & Saunders. Kaplan is horrible, horrible!!! Seems like it goes against everything I was taught in school and other books. I stopped using it. The NCSBN site is really good. I'm not doing all the reading but am answering their quizzes and doing okay. For the most part I know my Pharm but if I get a test full of it I may be up the river. I feel like I have a good grasp but I keep thinking I'm going to get a test where everything looks foreign. I take my test TOMORROW MORNING YIKES!!!

That's crap, I can't possibly wait that long for them to tell me I failed lol I will be so ticked off. I have to take my test on Tuesday and I am scared to death. I have every NCLEX review you can think of trying to study. This is nerve racking enough. I think you can probably go onto the board site and see if you got a license number, that's probably a good indicator you passed. I am going to be calling the board daily. Yikes!! Good luck, I hope you passed. What did you feel a majority of your questions were about?

Thanks, i am going through the saunders too. I am utilizing the strategies that they have on here. How many questions did you get?

Good luck on your NCLEX in September. I am waiting for my test date, or the school to send my transcripts to the BON. I have Kaplan online and it makes me feel stupid!!! I have all the others too. No one person can tell you what's going to be on the test only because there are so many questions ins the bank that you may get more of one topic than another person. I am hoping that my education will get me somewhere and studying hard out of these books that I could make a library out of. I got an 848 on my HESI. I felt the HESI tests were at least a bit more difficult than the book tests and offered a better rationale than did the books I have. I may be taking my test the same time you do! Good luck.

I am extremely nervous about taking my NCLEX PN. I graduated from LPN school last week and am waiting for my date but am nervous as heck. I am so nervous I don't know what to study, Kaplan, Davis, Saunders, my Med Surge book???? Can anyone tell me what a majority of their questions was on? What should I really focus in on?

I just graduated from a NJ LPN program too and I plan to work at Green Valley Pavillion 3rd shift is $23 an hour. They are in Smyrna. After I pass my boards that is. Middletown or Broad Meadow wont hire new grads, snobs : )