nurse2b2004

I passed!!!! All I have to say is I DO NOT recommend the book CEN Examination Review by Ann J. Brorsen. Spent many many hours on the website studying and barely passed. Could have just been me but it seemed like the way it was teaching me was way off from the way the test was. Do I get a pin?? :)

Some schools that have an online ADN to MSN (FNP) bridge program are Graceland University and Frontier School of Midwifery.

Another trick I learned is to use a bp cuff inflated to about 100. Sometimes it is just enough to let some blood return but not too much to "blow" the vein.

Steth and badge around neck. In pockets- 6-12 alcohol pads, bandage scissors, 2-3 black pens, pen light, tape, money, watch with timer, tape measure, pieces of paper. Currently, a list of names of people working with sodium cyanide in our area. Trauma shears, reference guides and calculator are on the counter readily available.

We learned by doing it on each other. How else is it taught?

Well, here's my story. I worked as an aide for 7 years before becoming a nurse. It was the only job that I didn't want to quit a month after starting, so of course advancing my career and becoming a nurse was the next step, right? I have been an RN for 13 months in a rural hospital where we do it all.Tried home health and helping the DON out. These things are ok but not something I would like to do forever. I absolutley hate the feelings I have when I am at work, trying to get an IV in and can't, feeling like a failure because someone has to do my job for me. I hate giving a med after checking and rechecking all the "rights" and then thinking later I have given the wrong med (even though I hadn't). The feeling in my stomach is undescribable. But the worst thing ever is being AT HOME and thinking about my last couple of shifts, worrying about missing something, thinking of how I could have done something different or possibly not remembering to chart something because I didn't have time because I was still trying to get everything else done an hour after I was suppose to be off shift. I want a job that I don't have to think about until I am actually there. I don't want to feel sick to my stomach before, during, and after every shift. I am now checking into going to school to be a medical lab tech. I wish I wouldn't have wasted $31,000, but what is more important, being a happy loving mother and wife, or money? By the way, I am not depressed and the issue in this thread does not necessarily mean the person needs counseling. It just means there are some who can do this job and there are some who cannot.

I worked very hard for my license and I would never do anything, including this, to risk losing it. I wouldn't do this for anyone but my spouse, children and my parents. Maybe the daughter could be explained how to give the shot.