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When it asked you the 3 yes/no questions how did you answer them?

question about answering the yes/no questions. Did you take the NCLEX...do I answer Yes? What about the other 2 questions?

Kind of embarrassed to ask...BUT... what is SATA?

yeah thats what I figured...I knew it was too good to be true! Guess we should just be greatful that we passed nursing school and that a job will eventually come... Thanks for your input...good luck to you too!

I live in MA and am graduating RN school in May with an associates degree. Job market is brutal up here. I have heard I have a better shot of getting a new grad job in RI...any truth to this? Even if not I think it is probaly worth applying (everywhere!!). Does anyone have any names of hospitals, rehabs..etc on the MA/RI line? Thanks for any input you may have.

You Rock! Thanks!!!! I ended up figuring #2 out on my own but #1 still threw me. *&^% nursing school we haven't even gone over grain conversions yet...leave it to nursing school to throw something in a test that you have not gone over yet...God Forbid if we were to get a 100%!! Sorry, venting..

for some reason I can't figure out these 2 problems. I have the answer but don't know how they got it.... 1: The nurse administered the ordered PRN dose of grains 1/6 morphine sulfate SC. The vial of morphine contains 300mg in 20mL. The nurse drew up______mL into the syringe I know the answer is 0.7mL 2: 200mg of aminophylline in100mL D5W is ordered to run in over 60 minutes. The nurse will set the drip rate at ________microgtt/min. the answer is 100microgtt/min Can anyone show me the breakdown on how to get the answer???? THANKS!!!

I already bought all of my NS books, Tabers, Drug guide etc... NOW I have people saying to me.. Why did you do that? You should of bought a PDA system and you would have all of the books at your fingers tips instead of flipping through books all day long. Here's my Q...If I were to buy a PDA (looking at Palm TX) How do I get the books onto it? Do I have to rebuy them on CD to be able to download them? ***Very tech challenged in case you haven't noticed*** Also for those of you who do have one can you tell me "how" you use it. Here is how I am thinking it will help me...instead of having 50 million papers in my pockets to write down vitals, etc I can just write them on a word/note document on the PDA. If I don't know the definition of a word the RN uses I can click on Tabers type in the word and there it is. For Meds and Labs I can click on those books type in the med or lab (BUN) and it will give me all the info I need right there. Am I right? Anyone have the Palm TX? If I charge it will it last 8hrs for my clinical? I would love your .

Ours is exactly like yours....

thanks for the reply...i am talking about only nursing courses. i have finished all my pre-req and my gpa was a 3.98. i did great. this is the 1st timei got a c on anything (paper/exam/homework) since i have been in school. i knew i would sail through nursing couses like i did in my pre-reqs but it actually see the c+ on my exam really hit me hard. from what other have said c=rn. i am "hoping" that now i know how they test so i will do better next time. i know i knew all the content...it was the test that through me. i have been studing more test q's this time around and bought the saunders nclex review book lots of people on here have recommended. so i am going to pray that it will help on my next exam. wish me luck!

Any of you almost at the end of NS ever get only C's all the way through?? I have had only 1 test so far and studying my butt off and only ended up with a C+. I have no self confidence in myself, never have, so I am already preparing myself for flunking out, and looking into what bartender schools are around me.... I know...I have to change my attitude or else I "will" flunk out. Everyone says you passed! That is great. Well I think is really S&*#s! So is there any one out there that has only gotten C's and can give me some incouragement? I really need it right now...

i just knew in my heart that i was going to fail out because i got a 79 instead of an 80. omg!! how funny. on my first test i thought i got a 78 and was devastated. then i actually ended up with a 79 and felt sooo much better. what a nut i am... and i know that if i got an 80 i would of been so proud of myself. glad i am not the only one who feels like a 78/79 is the end of their nursing career.

Awesome. Thank you! I pretty much study the same way but I read the chapter the night before we discuss it in class, so I have an idea of what we are talking about. But then I don't reread the chapter while I am rewriting my notes from the pp presentations. Maybe I should?? Since you get A's I value your opinion (or anyones). What do you think is better before or after the lecture to read the Chapter??

What was the name of the book you got?

why am i getting so screwed up with temps?? normal oral (mouth) temps are 96.2-100.4 right? so what are normal temps for rectal, axillary and tympanic? i know they are not the same...you have to add 0.9 or subtract 0.9 to one or the other..ahh! it is written so confusing in my book. can someone just simplify it for me? oh 1 more: conduction and convection. tell me if my examples are right: conduction (transfer by direct contact) - ice packs, body heat, tempid baths convection (currents of air or water) - fan if i am right, i am getting confused on why tempid baths fall under conduction..why isn't it convection? the definition is currents of air or water? what would be an example of water for convection? thanks!!

Look at the Mass boards about finding jobs...

thansk! i looked at this thread before i sent my post and a lot of the sites would not pulll up.

I think my other problem is that I am getting ahead of myself. We haven't even gotten into the nursing process yet (next week). Hopefully once I actually study what the nursing process is (not just listening to bits and pieces from different people) it will all come together. A friend of mine is a nurse and I am meeting with her this week to go over testing Qs. THANKS!!

I have their book called... A Course review for Critical Thinking and Test Review" It was recommended by my school. The Qs in this book are the ones that I am talking about that I can't get right. I have noticed that in serveral places they talk about reading the book you mentioned. I had it in the back of my mind to purchase it but was wondering if they were only promoting nother book of theirs to sell. I think after reading your post I will purchase it. Q- any idea what the difference of that book and the Sauder's book everyone talks about on here is?

Just started NS and have my 1st exam in 2wks. I am up to date with all my readings and studing and feel that I doing okay with everything so far. I understand just about everything I am studing and am doing good in all my labs so far...so how come when I practice some test questions I get them all wrong?? It is so frustrating! When I read the rationales I can kind of see why I answered it wrong but not to the extent that next time I know I will answer it right. I have been told that the test are very strange and unlike anything I have ever seen before (that's for sure) and that I have to start thinking like a nurse. How do I study on how to think like a nurse?? Any help???

Just started NS and need a refresher on what parasympathetic and sympathetic mean. Also what vasoconstriction and vasodialation mean. I looked them up in Tabers and found definitions but just need a simpler explanation of them...please??? Thanks

Thanks for your reply. I will look into it..however, real quick, do you know how long it took and how much it cost?? Thx again!

Hi...A friend of my mother is looking into becoming a CNA and asked me to help her. I know nothing about this and am looking for some sort of direction. Does anyone know where you go to school to become one (she lives on the South Shore)? How long it takes? How much it costs? Need a HS diploma or GED? Salary? AnNy other info you can think of would be GREAT!

This makes me feel so good. I am starting RN school tomorrow so I know I have plenty of time (and let me pass) before I have to worry about getting a job. All I have been reading on this site is how nobody can find jobs...and my thought was exactly what you wrote. There "has" to be some sort of job out there for new RNs. Sure everyone wants the big hospitals in Boston but aren't there other places to get jobs too?? At least to start and get some experience and then I would hope it would be much easier to get into a Boston hospital. Right??