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Dear Already have taken NCLEX folks: I have a goofy question.....Are the questions you did while studying similar to those that were on the NCLEX....style-wise....I am sort of worried that the questions are going to be set up very differently than fr...

congratulations and best of luck you in your nursing career :balloons: :balloons: :balloons: :balloons: :Melody: :Melody: :Melody: :balloons: :balloons: :balloons:

thanks to all....it's a wonderful feeling...feels like a 3 ton elephant fell off my shoulders

Hello to all...... I have found this forum very helpful over the last few months..... many thanks to all I have passed the NCLEX with 80 questions

I studied for 2 months for my exam (took it yesterday...shut off at 80)...I moved into my apartment 3 days before I took this test...there was one question on the exam that I knew only from studying NCLEX questions and not from school....I took a rev...

Took NCLEX this morning...it shut off at 80.....i thought it was hard....I tried wearing ear plugs, but I could hear/feel my heartbeat and that was driving me nuts....I had a lot of priority, delegation questions, about 4 math problems, infection con...

After I sent in the post, I went on and did some more reading....The last question I had was a very easy question which I am not sure if I answered it correctly....now I read in some posts that if your last question is easy that is pretty bad.... any...

I got my hands on a Saunders Book today quite unexpectedly and I really like it...I wish I would have had it 2 months ago when I really began to prepare for the NCLEX..... Thanks to all for your input

My state board of nursing received my application for examination on May 31 (I sent it certified mail)....someone I graduated with whose last name begins with the same letter as me and who sent her application the same time as I did, has had her ATT ...

Why did it take so long for them to send out the info??? My school had all the grade information, but had to wait until we actually graduated to send out the material. We graduated May 14th, my temporary permit was up May25th and I sent in my applica...

I just checked email and my ATT was sitting there....so I now have it....holy smokes.... thanks for all the advice.....

The FBI??? I know we have to have our fingerprints taken at our testing centers, but I didn't realize that the FBI was involved.... :rotfl: I found that mildly amusing.....the FBI...I didn't realize...

Thanks for the tip...i might just have to give the folks at the BON a little buzz tomorrow....

I saw that you are from PA....are you starting at HMC??? I am in the boat...I start orientation on July 11th...I want to take this wretched thing before do I can rest a few days before work starts....

This is what our professor-in-charge told us.... you have a better chance at passing NCLEX if you: 1. Have never had to repeat any nursing courses 2. Aren't sliding by with C's in your nursing courses 3. Have above a 3.00 in your nursing courses

Is your instructor going to make you practice putting foley catheters in eachother??? well if it is between student putting in a NG tube or a foley....I will bare the humiliation and let them put in the foley....but screw the NG tube.... i have major...

In the real world it's your tushy on the line....if you don't feel comfortable doing something don't do it.... I did clinical at hershey medical and one of the nurses said that she had been out of nursing school for a few years and still hadn't don...

I cannot believe that this is mandatory....WHERE DO YOU GO TO SCHOOL..... ok....this happened to me when I was putting in an ng tube.... I tried one side and it wasn't going in well....so I tried the next.....I was feeling for a way down and I wasn't...

another thing....wrap and piece of tape around the tube and safety pin it to the patients gown....so it isn't flopping everywhere.... patients WILL pull it out themselves.... I agree...don't force anything..... To take them out....all you do it remov...

you check placement by putting your stethescope over the epigastric region and using a 60 ml syringe blow air (about 10-20ml) through the NG tube and listen for a whoosh....keofeed tubes have a wire and placement must be verified with an xray.......K...

I am doing an externship in the MICU and have done about 5 NG placements....they can be tricky when a person has an Endotracheal tube in....the tube can come out through the mouth.........you can't have them swallow water... gosh...but have you pract...

I am doing an externship in the MICU.....great experience, great staff, very informative, very educational....I don't really have a preceptor I just go around and stick my nose into whatever is going on...When I see someone (nurse) get up, I follow t...

Socially awkward...that's the phrase I was trying to think of when I was thinking of how to describe myself...thank you manna..... It's funny, I graduated with my first degree not knowing a single person I graduated with. I go to a very large univers...

I am 26 and finishing my 2nd bachelors degree. (one year left) There are only about 3 or 4 people my age or older. It is hard for me to make friends with people my age let alone younger. I never did the bar scene when I was working on my 1st degree a...

7 years ago I made it my mission to lose weight. I was 19 and weighed in at 280lbs. I am now 26 and am 140lbs lighter. Basically I went low-fat. Lots of chicken, veggies, brown rice, AND LOTS OF EXERCISE!!!!!!!! GOOD LUCK!!!!