~Mi Vida Loca~RN ASN, RN

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    Sometimes I have a hard time NOT being judgmental..

    Sorry for the poor formatting and grammar. My iPad, I am convinced, loathes
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    Sometimes I have a hard time NOT being judgmental..

    At the end of the day you have to remember that it's your job to provide great care to the kiddo. The parents have no bearing on you doing that. It can be. A scary stressful time for them and...
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    What would you have done?

    I am shocked how lax some of these programs are with tests. It's like inviting people to cheat. Crazy. I Can't imagine us ever having Internet access during our tests or self
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    Nclex RN June 2011 lets study together.

    I didn't really have time to prepare because I wasn't planning on taking it so soon. I did the Kaplan questions for the 2010/2011 edition. Honestly, the first part of that book that explains how the...
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    Nclex RN June 2011 lets study together.

    75. Number 75 was my first math question. I hit enter and the computer turned blue and I panicked and wanted to scream for it to give me more questions.
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    Pearson Vue Trick - Does it Work Every Time? Part 2

    Might not have been a mistake. I only had 1 1/2 days to practice questions. I practiced them for probably a total of 6-7 hrs over those 1 1/2 days. I got burnt out and gave up. I didn't plan to only...
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    Pearson Vue Trick - Does it Work Every Time? Part 2

    PVT worked for me. I took it yesterday morning at 8. I got the good pop up. I can't even get quick results until tomorrow morning but my Lic. has already been posted on my states website with my lic....
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    No one can make me leave the student forums!

    Yea reading some of these posts on AN I have realized that I am very fortunate the way our school does it! I ran into a few other students at the testing center from another school and they said they...
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    No one can make me leave the student forums!

    Well apparently it's different for the RN because my Lic. was just posted on the states website with my Lic. Number. I don't even have the option to buy the quick results until tomorrow. LOL Oh well,...
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    No one can make me leave the student forums!

    We got our Transcripts from the school on Thursday. (that was officially the day grades were due) but they work something out for Nursing Students for us to get our Official Transcripts right away. So...
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    No one can make me leave the student forums!

    Thank you! I'm still not leaving though.
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    Nclex RN June 2011 lets study together.

    I did pass. I just found out. IMO the questions weren't focused as much on knowledge base but the overall picture. Some of them you had to know the specific thing being asked and what was normal and...
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    Gloves or not for IV meds?

    Ok so just go summarize my long post to 2 sentences why don't you.
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    Staying up to speed over summer break

    Oh well then that takes the appeal out of it. I already have a shared
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    No one can make me leave the student forums!

    It's official. I passed NCLEX. I am a registered
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    Staying up to speed over summer break

    Dang I Wish my husband would build me my own master bedroom. I would be in heaven. I also probably never come
  17. They should have said young, not a kid. I love when am told I look young. Doesn't happen often. I was mistaken as an older sibling at my sons high school conference. Granted I did have him at 16. But...
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    Gloves or not for IV meds?

    It's always covered with a big piece of tagaderm so the insertion site isn't exposed. If you aren't exposed to any blood it seems the gloves are just as covered with germs as your hands (if you just...
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    No one can make me leave the student forums!

    Besides now I will need young to eat!!!!! Hahaha
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    Graduated in May 2011 Waiting for ATT..Study Tips?

    I can't believe how long the ATT is for some of y'all state. I picked up my Official Transcripts from school on Thursday. (commencement was Tuesday and final grades weren't officially due until...
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    Nclex RN June 2011 lets study together.

    Just go take the test!!!! Don't put it off, go as soon as you can. I planned on waiting about 2-3 weeks from getting the ATT. Due to other situations I got my ATT and had to take it 2 1/2 days later....
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    No one can make me leave the student forums!

    They do but it's not on there yet. A friend in my class that did the LPN last summer said that it didn't show on the website until 2 weeks when she passed the PN boards. So I will keep checking but I...
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    No one can make me leave the student forums!

    The "good one". The one saying that I can't register again because I already have a spot, I don't remember the exact wording now, but I did the steps in the forum to do the PVT and got what they said...
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    Overwhelmed....will it always be like this?

    LOL I read maybe a total of 3 chapters in all of nursing school. Reading text books just was never something I could commit too no matter how hard I tried. I only ever even opened 1 of my books, 2...
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    No one can make me leave the student forums!

    I've never even been in the graduates section. lol I went to the NCLEX forum Friday when I got my ATT and got freaked out and ran out of that dang forum until after I took the NCLEX today. Now I am...