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Thank you so much scottaprn. Your response has been very helpful in getting my thinking.

Hello, I am in need of help with starting my thesis. I'm a first semester in the Family NP school and we're starting the topic of our thesis (not the exact topic yet but narrowing down a few ideas with the topic of our choice). I'm highly interested in Palliative/Hospice Care. Our thesis has to be built around Primary Care Practice. I am having a hard time bridging the gap between how Palliative/Hospice care in relation to Primary Care and how to put that into a thesis topic I can write about. I am not looking for direct answers but rather ideas that I can get some light from. I've done a few search and the only thing I can find much of in relation to Primary care is Palliative/Hopsice Care referall from primary care providers. Insights? Suggestions?? Please let me know what you think. Thank you!

Hello ALL. I just recently started on a NICU unit and had just a BRIEF overview on the 20% rule of medication administration. Do all NICU units use this rule???? I am very confused as I am trying to work on some problems right now. All the diluting and etc!! If the syringe size is 1 mL, minimum accuracy is 0.2 mL. Will someone please try to explain this to me or be kind enough to share an example?

Congrats KickPushCoast! What's your secret (if you have any -- Tips, etc)?? Thanks and congrats again!

Thank you so much for the reply! Once every week or every other is not bad at all. What I would really like to know and forgot to ask is, how is your work schedule like, in regards to the workload of the BSN-DNP program? Are you working full time/part time? I would like to know so I can have an idea of a work-school schedule. Thank you!

That is great! I'm glad you didn't actually listen to your nurse manager on this one. Would you be able to tell me some of your stats (GPA, etc) and are you doing this program through a regional campus or are you actually in SF? Thanks!

Hello! Just wondering how this all worked out for you?? Would you be able to fill me in? Thanks!

how do you know you were rejected from icn?

Yes, I did.

Took mine June 21st. From CA and no results yet Plus been trying to get a hold of BRN through phone but no answer.

Are you from CA? Referring to the Pearson Vue trick, I did do it and it gave me the good pop up but not confident until my name is posted on BRN website :-) Good luck to you, hope everything works out in the end for you!

Nope, no results yet. I took mine the June 21st. A lot of the people who took it before I did have already found out their results! A classmate who took hers the same day I took mine found out she is licensed TODAY. There's only one classmate who took his before mine and is still waiting too. I don't know what's going on at the BRN in Sacramento or how they are handling transcripts, etc. IDK but I just want to know my official results! My school sent out my transcripts on June 12th so by now they should have received it...really don't know what the hold up is and I'm having a hard time contacting them. I'm gonna wait it out until another week and if no results yet, I'm gonna make sure I get into contact with them.

Thanks for the info :-) Good luck!

May I ask what unit you applied for? And even though she told you that your application has been forwarded to the hiring manager, did your application status actually change online? Thanks! :-)

I would not worry about any pharm meds. I would recommend to understand side effects of psych meds though. I had a lot of those (akinesia, tardive dyskinesia, parkinsonism, etc). Know to differentiate those.

I can not remember exactly the steps but I received a letter in the mail from BRN, this letter was NOT my att. However I signed up with Pearson Vue thinking that the letter I received in the mail was my ATT, but by the time it got to a screen that asked me for my ATT number, I realized the letter was not my ATT and the letter had no number provided for me to continue on with registering. I also had to sign up with Pearson Vue using my email address. I checked my email about 5 minutes later after registering an account with Pearson Vue and they provided me with an ATT through my email (this was immediately after I signed up with Pearson Vue). It was a really weird process.

Twinie_26. I am from Fresno :) You can apply for any externships starting 2nd semester so I would recommend applying after first semester ends. Apply like you would any other jobs (online and submit an application). If you have connections and resources with nurse managers at any Fresno hospitals you want to work in, go see them if their department is hiring. A lot of the hospitals have externships posted up. I had one and it was extremely beneficial. Anyone here work in NICU and would be willing to give me recommendations on how to get started in there? I am a new grad! Thanks.

Hurst is definitely the way to go. Strategy wise, I would not pay a class to learn strategies...you can go to your local bookstore (barnes and noble) to purchase their Kaplan Strategies book and it is just as beneficial as any Strategy course but cheaper! Hurst is great in that everything you really need to learn for content is provided for you. Although I had Saunder's book and it was great too...it had a lot of information but it was just overloaded with WAY too much content for a normal person to really learn and understand. Hurst is precise, well put together, and easy to learn. But, don't be mistaken, like I said in previous threads...don't just think listening to it once will help you retain the material. You really do have to work hard and study to retain all the content information. Plus, all the 5th day materials provided in Hurst is so beneficial. Especially all the infection control materials, etc. Use those to your own benefit. Good luck. I truly felt walking out of NCLEX that if you knew your material, you would pass with no problems.

