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I had her during a night shift and I made sure we positioned her in a way that would not kink the tube. During night shift I felt that something was wrong almost, and that she should be putting more out. Maybe I'm thinking too much. The patient was very elderly, but appear comfortable. What would happen if the chest tube was set to wall suction, but was still leaking around the dressing. Would that mean the tube pulled a bit? Or the tube was clogged? Just wondering.

I work on a med-surg tele floor since I've became a nurse two years ago. I loved it at first, but now it's becoming a bit mundane and I feel like an ICU job would better suit me. At times when I working the floor I feel more like a babysitter than a nurse. The only thing that scares me away from the ICU would be feeling "inadequate" again after finally becoming comfortable with telemetry nursing. Oh and I really don't like seeing upset family memebers, which I'm sure there's more off down on ICU. Both have there ups and downs I guess.

I was working a night shift and taking care of a patient that needed a chest tube due to a pleural effusion; the order was to keep the chest tube to gravity drainage. After a couple hours I noticed the dressing became saturated so I called the pulmonary doctor and he told me to change the order to wall suction, 20cm. I set up the suction, changed the dressing, then reported off the day nurse. During the day the patient drained a large amount of fluid. I worked again that night and she only put out about 100. I worked again today and noticed when looking at her I&Os that her chest tube output was significantly less during the 7p to 7a shift when compared with day shifts. I was wondering why this is happening, or is this just a random coincidence? I was a pleur-vac sahara chest tube drainage system, the one that doesn't use water.

Yep, the trick worked for me.

The trick does work! I'm a RN! Honestly if you're consistently scoring at least a 55% on Kaplan you're golden. NCLEX is easier. I never really believed people on here that said that, but they were right. Trust me. The questions where the same set up, but some of the answers were so random. I was thinking "who in their right mind would pick that?" Anyways, good luck and just be confident. You'll feel stupid afterward for stressing out.

I know you were asking Mia98, but i'll tell you my story. I took my yesterday afternoon, took 100 questions, and the "trick" worked for me. I got the message "Our records indicate that you have recently scheduled the exam. Please contact your Member Board for further assistance. Another registration cannot be made at this time". I'm assuming thats a good sign. Kaplan helped immensely, the questions I had were just like the ones in the Qbank. My scores for kaplan were not great either. I averaged a 55 to 65 I'd say on the Qtrainer, and a 58% on with Qbank with all of the questions completed. Many people on this website have said that kaplan is harder than the NCLEX, and I couldn't agree more. The most important thing is to do all the Qbank, read why you got ones wrong, and be confident when taking the test. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE, and I hope that trick is right! I didn't think I'd fail, and I sure didn't feel like I failed after taking it. Kaplan is that thank for that.

I got the same message! "Our records indicate that you have recently scheduled this exam. Please contact your Member Board for further assistance. Another registration cannot be made at this time." I took my test today at 1:15pm and its only 5pm. I think its a good sign for us. :)

Oh and does anyone know if the "drag statements in their proper order" type questions are considered to be high level questions?

I took my test today as well. Did you end with the higher level questions? And I wouldn't stress today, there's nothing you can do about the test results... stay calm and hope for the best! Hope we both passed...

how long after taking the NCLEX do you have to wait before trying this trick?

I was wondering if passing the ATI predictor with a "84% pass rate" is a good indication of passing NCLEX. Everywhere i've read here said that people got at least a 95% chance of passing. Is it similar to the NCLEX?

Yeah I'm going to start writing the things I've missed down... that seems like a good idea. I also own the NCLEX made incredibly easy book. I find those questions to be so much easier than Kaplan (maybe thats why they call the book "incredibly easy"). Is Kaplan more similar to the real test? Thanks for the advice everyone.... let me know your results!

I take the NCLEX on 8/3. I, like everyone else, have been preparing for a LONG time. I took the Kaplan review class, and I'm unsure if it was helpful.... my scores seem so low! I have gotten these scores on the Question Trainer Test: Test 1 - 52 Test 2 - 60 Test 3 - 48 Test 4 - 58 Test 5 - 54 I still need to take the other two. My Q-bank score (with half of the questions done) is a 60%. These scores seem too low that its scaring me. Did others score the same and pass? Should i reschedule? I don't know what more to study or do. Ugh My readiness exam was a 64%. I'm so confused as to what to do... please help!