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In an effort to emphasize how important it is for my patients to continue to take their medications after discharge, I advise them that their illness is just like any other run of the mill illness that requires daily medications, i.e., HTN, Diabetes,...

For my drive into work at nights, at a Behavioral Health Hospital, it's always: "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC and for the drive home: "Welcome to the Jungle" or "Wonderful World" Depending on how bad the night was and how absolutely rotten traffic is.

I fell into Psych nursing right out of nursing school. I had sent out 100's of resume's and this one, little, free-standing Psych Hospital, was the only call I received in response to my application. Funny thing, when I was in nursing school doing m...

LOL, Just a reminder that if you don't have a sense of humor, nursing isn't for you. My first job out of Nursing School was in Geriatric Psych. One of my all-time favorite patients was Findley. Now Findley was a very tall, lean farm with a world cl...

Please start to realize that if you are getting the SAME patients for your 2nd and 3rd shift of the week, you do not need the minutiae of what brought the patient into the hospital in the first place, that hasn't changed. However I will be more than...

Here is what I do with angry, belligerent doctors. When they pause their tirade long enough to take a breath, I very politely state, "Dr. when you calmed down enough to speak to me in a civil tone of voice and as one professional to another, please ...

You will not be able to pay or see your quick results until a minimum of 48 hours after your exam start time. If you are lucky, your license will be up on your BON prior to have to spend another $8. At least that is the way it is working here in Te...

For all the soon to be nurses in their 40's. Please let me assure you that passing the NCLEX is an achievable goal. I passed mine last week with 75 questions and I am almost 48, so if I can do, so can all of y'all! Best of luck to all that are taki...

Doesn't it feel great to be able to say that you are now an RN?

Try the trick, you may be pleasantly surprised.

I mostly used the NCLEX 3500 (you can find the link on here) and Saunders 5th edition (yellow book) and I took a Kaplan assessment to see areas I was weak in and focused on those areas. That's pretty much it, I didn't really study that much, because...

Also, know your nutrition information. Foods that are high in potassium, calcium, sodium. Know your Lab values with criticals, write them on your white board when you are allowed to do so, this keeps them at your fingertips and you don't have to thi...

Word of advice from one who as been there and done that....breathe!!! The NCLEX-RN is so random there is no way to know everything that will be asked on the test. Your best defense is to know how to answer the questions. As a general rule, you can...

Took my NCLEX-RN last week, cut off with 75 questions. No matter how many questions you get, you will walk out of there feeling like you failed! Focus on Select All That Apply, prioritizing, delegation and infection control. Know your basic med cal...

The NCLEX 3500 has a great bank of SATA questions. Some one has posted a link to it here on AN. You should be able to search for it on here. I used it exclusively for questions because the rationales are awesome and I used www.quizlett.com for fla...

Screw calling them back weekly!! I'm telling you if you call her everyday, she will process your ATT, for no other reason than to make you quit calling!! You have to get assertive with these people, they hold your livelyhood in their hands and every...

No problem, Noni79. Yes I do believe you do need your ATT to look at date availability. Best of luck to you

I am taking the test 2/7.

If you go on the Pearson VUE website and check date availability everywhere in Texas. I chose not to test in the Dallas area as all of their test dates were full until March. I chose Tyler, because a) used to live in the area and know my way around...

Noni79 ~ I just kept calling Customer Service. I talked to a different person everyday until I got some one who was willing to actually investigate my complaint instead of just telling me that it had been submitted for review and would take 8 to 10 ...

Ok, as a recent ASN grad (Dec, 2012), I will tell you that it will take you a minimum of 3 years to knock all of your pre-req's prior to applying to Nursing School, from there it really depends upon your grades, in your pre-req's, and how many others...

It really depends upon where you chose to do one of these programs. I know that the the CRNA program requires, in Texas, at least that you have a BSN prior to applying to the program and if that is the track you wish to take, I see no reason to get ...

A friend and I had much the same problem. I have a job waiting for me to pass my NCLEX and I hadn't received anything from the TX BON. At that point I just started calling them everyday to find out the status of my ATT. I took me about 3 days to f...

I used a Littmann Classic II all through nursing school. I loved it!! It was lightweight and you can hear well with it. It wasn't that expensive and I know that Allheart sells them pretty inexpensively.

I did something similar with my Med/Surg book, but I just had it 3-hole drilled and put it in a 4" binder, then I would pull the chapters that were to be covered for each section and place them in a 1" binder to take with me to class and for reading....