Sandy46

Graduated at the top (second career and I have a masters in another field) 75 neclex, job on the med surg speciality floor I wanted and down hill from there. I am really good with the patients and that is it. Although I have not made and errors, I do all sorts of dumb things--went through 7 gloves during a sterile procedure(taking out central line), contaminated iv lines, written note on wrong computer chart and soooo many more and have not yet left my 12 hour shift in less than 14. My time management stinks ( I have run a whole dept with 16 staff, and not I can't run myself). I am embarassed and keep thiking i will be fired. I have even been thinking of bring a resignation letter so I will have it handy. so fay people have been supportive, "what can we do to help you become more effective and efficient, let's put you with another preceptor etc. I am too old to feel like this. Do you know anyone who just decided they made the wrong decision? what did they do?

I am an HR director of many years turned nurse--yes letter--no to the reason (found an opportunity/ another opportunity/ good opportunity makes it sound like their's was not an opportunity and definitely a thanks.

Friday pm and physical

Took NCLEX wednesday, interviewed Thurs, offer on Friday, start tomorrow. Rushed because the new nurse orientation starts tomorrow. I would have perferred a few weeks to recover.

It is exactly the same except for the date it was sent. There really was no corrected information. They allowed me to use my college photo ID instead of my driver's license since the names do not match. (I added my husband's last name with a hyphen years ago when our first child was born-but never changed it formally for several reasons that were important at the time.). I have quite a bit of education and the undergraduate prerequisites I transferred were from several colleges I had contacted Pearson a few weeks ago and was told after much discussion with supervisors etc that it would be OK. When I arrived at the test site--it was a problem-- and so the calls began again. It took a while but I took the test. Do you think they could have changed their minds?

I took the exam on Wednesday and don't have resuults yet. The blue screen of death struck at 75. Today I got another email from Pearson and attached ATT dated yesterday. There was a problem with my ID but that was resolved before I took the test. Could they have changed their minds. I am losing mine. Anyone ever heard of a second ATT

Priority questions are judgment rather than knowledge--The difference between picking out the side effect of a drug and choosing which of several patients must be assessed first. The latter makes you guess from the symptoms what is wrong with them and then decide if it life threating or at least the most time sensitive issue. Patient with 320 glucose out ranks person who needs to be ambulated etc.

I completed the exam 49 hours ago and am still on edge. I could have written your post. Patients were coming from ED, OR, home, with a need to decide who to assess etc. I am told that is a good sign that so many of my questions were like that. However when the blue screen of death came on the computer I was not ready for it. I got a job offer today and my diploma came an hour ago--But I really want to know if I passed.

"stupid people" have passed the nclex, but I am not the person to measure stupidity. Although, hopefully the "best" students( clinical and knowledge) are more likely to pass

I would say that more than half my questions were which person would you assess first--sometimes as home health care nurse, some times arriving on unit, sometimes patients coming from surgery, sometimes coming from the ER--sometimes just there. No computation, no electrolytes, no peds, no immunizations, no delegation I just wish I felt more secure--oh well 48 hours is not so long to wait. Sandy

This cut off at 75 thing is making me crazy. Has any one ever heard of anyone being cut off at 75 who did not pass. I took the exam today and expected to have more questions. Despite excellent grades in school and diagnostic test I found it very hard