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That was the hardest thing I ever had to do as a nurse to tell the family that the patient had died. The first words are I am sorry and the words come from your heart not your brain.

I graduated from the Baker of Auburn Hills LPN to RN program. I was planning on going back to Baker for my BSN, but after my last clinical experience, in which I received no support from the Baker nursing administration, I had second thoughts about completing my BSN with Baker. My final deciding factor in not going back to Baker was this: Baker hired my old clinical instructor to teach Med. Surg. This woman was suppose to be my (more like my and 4 others') preceptor. She had us making beds and doing patient care such as emptying bed pans and giving bed baths. At one point she told my group to go see what other help the CNAs needed. the worse part was when other nursing students from different schools thought we were in school for a CNA program, not nursing. Did I feel like a nurse? No, Did I get anything out of my last clinical? No. Would I recommend Baker? No. Did I get jobs in nursing homes? Yes, I have been able to. Only two of my classmates now hold jobs in hospitals, and half of the reason is just that they had connections. Personally, I had a very high GPA, passed my NCLEX the first time around with 75 questions, and even received awards during pinning, but my experience in the clinical at Baker was less than desirable both to me, other students from my clinical group, and job recruiter who were able view us during my clinical.

Good luck, I will say a prayer for you

Hi all I passed my NCLEX in 75 questions. It is not because I am a genius or spend every waken moment studying . This is how I studied: 1. If you are taking a practices test and you are not a 100% sure of the answer or you had to guess write it down and look up the topic. 2.When you have questions who do you see first: expected VS unexpected chronic VS acute stable VS unstable potential problem VS actual problem safe VS unsafe. 5 assessment VS implementations do you have enough of assessment 4. Maslow hierarchy of needs physical needs take priority over psychosocial pain is psychosocial unless it's a heart attack or acute onset sever in nature. go to you tube and find Kaplan Barbara Erwin and Simply nursing (this guy explains delegation pain and simple) 5. When you have select all that applies , treat each answer separate, Read each answer and ask yourself is this true or false in regards to the question 6. when you reading the answers make sure that that the whole answer is correct (this is known as comma, comma) you might have a question that states at night you will see in the sky; moon, stars, sun ( this in incorrect) this is an example of a comma, comma question. know your lab values if you Google learning shark it will give you all of the common lab values last do not read too many books

That's a lot of money. When you take a practice test if you have to guess an answer or not sure write it down look up the information.

Congratulations !!! I just passed too, 75 questions 1.5 hours!!!!!I used the Exam Cram 4th ed. along with Saunders RN NCLEX Review and Mosby's 20th ED. I feel that the Exam Cram helped me to focus on what to study. I forgot one more important thing I did While I was taking the test I would ask myself is this acute or chronic, expected or unexpected, stable or unstable, safe or unsafe. I also used You tube P.S prayers helped a lot too.