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hey guys. i am taking the NCLEX-RN in feb. i went to the kaplan review. i did some of the trainers and now i'm working on the Qbank. my question for you is: is the nclex more like the trainer questions or the Qbank questions. i feel like the Qbank is...

and i'm freaking out. i don't know if i have done enough to prepare. i did the whole kaplan Qbank and i've got trainer 6 & 7 left. i also read that kaplan book they gave us at the class. my grades on the kaplan tests haven't been the greatest, mo...

I am officially a RN!!! I graduated nursing school in december, I took it on tuesday, had 75 questions. I was a nervous wreck through the whole test, I thought I was getting everything wrong. I went home and did the pearson trick and got the good p...

yeah, i don't mean to put down saunders! i used it for every exam in nursing school and i loved it! i just don't think i would have passed the nclex if i only relied on that, but everyone is different :) congrats to you too!

congrats!!

well, I took it this morning. I had 75 questions and took me 2 hours. I am getting the pop up that says i already scheduled this exam, please contact my board, another appointment can not be scheduled. ... i hope this is real.

i am taking mine on tuesday! i am in the mid 60's for most of my kaplan stuff too. i'm finishing up trainer 6 today and then doing trainer 7 tomorrow. my plan is to go over meds i'm bad at (psych meds, my worst subject), review lab values, review con...

what are your grades on the kaplan tests? good luck to you too!

do NOT mix! i did this for a month as a tech and i was a complete wreck. now that i'm done nursing school i'm applying for all night positions because 1. more $, 2. manager not lurking over your shoulder, 3. generally slower so more time to learn. ye...

my scholarship paid for me to go to the kaplan review. i would never pay 500 bucks to sit in a room for 8 days and do questions with a group of people.

Mayo is a huge hospital and there are several around the country. I don't know if they hire lpns

Thanks! I found it and called the lady! Do you live in Florida? Mayo clinic up here in jax supposedly has a program too.

How did you guys apply for that program? I am graduating in December and I checked the job listings because I heard they offer gn positions. But nothing was up

i live in north florida and would consider moving to orlando. i looked on the website but didn't see anything. is there a separate site for the nurse residency stuff?

I'm graduating in December and i started applying yesterday lol

i'm in my last semester and there are still some days where i feel swamped. it's normal, but it deff gets easier! i was a nervous wreck in my first semester. what really helped me feel confident in clinicals was during my 2nd semester when i got a te...

i worked 1-2 days a week during the first semester. the load was so heavy (4 classes + clinicals) that some weeks 1 day of work was too much. second semester i got a job at a hospital and worked basically full time all of 2nd & 3rd semester. now ...

just keep trying. i applied for over 15 positions in december, and no one called me until february. at the end of january i was getting frustrated so one day i actually drove to the hospital and introduced myself to the manager of the floor i had cl...

i work as a tech in a hospital, we put patients on oxygen all the time (it's pretty much standing order for all our patients that they can get up to 2L if needed) and put cream on them. that's silly that you weren't allowed to do that in school.

this is so stupid and i'm so sorry you had to go through that. your instructor should have made it clear from the beginning what you were allowed to do with the nurses. what semester are you in? i'm in my last semester. we do all the meds, all the c...

here in north florida, BSN gets 1 dollar more. i'm not sure about other parts of the country though.

or maybe she just didn't hear you?

i'm in my last semester of nursing school, and i work as a tech in a hospital. i've had to help nurses "bag and tag" a few bodies so far and have seen a lot of code blues on the days i float to the ICU. it's sad, but you get used to it. plus, there a...

many people's gpas drop in nursing school. at my school a 93 is an A, a 79 is an F. the grading scale is tougher, the questions are trickier, and the content is more in depth. don't stress out about not getting straight A's. you can know the material...

congrats on getting into UCF, but i would stick with the associates degree program. there's no point in taking 2 steps back when you are already this far into the game. i live in north florida and i'm in an associates degree program. i work at a magn...