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Dear nurses and student, who already passed your test! I heard so many advice's about writing down all lab. values down on a dry board in the beginning of your exam so you can reduce anxiety while focusing on the questions. I would like to ask you,...

Dear follow nurses, one of my friend needs help with interpretation into English one term - "the electrode catheter's for bladder stimulation" - is it even exist? Do you have American brand or company who produce such a device. We are trying to help...

Do we have any prototype in US? My search engine is showing me regular Foley catheters, none of them even close to the one above.

Thank you, Heather! I looked at the link, do you know how it really works? From 3 small pictures I can't imagine the right procedure? Do you have any more info on that?

Let's take this challenge!!! Study plan for foreign nurses: 90 days before exam. 1. Anatomy on iTunes by Dr. Cizadlo - 71 lectures - 2 per day. http://faculty.css.edu/gcizadlo/AnatPhys/ 2. Pathophysiology on iTunes by Dr. Cizadlo - 35 lectur...

Day 6, Monday -10/22/12 1. Finished Saunders Chapter 12 and 13 - "Nutrition and Parenteral Nutrition". Questions 77-102. 2. Nursing skills review: Chapter 31 " Nutrition"- "Basic Nursing" by P. Potter and A. Perry 3. "Medical terminology" by A....

You see..."WorldTravelingYogi", here we go again on a religion! Obviously you need to work on that!!! :) As a Nurse you will be surrounded by clients with different cultural believes and instead of using your therapeutic communication you will talk a...

I'm glad you like it! How does my origination relates to this post? I noticed that in USA people tend to ask this question to foreigners out of curiosity or lack of subordination. I should say that we are all from the same Universe! I call US my hom...

Good morning everyone! I used Nursing Drug Book, search online and "Pharmacology Nursing Process" book.

Let me ask you: " What irritates you so much when people are wishing you well?" I'm trying to understand your point of view... I was raised as atheist and our medical school had atheism as important subject for our studies. We went in depth through s...

Day 5, Saturday -10/20/12 1. Finished Saunders Chapter 11 - "Laboratory Values". Questions 63-76. 2. Nursing skills review: Chapter 9 "Communication"- "Basic Nursing" by P. Potter and A. Perry 3. Medical terminology by A. Prendergast - Chapter ...

I scored 67 % on Kaplan before I took my exam and I still didn't pass... As a foreign nurse, my problem is in terminology and abbreviations. I was advised by my friend who took exam and passed on a first try - besides reviewing your materials try to ...

Thank you "Esme12" for editing out thread! We will try to respect copyrighted materials and post only our own notes. I think most of us will agree with that!

Mine is scheduled on Feb 18th, if I finish my review sooner then I will reschedule. How about yours?

Dear readers! Please review testing rules, it is very important to know so you will avoid any possible failures. Read it very carefully prior to your exam. https://www.ncsbn.org/1268.htm

This is free Kindle edition of Kaplan RN course book. May be it will save you some money on review books. The RN Course Book: Kaplan: Amazon.com: Kindle Store

Day 4, Thursday -10/19/12 1. Finished Saunders Chapter 10 - "Acid-Base Balance". Questions 53-62. 2. Nursing skills review: Chapter 15 - "Fluid, Electrolytes and Acid-Base Balance"- "Basic Nursing" by P. Potter and A. Perry 3. Medical terminolo...

Good day everyone! So happy to hear that this post helps you with your studies. It is not that complicated... persistence is the key! Yesterday was my birthday and I will post my progress today. Let's continue!

Sounds like you exhausted yourself and depression is kicking in. All I can read in your post is negative with so much anger. Are you doing any physical or any other exercises to take some physical and emotional load off your shoulders? Night shifts c...

Dear nurses! Tomorrow, Oct 18th, Kaplan is holding free online seminar about critical thinking. If any of you are interested you can enroll today. Event Schedule

Day 3, Wednesday -10/17/12 1. Finished Saunders Chapter 9 - "Fluids and Electrolytes". Questions 36-52. 2. Nursing skills review: Chapter 7 - "Nursing Process"- "Basic Nursing" by P. Potter and A. Perry 3. Medical terminology by A. Prendergast - Chap...

Wish you all to be as wise as an owl!

Problem with that is if you don't know the content you end up memorizing bunch of trivia without knowing the roots. After a while you will answer more and more questions correctly but did you really prepare yourself for everyday challenges? Practice ...

Day 2, Tuesday -10/16/12 1. Finished Saunders Chapter 8. Questions 26-35 after this chapter. 2. Nursing skills review: Chapter 5 - Ethics - "Basic Nursing" by P. Potter and A. Perry 3. Medical terminology by A. Prendergast - Chapter 2. I'm foreign n...

Saunders has assessment test - I scored 60%. Did you use pre-diagnostic test with Hogan's CD? What are your weak points in Endocrine system? I'm trying to understand and not to memorize content, if I have some problems I go back to Pathophysiology......