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WOW! i feel so jealous, envious with everyone posting here that they only get 7 patients at night...meredithT, which hospital do you work? i am also a new grad and just got off orientation and started on my own last january, 2008. I ALWAYS have 11 patients on a very heavy medsurg floor with 2 admissions and one transfer from other unit that just got stable. isnt that nice!??? i thought that was always the norm on night shift. but then again when i read this post, i feel so bad now....:scrm:

congratulations Ginebra! :balloons: :balloons: :balloons: and good luck on your next journey..drink Ginebra and you'll be fine

hi sabby Nc. i am looking into cardiac specialty. im not sure if there are many hospitals that will hire new graduate. Im here in NJ right now.

tnx sinagbayan!

Hi Yukon Queen. go to the website http://www.f-n-r.net/RN-home-study-page.html

hi beaniewinnie, i know how it feels. i didnt make it the first time i took nclex. but this time i change my strategy on studying. A few books and CD's helped me. I used FEUER CD which helped me a lot. Its a very good content review. I also used the saunders CD (though i dont have the review book), the medspub review book, and NCLEX made ez cd. Also the prioritization and delegation book was very helpful too. Good Luck. Study hard and think positive.

thanks sabby. i reall got nervous when i got more questions than i had the first time. i thought i was getting worse. but i made it. thanks

thanks suzy

thanks jessie

Finally, i passed my NCLEX....i made it. i'm so happy. the first time i got 142 questions and the second one was 215 questions and I made it. I got almost 20 select all that apply questions, several meds and tons of priority quesstions. Psych was the main topic of the entire exam. Feuer CD was so helpful. Good luck to all who will still take the exam. Study hard and think positive

congratulations!!! I also got my results today and I passed. The first time I got 142 questions and the second was 215 questions. I got so scared thinking, was i getting worse? But i made it...I am so happy. This site helped me so much.

I WILL NOT tell anyone but my husband (and maybe not even him) when the date is. I advise everyone else to do the same because it does add stress, which is the last thing that's needed when a nervous breakdown is already possible! I was an A & B student all the way through nursing school... I will do the same thing too. I will never tell anyone on my next scheduled exam. i had the worst 45 days in my life after I failed the first exam. Everyone knew when i would take the exam and everybody called me and checked on me if I passed or not. how nosey can they be. I even had a trusted friend who called me 715am the DAY AFTER i took the exam and asked me "so, when is the celebration?" I wouldnt know the results by that time. I felt so betrayed, feeling they made fun of me (or was i too paranoid - since i had a very strong feeling that i failed) I was a B student and even got a 1100 on the Hesi Exit Exam. 2nd day after i took the exam, i found out that i failed and my phone was ringing off the hook. all the nosey friends were trying to check on me. Never answered my home phone not even my cell phone. Can't they wait if i will be the one to call them and let them know. Dont they have anything else to do? I was so disappointed, so frustrated and even so mad...it went on for 3 weeks, people were calling me and even left messages on my voicemail that even if i will not tell them the results, they can look it up on the BON website. So, why bother calling me? I dont need those people around me while im trying to prepreparing myself for the second try. i'm literally inside the house trying to review and do practice questions. putting off all parties and summer activities. My husband and my son would go attend to parties without me since i dont want to see anybody nor talk to anyone and might get upset with any of their comments. It is only during your rough times you would know who your real friends are. I am so blessed to have a husband and a nine year old son who are so supportive and they were with me the whole time i was down. Also, prayers helped me to lift up myself and then started to open my review books again.

If anyone has the FEUER Pharm CD. Please help. I am so desperate. Still not confident with meds.

hi meredith, any luck applying at RWJUH. i tried to apply online but they sent me a letter that they will look into new grads sometime in September. hope i will get hired. good luck to you

hi sinagbayan, you've got great tips for the nclex. btw, where exactly in Cebu City are you? and which nursing school did you graduate?