2decadeRN

If you go to the ONE academic med center in NH, (Dartmouth in Lebanon) you can find PEDI ICU experience... but be careful to say PEDI ICU...here, psych wards are also called PICU!! (BIG contrast!! LOL) Otherwise, ERs that are busy here are Concord, Elliot in Manchester - (CMC in Mchstr does mostly cardiac stuff).... And St. Joe's in Nashua. Other than Dartmouth, which has big and specialized ICUs...the other bigger ICUs are in Concord and Manchester - again, CMC does mostly hearts if that is something you are interested in. Good Luck! I hope you LOVE winter!!!

!Hang in there! First of all, the greatest nurse I have ever worked with did not pass her boards on the first go around either! So, DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED!! I suggest getting to know the computerized format... taking tests on computers is different than ink and paper. ** Remember the nursing process... always assess before you plan, plan before you intervene and re evaluate all interventinos. ** Generally, if there are "nursing" interventions that can be/need to be done before "notify MD" do them first.... ** If your teachers did not introduce you to the "old" NCLEX textbooks of questions.... buy a couple of them! The questions begin to look familiar after a while, and you get the real hang for how the questions are asked. ** There is truth to the "guess C" rumor. It really doesn't have to be "C"... but statistically, on an A-D mult. choice -whenever you just don't know an answer, you guess the same letter everytime, you will get 25% of the questions you guess on RIGHT! ( computerized generation of test equally distributes answers between the available choices) GOOD LUCK!!!!