Melpomene

I am beginning to think that this place is very backward. Today a nurse tech stormed away from me down the hall on my midnight sift YELLING because she wasn't in the computer! There are no repercussions for her actions it seems and I am over all simply done. I attempted to write her up, only to be met with more disrespect. I called my administrator and was told she is 'like that'. Ok well, that makes it except able?

I should of explained better. The super jerk LPN has blaintly stated that she dislikes me because 'I am an RN and I don't know what I'm doing' as she is aware I have only been a nurse for under a year she has no tolerance of that. The reason it seems I am complaining more over the LPN is because I do not see the ADON daily. I do not want to argue, and as I said I don't want to irritate anyone but maybe I didn't explain it right. She has said she is targeting me due to my credentials not skill. She has said that WAY before the nit picking began. No I am not going to ask why. As I have asked *** her problem is and been ignored on 3 occasions. So as stated in my post, she boasted quite admirably about having the other two RNs termed. She has also made the comment to me that 'this is an LPN only facility and RNs are not wanted.' as they have 'fought hard to keep it that way.' She's meaning floor RNs. What I am. The ADON I haven't had problems with till the past week. So does that help?

Listen, before anyone's feathers get ruffled. Understand that I know we are ALL nurses and would never consider myself 'better' then another human being just because I have 2 letters after my name instead of 3. However...Why does it feel as though I am being castrated for having the RN after my name instead of LPN. Today, I worked a midnight and the day light LPN came in in a fowl mood as she always does. She points out every mistake, every error, every little tiny detail that dosn't specifically meet her dramatized standards. Shes gone as far as to report me to the DON and ADON for not filling humidifiers which is EVERYONES job not just mine. So my boast? Why didn't she do it? As it is not just the responsability of midnight but of all shifts? Anyway, she always has an attitude, everyday without fail. She has mulitple times said in front of me 'I used to work midnight, I'll just go back and put SOMEONE out of a job' and 'Well, looks like I will have to do A. B. C. and D. because no one can seem to do it right.'. Its degrading and she dosn't care at ALL whom she says this in front of. Being that I am new, I don't know what to do. I've gone to my ADON and was met with 'well, thats just how she is.'. I'm affraid to stand up to the LPN because she has black balled many RN's before I walked through the doors. Actually she was souly responsible for terminating 2 RN's since I have been there and I have only been there 5 months. A part of me really wants to throw in the towel and quit. I feel stupid every day and it dosn't help that now my ADON is making comments to me about the census and not being done the way she wants it and small nit pick comments such as 'Well, IDK about YOU but when I went to RN school I was taught times matter!'. EVERY PERSON IN THAT FACILITY WRITES '9p' over and over and over if giving the 9pm dose! No ones writes '9:12' or '9:24' we all just write 9! I can't tell if my skin needs to get thicker, or if I really do have a problem. It seems every morning I am in trouble and my stomach just flips the moment I see the LPN walking down the hall. Even worse when I see the ADON. As a new nurse, I barely have any confidence as is and today really just wanted to toss my hands in the air and say 'Screw it! Here is my two weeks! I'll call off for the next 10 days and we can just be done! Thats what you all want is'nt it?!?!' Unfortunately I am pregnant and this facility has promised to work around my pragnancy. I guess I just need sme advice, keep my head down? Start fighting back (which I am telling you won't work), go higher? To administration? To the company? Plus today didn't help as I made my first mediciation error and gave Xanax instead of Ativan! I am so distraught about it I want to just cry. Of course, Mrs.HappyI'maJerk LPN caught it and HAD to make sure everyone knew. I was completely mortified. I sat at the front desk calling family and doctors near tears the whole time only to have a doctor tell me 'its not that big of a deal, just watch her' and I asked 'But its a narcotic??' he said 'Yes, but from the same family. It happeneds, its ok'. I felt as if this resident was going to DIE the way she acted. I'm very scared to go to my administrater. I know she will back me, but how can she? They wrote me up over and IV mistake that I didn't do because the ADON and superjerk LPN told me to do it a certain way! Then reliquished when they realized they were wrong and hung ME for it. Now the narcotic error? How can the Administrater defend me even if she wanted to? I don't want to be them, bitter nurses who complain about the smallest mistake. I don't want to become them and I feel it. Its making me so bitter toward LPN's and I never want to be that way. IDK what to do. Halp! LOL Melpomene RN

I actually had a concern, needed some advice. I recently passed nursing board and I am now an RN. About 5 days after passing board, I received a job offer at a local hospital. During the interview I did not make mention that I was 5 months pregnant (I've not 'popped' yet and hav'nt gained that much weight, but the doctor assures me that my sons FHR and my uterine growth are WNL.) I have my pre-employment physical in 2 days, I am TERRORFIED they are going to remove the offer from me due to the fact that I basically lied by NOT telling them that I am pregnant. I know it sounds silly to lie, but I desperately need this position for my son. It is an OR position, I was a surgical technician prior to becoming an RN and from what I remeber, the RN's basically did prep, assessments, some med draw ups and charted mostly. Thats not to say thats ALL they did, its just all I saw. The OR is a clean enviroment, and even though it is surgery I can and will take the utmost precautions. Do you think they will remove the offer from me (I know legally they can't but lets face it. There are umteen thousand reasons they can list other than "employee is pregnant"). I have supplemental insurance for my pregnancy so the hospital I work at won't be fitting the bill (I wouldn't even qualify for benefits prior to his birth neway, d/t my 90 probationary period). can I use FMLA to secure my position if I am still within the 90 days of probation? Should I just be upfront before I go to my exam and tell my supervisor that I am pregnant? IDK what to do, I need this job and don't want my place of employeement to think I am a liar.

