SmilingRN

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  1. Passed ANCC FNP November 2019

    Thanks a lot!
  2. Passed ANCC FNP November 2019

    Hi all, So, I just wanted to pay it forward and post about my experience in passing the ANCC FNP exam with the utmost transparency and encouragement. For starters, I don’t think I’m unintelligent but I do KNOW that I am a bad test-taker. I figured I ...
  3. iMac or MacBook!

    I just wanted to check back in for 2019 and let everyone know that I’m STILL using the same MacBook from 2010 that I mentioned in my original post. I’ve only had one issue a few years back with the battery and it mysteriously went away. It has lasted...
  4. Forgot to cancel/reschedule test appointment

    From my understanding, if you have already scheduled and missed the appointment then you automatically forfeit the $200 testing fee. I don't think that it counts against the number of test attempts (if your state has one), however, it is considered a...
  5. PVT failed!!!!!!

    The PVT has worked for everyone that I know. This is over a 2-3 year time span I'm speaking of. I have heard that sometimes the PVT doesn't work when "delivery successful" isn't reflected on the Pearson VUE registration screen to the far right of the...
  6. Attitudes of New Nurses

    Yeah, that's a good old case of "splitting." It's most common on the mental health units. However, I'm sure that non-psych patients are good for it, too.
  7. Backpack, watch for nursing program?

    Some of the students had Swiss Army rolling cases. I've even seen a few doctors using them in the hospital and I see that they carry a lot of equipment. Costco usually has a deal on them and it comes with a lifetime warranty, from what I've heard. I ...
  8. Attitudes of New Nurses

    I always look drugs up before I give them just because you always need to know what and why you're giving a patient a particular med (i.e. six rights of medication administration). However, in my nursing program it was taught that in not every instan...
  9. Attitudes of New Nurses

    To piggyback off of your statement, sometimes a nurse has to exercise better judgment and hold medications because of a patient's rapid or unexpected change. We wouldn't wait to see what the doctor thinks as the patient is starting to code. I think t...
  10. "Just" an LPN

    People on the outside looking in always have the most to say: "Why not just go for an MD?, if you're looking into becoming a CRNA?" -or- "Why didn't you just go on to become a doctor, if you are doing so well at nursing?" Blah, blah, blah. At the end...
  11. Just took the NCLEX-RN on 8/5/13

    No problem and thank you, everyone!
  12. Just took the NCLEX-RN on 8/5/13

    @ 48 hrs For sure! Sometimes I would stare at the screen for 5 minutes before selecting choices from Kaplan's SATA because they were just that complex. Luckily, it helped when it mattered most!
  13. Just took the NCLEX-RN on 8/5/13

    @ NW_studentnurse Thanks! The NCLEX SATA are pretty straightforward. At least, they were in my opinion. I read somewhere to treat each option as a true or false based on what the question is asking you, so I breezed right through them and didn't have...
  14. Just took the NCLEX-RN on 8/5/13

    @ ohyesitslizz Bummer! I checked within 48 hours of completing the exam (which was around 1100 on 8/5/13). Perhaps this is why you can't see your option to view your Quick Results? I would try again after a time when you know for certain that you wer...
  15. caught up in a dilemma

    @ Kaydensmom01 My initial paragraph was replying to your notion that grades indicate how you'll do in nursing school and whether someone is understanding the material. The subsequent paragraphs are about my personal thoughts (i.e. how I feel, what my...