MissHaleyDawn

Why did you choose nursing? My mother passed when I was 15, I watched my father struggle with pancreatic cancer from the time I was 17 until he passed away when I was 19. I was inspired by the wonderful care provided to my parents. What school did yo...

I'm in the same boat. I've been a nurse for 4 years. While I do like the nursing aspects of things, I did not sign up for all the drama between management and pettiness of staff and favoritism. This isn't high school, yet everyone sure acts like it. ...

So my hospital is starting something that sounds very strange to me. Every so often I look at the jobs page of my hospital because why not? Full time hours used to list 72 hours in the job details (we are paid bi-weekly, so 3 shifts x 12 hours x 2 we...

Congratulations! I've been out of school for 4 years now but I remember nursing school so clearly. For the first day we didn't have any lectures, just going through mounds of paperwork, getting know the expectations of the course, and doing introdu...

I understand that it would be less stressful having an employee committed to that 4th shift but being able to call them off. Two things stick out to me though, even though I'd personally never want to work 4 shifts in the same week on a regular basi...

For me I am burntout due to staffing issues and general lack of support from administration. Those two things are a recipe for disaster no matter what field you're in. It's a vicious cycle that just feeds itself. Plain and simple, I'm tired. I've o...

When I was 15 my mom became very ill very suddenly without president or a cardiac history. She died within a week of being admitted to a cardiac intensive care unit. She was in such unstable condition that she required a nurse dedicated to her 24 hou...

I need a little support. I'm a fairly new nurse, just under a year and I made my first error on my shift last night. At my hospital, the nurses aide will collect vital signs and blood glucose values. The glucose meters are supposed to dock and downl...

Adding to what another poster said about the type of meds a patient will be on depending in valve type, I imagine that info would come in handy if a patient was ever ordered an MRI? I had a patient once ordered an MRI but the doc didn't realize she ...

I survived, somehow. I had 5 patients (D/c'd one but picked up another right after). For a while I thought I was doing really well...2000 & 2100 meds were all passed on time, patients were settled in, I had three of five chart checks done and was...

Sounds like you work with a bunch of class-A buttholes. While some gossip I would expect (it's human nature to just talk/people to run their mouths), what you're having to deal with is ridiculous. Did you voice what happened during your orientation p...

Thank you all for your replies! I was so hyped up from that shift, my mind was going in circles. I'm on call tonight, and bummed. Worried I won't get enough clinical experience being hired part-time, and now on call for my second night to boot.

Hi all! I think this is in the correct forum? I graduated this May 2012 and passed boards at the end of June. Before taking boards I had been extended a job offer for a new RN grad position at an area hospital. I'll be cross trained between an adult...

I didn't use the decision tree religiously. Rather, I developed my own style from it. The tree is meant to get you in the habit of looking at first the question systematically, and then each answer (one by one) systematically. I first figure out wha...

I believe if you go all the way to 265 in the amount of testing time (6h) it doesn't matter if you get the last question wrong or correct -- it has to be a passing level question. If someone has gone all the way the computer hasn't been able to make...

I did the PVT about an hour after I took my exam back in June; got the good pop up. Resisted paying for quick results because I'm stingy/cheap/hate to spend money that I don't have to. Lol A few business days my license number was posted on my state...

My favorite class was graduating. Lol Lectures (Fundamental Med Surge I and II, OB/Peds) - Interesting but our tests were always much more difficult than our content and our questions more difficult than what our books expanded on. Reasoning? NCLEX w...

So sorry to hear that ): But don't give up! I used Kaplan to prepare in addition to a few other books. Lippincott Q&A for the NCLEX-RN for content areas I knew I weak in (I went through the cardi and OB sections), and also Lippincott Alternate F...

Pearson Vue Trick is accurate; you've passed. I did the PVT a few hours after I tested, got the same pop up. Held out on paying for quick results because I'm stingy and PV has made enough from the testing fee. Lol...few business days later my license...

Study your meds in classifications; learn them by endings if it applies (there's always that special snowflake that doesn't fit into the cookie cutter ending that gives it away - make sure you know those because you might get thrown for a loop otherw...

I don't think it's ever too early to start prepping for The Beast. Our school encouraged us to do NCLEX style questions in a recommended Q&A book in sections/content we were covering for the week. Our schools recommended book was Davis...but I ba...

It's all or nothing. The computer is spitting the test out at you one question at a time. Each new question is dependent on the last one you answered. Gear up, I had 29 of those bad boys but I passed with 75Q. You can do it...NCLEX is a...strange...t...

You shouldn't study or prep for the Dx test. The Dx test is just that - a diagnostic. It's intended to identify your weak areas and serve as a guide for how you should study throughout the course in addition to doing your QBanks. (:

I believe in the trick. I did the PVT and got the good pop up a few hours after I took my exam. I held out on buying quick results (my family nagged me relentlessly on this...but $8, really? And at that they're still "unofficial?" Yeah...I'll pass on...

I graduated May 2012 and took a month to prepare for the NCLEX-RN. My main study tool was Kaplan; I did all the QTrainers and the whole QBank. What really helped was reading all the rationales for the questions, even for questions I got correct. I di...