I know it sucks to be taking it so many times and I wish you the best on passing this time! Its hard but you have to try to tell yourself everyday that you CAN do this! I know it looks bleak, after I failed my first time I took almost a whole year to build up the confidence to take it again and second time and thank GOD I passed the second try thru with 75 q's. What halped me alot with studying with doing the saunders quizes everyday and if I did really horribly in a section? I'd read that chapter from the saunders book. If I got above a 60% (which was my average before NCLEX 2nd time) I'd move on to new material. I would REALLY focus on Prioritization and delegation, knowing what to do FIRST and what is MOST IMPORTANT since those are key words for priority. I used ABC's alot and if I didn't find my answer there? (Which was rare) I used common sense. Like it patient A's blood glucose is 40 but patient B has a wound seeping drainage onto a dressing? I'd see patient A first. I know pharm is HORRIBLE, I absoloutly hated it in RN school AND board. I used process of elimination alot, like for the pharm ones that say what NOT to do? Remeber don't ever say to adjust dose on your own, or give it with alcohol, or do anything heavy (machinery, driving a car) before you know how it affects you. Something I found that really helped me with meds? If the question lists a disorder? Say like Patient A has cancer, how do you know it _____ is working as a medication? If one of the options if like, shrinks tumor, or increases apetite? Thats probabbly the answer because those are negetive effects of having cancer that you would want to correct. So even if you have NO CLUE what the med does? You may know the disorder and just think, "would it be good if the med did this? Would that really help the overall condition of my patient pertaining to this illness?" I would also encourage you to go over ALOT of alt. item format questions, like SATA, and order of priority, those are super hard at least for me and gave me trouble my first time threw. Some may be as easy common sense but if your not used to them? They can seem overwhelming. Really hope this helps and wish you the best of luck!

Hi everyone, I'm a first time poster, LONG time reader! You guys have gotten me threw so many things in RN school and Board that you wouldn't believe! I would just like to comment on this thread and say I took my nursing board on April 14th, I had 75 questions (Which does NOT indicate pass or fail, LOL I am sure you all knew that though!) and was CONVINCED I had failed! I got probabbly upward of 6 or 7 SATA's and thought for sure I had messed up on them. I had a few knowledge questions but primarily it was PRIORITY and one of two delegating. The night before the test, I was SLAMMING myself with lab values, hyper's and hypo's and insulin times. Thinking FOR SURE they would be on board. They weren't. That dosn't mean they won't be for other people but they were NOT for me (1. on DM and 1. on K+). I was so nervous, I can barely remeber any of the questions aside that they were priority FOR ME primarily (I don't want to give the wrong impression, you should try to review a little of everything, because EVERYONES board is different). Toward the end, I kept getting simple questions. Assessment and very simple and easy questions and I KNOW I missed one of them. I thought "Great, you can't even answer assessment? There is NO WAY you passed". I had a friend drive with me, she'll be taking her board for the first time on May 3rd. I negelected to mention, this is my SECOND time taking board, the first time I had 191 questions and FAILED. So I knew what I was getting into to an extent and when the tests kept giving me easy questions? I completely paniced. I thought for sure that I was below level of passing. I kept thinking "They are probabbly wondering how I even made it through nursing school!" So at the end of the test? I hung my head and my friend and I drove home. I talked to my mom who is an RN and she kept assuring me that I would be alright, the father of my child/boyfriend (I'm pregnant) kept saying "Well, either you REALLY did well, or REALLY did bad." I was absoloutly sick to my stomach. I couldn't think, I couldn't concentrate. I couldn't even do anything. So I waited a bit, I then remebered hearing about this 'trick' and though "You know? What is there to loose?" So I tried it. I did the questionaire and low and behold...The GOOD pop up. I couldn't beleive it and convinced myself it HAD to be wrong, that I was in the small percent that that pop up meant nothing. I did not call pearson vue, as I was to nervous to hear the answer. So today, when I woke up. I checked the pearson vue site again. It said my results weren't available yet. So I just decided to wait. My mom however told me to keep checking the Ohio board of nursing Verfication site. So we did. At about 3:45 today, I check the Verification website and my name appeared WITH a LISENCE NUMBER!!!!!! It had dates that the liscence was good threw, it had an RN.-insert number sequence here- at the begining bracket, My status however say "APPROVED" not "ACTIVE" so I called the Ohio board of nursing. The women on the phone said that approved meant they had not printed and sent my results to me yet. I asked "Does that mean I passed?" she said "You don't know?" I said "No." She then said "If you have a lisence number? You passed" I squeled like a 10 year old and hung up! I check the verification site again later and my Lisence now says ACTIVE. The endorsement says Examination but it says ACTIVE!!!!! I PASSED NURSING BOARD!!! I'M A REGISTERED NURSE!! So in short (LOL) the trick DOES work!!! It worked for me at least, as long as it says your results have been successfully delivered? It WORKS!!!!!! Beleive in it!!! For all those who did not pass first time? Don't get beat down. I did, and it took me almost a year to build myself back up. Don't be affraid just know what you know and use your COMMON SENSE!! Good luck all, and to all the new RN I am not only proud to be amongst your ranks, I wish you all the best!!!:heartbeat