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Okay - I have this patient....a male, young, 23yrs. He has a private room. There's a young woman there with him. I assumed its his wife/girlfriend by the way they're acting towards each other....calling each other 'honey'. So around 2am, Im making my...

I work 7p-7a. Last night I got a patient from a nurse who was leaving at 11pm. He didnt bother to tell me I was getting a patient from him and didnt bother to give me a shift report. The charge nurse who assigned this patient to me didnt bother to te...

CHANGE PRECEPTORS!!!!! You DONT need to put up with that. Find a preceptor that is WILLING, CARING, and SUPPORTIVE. New nurses NEED that....not one that is there to take advantage of you. Your orientation experience is what sets the tone on how you f...

Hi all.. Today I got notice to sit for the nursing boards. The down side is that I graduated in 2005. I can't work in the capacity of graduate nurse because 6 months has already passed since I've graduated. Can one advise me on how to get back into...

I have a question. Im a new nurse. When I was a student nurse, my preceptor then always diluted her many of her bolus meds in 10cc normal saline before she injected into the IV port. As a grad nurse, my preceptor doesnt do this. For example in giving...

As a new grad nurse, I had a preceptor who yelled, screamed and flew off the handle over the littlest thing. She would roll her eyes if I didnt know how to do a nursing skill (one that Ive never had done before) and act put off b/c she had to show me...

I started my nursing job as a new grad nurse on a cardiac unit that is intense and fast paced. I have been on this floor a month. This job has been EXTREMELY stressful and overwhelming. My training has started off on the wrong foot. I have had 2 pre...

Hi all...I graduated Dec 2005....passed NClex in 2007. Im having a tough time getting work now coz so much time has passed. I did not work right away after graduating from nursing school due to personal reasons. Ive been trying since Oct 2007 to ge...

I want to thank you all for your suggestions. I was ready to give up. Just want to let you know that I interviewed for a nurse rotational internship at another hospital...a VERY respected teaching hospital and............I GOT THE JOB!!!! A kind and ...

I used Saunders CD for med/sug Q's with rationale. I had a study sheet on priority/delegations. I studied 100-150 Q's per day. Overall total was 3000-4000 q's. I studied on/off or about 6 weeks between 2-4 hrs a day. I stopped studying a day before t...

My first clinical experience was a nightmare. It was my first semester. Out of the 12 clinical students, 4 of us quit the program. I almost became a victim. This instructor was very critical and harsh. She used intimidation as a tactic to teach. But ...

A classmate failed a repeated semester at my school. She was told she had to wait one year to reenroll to repeat the nursing program from the beginning. She didnt want to wait that long so she applied to a different nursing school (with her transferr...

Try not to think about it...coz the more you think about it...the worse the feeling becomes. I took all 265 q's and sat there for over 5 hrs!!! Those feelings you're experiencing are normal. I went through them too. I took my test on a Thursday...fo...

I got my ATT the same day I registered on the Pearson website. A friend of mine didnt hear from BON, so she called Pearson and found out that BON had already notified Pearson and not her. They had her email address entered incorrectly into the syste...

I PASSED NCLEX!!!! I graduated back in 2005, so can you imagine what it took to get me back on track. Yes I was worried, but I kept trying to thinking positive. My test was hard, bit I stayed focused. Towards the end of the exam, I was getting t...

1. how many questions did you take on nclex?passed with 265. 2. what study materials did you use? did you take a test review course? saunders. did not take a review course...though i thought about it. 3. did your son offer any testing (eri,...

I graduated from nursing school 18 months ago. Last week I took NCLEX for the first time. Today I just found out I passed. You have to have faith yourself. Those little doubts you have can manifest into "I can't do this" and may set you up for fai...

This was my first attempt. I was SO nervous. Eighteen months had lapsed since I had graduated. But even at that amount of time I was out of school, I still DID IT! Know your priorities and delegations!!! Above all, keep your Spirit and Faith up. Ev...

When I was in nursing school, there were 2 people in my class that were paramedics. One student was still working as a firefighter/paramedic while attending nursing school. These students excelled in all areas of the nursing curriculum. I think your...

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You may want to check Hurst Review. They give you a mini course of what you've learned in nursing school. Our nursing program brings their live review to our school on a regular basis. I've been told they are excellent and fun with a very high pass r...

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I know a few of my classmates that passed NCLEX said Kaplan was the way to go.