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I take my exam on next Tuesday. The LaCharity book was a requirement for one of my courses my last semester. I was able to answer most questions in the book without difficulty. I also am using the Kaplan book but not having such good luck with it. I think it might've confused me more than anything. I understood what the book was explaining but still only answered a few questions correctly. I know others who have liked the Kaplan book though. I think it just depends what works for you. Good luck when you take your exam!!!

Good luck to you on your exam! I have just become so upset because I have been reading a Kaplan book on test-taking strategies and I've read the entire book and started taking the exam. Of the first 3 questions, I only answered 1 right! Has anyone else used this Kaplan NCLEX-RN book and know if their questions are similar to those on boards?

I finished my ADN on November 13 and am taking the NCLEX on Tuesday, January 13th. I am sooo nervous about this! I was not this nervous when I took my LPN boards. I was wondering, has anyone received the minimum number of questions and failed? I've heard it can happen, but don't know of anyone it's happened to. Also, has anyone who received the maximum number of questions passed? The people I know who received max questions failed. My heart goes out to all who have taken NCLEX and not passed. My best friend did not pass the first time and I know what a hard time she had with it. Good luck to all who are getting ready to take their exams!

i am in my last semester of my adn program and am doing a preceptorship in the er at my local hospital. i have learned so much. i have gotten to do numerous ivs, lab draws, catheters, assist docs with sutures, fractures, colds, chest pains, and the list goes on and on! i suggest doing clinicals somewhere where you might want to work when you are finished. good luck!

i understand exactly how you feel. i too was in the same boat. i did not end up getting any private loans. however, my friend has borrowed from sallie mae and is paying her interest while in school and she needed an extra $1500 dollars until graduation in november. sallie mae told her that she too would need a co-signer. she didn't understand, either, since she had been making payments to them. she was fortunate enough that her bank loaned her the money at 2.9% interest! i wonder if it is tougher to obtain loans now because the economy is not good. i wish you luck in obtaining the funding you need for school!

i think you must decide if you like ltc. i am an lpn and will graduate with my adn in november. i currently work in a ltc facility and absolutely love working with geriatrics. however, 90% of my classmates hate ltc and do not want to continue to work in their ltc facilities. there are drawbacks to working in ltc such as not getting as much experience starting ivs, performing lab draws, ng tubes, post-op care, and the list goes on. however, i do get the opportunity to do skilled nursing procedures at my ltc facility. med-surg would allow you to gain a lot of valuable experience, but is not suited for everyone. i say do whatever you want. as a nurse, you could work a job for a while then if you decide it's not for you, there are numerous other opportunities for you to explore. good luck in whatever you choose!

i graduated from a vocational school in july 2007. i got my lpn license in august 2007. i began working at a local nursing home at the end of july as charge nurse on the 3-11 shift. i am currently going to school to become an rn (hopefully i will graduate in november!!). i had one of my co-workers (who was part of nursing administration) ask me where i was going to work when i got done with school. i told her i hadn't decided yet and was waiting to see how future clinical rotations went. she says to me, "if i were you, i wouldn't stay around here. you will loose your skills." she also went on to basically tell me it would be a waste for me to stay at the nursing home. however, i enjoy ltc. i like my patients to be excited to see me when i come in to work on fridays (i only work a 16 hour shift on fridays). we do have skilled patients with feeding tubes, nasty wounds, ivs, etc. my don recently asked me about my plans after graduation. i told her about the remarks the other nurse said and she was upset and wanted to know who told me that! (i of course didn't tell her) i thought i wanted to be an ob nurse. however, i am doing my ob clinical rotation now and find it very boring! med-surg i find stressful (at our hospital anyway!). in ltc i have plenty of work to keep busy but don't have tons of other people to trip over and asking for me to do things all the time and orders aren't constantly changing. with baby boomers aging, we are going to need ltc nurses. i say do what you want to do, not what your friends, family, co-workers, etc. think you should do. they aren't the ones doing the work. it takes special people to work ltc.

i started ihcc in november 2007. i hopefully will graduate november 2008 and be able to take the nclex-rn as long as i can pass! i, along with several of my other friends from missouri, did not receive our first year of nursing school at ihcc. we feel as if the program outcasts us and makes us feel like we don't know anything because we did not go to school there our first year. several times they say, "get your stuff from last year," or "remember that from last year?" we also feel as if we are not taught anything. we feel like we must teach ourselves. some of the students who went to ihcc for their first year do not feel that way. but, we have heard numerous times, "we went over all this stuff last year." so maybe second year is just a review for them of first year. we were told by several people who went there several years ago that it was a great program. however, we have heard that in recent years the school's nursing program is not what it used to be. i am thankful that the accelerated rn program is just 1 year and that the prerequisites were easy to obtain online. i wish everyone who is in nursing school much success! i know how stressful it is! i can't wait to graduate and start my career as an rn!