LizzyT22

Hi All! since we are all nurses here everyone PLEASE let me know what you think. I am planning to call my doctor tomorrow but now I feel like I can't stop thinking about this. Past month or so I have noticed a tremor in both hands. I have never had it before and it does't seem to get better after sleep, less caffeine, anything. I have difficulty when needing to connect IV's or draw up meds because my hands are so shaky I also have noticed i am unable to tolerate warmth I always feel hot. My leg muscles and hips have been super weak all summer (I did take time off from crossfit but my strength not is not even 1/4 of what it used to be and I have always been pretty strong). I also am tachy hr's ranging from 100-120s at baseline rest. I know as a nurse we diagnose our selves all the time but the reason I started digging was from the tremor and I came across graves/hyperthryoid. what does everyone think? I also have lost 10lbs but I blamed it on moving in with my boyfriend and just being super busy with that a new puppy and new job. I am 24 and need answers! No one in my family has this although my dad has type 2 DM.

Hello All, Hopefully some insight can be offered. I have worked at a pedi hospital on a pulmonary acute rehab floor for the past 10 ish months. I just landed my DREAM job at Brigham and Women's and I need to give my notice at my current job. I do enjoy my job now but the oppourunity to have the position I have always wanted was offered to me. How can I pass this up? Anyways, I will be starting the new job on Oct 6. So I would like to give as much notice as possible and have some time off in between. If I work my last shift as September 25th that would mean submitting a letter today for two weeks. I could work one last shift on September 29th but then I am scheduled for that weekend and Don't want to work the weekend before starting. Everyone please let me know if you think I should say my last shift will be 9/25 or wait and have it be 9/29 so i dont burn any bridges. I do plan to remain per diem at my current job. thankS!

This is VERY late but in response to this post I DID PASS on my 3rd exam at 75 questions. and I currently work at a pediatric hospital in boston, MA and was just hired to work on a trauma floor at brigham and womens!!

Thank You I will be sure to post on Friday. Regardless I am not giving up at this point

Hello I have been reading All Nurses since I graduated in May and have been inspired buy the encouraging words of everyone else and decided that when I finally passed the NCLEX I would post something. So I may be jumping the gun... here is a quick background on my situation. I sat for the boards for the 1st time in early July after not studying a ton because I didn't think i needed to. I feel like I was under the assumption of "Oh I took Kaplan , I had good grades in nursing school, the NCLEX will be a breeze I'll pass in 75 questions and be out of the test center in an hour." I was very wrong. I went all the way to 265 and got such bad anxiety I found myself mindlessly clicking to get done with the exam not even reading the questions. I left the test center knowing I failed, and I did. A month and a half later after studying MORE and doing the NCBSN learning extension online I took the exam again the last week in August. I felt MUCH more prepared but in the back of my mind knew I kind of had some work-arounds with studying did't complete the full learning extension etc. I took 265 questions AGAIN and felt 50/50 leaving the test center, I was however happy with how I controlled my test anxiety. Two days later to my dismay I found out I again Failed. I THEN decided to take a step back.. I started tutoring the following week where I Have since completed the entire Saunders book of content and questions (77 chapters in addition to over 2,000 questions). I also attended the HURST live review course in NY and following the course I took 4 weeks and day by day learned each section/system inside out. I made notecards and re-listened to every lecture on Audio mode on the hurst website. I made sure I could say topics and conditions out loud not just be able to identify them and really made sure i UNDERSTOOD why certain conditions lead to thigs. i.e. in FVD the first thing we want to assume is SHOCK and how to identify these certain manifestations. I spent the last week prior to test day re-briefing on infection control/delegation etc and doing all of the HURST Qreviews which is a total of 750 questions which I completed in 8 days. ON my last Qreview i got close to a 100 out of 125 questions correct. (The avg around 80-85). I walked into the test center today feeling confident but not cocky, and knowing I had DONE EVERYTHING I could have to be prepared. I was shocked when my exam shut off at 75 questions and now I am at a loss for knowing whether I passed or failed? I felt like I used my strategies for questions I didn't know ie. unheard of drugs, etc. but I still felt like some of my questions were relatively hard. I had no easy questions like 'correct order of handwashing' or 'whats a normal blood sugar reading or lab value etc'. I got 12 SATA, 4-6 math problems (can't remember) an EKG picture that asked what rhythm may indicate a patient is at risk for a CVA, and one question where I had to read a chart and make a reccomendation. Lots of infection control and priority questions on who to see first etc. I am SO NERVOUS but I don't want to do the PVT because I have worked this hard I will never get back the next 48 hours where I haven't passed OR failed. Does anyone have any insight for what this may indicate? I really didn't think my exam was going to shut off at 75 my plan at question 73 was to go until 80 ish and take a bathroom break. I cannot remember my last question. Thank You to anyone who reads this and posts a response. Thank You to All Nurses and its members :)