Jordym919

"I feel like I'm going to die" 😣

Do your best and forget the rest 😌

Thank you! I really think I am going to go for the ICU route :) I have worked in an ICU as an aide for a little over 3 years now and I do love it!

I really like your advice about the more pressure you feel the more you slow down! I feel like stressful and hurried times are when most errors happen, so thank you so much!

Thank you I will try doing that! The fact that it is hard to get your foot into an OR door is what is holding me up, but on the other hand it would also be a little more difficult to go from OR to ICU if I decided to do that a couple of years down the road, both are very specialized just in different aspects. That is what makes it hard.

I got your PM, the website wouldn't let me reply to you because I have not posted enough? Anyway, That is cool that you know for sure you love OR and that is where you want to be, I still am unsure therefore I probably won't start there just because I feel like you need to know you love it and that is where you want to be especially if you want to start there as a new grad. I like my experience so far, however I feel like it is a place I would want to end up instead of start out. Thank you for you insight and I hope it works out for you! Good luck with the rest of nursing school!

Thank you everyone for the tips and advice! I feel pretty good on content, so I feel like I will probably practice mostly questions to figure out how to break them down and answer them correctly!

Very good advice! I feel like trusting the pharmacy label happens all too often.

A bag of potassium that was meant for an adult patient was given to a child less than a year old instead of the ordered NS... it resulted in cardiac arrest.

Thank you! All great advice! I love hearing experienced nurses tips and opinions :)

That is what I am afraid of, thank you for your feedback!

Thank you SO much for your feedback! I appreciate it, I am definitely keeping my options open but I am leaning towards critical care because not only do I love it, but like you said the experience will open up so many doors in my career as a nurse. Ultimately the choice is mine, but I love hearing experienced nurses opinions! Thank you again!

Thank you so much, I will take these into consideration when practicing! I appreciate the feedback!

Hello I am a nursing student in my last semester of nursing school and will be graduating this upcoming May, I have worked in ICU as an aide for the past three years throughout school. A few months ago our ER had a sentinel event from a med error with a child involved, and since then the hospital has made multiple policy changes with medication administration and pharmacy procedures etc. and still we have had some pretty serious medication errors, not sentinel, but still. I am looking for any advice as a new graduate to avoid theses types of errors, in school you are taught to follow your medication rights religiously but are there any other words of advice for a new grad because medication administration is scary as a new grad and after personal experiences in my own hospital workplace. Thanks!

I am in my last semester of nursing school and will be graduating this upcoming May, I am just looking for tips and advice on how to prepare for and pass the NCLEX. I understand Kaplan focuses more on testing strategies whereas Hurst focuses more on content, they are both pretty pricey so is it even necessary to purchase the whole review? There is also a review by NCSBN, has anyone done that review or heard of it? Any opinions about study plans or how to prepare are greatly appreciated! :)