vbarger28

vbarger28 BSN

Peds acute, critical care, Urgent Care

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  1. So I have been an LPN for almost 3 years now, landed an awesome job in urgent/critical care and have been able to do a year in a TBI peds facility. I am now starting my RN BSN in January, and am...
  2. You need to be assertive. There is a major difference between being assertive and a jerk though. For how to handle the nurse with no time management, you can say something like this for example: "I...
  3. I have already worked as an LPN in a TBI peds acute facility, and now I work in Urgent/Critical care. Get to see all the fun stuff, have participated in my fair share of codes, use my IV skills at...
  4. Bedside report - hate it? Like it? Love it?

    HAA! HATE bedside report, rofl... in my experience, almost always, the pt turns it into an arguing match haaha... I guess they don't like us 'telling on them' for being non compliant diabetics who are...
  5. Problem with a problem-co worker

    I think I misrepresented what I meant by helping her. Simple things like her forgetting to sign her name at the bottom of a chart, or putting a chart in the orders rack vs the discharge rack, or...
  6. LPNs are nurses too.

    So sad to say, but this is a sad post. ;( I have been an LPN now since 2013, passed my NCLEX with flying colors and landed a dream job in Critical Urgent Care with a large company. Over the...
  7. LPNs are nurses too.

    Oh thank you, I wasn't aware of that
  8. hate being a LVN

    I started out in LTC, was able to work my way into pediatric acute, and now I am proud to say I am an LPN in Critical Urgent ZCare, I LOVE it. LTC is hard, but trust me, you didn't pick the wrong...
  9. Hi guys, today I took my nclex pn and have come back to share my experience like I promised. I finished in 85 questions, and got the good pop up, had 33 SATA, no drag/drop, no calculations. When they...
  10. Good pop up, nclex pn today!

    O by the way with the SATA, I heard that those are the highest level thinking questions you could get, and I did some research and verified that...so when I DID see the SATA questions, I was...
  11. Good pop up, nclex pn today!

    yeah I know right, ROFL it was weird...like it made me think of, school was meant to give you the content, and the NCLEX was designed to ask you "ok, now what do you do with that content?" lol...it...
  12. Nclex in the morning!

    OMG I am so nervous.... I feel ready though...I did 3700 questions from saunders, another 1000 from Lipincott, and I did the Kaplan review 1000 questions and got a 66% overall in the qbank...I have...
  13. Nclex in the morning!

    o good luck to you!! I'm taking my pn!! Gotta go to bed in two hours to get 7 hours of
  14. Nclex in the morning!

    I will for sure, I was going to take mine on the 16th too but I rescheduled 2 days ago and got lucky to have tomorrow's date!! lol...I will for sure let everyone know how it goes, hopefully
  15. Weeeelllllll I PASSED NCLEX PN!

    I take my pn tomorrow, believe it or not I am actually looking forward to the SATA, I have been told that those ones in particular are way above the pass level, so if you keep gettin them, you are...
  16. ADN vs BSN

    ADN is an Associates, (2 years) and the BSN is the 4yr..Normally, the BSN prepares you for more management roles but the Adn nurses hold that same responsibility now too, also, in some hospitals, it...
  17. I graduated from Kaplan myself. Saunders is good for content, but won't give you the critical thinking you need to pass like the Kaplan review can aid in. Lipincott is who Kaplan uses, and they are...
  18. I used Kaplan, and graduated from there, the qbank is hard. It's structured like nclex, if you have a drain, remember is there for a REASON. Not just to look pretty, so if it's there, and nothing is...
  19. CPR help

    ok, saunders says with cpr for nclex pn that you 1- check responsiveness 2- call for help 3- open airway 4- assess for breaths 5- give rescue breaths 6- give compressions my lipincott however says...
  20. I would highly suggest sticking with lipincott for studying only one material. Saunders is great for a crash course in content, but lipincott brain tweeks you into critical thinking. Good
  21. Only Saunders (CD) for my studies. Can I get the NCLEX?

    the lipincott I just bought by the way, is called lipincotts review for nclex pn, 9th eddition. It was copy righted for 2012. $44.99 at barnes and nobles, you can also purchase it
  22. Only Saunders (CD) for my studies. Can I get the NCLEX?

    I just purchased a new lipincott book that only cost me 44.99 and has over 2100 questions online and they are also in the book with rationals :) Passing on a budget/ For me it seems that Saunders is a...
  23. NCLEX and Kaplan, my thought on this...

    that's an awesome thing to know, I have been panicking about the SATA questions because I have heard of so many people getting like 30 of them, but to know that they are the higher level questions...
  24. Only Saunders (CD) for my studies. Can I get the NCLEX?

    Saunders is too easy compared to the nclex. Kaplan uses Lipincott, if you don't have the money to do Kaplan, get a Lipincott book from Barnes and Nobles or whatever bookstore you have. Lipincott is...
  25. CPR help

    ya i will have too, that's insanely frustrating, and stupid to miss on