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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 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 g...

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 sug...

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 re...

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...

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 ...

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 sc...

The nurses on all my clinical experiences have been wonderful. I agree about not going to them for every little thing. Also, nurses have a lot of responsibility, as a student, my role was to learn and lighten the work load for them and the cna as muc...

$750 a credit hour is absurd. I pay $86 a credit hour in my adn program. Once I finish, the online program I am looking at is $300 a credit hour. It is accredited and the last year of your bsn, you can switch out electives and take nursing classes to...

I'm not sure how it will work out in the long run for myself. I just wanted to add that some C+ to B students have test anxiety. If the pressure is off, I perform much better in a testing situation. I'm in a difficult program. My original clinical gr...

Being a nurse and being overweight are not necessarily related. Try putting into a calorie burn calculator just how many calories are burned on a 12 hour shift. As I stated before, eating more calories than you need for your body is how you become ov...

I'm not sure if being a cna before nursing school helps with nursing school. I work as a cna per diem and worked full time this summer between my first and second year. I'll graduate with my adn this May. I think working as a cna has helped me tremen...

I'm doing a lot of the same things others have posted. I've been working as much as possible. I'm a cna in LTC. I've been reading some for next semester but think I will start doing notes too. Volunteering is a good idea. I have a 13 year old and hav...

No, it is not. This comment is ignorant. You eat more than your body needs to function, that is how you become obese. I have known many nurses who are not overweight.

If you do not have compassion or humility, all the lecture and clinical experience in the world doesn't do you any good if you tell a sick person to say "please" before you will get them a blanket. People like that should not be nurses.

A 15 pages report for your unknown? Yikes. I loved micro; took it this summer between my 2nd and 3rd semester in nursing school. It was 7 weeks. We had an unknown in lab but my report was 5-6 pages, if that.

This is the old nature versus nurture argument. We have not proven that either are definitive. I think it is best not to pigeon hole people. Also, it is rather condescending to those that went to trade school to imply that their skills aren't complic...