nascentRN

Sounds fishy, no? I don't know where else to put this, so I'll put it here since I'm in New Jersey. I just got off the phone with some recruiter for a social services staffing agency that places nurses in contract mental health positions. Mind you,...

Howdy, Back at ya! he..he. Oh, geesh, I'm in for a culture shock. lol. I'm from New Jersey. I've only stopped in Texas (Houston I believe) during a fly-over to California. Not to invoke that dreaded buzz word, "flyover country." I don't really li...

Thank you for your response. It's good to hear they were receptive. I was just thinking of perhaps contacting the Board of Nursing in various states I am applying to and then mentioning this somehow in the cover letter. I'm going to try to apply in...

I heard in another thread somewhere that San Antonio is the big one, but since I came into this forum for basically the same information you are requesting, I'll see what others have to say. In the meantime, I going to search for jobs in San Antonio ...

Did you know that all new grad applications sent out in New Jersey get sucked into a black hole? Really, it's true. There's a big black hole somewhere in New Jersey sucking up all the new grad resumes. This is job market scene here is a trainwreck. ...

I'm not reading anymore of this. I'm a new grad with a fresh RN license. I need a damn job. I need to pay bills. Period. I'll take what I can get. I don't expect it to be a party nor a disco nor a CBGB's. I expect lifetime during wartime. (to referen...

Congratulations on getting the job. I wish you the best of luck in your career. I live in New Jersey. I got my license here about two months ago after passing the Nclex on the first shot but have not found anything yet after applying liberally throu...

i hear that! i waited a month or two longer to take the nclex than some family members officiously advised for my own good and was no less annoyed by this either. of course, no one is second guessing anything i did now that i passed the exam the ...

Way to Go!

I think this idea about nclex vs real world is interesting. I can see how it seems unfair to people who have years of clinical experience that the Nclex is its own little universe with its own laws. Nurses with years of experience, as PNs for exampl...

Well, I sat the first time for this river bottom nightmare of an exam (anybody remember emit otter's jug band christmas?) on Monday and walked out of the place feeling utterly bludgeoned. I truly felt clueless on the majority of the questions both i...

I think the best benefit of trying to apply all these test taking strategies during the test is that this forces you to slow down, think things through and you'll wind up using your time more productively than you would have just operating on autopil...

I'm not sure what you mean by incomplete questions and answers. Most of the practice questions I studied were pretty long. Most of the questions I got on the exam surprisingly were VERY short. Not all, but most. As far as there always being two inc...

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt they'll have you counting those damn little boxes to determine intervals or whatever. I seriously doubt they are going to ask you to identify heart block either. If they ever do, I would bet 10 to 1 t...

Thanks!

Hang in there. I walked out of Pearson on Monday and the first thing I said to the first person I talked to was, "If they give me a license, they are CRAZY!" :chuckle I really couldn't have felt any worse about it. Same thing as you guys. Tons of...

One of my classmates recalled a few questions on scheduled immunizations, so I would try to memorize them all. Super tedious and I did it but didn't see any of it on the exam. Neither did I see EKG or fetal monitoring. What, specifically, do you fee...

As far as which predictor is best, I have no idea. The only thing I know is that I scored 76% on the ATI predictor which gave me a 96% chance of passing. Only predictor I took. I passed first time, at 75 questions.

Yes, Trust. I think that is key. Once you stop trusting yourself and your body of knowledge, you are at the mercy of the test and each and every question just gets more nerve wracking, and your answers less thought through. You'll just start taking ...

Thank you. I wish you the best.

Definitely do. Forget about Reductionism! If you try to know everything you only will wind up knowing nothing. There is a reason why great notes are put into outlines! Once you can structure information into general categories, the rest of the inform...

Thanks!

First things, first: You graduated nursing school. I don't know what your school was like, but if it was anything like mine, it was not easy. Only half the people I started with graduated with me. IOW, you have the base of knowledge required to pas...