gingergirl123

1st off....dont memeorize!!!!!! it wont help....you have to know how to break down the question and not get distracted by the "distractor info" as they tell you in the kaplan books and for me kaplan is the reason i passed as well.....only after failing the 1st time:(

My favorite is when ppl just assume because you have an Rn after your name you know everything! I know it is part of our job the community part of it, but at the same time they are asking us to do what an MD does.....diagnose! and that is not in our scope. I know the general public doesnt know this but its frustrating when i tell them they have to talk to there doc and then they just keep askin ?'s and ?'s and ?'s! HELLO!!! didnt i just say to talk to ur doc?!?! :chuckle

AGREED!!!!! I dont do well in groups (i just end up talking ) thats why the books worked for me. Once you know ur study style you will be good.

I have definatly become familar with CYA in the short time i have had my lisence (although the incident happened while I was workin as a GN. It just seems like admin doent listen or just blows it off and it is becoming increasingly harder to work with her. I fear gettin on her bad side because i have seen her accuse a very good nurse of fibbing in her charting and accused her of falsification and tried to find falsifications in her charting just so she can report her. we have already had nurses leave specifically becasue of her. I worry for my license and my patients.

hello...I was wondering if anyone could give me some idea of how to handle a co-worker(s) whom you feel you can not trust. I have had incedences where other nurses have had problems with her and I have had one rather large indcident myself where I almost took the fall or her lack of proper nursing care. I work in a reletivley low risk L&D unit, which in itself is intimidating, but i just feel like every word that comes out of this ladies mouth is gonna come back to bite me if i listen to it. how do i handle this being reletivly new to the L&D world and not make an enemy out of her?

ok...heres what i think....i failed the 1st time i took it. horribly! i went home and studied my lippincotts and nclex made easy books, but the one that i found helped the absloute best is the kaplan strategy book. this one actually helped me break down the question to see what it was asking so that i could figure out the answer whether i knew about the content of the question or not. one person said that all kaplan did was cover stratgies and not content....unfourtunatly that is how the nclex is as well. it does want to know what you know about a disease it wants to know what your going to do in a certain situation based on what you know about the nursing process. if you dont have the stratagies (that i found kaplan taught) then you are walkin blind. i thought they were the best at helping me pass and i only bought the book...:heartbeat p.s. i failed in 75 the 1st time and then passed in 75 after the kaplan book.