Hello all... For those who live in CA and recently just took NCLEX, how long did it take you to know your results if you passed or not? I took my NCLEX 6 days ago and nothing has been posted up yet...I also know of classmates who took theirs before I did (up to 4 weeks before I've taken mine) and they too, don't know their results yet (no mail, no names on BRN website, no nothing!)....there are only 2 students in my class who have known for sure they passed. I called to ask if and when my school sent my transcripts to the BRN. My school told me transcripts were sent June 12th...I am assuming transcripts should have reached BRN by now. I am sure they have a bulk of mail to sort through but anyone who just took NCLEX recently experiencing the same thing?? Thanks.

Me too...any other news yet, anybody?

I personally think it's about evaluating yourself through nursing school. Evaluate how you learned, how you did on exams, how you did on practice exams (for us, it was ATI Exams to let us know how we're doing every semester). Base your readiness on that. You know yourself better than anyone else. If your classmates are taking it earlier, doesn't mean you should or even if you are one of the first to take it out of your classmates or peers...just make sure you know yourself well enough to be sure that you are prepared. And you will probably never feel 100% ready. 2 days before I was scheduled to take my exam, I was going to reschedule it but at the end, couldn't because the next opening test date was 2 weeks away and I knew that would be too long for me. I spent a good 4 weeks of studying. And going into my exam, I still didn't feel 100% ready but I felt I knew enough and prepared enough for it. Good luck with yours, I am still waiting for my "official results".

I know exactly what you mean about being restless. I too, went up to 200-something questions and I felt at a point I just couldn't even really focus or think straight anymore. Besides Hurst, I also used Kaplan's Strategies book....it has a section that really helped me with "priorities and delegation". I purchased it from Barnes and Noble...if it's something you can't afford or don't feel like you want to purchase too many books...go to a local Barnes and Noble store, see if they have that book available...sit down somewhere in the store or coffee shop and read through it to help you...it honestly really helped me along with re-listening and going over hurst again and again.

Did you go over the Hurst Infection Control Materials on their 5th day materials (the ones available online; not in the book)? There is a great document that shows exactly what disease matches which precautions (standard, contact, airborne, droplet). I advise you to not just skim through those, because you will not be able to retain all that information by just reading or skimming through it....at this point, those material is really about memorization. I'm sorry you got the credit card page. But I know you will do great your next time around!!! Just keep focused and remove yourself from all distractions. Take it day by day and don't over exhaust yourself with studying materials. Best of luck.

Are you talking about the live or online hurst? The online one, it's completely independent work...meaning you do it all yourself (someone is not there physically lecturing) and I believe you have to print the handouts yourself (not 100% on this but I am assuming you have to). But there are ALOT of handouts to print out if you choose this option. I did the live hurst review, where I went to a lecture on my campus for 3 days straight from 8-4pm. And then after those 3 days, there are 2 days of more materials I had to listen to on their website by myself. Plus, the live review comes with an actual book, where I didn't have to print anything out with my own ink/printer. I'm a visual learner so being in an actual lecture helped me. I don't think I would have done as well If I had done just the online hurst. But we are all different types of learners so whatever your learning style is, you should think about if you would rather do the online hurst independently or the live hurst in a lecture setting. I really liked hurst though. It was just straight up content that was very simple. But please don't think that you can just listen to these hurst lectures once and know it, it took me a lot of time and dedication to really review each system and each day out of the hurst book to know my stuff and understand it. Comparing my hurst review book to my saunders review book....the saunders book is overloaded with material/content and again, hurst is simple and straight forward.

I just took my NCLEX today :) and did Hurst Review! with Saunders Book and Kaplan Exam Strategies book. I liked it because the simplicity of the content put out there. Coming out from the exam, I truly felt....if you knew your content, you would have no problem! My only real issue was that I passed the 75 Q mark and went to 200-something questions before it shut off, I started freaking out because I was in the 200 question mark and that's when I felt hypoxic HAHA and couldn't focus as well as I knew I could. But I did the Pearson Vue trick and got the "good pop up". I took 5 of the 6 Hurst Q Reviews 3 days before taking the NCLEX today. I was freaking out about percentages too (even though Hurst people told us not too!) but after taking the NCLEX, I am stressing to you...do NOT stress over the percentage on these Q reviews. If you can go back and really review and understand the rationales on the questions you missed and go over that section in the book if you still don't understand the question, you will be just fine. My averages on the 5 Hurst Q reviews were in the mid 80's out of 125 questions...which is about 60-something percent (that's why I was freaking out! but was trying to keep in mind about how they told us to not focus on the percentage). Good luck to you.