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Beena you can check it tomorrow ( sat) for your results. the "2 business days pearson gives you is a general guideline, i know lots of people that took it on a thursday and by 12 on saturday knew their results. I hope you dont have to wait that long, and im pretty sure you passed. :) hang in there, keep yourself busy. I went to miniclip.com and played web games all day long yesterday.

I Passed! wheeew, so relieved. :)

Hi, i just took the Rn test this morning, and it was absolute hell. The comp shut off at 75, and I wanted more questions. I had some priority, a lot of infection control and a lot of teaching questions. I left the center stunned and it felt like i didnt do so well. Im going to sleep through the next 2 days while waiting for my results.

NCSBN, I thought was slightly easier than Kaplan. I wouldn't focus on the grades youre getting. Focus on the rationales even for the right answers. At this point reading content is pointless, just take questions every day up untill a day or two before the test, then stop and relax. what i do is take 25-50 questions at a time, review the rationales, make one sentence bullets to help me focus on the important points. then i take a 20 min break and i do it all over again. 200q's a day. "rinse and repeat". dont hype up the test in your head, and dont lose your focus. if you believe that you will fail, you will. study hard.

depends on what type of questions shes using. Kaplan questions are notoriously harder so anything over 60% is good. Saunders and lippencott over 75% is good. My whole thing has been this, as long as i get more right than wrong im in good shape, :). good luck, study hard. P.S. oh and make sure she does about 4000 questions before she takes her boards, good confidence builder. ive been avg. 150-200 a day, 6 days a week, been studying for the past 5 weeks, taking mine this coming Thursday. I feel a lot better than when i started.

Hey all, I recently accepted a Burn ICU job in NJ. I'm a new grad and if i pass the NCLEX i will start sometime in March. For the past 4 years i've been an EMT and have a lot of 911 experience under my belt. Reason i took this job is because im a hungry student, and i think it will be an amazing opportunity to learn a lot. Just from interviewing with the BICU manager i was told that i will see multiple problems with pt's (renal, cardiac, fluids, etc.) The orientation is 4 months, (ACLS, PALS, Disrrhythmias class, and i will be cross trained in all other ICU's in the hospital) So several people already told me that im crazy for taking this job, that i will burn out, that its going to be really difficult. Now im set in my ways and pretty stubborn and still think that this will be good for me. But in the back of my mind im questioning it as well. I went for a tanking procedure, just to see what its like. Didn't bother me at all, im used to seeing patients in their worst moments of life. The pt was 29% burns (arms and legs) from "huffing" (sniffing spray pain cans), the stove pilot light caught on and blew up in their face. I need a burn nurse to level with me, hehe i know im asking for a lot. Oh and what does the saying "once a burn nurse, always a burn nurse" mean?

Im going into my 4th semester, graduating this December. First semester is hard not because of the content, but because you have to rewire the way you think. You will have massive amounts of information and it will be tough to process it all. Now the second and third semesters is where you will have your butts handed to you. Med-Surg is tough, and in the third semester you'll have Ped's and OB both are really tough and annoying. Good Luck , Study hard and everything else comes second. Sam

Myself and a couple of other students from this board just started the program. I think you'll be fine with the 3.0( actually more than fine), keep up with the good grades on the pre-req's and good luck. Just apply early, like Jan for the 2006 fall.

Has anyone recieved any Financial Aid information? I have called 3 weeks in a row and everytime i get the same response " we are constantly mailing out the packets". Well i figured 3 weeks of mailing out the packets, most of us would have had them by now. Maybe im freaking out but we start at the end of the month.. and not having one of the most important things covered makes me feel uneasy..

Thanks, I didnt have an interview, and i really dont know how many applied into the program this semester but there are only 50 spots. I personally think that getting into the program shouldnt be a worry, its living thought it and finishing the program in 14 months that concerns me, hehe .

I had a question about the PDA's. Are we truly going to need them? What type of nursing software is available for them ? I was looking at some last night im not really sure which ones are suitable for me.

i know, or have a rought idea of which classes we'll be taking. i talked to Ian white through email and he told me that the classes listed on that schedule they sent us is for all levels of bsn. if you look at the program outline on UMD's website the classes 301, 304, 312, 314, and 318 are listed for the first semester. so those classes are also listed on the schedule we got, and it looks like we will have full tuesdays and thursdays, leaving the other days for clinicals or web classes (i think Pharmacology might be a web class, dont quote me on that) THe NET test is an assessment of your learning abilities and comprehension(sp), i took it a year ago for another school. it has basic math, reading comprehension and psychological questions that assess your personality and learning type. there are study guides for it ( http://secure.mycart.net/catalogs/catalog.asp?prodid=257819 ). maybe you guys knew this already so sorry if i sound redundant to you, but im greatful for you posting your findings its clearing up a lot of BS for me. :) PM me i might be able to help out with the UMD's log on issue, i resolved it yesterday.

Yep got mine as well on Saturday, i saw the schedule and it looked heavy. But either way im glad this stuff is here and i can look forward to Orientation, and meeting everyone. :) Sam

Yea! hehe. Im starting this fall :uhoh21: . Have any idea of what the schedule going to be like?

JLG, I would like to hear from Seton Hall first, but Im favoring UMDNJ, partly because they are affiliated with a teaching hospital. Dentistry and medicine is there too, same buildings. Its going to be a drive for me though, coming from northen Monmouth County.