melj0505

So of course I'm bitter that this horrible economy exists right around the time I'm graduating from nursing school. I will be graduating in May with my BSN and I'm looking for a new grad job in the Philly area, and possibly the surrounding suburbs. I...

you're never going to feel like you're 100% ready to take the test. i didn't use kaplan to study for my nclex at all. i didn't have $$ to pay for an expensive review course. i bought a couple of reviews books on amazon for cheap :) i used the saunder...

from my experience, yes, you will still be doing baths, linen changes, etc. as an RN. as others posted ahead of me, you may not always have a CNA working on the floor. so guess who has to do the bedpans for your patients? you! i think it's important...

i couldn't afford kaplan (or any other review course that costs hundreds of dollars) either. i studied on my own and passed the first try. trust yourself!! i bought a couple of review books on half.com and amazon.com. all of them looked brand new whe...

i passed w/ 75 questions.

I was distraught over whether to take an NCLEX review course or not after I graduated. Two weeks before my graduation, my school gave us a 3 day review course by a company called ERI. Most people haven't heard of them. The review was okay..I didn't f...

i got 7-8 SATA. maybe a couple more. i hate them..85% of the time i'd get them wrong when i was doing practice questions. i think everyone hates them because if you don't check one of the answers then the whole answer is wrong! grrr.

you are awesome!! congrats!!:nmbrn:

just found out with my unofficial results that i passed!!! i am no more worrying!! at like my earlier posts said the trick worked for me and wouldn't let me pay to reregister :)

I took my nclex this AM at 8 o'clock and the trick worked for me around 1 in the afternoon. I know how you feel with feeling like you got the easy questions wrong. When I got home I looked up everything I could remember and it seemed like I got the h...

seems like we both have gotten good news today. i don't think i've ever been more stressed in my life before today. i have tried the trick a few times today and kept getting the popup to contact the state board. i'm still anxious to get my quick res...

finally says 'delivery successful' on my pearsonvue account. i tried to reregister and the gray box came up saying to contact my state board or whatever & wouldn't let me go to the payment page. i hope this trick is right for me!

I took them in Pennsylvania ay 8am. I was out by 9am. I keep checking pearsonvue every 5 minutes waiting to see "delivery successful" i think i'm more nervous now with the waiting than i was before i took the stupid test!!:uhoh21:

thanks for the reply. i took mine at 8am and it still says 'ready for delivery.' seems like everyone else's said 'delivery successful' immediately after they took the exam..except mine!

Alright so I'm freaking out here. I just took the Boards this AM for my RN license. I got 75 questions..walked out of there feeling like crap..now I feel like I'm going to throw up because I don't know what to think! When I log in, my recent appoint...

hehhehe:lol2:

I just graduated in May '09 with my BSN. Here's some tidbits that helped me survive nursing school.. Invest in a medical dictionary and a drug guide book. I probably wouldn't have survived school without those two resources! I have Taber's medical di...

My best friend works as an activities aide in nursing home. Here's some of the stuff she does with her residents during her evening program.. - arts&crafts (painting, etc.) - movie nights (she tries to pick favorite movies from their generation t...

ah, nursing school. that's how it goes. you study your a#@ off, get up at the crack of dawn for clinicals, and do countless care plans. you're always the friend who can't go out at night "sorry guys, i have to study." i study 3-4 hours on most nights...

i used to practice on oranges and apples when i was practing by myself. buy your wife some fruit. in our lab we had those fake arms/cushion things to practice on as well.

Started my prereq's at a CC in the fall '05 when I was 18. Officially started NS at a 4 year university in the fall of '06 when I was 19. I'm 21 now.. And I will be 22 in May when I graduate with my BSN!

i'm really bummed about the job situation new grads are having with this freakin' economy. all through nursing school, i thought i'd have zero problems getting a job because of the 'nursing shortage'. yeah right..that's down the tubes. i graduate in ...

you wonder what it would be like to have an easy major in college..

done..good luck!

I usually work 3-11. I 'float' in my hospital..so depending on which floor I am assigned to the shift may be different..the telemetry floor from the neuro floor, ER differs TCU..etc etc. from It also depends how staffing is..I've been put on a 25-be...