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Hi. I am sorry for your experiences and how they have affected your health. I praise you for still pushing through despite all these. I know many of us want to make difference, reason why we enter this profession. I will recommend that you explore other things nursing has to offer: school nursing , occupational nursing, community public health where you have the opportunity to see lives transformed. Have you considered going into legal nursing to use this opportunity to be the voice of other nurses who are going through this? This is a time for you to be a change leader. You can also explore teaching nursing students so they can be better charge nurses and managers... Bedside nursing is not the only situation to experience 1:1 care. I worked in mes surg before switching to community public health, I have seen pregnant mothers have their babies, graduate college, I am still connected with them and their babies, even though I am not their nurses anymore they send me baby pics when they start PK... I have seen community transformed because of our advocacy... I am hoping that you have open a legal case on this hospital because of the HIV case, they should have never assigned a float nurse to that patient...I am hoping you brought the situation to the state nursing board to be heard...sometime the damage is done but as nurses we need to make sure we speak up so it does not happen to other nurses again. Nurses like to be best advocates for patients but so often we fail to be advocate for ourselves or others in the profession. Even if you lose your job by speaking up, keep on speaking up about the issue and the victory will come, you may not work there to enjoy the fruit but it is a joy to know that others have better work condition because of your work...it has been so long I have not post anything here just reading but your case makes me write because people like you we want to keep in nursing. I hope you take time to think and explore other opps in the profession. I appreciate you and contribution you have made to the profession and difference in patient's life. I pray for emotional, mental and physical healing. You are courageous!!!!

Hello, I am so sorry that you are feeling this way and all we can do is encourage you and advise you to try other options but it's up to you to listen. I seriously will recommend the Kaplan review course. It sounds like you study a lot, and all you need is to understand the concept, and the structure of the NCLEX questions and how to answer them. You need to take strategies class, and Kaplan will help you with this. After taking NCLEX-RN, i told all my classmates and friends that there is no textbooks that can better prepare you for the NCLEX. I really mean "BETTER" prepare you, of course you need to do many questions, use different books to study. But when you take the exam, you will not see same scenario or same choices. So you need to use elimination process, ignore disruptive choices, non related choices to the topic.... to come up with the correct answer. Even if you don't know the answer and you guess, your choice is not gonna bring you below the line of success. I have friends who are bad test takers, and the first thing they did when we got done with school was to take the Kaplan. Again, make this sacrifice and try the Kaplan don't think about the money, it will be worhty, you will make some friends there and you can study together. You really need help, and you try it on your own twice already and it did not work. GET SOME HELP. Good Luck, Thanks.

Thank you, All these infos do help. I did apply and will see. Thanks again.

Thank you, good luck and let me know how it goes . I don't live in NC either but my plan is to relocate to NC this summer. Thanks

Hello Nuwbee25 and wildcatfanRN. Can you tell me about PCMH application process and how long it took them call you for interview. I want to apply also. Did you send letters of references and what else. what position did you aplly for ( staff nurse I). Give infos that can guide me. Thank you.

I know University of Iowa has all courses online but you have to do 2x 8 hrs clinical day for community health in where you live. But they admit students for this program once/year, and the program start in June. Check uiowa.edu and you can talk to the admission staff or e-mail them if you are interested. Good Luck