Raevyn

Can someone tell me the differnece between Higher and Lower type questions on the Nclex. I hear a lot of talk about that. I heard that Math questions are lower type questions and if you didn't have any of those you did okay. I couldn't really derc...

Egads!! In our program we are to pick a family and interview them in their home. We are to do a health and Family History study and write a paper in APA with our findings. We have over six pages of questions we ask the family members. I don't have ...

I was a CNA for 4 years then an Extern for a year before I became a RN, and let me tell ya.. we Ran our butts off... we were there... we just ran and ran and ran and ran, I never sat down for a minute.. and quite frankly, the only time I was in the c...

What I like best about My hospital is that I can choose. I wanted to picke the hardest place to be and for me that was ICU. Yet I got the opportunity to be in what is called the ICU/CCU pool. I get to work ICU, CCU, Telemetry, Respiratory, ER, an...

I have worked both the ER and the floor, and didn't really have an appreciation for the ER until I worked there.. God bless you ER nurses... because.. I just do not have the stomach for it.. I am a ICU nurse.. Love it there... but it is quite frustra...

Hi Everyone!!! My name is Renee (but you can call me Rae) I am a new first Semester ADN nursing student... Nursing 101... Egads... scared to death of the fist test.. its not like any other classes I have taken. They are all over the place... I am a...

I passed... I passed I passed... I passed... I passed... Dear .. I passed.... doing the hoopdie dance... I passed.... I was sick as a dog yesterday when I came out from the exam... OMG.. I still can't believe I passed!!!!!! :nurse: I am so hap...

Hey.. if it got harder and harder I bet you passed.. no worries.. you would worry if it got easier and easier... call the CA nursing board.. or their website.. see if the results are there... I got my results the next day on the Kentucky board of nur...

congratulations!!!!!! i just found out i passed my nclex today... i thought i was too old to go back to school and do this... how exciting for you... its hard... it is, i won't lie... but it will be worth every effort you put into it. i am so excited...

besides studying night and day for 2 months..LOL I used the Saunders Nclex Review, Exam Cram CAT test from the Rineheart Review. I didn't go to the Review.. because I couldn't afford it... I bought the book of Ebay for like 10 bucks. I also had pu...

Im a new Grad, I started my job in CCU/ICU Pool a month ago. It is true.. some nurses eat thier young.... but it all depends on whether or not you have backbone to stand up to them. I may be a new nurse... but I am also nearly 40 years old.. with ot...

Hey guys.. that is not the questions she asked..LOL Hey... Im right there with ya... I got probably 3 of those questions myself today. I only had 75 questions.. no math, I did get several medication questions, several teaching, tons of maternity an...

I am so sick this morning.... I made a med error on my next to last day at preceptor. I have been doing so well... I graduate in 7 days.... I am so sick to my stomach right now.. I don't know what to do. Was with the preceptor... apparantly the MAR ...

Well I spoke to soon!! I got hired yesterday.. I will be working as a RN in the ICU/CCU Pool.... I am super hyped!!! HUGS Rae

I am in my last semester GRADUATION IN 30 DAYS.. WOOHOOO (um okay.. with that being said.. heheheh)... we have 5 men in our nursing class... and you know what.. I would take them as a nurse before I would let some of the women in my class take care ...

Well.. I have a wonderful husband... and on the days I work.. his boss lets him come in late so he can take the kids to school. I sleep while they are in school and I get up just before the bus brings them home. Yes.. night shift usually pays a sh...

There might be some mom's that feel its bad... but I love it. I have 4 kids, working nights (only three days a week mind you) gives me the flexability to be with them, save a fortune in Daycare... (of course.. when the kids are younger, you will nee...

I graduate December 9th... I do not have a job yet... the hospital where I work said that all the Externs would be given a job .. they just didn't know where... I talked to my director in Oncology... (not really where I want to work) and that is wh...

We are taught in our class to use the 0.5 instead of the 1/2.... I think the instructors are being an ogre about it... but hey... I have had hairy ogre's for instructors in my two years.... they should fight it... I would... either that.. or call the...

I am about to graduate, and I have been working nights for a few years as a CNA then as a nurse extern. You couldn't pay to me to work days. I have been there during clincials.. and its just pure chaos. I love nights, because there isn't any manage...

I did, I quite after my 2nd semester, when I got hired as a nurse extern on the Oncology Floor. I am finishing up my last semester right now... I still get cravings.. its been a year.. since I quit... but I keep thinking about all the cancer patien...

I do understand your frustrations... but I look at it like this.... and perhaps its my old age setting in ..LOL If my project were a patient... what would I do? Would I do the work the others were suppossed to do in order to help the patient to giv...

Nursing school takes up more of my time than I had realized. Lets just say.. the beast has swallowed me whole! LOL I have been feeling really down for the last few weeks I guess its a quality time issue for me. The nursing beast is very stingy and I ...

I am a member of Phi Theta Kappa. Mostly one of the benefits is scholarships. But what I have also found, is that with Phi Theta Kappa, your income levels are higher and you tend to get the better jobs. You should be really proud of yourself for yo...

Um... no where in her statement did she STATE she was a nurse. She said she was an MA ... sheesh..