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Hello everyone! I hope you are all having a lovely day. My license is expiring and I was on their website to renew it. When I came across the page that asked me to verify my address, I noticed that on the bottom of the page, it says "Please note, the 'Address of Record' will be disclosed to the public." After searching on the BRN's website, I found this: 'Your name and address listed on this application will be disclosed to the public upon request if and when you become licensed.' It's on all the applications for all types of nursing specialties; from CNS to NP to PHN. (http://www.rn.ca.gov/forms/forms.shtml) Out of curiosity, does the CA BRN actually reveal your address to the public? When I was on the DCA BreEZe page to verify licenses, I didn't find any listed addresses when I searched for my name. Does it mean that the BRN will release your address to law enforcement or just anyone who is requesting for your information? Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you all continue have a beautiful day!

Thank you for your kind and sympathetic comments, as well as your suggestions. I will take these advices and work on my weaknesses. Please keep me in your thoughts that I'll be okay.

Actually, she did write me up for leaving the pt in the bathroom. I can't transfer 6 months from being written up (it's my hospital's policy), so that's out the window. I suppose the main issue I have with mgmt is that B doesn't seem like they had very much hands-on experience. B will pick up on the smallest details but will neglect the big picture, and prefers to focus on the "customer service" aspect of patient care rather than the clinical. When I come to B with certain clinical questions, they will always defer the question to a more seasoned floor nurse. And I've made the mistake of having a talk with B (and this was before the incidents I described above). B goes around in circles and never resolves the issues that I bring up. I've asked my coworkers, and all of them have said that they've had similar experiences with B. To be honest, I really don't think I'm an unreasonable person, but I truly feel suffocated when B is on the floor. It feels as if B is breathing down my neck when I'm working and that's just not how I operate. Thank you for your comments and suggestions, by the way. :)

Hi All, I just need a place to vent where people understand what I'm going through. I've been working on a med-surg floor and am a few months shy of a year. Lately, I've been having some "personality conflicts" with my manager. Long story short, my manager (let's call this person B). has somewhat of a grudge against me, and (in my opinion) has been trying to find all my mistakes and get me in trouble for them. When B and I are both working, B would round on the floor and scrutinize my patients more carefully than the others to see if I've made a mistake or left something undone (that should have been done). If B catches it, B will hunt me down and try to belittle me until I feel as low as dirt. 1. I left my pt who is a fall risk pt in the toilet, and told them to press the button to call once they are done, they've demonstrated compliance with calling before. While I was waiting in the room for the pt to be done, I had to take a phone call. None of the nurses or nursing assistants were any where in sight. A hospital staff was nearby waiting to do a procedure on the pt. I asked if they could just stay in the room with the pt and to call me once the pt's done. When the pt was done, they called. Apparently B saw the pt's call light and wrote me up because I left the pt in the bathroom "alone" and per department policy, we're supposed to stay with the pt during toileting. First of all, the pt was not alone, and secondly, I never asked the hospital staff to help the pt back to bed, merely stay there and make sure the pt doesn't try to get up by themselves, and to call me if they do. 2. The other day, after assessing my pt, I noticed my pt had a fever, but wasn't in any acute distress. I wanted to quickly round on the rest of my pts before I went to pull this pt's PRN med. Well, B rounded on this pt and apparently the family had questions that they didn't ask when I first came into the room. B finds me and tells me to go into the room to explain the pt's plan of care to the pt. I tell B "Okay." 10 minutes later, as I was just about to pull the Tylenol and go into the pt's room, B comes to me and says, "Did you go into the pt's room? The family member had a lot of questions and was very anxious. It's been 10 minutes." I told B that the pt has a fever, and that I will explain what's going on when I go in the room with the Tylenol, but then she said, "Well I want to you to tell the pt what's going on first and then pull the med." Basically, B wants me to go to the pt's room to update them, come back to pull the med, and then go back to the pt's room and give the med. I explained that my priority right then was addressing the fever first, and while I'm in the room giving the med, I will explain what's going on. It doesn't help that our unit is a long hallway, with med room in the middle and the pt all the way down the hall. I'm not lazy, but I like to cluster my care so I can cut down the amount of unnecessary trips I have to make up and down the hall. Also, when I went into the room, the pt and family were not anxious in the least. I explained everything fully, and they were satisfied with my explanations. I think B was the one who was anxious. 3. A while ago, on rounding one morning B found one of the pt's heplock had expired (past the 72-hr mark). I was on the day shift the previous day. B emails me a few days later telling me about this. True, I should have caught that, but since I didn't, the night nurse could have easily restarted another. Or what about the nurse that day? Why does she keep doing this to me?! I really want to quit, but I can't because I haven't reached the 1 year mark. I feel stuck between a rock and a hard place. Coming to work is so painful sometimes. I've never slept well the night before coming to work, never more than 5 hours (sometimes even 2-3 hrs). The worst part is, I generally enjoy working with the pts, and like my coworkers. If management didn't give me this much trouble, I think I might even enjoy my job. Work is torture right now, and the only thing that gets me through each shift is the thought that with each shift, I'm closer to reaching that 1 year. I have to constantly remind myself that this job isn't permanent, but sometimes I'm so scared that I won't get a job elsewhere and will be stuck in this place for much longer. My coworkers who say they're going to stay for 6 months didn't leave until 2 years later. By the way, in case you're curious, my floor has a very, very high turnover rate. Since the beginning of this year, there have been at least 10 nurses (not including nursing assistants) who has left. Every 2-3 months, a group of new grads begin their training here. Once people get their experience, they leave. I'm sorry I made you read all that, but it's nice to get it off my chest. I live alone so I don't really have any one to talk to about this.

