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I can't even fathom 7:1 on med surg without an aide on days. I wouldn't feel safe. The hospital I work med surg is 4:1 days. The hospital scores very well on safety. It is hard but doable. I worked med surg 1.5 years full time and now I work per diem. I like the hospital I work for, hard but I could never see them trying to shove 7 patients onto an RN.

I did 2.5 years of liberal studies prior to getting into nursing school. My ADN program was 2 years. I'm now going part time toward my bachelor's. I worked during school. I work as a nurse now on med surg. I have a 14 year old that I homeschool. I genuinely believe that it takes time and effort to get what we want out of life. The only "depressing thing" is that people don't recognize how much work us nurses have to do to become nurses and then all the real life experience learning that takes place after you graduate...wow.

Taking a blood sugar is nursing judgement. If your patient has signs and symptoms of hypo or hyperglycemia then I would take the blood sugar. I would document the rationale. I would also call the doctor and question why the patient isn't on blood sugar checks. Maybe it was an oversight? I work in a hospital. I also think that you have to consider, if I don't take the blood sugar what could happen? If someone has low blood sugar and you do nothing or high blood sugar and you do nothing? Then it comes down to what is most safe and logical.

I work on med surg. I do a full head to toe twice a day and focused assessments if something seems different. I usually have four patients; sometimes five. I'm new to the profession. I even do it on "psych" patients. If they're there for a medical reason, they need to have a complete head to toe. Period.

I'm in my first year of nursing. I work med-surg. Most days, I like it. I may be stressed but I still like being a nurse. Yesterday, was NOT one of those days. I am having stress at home and that doesn't help. I was not feeling well and unfortunately, when you work around other nurses, no amount of makeup can cover up you're not well. I've been getting last minute admits; like 20 minutes before I'm supposed to give report to leave. I don't like myself when I'm stressed. I don't like the way I feel or the things I say in head or out loud. I just want to be the person I am/ know myself to be. I'm type a. I try to be meticulous in my work. But yesterday, my patient load was "light" after I did a d/c but I also had one patient that involved a lot of my time. So how do you handle this kind of stress??? I'm just about at my wit's end at home as it is and I am in school for my BSN so I don't get a lot of time to be fine at home. I don't know how much more I can take at home but I do try to be positive esp. at work.

I wouldn't want you to be my nurse or my family member's nurse.

Can't work as an aide if you have your rn. You are not an aide anymore. At least you can't in Maine.

People can roll cigarettes too, just sayin'. Not that it really matters.

Was the delivery successful when you did the trick? If so, sounds like you passed! :)

I answered 1056 questions. 66.4% were correct. 33.6% incorrect. Strongest subject was labs and weakest was pediatrics. I passed NCLEX-RN on June 9th with 75 questions. I didn't use the nclex mastery app alone to prepare.

I just wanted to update, the pop up works. I checked my BON site and I am listed as active registered nurse!!! Good luck to everyone waiting!

If the original poster is working as a cna still (last activity was on those boards), why is this post up? Sounds like the trick was right...

Okay, so I took mine today. It was really hard. Lots of challenging questions. Things I had never heard of. By the end of the exam, I felt like I was answering questions correctly but they were still very hard; required a lot of thinking. Anyway, it shut off at 75 and I sat there shell shocked. I tried the "trick" as soon as my delivery was successful. My pop up has everything except contacting a board member. I will pay for the quick results when I can. I'm super stressed. I see other people got it and passed without anything about contacting a board member. Just how accurate is this "trick?" STRESSED. LOL. Oh I wanted to edit that I also got that email from Pearson. Is that an indicator of anything or is it just to tell you how you can get your results early? Thoughts?

Our grade scale has anything in the way of a B ending at 83. Needless to say, I got many a C+ and I was very happy to do so. I wouldn't call anyone in my nursing program a slacker; even those that didn't make it. Nursing school was hard.

This advice bothers me. I'm not saying that the original poster doesn't have to deal with the consequences of what happened; but life happens. Alarm clocks don't work sometimes; keys get locked out of cars, etc. I have less than a month of nursing school left and it is very disheartening how nursing students can be treated sometimes. Nursing is supposed to be a caring and compassionate profession! Granted, yes, it is a profession so we have to own up when we make mistakes but the compassion is so often lost! Original poster: this is a hard situation you are in now because of what happened; but don't give up. Try your best. It is better to have tried than to just give up because of ONE mistake.