jitan06

Well if you are going to work in the province then PHP 8,000.00 is ok I guess, it's definitely better than nothing. But look at the flipside, you'll be working ALONE, the sole medical personnel in a far-flung barrio or town.

Try Applecare and Castel, you'll have to wait though if you want your own design or if they don't have available sizes.

Just saw the some government reps on TV discussing this program, they are only going to deploy 10000 nurses in a year, each nurse will receive a stipend of Php 8,000.00 which they claim "is not so bad."

Practice open/closed gloving technique, and don't be afraid to ask questions. Congratulations on landing the job!

I believe the last change was done April 2007, it has been mentioned numerous times in this forum. And changes are made every 3 years, you may look here for more info. http://www.ncsbn.org

Congratulations, you have an inspiring story which kind of mirrors mine. Hopefully I can nail it too the second time around.

Nope didn't take the QT, just read their Strategy book and did the comprehensive from Saunders. On the practice tests for both books I averaged 50%-70%. Again good luck on your exam, I'm not going to let this result bring me down. I will do better next time.

Read Kaplan and Saunders on my own, good luck on your test tomorrow! I'm not sure if I'm going to retake it again, maybe after another year or so. I'm not sad about it or maybe the gravity of the situation hasn't dawned on me yet, c'est la vie.

I finally got my results, and I failed *sigh.

Got my results today and I failed.

OMG! 2 weeks left? Best thing for you to do is take on practice tests everyday, familiarize yourself with the questions and rationales. Reading the comprehensive review probably won't do you any good since you have a small amount of time left. Good luck!

I got just 1 SATA, which is scaring me since I'm still waiting for my results, got a lot of priority questions though.

I took the RN exam last March 5, still awaiting results, it's been 2 days now, it's so nerve-wracking.

I also submitted my application to NCBON, I just indicated in the application that the language used in our teaching was english, and reiterated that to the school registrar to indicate it in my transcript as well. CES is a requirement at NCBON.

Took the RN exam today and stopped at 75, I too am feeling the NCLEX Result Waiting Syndrome, can't sleep and I keep thinking I failed, will get back to you in 2 days for the results.

Nothing is more refreshing than the smell of burning flesh in the morning, hehe, if the sight of blood affects you wait til you get to smell the smoke from a cautery. bloodytom is right, expose yourself enough and you might get used to it after a while. Imagine this, you have an ex-lap and the surgeon takes out a liter worth of hematoma from the abdomen and drops it in front of you. You just learn to accept them for what they are (they are just fluids) and hope to the heavens that none of them hit your face. As for me I just scrub in everyday, the smell from the cautery though still gets me nauseous sometimes.

Hello everyone, somehow I found my way back here to the forum after a 2 year absence. Anyway, I've been working as an OR nurse here in Manila for almost a year now and I must say that the past few months have been hell for me. I've just come off from a 48-hour 3-day work week (24 hours first day, off day, 8 the next, 16 the following day) and I have the day off today but tomorrow I must report again for 5 more days. I think my supervisor is trying to kill me, you see I almost went for another 24 hours yesterday. I'm not sure if you could call it a staffing shortage but for some reason our super decided to allow 4 of our staff to go on vacation leave for 2 weeks all at the same time, leaving us with only 3-5 staff plus 2 head nurses on regular days. What's even more troublesome is the amount of major and minor cases we do in a day, we once had 26 cases using only 5 rooms from 7a-7p with only 7 staff including our HN's. Now some of our co-staff are beginning to resign, possibly to concentrate on being profs or study for exams. Good for them but they are also compiling an insane amount of AWOLs, leaving us even more under-staffed and over-worked. I'm almost at the end of my sanity as I dread another 5-day work week and am about to do 16 hours on my 5th day. I just had to vent this out, I'm sure there are much more horror stories out there some even sadder than mine.:uhoh3: