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I have worked in a cardiac ICU/Step down for 5 years and I have been asked to pray with a lot of patients in that time frame. I am atheist and tell the patient that I am uncomfortable with that and I would be happy to find a chaplain to assist in prayer. If I walk into a room and the family is praying, I stand outside the door until they are finished. Even if I had similar beliefs as my patient, I don't think I would ever initiate a prayer.

Hey everyone! I was looking into starting an RN to BSN to MSN program. I am a new RN and was wanting to start my BSN in the fall and came across one of the masters programs... I was wondering if anyone had enrolled in anything like that and how labor intensive it was. The program says they will incorporate the masters courses in with the bsn completion.... just wondering if anyone had heard anything about them! Thanks! Ashley:redbeathe:heartbeat

I just graduated a couple months ago and was struggling with my tests! Granted some of it was the style of the questions in nursing and I did the ABCs, maslow, and all of that, i knew the info like the back of my hand and I still couldn't pass- i did NCLEX review questions for the material- still no luck! I always thought test anxiety was kind of a cop out but people insisted I had it... I went to the doctor and asked for xanax and he gave me a low dose script and I have been excelling ever since! If anything, it slows your brain and nerves down enough to choose accurately- i recommend it to anyone who is really struggling and can't figure out why! Good luck and trust me... I know how ya feel... Ive repeated a bunch of nursing classes cause of low test scores and i just took my boards this week and passed in 75 questions... on xanax of course... :) Ashley

just thought of another crazy one-- I worked in cardiac surgery and an old man was in and out of confusion all night... when the nurse checked on him he was sleeping- about an hour later, the cops called to make sure everything was okay- the patient wrote help in shaving cream backwards on the window facing the street! someone saw it and called 911! when we went to see what the patient was doing he was locked in the bathroom with his 2 chest tubes, external pacer and foley taped around his chest and was armed with shaving cream ready to shoot when we walked into the bathroom!

These stories are absolutely hilarious! I worked in Cardiac surgery and we had a patient once with a long list of psych history... she had wigs she wore for her different moods and personalities- if she wore her braids- don't mess with her! She had dolls she was talking to like a baby and she would rock them and sing to them all day and all night at the top of her lungs! On the days she wore braids she would frequently get naked and scream bloody murder at her bedside- door open, standing at the window naked and screaming- quite a sight! This woman had previous suicide attempts in her hx so we kept a close eye on her and we walked by her room and she had a wash cloth stuffed in her mouth- her nurse ran in and ripped it out and said "oh no ya don't! Not on my watch!"- she thought she was trying to suffocate herself- the woman was just trying to stop screaming since we yelled at her all day to stop disrupting the other patients! This woman was with us for too long and she caused a huge fight between a wife and a husband... her neighbor across the hall was trached and isolation- this woman passed him a note saying that she knew he wanted to be with her and he didn't need to speak to proclaim his love! This man was so confused by this and had strokes, so he couldnt remove the letter from the room and we had no idea she pit it in there- so wife shows up and reads the letter and is furious- we tried to explain that nothing was going on and he doesn't even know the woman and the wife still stormed out of the unit! keep the stories coming!

good luck on your thesis!

Thanks to everyone who responded! I found out this morning that I PASSED!!!!! I have no idea how it happened or what the state board was thinking and I have no idea how 75 questions can measure competency, but it did and thank God! I wish everyone luck who is either taking it for the first time or is having to retake it... and congrats to those of you who just found out they passed! Ashley:cheers:

Thank you so much for the encouragement! I started really reviewing the kaplan at about jan 10, it was when i registered to take the exam.... and i actually without even realizing was doing about 200-300 questions a day! I would do qbanks with 5, 10, 15, 25, and 30 questions to break it up... i did them by topic type to see where i was weakest... hopefully it all helped.... Im such a wreck! I actually woke up in the middle of the night- i had such a vivid dream that I had passed I was only to call people! Then i realized it was like 2am and who would be posting grades at 2am! but never the less its 5am and I just checked! still no results! Thank you for your responses, and just keep up the good work, relax the day before and youll be fine- and really, this is the worst experience of your life... it is such an anxiety attack waiting to happen! So talking to people has helped me with knowing that everyone believes they have failed, rarely do people feel good leaving the room... which was a reassuring feeling.... and if youre in a state with quick results- it really does take 48 hours apparently to receive your scores :) Ashley

Hey- I took NCLEX on Monday and still waiting for results, but I feel awful!!! I have been crying for days, Im a mess! I took 75 questions and the whole time i was saying "please don't shut off at 75 cause that means I just failed this test cause I don't know any of these anwers!!" I only used Kaplan, I took the class, did the online content and question review, did the trianers and 94% of the qbank... but my cumulative score on qbank was only a 52 ..... im just really nervous and was wondering if anyone else had taken Kaplan and failed with 75 questions! Thanks to anyone who responds! Ashley:w00t:

Hey- I just took the NCLEX on Monday, so I have no results yet... I only did Kaplan review, I took the class, did the trainers and did 94% of the qbank. my scores were not good... 50-60's every once in a while I would get a 70-80. The computer shut off at 75 questions.. not feeling confident- pretty sure I failed, but I think everyone feels that way...people say i passed but you can never be sure. The questions on NCLEX were almost identical to Kaplan! Just keep studying, relax the night before and think positive thoughts...just remeber the test test has to prove you to be 95% incompetent! Think about how hard that has to be! Hopefully you'll have good luck with your test and Ill have good results tomorrow! I was given advice for my test and maybe it will help you... "This is not a test, this is just a confirmation of what you already know" Hope that helps! Ashley:w00t:

Hey- I just took the NCLEX on Monday and still don't knw my results, but I only did the Kaplan review. I did 94%of the qbank and all of the trainers and I took the class. The questions on the test were very very similar to the questions on Kaplan... I had 75 questions and the computer shut off- I think I bombed it- everyone I have spoke to says I passed, but just not feeling confident- i hear everyone thinks they failed.... never cried so hard asa I did on Monday :)- hopefully Ill have good news tomorrow! Good luck to you and I hope everything goes well- I had some advice going into my test that I thought was helpful... "This is not a test, this is a confirmation of what you already know"... hope that helps you! -Ashley