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I passed my NCLEX last Wednesday and showed up on my BON website as an RN as of today. I thought I'd be over the moon, but I am actually just petrified beyond belief. I almost don't want to work as a nurse because I don't want to do anything to eve...

Oh no, that has got to feel like a punch in the gut! To finally be told you have something and then have it yanked away. This whole job search thing is very much a roller coaster. Hopes up! Hopes down! Hopes up! Hopes down! Sigh.

I do realize the job market is tough right now and employers have their pick of whoever they want to hire, yet I can't help but feel perplexed ever since I started looking for work. I have interviewed multiple times at the facility where I want to w...

That does make sense. I see what you mean. I do have a couple of their e-mail addresses. I e-mailed one right after my interview with her and got no reply at all. There is one who seems very nice and might answer me. I don't have any contact inf...

It's been several weeks now with no more interviews. Would they think I was weird if I called them back now at this late date and asked them to reconsider, or ask if there was anything I could do to improve? I am so tempted to call. I guess what I...

Hi, there. This is a common story, I guess, but here goes. I got a job at a nursing home and have only been there a few days. I had a few days of orientation, then one day when I was on my own and it was awful. They have been super nice and given ...

I am still struggling. I even tried to quit but they want to keep me and gave me another week of training. It's just still so miserable and now I feel even more guilty if I quit after I said I'd keep trying and they have invested this much time in ...

I took it on June 1 and felt like mine had a lot of SATA. I didn't keep count, but it was more than I was expecting for some reason. It stopped at 75 questions, I got the "good" pop-up, and yesterday my quick results said I passed. Now I just have...

I just got home a couple of hours ago from taking mine, as well. I think it is normal to feel like you failed. They told us that in the review course I took, that the vast majority of NCLEX test takers feel like he** when they get done. I could ha...

No job yet, and it's making me really blue.

I have a Bachelor's and am about to graduate with an Associate's in nursing. I wasn't eligible for any grants but was able to get loans after filling out my FAFSA. If you have a low enough income, you might be eligible for help through your state. ...

Now it's 10 days as of today.

I would be interested to see one of these $5 pins. I had to pay about $100 for mine!

We pay for our own pin directly. I guess that's better, in a way, than having the cost of the pin rolled into tuition. At least you have the choice of whether or not to spend the money on it this way. If you can't or don't want to, you can still a...

I think a lot of people in my class are feeling this way, me included. Only about a month to go and it's like pulling teeth to make myself do my clinical paperwork. And for some reason, my skin is acting up right now too. It's kind of a mess and I...

I guess I was parading around with a clipboard part of the time! So glad it's over. I was able to offer help - this floor has more total-care patients than I've seen before. Did my little presentation at the end of today, too. I feel good about...

Final semester. We are each going to be assigned a day (actually I think 2 days) during clinical to practice the "team leader" role. This is for a grade. There's a whole long list of objectives to meet, but the gist of it is that the team leader s...

That's what I'm afraid will happen - that I will end up standing around uselessly! And that I will pester my team members too much - Do you need anything? Need help? How about now? How about now? On day 2 I will have one patient of my own and t...

Approximately 10 more weeks... I kinda feel like this right now: :dzed: There's a bunch of stuff all coming up at once (what else is new); a presentation, 2 tests, a paper, a quiz.

Okay, this coming week is our last week on this floor and it's finally my turn to be the team leader. I will update when it is done. It's looking like I will *have* to actually assign the patients and not let the other students take their pick. I ...

That sounds like it would work perfectly. Unless my instructor says otherwise, I think I will try this.

Thank you. I'll try to get back and post about this again. I'm always on here, LOL. At least lurking. Thanks. Yeah, you bring up an interesting point that I thought of as well. The objectives specifically state to assign patients based on each...

I don't get all the hate for rolling backpacks and I don't know what school some of you guys are going to if you don't even need your books. At my school...for one thing, almost all the books are huge. Even just one class worth of books will kill y...

Fifth (and last) semester of an ADN program. No idea where clinicals will be this semester! We don't start school until the 18th and we will be lucky if they tell us then! They might not tell us until right when clinicals are about to start (that'...

One can get Guillain Barre after having a bout of the actual flu, also, not just the flu shot. Just thought I'd throw that in.