Dadam89

Without breaking too much confidentiality, this is a jail not a hospital.

Wheal, good to know. Thank you all for your responses, I should probably just call her and discuss my concerns (she was gone by the time we did count and I put two and two together). It's not possible to take off any of our needles (they're the cheap kind). It definitely wasn't a pillow but more like a dime which still seems to big for me. Again it probably wouldn't have even come to my attention had the count not been off and the only thing I'm really worried about is some kind of severe reaction for an extra dose. It seems like at this point though since no one has mentioned any kind of death related outcome from extra PPD then I'll just call her, get her side of the story and tell the nurses this week to keep an eye on the person. Thanks again!

There are several vials open so unfortunately not. The paperwork also didn't require the lot number or anything so I have no idea which vial was used. This was administered around 0400 today and at 0630 when I saw it the person had no complaints and was not in any apparent distress. I didn't even put two and two together until I realized the count was off and remembered the wheel had seemed a little large. The syringe that was missing was a 3cc and thinking back on the size of the wheel I can't imagine it was more than 0.5ml but even so the right dose is 0.1ml.

So I should start off by saying I am not 100% sure that the wrong dose was administered but I'm a brand new nurse and was working with an LPN today who said she could go give the person a PPD test. She said she'd done it hundreds of times working at her old facility, I probably should have watched her do it but didn't and only thought something was wrong when the sharps didn't add up. There was a intramuscular syringe missing and all the TB ones were there. It's also very possible that the count was just off (sometimes the DON takes one syringe to make sure we're actually counting) I went and checked out the person's arm and the wheel looked twice as big as it normally dose. -Again since I'm not 100% sure a wrong dose was administered (and possibly wrong administration) I was just wondering if giving a double dose of PPD in one injection had any serious side effects. Haven't found any articles going either way so I'd appreciate any feedback so I can hopefully get some sleep tonight.

Thank you! I'm so relieved! :) So slightly off topic... (I do believe that you read it btw and yes there were a ton of posts on this thread and it's probably not the only thread about it so I wouldn't expect you to go find that specific post, that would be way too time consuming) Why would the computer grade someone as a pass and then the second grading grade them as a fail? I was thinking about this after I read Pearson's twice grading blurb and I was hopeful that it meant for those the computer failed, a real person would go back over it to make sure they were failed justly... not the other way around. It just seems silly, I would think the whole point of using a CAT would be so that everyone is tested the same while still keeping the integrity of the test so that no one person has the same exact test. So regardless of whether the trick works or not, I just couldn't believe that you could pass the test via the computer and then have some person (I'm assuming it's a person that looks over it again not another computer) come along and say whoops sorry never-mind? Again not that it matters for me anymore and maybe I just have too much faith in technology but if a computer said I passed and then a person came along and said I didn't? I'd be super mad . It just doesn't seem logical to me is all. Anyway thanks again for your input, and being so courteous! I always love a good level headed discussion :)

Ok so I took my test on October 23rd at 8a.m and went all 265 questions. Although I know that the number of questions doesn't indicate a pass or fail, I was still nervous and wanted to try the trick. I noticed the layout looked different and wasn't able to do the same set of steps for the trick that I used back in January for my LPN. I then found this forum and read every response. It seemed that the trick worked for most people and for those that it didn't, they weren't specific enough about the steps that they took for me to consider them part of the "pool" for this experiment. There was one in particular that had said they thought they passed and their credit card was charged but they never came back to this forum to confirm that they did indeed pass and were charged. Anyway until this very latest post I also had not read anything about Although it is a fact that tests are scored twice (via Pearson website fact page) I had not heard of anyone getting the newgood pop up before 24 hours and then subsequently failing. However being on the fiscal side of things I still thought it was a good idea to use a rebate card with only $15 left on it in case this was the case. I tried at 8 pm on the 23rd and got the good pop up and then 8am on the 24th with the same card and got the same good pop up. (I realize that both of these were inside 24 hours I just didn't think to try again because I hadn't read the post above yet.) Today (October 25th) at 7a.m my quick results were in and I payed the $7.95 (which is a total racket IMO, it's a computer program and it cost absolutely nothing to show quick results and therefore should be free but whatever) and found out that I passed!! So all in all the results worked for me. Theoretically I would think that this new trick results should work just like the old one. For instance this was my second time taking the RN NCLEX and third time taking the NCLEX over all (counting january's lpn nclex). The first time I took the LPN one I did the old trick and the $7.95 quick results and confirmed like all the other graduates that the trick did work and paying $7.95 was kind of worthless. The second time I took the NCLEX (first RN attempt) I walked out pretty much knowing I had failed did the trick and went straight to the credit card page (this was when the old trick was still valid). Because I was darn near positive I had failed I didn't waste $7.95 to find out and instead waited for the mail. Sure enough I failed, but it's important to note Pearson did not get any extra money out of me. My theory is that people weren't really bothering with the quick results as much because the trick was so accurate, so in an attempt to keep their $7.95 profit from all the test takers they changed the layout so that now the trick is still valid but if you fail then they are at least guaranteed $200 out of you right then. That's my theory at the moment anyway, they are a business after all. I did read somewhere that they were tired of answering phone calls about the trick and that's why they changed it, which could totally be an extra perk of changing it but I think the initial reason was motivated by money. Anyway, glad I passed and to those of you in California who have to wait all that time, my heart goes out to you, because that is indeed a total racket. Good luck everyone!! :)