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    What nursing task do you loathe???

    scaredsilly replied to richardgecko's topic in General Nursing

    I hate responding to "Nursey" "honey" "sweetheart"...ect. I mean it is really hard to be professional when you want to yell "you don't know me like that!" Don't they know how disrespectful that...
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    Denver School of Nursing BSN reviews, please?

    scaredsilly replied to purplepixie's topic in School, College Programs

    The MAIN job of a nursing school is to prepare students to pass the NCLEX. If you don't pass, you don't get to be a nurse. I would be VERY put off by the pass rates. I would also check to see...
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    Registered so I could say thank you

    scaredsilly replied to Tumbler's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Congratulations and thank you for the great post! Now stick around with the rest of us who are here to help out and dispel myths!
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    Can't get into my RN Program because of Obamacare

    scaredsilly replied to LCNYC's topic in New York Nursing

    Most schools make it mandatory that you have insurance and will offer you a low cost plan. Check with them and your insurance woes may well be over! You can roll the cost of the insurance into...
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    Looking for confidence for NCLEX success

    scaredsilly replied to rhpsych's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Your Kaplan predictor was higher than mine and I passed first time. Best of
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    Kaplan Scores & NCLEX

    scaredsilly replied to Jen2010's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Umm...these are some of the best Kaplan scores I have seen!!! As for SATA, if I remember correctly, QT4 was all SATA and it looks like you nailed it! Going by these scores you will do great! SATA...
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    Advice needed to stay afloat!

    scaredsilly replied to createsomechange's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You are not alone...you are totally normal! I haven't reached the golden one year anniversary yet, but I am getting close and it really has gotten better!! I still have a ways to go myself, but...
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    Payment Declined PVT 2015 nclex-rn

    scaredsilly replied to lab0117's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    quik absolutely can guarantee one of those is correct!
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    Possible move to Colorado current outlook

    scaredsilly replied to Abby10's topic in Colorado Nursing

    Cost of housing in Colorado is absolutely ridiculous and I don't know if anyone knows why. It is even worse in the Denver area. Ermmm... not sure what experienced nurses get paid, but new grads are...
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    Post NCLEX life

    scaredsilly replied to squeakercarp's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Get certificates that will help with your career. Work on CEs. And other than that ENJOY life! Reconnect with family and friends you have missed during school and NCLEX study. Get a membership...
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    Pearsonvue trick June 2015

    scaredsilly replied to HealthyFuture's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Happy that you passed. PVT has done some false passes. RNsRWe posted recently that someone accepted a job offer based on PVT and then found out she failed. The biggest issue with PVT is the...
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    Just took nclex, but I'm stupid :(

    scaredsilly replied to noxlumos0's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    This is a new one to me as well, BUT, your entire session is video taped and the video has a time stamp. I am pretty sure that the sequence of the video when you stood up will be a second or two...
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    Does the bad pop up for Pearson Vue mean you fail?

    scaredsilly replied to Smiller0332's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    If we hit 10 million pvt question posts, will the pvt start to work
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    Got 265 questions for NCLEX-RN

    scaredsilly replied to Kdm112990's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I got 265 and passed over a year ago. The exam is torture no matter how many you get and everyone thinks that they
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    Health One vs Centura

    scaredsilly replied to Nurse216's topic in Colorado Nursing

    Dude, I went online, found jobs that did not mandate a year experience and had planned to walk in my resume when I got called for an interview from the NM where I did my practicum AFTER walking my...
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    Question about NCLEX posts

    scaredsilly posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Every day I read posts here that go something like this: I had "100 questions, 27 were SATA, 4 were drag and drop, 11 EKGs, 14 OB, 6 education"(etc) It has already been made clear that the type of...
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    Question about NCLEX posts

    scaredsilly replied to scaredsilly's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I guess it is the nature of the beast....people look for any little thing that will convince them that they passed because the wait is so difficult...but I cannot imagine taking the time or brain...
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    Jobs out of school

    scaredsilly replied to cvandyke's topic in General Students

    2 months after NCLEX, my dream job at my dream hospital in L&D after ab out 300
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    Possible move to Colorado current outlook

    scaredsilly replied to Abby10's topic in Colorado Nursing

    A nurse with your experience should not have a problem. I would check the job posting pages for Childrens, Healthone, and Centura as well as Denver Health. With experience you should get some...
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    The Patient's "Guests"

    scaredsilly replied to rnsheri's topic in Nursing Humor

    12 year old comes out of his mothers post partum room carrying his 2 hour old brother and tells us that "my parents are tryin' to sleep and he won't stop making noise".
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    shut off at 75th question pass or fail (nclex rn)

    scaredsilly replied to bevialbe29's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Chaos==your head or someone else's?? LOL OP and Ginger, You actually have a LOT to lose...imagine getting charged, being convinced you failed and suffering with that belief for 48 hours....or longer...
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    50-60 SATA questions on NCLEX??

    scaredsilly replied to monica842's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    WOW! That is so different! The 48 hours is so much more kind, but to us, even that seems like a long time. How long ago did NCLEX revert to computerized testing? And how many questions did you...
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    50-60 SATA questions on NCLEX??

    scaredsilly replied to monica842's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    One of my teachers told us about that. she said that the "trick" then was that the envelope it came in said RN after your name if you passed. Not much of a trick considering you see it 1 second...
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    50-60 SATA questions on NCLEX??

    scaredsilly replied to monica842's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Congrats, Monica!!! Told ya we all feel that way! RNsRWe, lol, I don't think she is in counselling, as long as she never needs to take NCLEX again she will be ok!
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    shut off at 75th question pass or fail (nclex rn)

    scaredsilly replied to bevialbe29's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    You "cant believe I did so bad that I had to stopped at 75"....maybe your shouldn't believe it....maybe you did so GOOD that it stopped at