greybird2011

Quick update.. i took two of the jobs that were offered to me. One at a local hospital and the other at an LTAC facility. Love love the hospital they work off epic and manager is supper supportive.. I've found that i am an invaluable part of their team at the hosp. In LTC i really learned how to time manage and task manage which is huge in a procedure area getting pts in and out quickly.. nurses that have been there 45yrs look at me as an equal after being there only 6 short months.. LTAC is good too but in reality you have 5-6 critical care pts on ventilators with stressed family members.. its too much like LTC plus hospital bc you have way too many critical pts. Id rather go to hosp ICU and have 2-3 critical pts that'd be way more manageable. In all i had interviews at every place i applied for! I had my pick of jobs and my LPN experience was valued at every job! I have hurdled through my basic fears of chemo administration down to starting 10 IVs per shift.. its totally exciting every day and God is soo good!

I studied HESI nclex blue book ISBN-10: 0323065856 and sounders yellow book cd for questions ISBN-10: 1437708250 make sure you get the CD thats all i used with that book. Flash cards were great! A quick tip , i love colors makes me study better, i went to my local walmart paint isle and took a bunch of paint sample colors.. made flash cards with those! Main points i can give you us to study PRIORITY and Dont study too many things if you just use these two materials diligently and EVERY DAY leading up to your test you'll be ok! Do 100 nclex questions on off days and 15 on days you work. Look at you flash cards every day.. you'll be ok!!!

So I just went in today to job shadow for four hours. I love it so far! Lots of older nurses who seem more than willing to help out. I just hope getting to learn the computer system isn't too bad. Lots of training I'm sure coming up. Hopefully it'll all be worth it in the end:) Hopefully they will tolerate a new person in the group.

So I graduated in May of this year with my ADN. I've been an LPN for almost 5yrs now working in LTC. I live in ohio and jobs are scarce as far as acute care is concerned. I've applied for more than 60 jobs in the past two weeks and have had two very promising interviews one ended where the manager had already filled the job I came in for but must have seen something in me or needed ppl badly b/c she set me up with a job shadow. I'm not extremely excited even though this is one of the biggest and busiest hospitals in ohio mainly because it seemed like an extremely busy floor.. it just wasn't what I expected as a new rn first job. I guess I was expecting at typical med surg floor.. This is the Advanced treatment area and express admissions. They do outpatient procedures or treatments of various types. Myelograms, arteriograms, blood transfusions, therapeutic phlebotomy, PICC line insertions, CT and US guided biopsies, MRIs with sedation, facet injections, lumbar punctures, IV administration of medicines and/or fluids, vascular angioplasty, aspiration of cysts, thoracentesis, paracentesis, chemotherapy administration and lithotripsy. Needless to say I'm a big scardy cat afraid that it might be too busy. What does everyone else think is really what I want to know? I've been praying about all of this for a long while now and also have interviews set up for this wk with a childrens hospital and another local hospital. I'm really surprised especially with children's hospital because I'm not highly in tune with kids but feel like it would be very refreshing compaired to LTC. Might even be where I feel at home which is what I want more than anything. Just looking for any thoughts at all really. I'm sure I'll take whatever I can get.

Oh and PVT works. Was so stressed out then finally used it two yours after once test said delivered. Got the good pop up! Was stress free all wkend since it was Friday!

I just took the NCLEX RN OHIO JULY 25TH I PASSED! Studying- did no more than 100-200 questions a day on work days just a short ten question quiz. I did several hundred select all that apply, drop and drag, point click questions. Ready through my weak areas of peds, maternity, and cardio in nclex rn hesi book AND made just a dozen index cards with vital info that i would study the day before and of the test. It had lab values, and, burn bsa count, math conversions, antidotes, and med levels as of dig and dilantin ect.Honestly it wouldn't have mattered what i knew. I could've know everything from every book but almost all of what I got on the test was PRIORITY and what would you do FIRST. More than 75%. Lots probably 50 or more questions were select all that apply! They weren't that bad though thanks to studying. Had about 20 or less questions on herbs saw pamento, Echinacea, ginger root, ginko biloba. Wasn't expecting that. Drag and drop maybe 5 questions. No math no point click. Maybe two listening questions. 5 to 10 questions on cardio tele very basic i thought. - PVC's and a-fib v-tach showed picture and what do you do.. sock give meds. Several infection control questions about measles, RSV, childhood would you wear a mask when giving meds or place them in a private room at the end of the hallway? Ect thankfully i had studied that. Knowing that infection control is big with nclex.I went in expecting minimum questions of 85. I had gotten the minimum with my lpn and felt great in the end. Only took 45 mins. The questions with lpn were easy, straight forward.. RN is not. I got the maximum amount of questions 265 took 4 hrs with a fifteen min break. I had always thought ppl who had the max amount of questions were struggling or something, honestly. I was wrong.. i was a B+ to A student. I just kept thinking how i was still in the game doing well. Buckle in and take it. That helped me get through it. Almost cried when i was done. Felt like i totally failed. But I passed thanks to prayer and God!

I have all of the books if you are interested. Wanting to sell them to someone who can use them for this year. Will offer a very cheap price. Call or text 513-464-6719 email- [email protected] Thanks Jodi

I have every book that you would need for Rio Grande Online LPN to RN program. I will give them up for cheap!!! Please let me know if you are interested. Text 513-464-6719 or [email protected]. I have done the program and want to get rid of my books. Thanks jodi

Please help. I just started this program at Rio grande and am already struggling to pass. I am usually an a or b student. [email protected]

Please help. I am currently in the nursing program 13606 and it is becoming more difficult to me. I thought that there would be study guides but there is nothing. They give you about a hundred or so pages to read and 50 questions to test. I wish there was someone who could help me with this. I am barely passing. Please if you can give me any tips or study material I would really be thankful. my email- [email protected]