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Hello nursing community! So I've been working for almost a year now, I got my license in August and started my job (I work in NJ) around September/October. I was wondering when I should start my continuing education. Honestly, I don't know anything about continuing education other than the fact that it needs to be done. What is continuing education, where is it done, is it free? Where can I find clear guidelines for my requirements? What's the difference between CEUs/continuing education/contact hours? I guess the most important questions I need answered for me right now is when do I start my continuing education and how long do I have to complete it?

sorry i'm just replying now!! i'm hoping it's not too bad!!! my first day of nursing orientation is tomorrow and i'm praying they don't give us a test hahaha! i'd feel better if they told us it was a dosage calculations test or a test on medications and their actions/side effects but they haven't really elaborated :/ i passed my nclex towards the beginning of august and then a couple months later i accepted the offer for a position in the new grad program!!

sorry i'm just replying now!! i'm hoping it's not too bad!!! my first day of nursing orientation is tomorrow and i'm praying they don't give us a test hahaha! i'd feel better if they told us it was a dosage calculations test or a test on medications and their actions/side effects but they haven't really elaborated :/ i spoke to another person who was in a program similar to mine in the past and she said her test was difficult and the questions weren't calculations alone i passed my nclex towards the beginning of august and then a couple months later i accepted the offer for a position in the new grad program!!

Hi! So I wrote a post before about how nervous I was to take my NCLEX, but I passed in 80 questions so WOO HOO!!! Honestly, when I left I really thought I failed the test so that's a normal feeling. I tried the pearsonvue trick and it worked! I recently got a job at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, I got into their new graduate RN program, and my orientation starts soon!!! I know I have to take a pharmacology/EKG/math test sometime during orientation (hopefully towards the end of it) so I was wondering if anyone has taken a new RN Hire pharmacology exam and what it was like! When do they normally give the pharmacology exam? We have a 2 day hospital orientation and then after we have nursing orientation so I'm hoping it's towards the end of the nursing orientation! They gave us a really general study guide with some EKG rhythms and treatments, but they didn't give us any other meds to look at or drug calculations so I'm not sure what to study!

Hi All! I've been checking out this website for a while now and finally decided to just go for it and make an account! I'm in anxiety mode (just like other people about to take their NCLEX I'm sure) and after taking Question Trainer 3 with Kaplan I have entered anxiety/sadness mode. I just feel like I'm not progressing when it comes to my Kaplan scores and that makes me feel really nervous/completely unprepared/like I'm going to fail So far for the Kaplan Qbank I have a cumulative score of 59% and I'm almost done with the Qbank (I have maybe 300-400 questions left). For the individual Qbank tests I've been averaging 50's-low 60's In terms of Question Trainers my scores are: QT1: 64% QT2: 56% QT3: 56% to me it just feels like I'm moving backward and not progressing like I'm supposed to be, my NCLEX is next month and I'm not feeling confident. I was just wondering if other people were getting scores similar to mine and how they did on the NCLEX or if I need to start worrying. Are these scores good enough to get me that license??