note: lenthy post i hope what i write will provide some encouragement or consolation to those have scheduled to take the nclex. after i received my results, i felt an intrinsic need to give back since this thread (as well as the others on allnurses.com) really helped to calm my nerves before i took the nclex. anyway, to give you a little background, i took the kaplan course 2-3 weeks after the last day of my final semester in the program, and the nclex 2 months after my last day. i postponed the exam 3 times out of fear of failing. as for the kaplan course, i signed up for the full online course with the guarantee (lectures, trainers, qbank, etc.). i had classes every day for 2 weeks (approximately 3 hours of class time per day). my scores were as follows: trainer 1 = 68% trainer 2 = 61% trainer 3 = 58% trainer 4 = 63% trainer 5 = 63% trainer 6 = 63% trainer 7 = 62% diagnostic test = 61% readiness test = 62% my qbank average was 55%. i completed 81% (950 questions). on the morning of my test, i was very, very nervous (despite delaying the test 3 times). i ate a light breakfast and left for the testing center. i took my time on every question, making sure to read every word. i read each question twice, and went through every answer choice methodically. the computer turned off at 75 questions, and 4 days later, i found out i passed. as you can see, i did never went above the 65% that kaplan wanted for their students, and i took 3 hours to complete 75 questions, but i passed! for those of you wondering about the content review… when i reviewed my practice tests, i read over all the rationales; that was my content review. to be honest, i didn’t do much else to review. i didn’t use the kaplan book or watch any of the lod courses. i think i was just overwhelmed by the myriad of diseases and disorders. also, i felt the kaplan review book did not give the “bare bones” of each disease. i think the two most important things are to (1) get lots of exposure by completing as many questions as possible, and (2) understand and remember the rationales of each answer choice (regardless of whether you got the question right or wrong). my preceptor told me that in reviewing for the nclex, 75% of the time should be spent doing questions and 25% for content review. in retrospect, i would say it holds true (at least for me). i know this is a long post, but i hope it was helpful. best of luck for those of you taking the nclex! :)

Hi everyone, Recently, I've garnered a lot of interest in applying for Duke University's MSN program. I know their minimum GPA requirement is a 3.0, but there is no information on their mean GPA. I have tried to look into other sources for this information, but to no avail. I hope to gauge my competitiveness or just to know if it's worth going through the application process. If anyone can help me and know of a rough estimate of the average GPA and/or GRE scores or students admitted for their MSN program or better yet, can refer me to those who got into the program, I would greatly appreciate it. Additional Information: I graduated from a BSN program with a cumulative GPA of 3.4. I know it may be on the low side, but what are my chances if I applied? Thank you for your time! Have a lovely day! ?