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I am an RN - MS student in a Nurse Admin Leadership Track. For my practicum, I will be helping the coordinators of a nurse residency program design and develop - hopefully - a robust facilitator curriculum based on the University HealthSystem Consort...

Perhaps a reason for my interest is that my choice of focus would have been education...if it was being offered. So I settled for administration as this was an area where I have had an abundance of experience. Thank you for your encouragement. I woul...

I had included an actual practice question (Mosby) about medication dosage here but realized it could be construed as violating copyright laws, so I am going to try to ask my question without including the actual practice question: The doctor orders ...

I PASSED!!!

I did it first about two hours after I took the exam on 1/6, and have done it a few times since then - still the good pop-up.Don't know how long to keep trying or even if it really really works...

I know - I also got all 265 questions, left convinced I have failed, but got the good one. It just seems impossible that I could have passed. I'm thinking I'll be the first with the good pop-up who failed...

So... I turned 51 yesterday, and took the NCLEX-RN today. I KNOW I failed - went all the way to 265 questions... and now you will see the first person to fail with a good pop-up. Me! My story is a little different - foreign grad (in 1982) been here i...

Where are you taking it? Which state?

So do I, howsoon! All the best!

Congratulations! I am sure you have a huge sense of relief - and what a great way to start the new year! Hope to have the same good news to report next week this time...

Hang in there - hope ypu hear soon! Happy 2011!

I think I will be the same, "good" popup or not, until I receive the official notification. It seems no matter how much studying I do, how many questions I answer, there is SO much I still don't know, and what if all the questions I get are based on ...

Let us know how it goes. I have a week to go and I am really nervous!

So Kaplan NCLEX-RN Strategies, Practice, and Review 2010-2011 says that pain is considered a psvchosocial problem in the NCLEX-RN, so you should eliminate that option in a question that has both physical and psychosocial interventions (using Maslow)....

Another difference I noticed between these two books was that I understand Lippincott to say that you can't choose an option that needs a physician's order. Kaplan says to assume that there has been a physician's order for any option given. Because K...

Why would pain be seen as a psychosocial issue, though? That doesn't make sense to me. I would think that pain is extremely physiological, and if someone is in pain, short of the abc's, the rest could wait. Depends on the situation. Just trying to th...

Hmmm, that makes sense! Thanks!

What else did you use? I borrowed the Kaplan strategies book from the local community college library and am partway through it for the second time. I also bought the Lippincott "Made Incredibly Easy" with 3500 questions which looked good in the stor...

I delivered a client's baby girl whose last name was Bunce. They called her Chelsea...

No, I was actually based at Victoria Hospital in Wynberg. We went to Carinus and Groote Schuur for our blocks. Lived in Plumstead at the time, but was last from Fish Hoek where my folks and sister still live. So we just missed each other at Carinus! ...

I am also a South African trained RN, and I would love to hear your story of how you moved through the certification process here in the States...

I remember hearing about Groote Schuur's "grey lady" when I trained there. Never met her though... :)

I was there centuries ago - graduated in 1982. Yes, I found out they had closed the place down when I tried to trace my transcripts. WHAT a palaver! It took about 18 months to get all my paperwork together, not to mention that every place I needed st...

Thanks for your response. Sorry, it was hard to explain without including the actual question. I agree that if I was unsure, I would question - in real life. However, that doesn't help with NCLEX-RN exam questions which apparently aren't based on rea...

Hi - from a fellow South African... RN-trained at Carinus and then went to England to do midwifery. Now trying to get certified in the US... what fun!