malenurse702

Status was finally delivered..After 4 hours after taking test.. Good Pop up, i know its not 100% or official, but atleast I got the good pop up and unlike my last test i didn't, atleast this will take some stress away until its official, but im so happy, so much hard work

I used Saunder's 4th Edition CD questions, Kaplan Review Bank, and Kaplan Review book. Ive been studying since december, Everyday, atleast 5 hours a day, 7 days a week, never a break for those 2 months. ive probably done more than 3500 questions in that time, and i read whatever i didnt understand, either looking online or in my books. I studied mostly on Cardiac/Endocrine/Renal/Resp as i thought those were the most important and where i was weak in, and i know im still weak in cardiac drugs and a lot of their actions, just so hard to remember without actually getting the hands on daily experience of using them. I would say the key is questions, and reading and understand why you got it wrong, If i got the question wrong but knew the process, i related it to how i actually went about answering the question in the first place. I also just focused on how to break down the questions, if They were data collection questions, i just looked to the expected value/assessment answer that correlated with the question. Process/planning questions I just lookd for the subject of the question and lookd for the answer that was preventing/promoting and safest. Stuff like that, actually really helpd with a lot of questions that had my scratching my head. ABC's and Maslow's with questions that had a priority or best

finished about an hour ago. took me just about 2 hours, and test stop at the minimum questions. I had about 10-15 SATA some of them back to back, many priority, and many teaching. 1 calc question, and ya that was it..Lot of infection control / precautions (4 of my sata were like that). I feel pretty good about it, I know there were some things there werent even medically related on the test i had no clue about, and then a lot of things that were just really ez and i couldntbelieve i was getting them..

I'm confused.. I don't know how a video monitor works, but assuming your watching the TV and your job is to do as your described? Push the alarm when a patient falls? You kinda make it sound like you have to predict when they fall and push it before, which i know certainly isn't the job of a video monitor, so I can't really see what you do wrong or why you would be worried. Patients fall all the time, some of them fall and dont go noticed until the nurse/cna walks into the room, Atleast you said you pushed the alarm when he fell, which doesn't have a negative outcome therefore you shouldn't feel anything. Sounds like maybe he should have been in a bed with the bed alarm on, or perhapds with the 3/4 side rails up and a padded.. Sounds like you got the typical girl drama at your work, figures she would give you an evil eye and not say anything, you should have asked if there was a problem. Sometimes sticking up for yourself can give you the answers you desire, and not leave you in such a worrisum state. Theres a couple of rules I've learned while working in a hospital, 1. Don't trust anyone, it can cost you your job. 2. Be vocal and leave nothing to question. If you think theres a problem, you think you did something wrong, you think anything and need more information, then ask and bring it out into the light, worst thing you can do is let something go unanswered/undone

Testing the 25th. Taking the PN test. Failed RN back in august, didn't do anything till about october, been studying everyday, since thanksgiving (i mean, everyday 7 days a week) Minimum 5 hours a day. Started with Reading, going over the areas I was weakest in. My results from the failed RN showed me I was only below 2 subject, Health care and promotion and Physiological Adaptation/Integrity. ( I ran out of time on my RN test @ around 220 questions ) Since december I have done about 3000 questions, read my nclex pn book from kaplan, finished my Q bank (not included in those 3000 questions) With 70%, my lowest being in Health care and promotion at 67%. Both kaplan pn tests with scores of 72 and 73. Now my saunders 4th edition CD test mode questions I'm getting 75% plus. I must say, I really probably could have been ready with this much prep to take my RN again, but the thot of failure was too great, and my student loans are comming and I need a job, so hopefully this works out for me, I can deffinitely say I FEEL prepared for this test, and I am 100% more knowledgable now than I can say I was for the RN test.. Altho a couple of the delegation questions and questions that require me to report assessment changes are tricky, as Im used to being an RN and not reporting them.. But alls well, Friday the 25th I become official, I already made up my mind.

Actually wasn't your fault, you don't describe in detail exactly what happened, but if your Instructor (Lisencsed Nurse) were to give you a medication, and not properly Instruct you on what to do, what to expect, how to do it, Then that is your instructor's fault for not delegating responsibility (Especially to an Unliscensed worker) If I were you, Sure I would have said what I did, but I also would not have taken the fall for it, now your marked in your school, and thats not a good thing. Your instructor who was supervivsing you put respobsbilities not critical to patient care before the actual patient. You stated you told your instructor your patient was in Pain, she went and got the narcotic, and then what? Went to document instead of comming with you to administer it? Like i said, you didn't go into detail, but it really isn't your fault, and don't feel bad, from now on, if you are in a situation again with this person (obviously a terrible clinical instructor) DO NOT take the medicine to "hold onto" Just refuse to take it unless your going to be giving it right away, and all you have to do is mention this one instance...I'm sure your instructor will be glad to hang on to it so this doesn't happen again, or maybe Be the Nurse who is actually credited and be responsible for the students under their watch. I'd file a complaint against her/him if I were you.