AutumnLeavesRN

Hello all, I don't post much but felt compelled to post after last night's debacle. Well I will try to explain this in the safest way possible and nurses do chime in and let's discuss this please. Ok I have been a registered nurse for about 2.5 years...

Annie Oakley, I received this patient from the ER. I received her at 2000 and she'd be in the ER since about 1100 that morning. She'd had several doses of Xans and Ativan LONG LONG LONG before she got to me lol. I am well aware of the restlessness...

The first time she spoke with them I was with another patient. When I went back to reassess her, the patient's family began to ask me questions then the husband goes "hey get that respiratory nurse back in here". I sighed on that. I didn't mean to so...

It wasn't a contest per say but it does sound that way. She way saying one thing and I had to clarify to the family what those things meant. The MD had seen this patient long before she got up to the floor and was the one who ordered the bipap settin...

Oh goodness yes.....severe COPD and still, STILL smokes 2+ packs a day per 3 family members reports. I told the HS and she has zero backbone. I will discuss this with my nurse manager on my next rotation. Because we had a code on the floor, I put thi...

As a new nurse, the day shift would offer you the opportunity to be apart of more codes, bedside procedures, meeting and getting to know the doctors you'll be working with, etc. Most docs don't come on night shift to do any kind of bedside procedures...

Hi everyone. I have been working in acute care for about 3 months now lol. I have been moved to an ICU-step down unit as of recent. There are a lot of different critical care elements that I really do not remember from school and the books I have don...

You see this is why I don't trust the pearson vue trick. Mine is getting that so-called "good pop-up" but I could have failed. It could be like your situation but vice versa. The waiting is making me sick, like literally. And the Quick Results link ...

@rosepetals12 Your name is already on your state's site????? Wow, that was fast!!!! I am in Texas I think I have to wait a few more days. I have been getting that good pop-up (can't re-register) and it says delivery successful but I need to see so...

In Texas, you can work as a graduate nurse while waiting to take the exam. Some people say it helps to be in the acute care setting prior to testing, others say it doesn't make much of a difference. If your state honors a GN permit then do what you ...

I had my exam March 18th. I got the "good pop-up" but I am not sure I trust that. I need to see something that says I passed, lol. I would say focus on priority patients and teaching. I had a boatload of those questions. The majority of the test ...

I took mine today. I feel like a real idiot. My computer cut off at 146 questions. I had a BOATLOAD of priority questions, which has always been my weakness no matter how I review. I will pray for both of us!!

what is the good pop-up?

I actually had to reschedule mine for monday the 18th. I was supposed to take it tomorrow but after a bout with an extreme headache, neck ache, backache left me unable to function, I went to the doctor/hospital with a diagnosis of temporal arteritis....

I graduated Dec 15, 2012 and I am just now taking the NCLEX-RN March 11. I postponed it for personal reasons. Everything was screwed up for me but things are slowly stabilizing. Most of my class (but 3 of us) have taken and passed the NCLEX-RN. I ju...

Wow thanks everyone for the replies. I am using Hurst review, Saunders comprehensive review, and evolve case studies. I am confident a tad bit because each and every single classmate I have that has taken it has passed it. I am still going to review...

As I have been doing my job searching, I am seeing more and more that graduate nurses MUST go through some type of internship or residency before going on the floor. Hospitals want to safeguard themselves by doing this and I think it's an awesome ide...

@Shorty11 That's what I keep thinking about. I am going to talk long and hard with my mother to see how she feels about it because that's my mom, my lady I love her to pieces and want her apart of everything!!! But the timing of this thing is just...

For my program the weeding out semester is first and second semesters. We started out with 60 and we are graduating with 34. So that says alot about this program. It's sad they do that but that's how they do it. In all actuality some of the ones weed...

My pinning ceremony is next thursday and so far I have no plans to go. My mom can not make it because she lives so far out of town and the silly class officers planned the pinning and graduation 2 days apart because they thought it would work out for...

Hey! The Secret is a documentary and its posted in full on.... Its based on the book. The author is also in the documentary so its the real deal. I can't really explain it but its a life philosophy. I told myself I was going to make 1234 on the he...

I am taking the HESI exit exam this friday and I am terrified. I have been using the Evolve remediation packets, Saunders review book, and Hesi NCLEX review book. I have also been doing many questions. I am scared of the drug calculations mostly. We ...

Taking HESI again tomorrow. First time I made an 819 and we need at least 900 to pass. I am going to make 1234 and above! Believe me, I know 'the secret' and will abide by that! Will check back in tomorrow.

Saunders Comprehensive Review!!! Lovely lovely book! Big, yellow, and purty.

We had ours Nov. 2nd and I also failed. Made 819, needing at least 900. The school supplied us with case studies to keep us in the mode of answering questions. Also, using the NCLEX 4000 software to answer questions. Also I have found using the Saund...