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The person I spoke to was the HR director as I'm sure she knows what she's talking about. Why would a nurse be subject to airborne isolation patients when they know in fact the mask isn't protecting the nurse? Might as well go in without a mask at all. The Papr wasn't mentioned in the conversation but when I orient to the floor I will ask.

Oh thanks. I will look into that.

Hello everyone, I had my pre-boarding appointment today, everything went smoothly aside from the n95 respirator test. Each mask I wore i was able to taste the spray. We went through 3 different masks and she told me that since I failed I am unable to care for airborne isolated patients. She said I will not be penalized for this. Now tell me the honest truth about this will this really limit me or cause me less shifts? I'll be working on an cardiac PCU floor. Thanks

Thanks so much for the replies everyone! I'm excited to start!! The only reason why I ask this is because this health system which covers pretty much all hospitals around me, only allow you to apply to 5 positions in a 3 month period. Thanks!!

Thanks! This pain management clinic is apart of a huge health system in my area that crosses around 3 cities. It's a very well known name lol

No I don't assume that at all. But I just know that no appointments are going on at night right?

Thanks for your response! Do you really think that would be so taxing when it is the night shift though? I assume that all PT/OT etc would be done during the day. I've never had a night shift clinical so I'm not sure lol.

Hey all! I'm so happy to be posting in this side of the site now that I passed my NCLEX! Anyway, I've started searching jobs and this is currently what I've found that requires no experience at all. 1. Physical rehabilitation center RN-Night shift 2. Pain management clinic RN-day shift Im actually very interested in the Rehab position but I'm not really sure what encompasses the pain management position perhaps I'm doing pain assessments all day and giving out narcs? Does anyone have any experience in these 2 jobs that could offer some advice? Also, ideally I would like to work Med-Surg but everywhere asks for at least 1 year experience if not more. Since I'm a new grad I don't have that experience. Should I apply anyway? Idk how that looks. Thanks everyone I'm excited to start my career!

I bought the exam cram RN book for my studies. It wasnt bad but some questions had literature errors in it. I had a question and the answer was metabolic acidosis and went to the back of the book for the rationale and the rationale said it was respiratory acidosis.. But it wasnt that bad.. Just a couple throughout that were a little off.

Hey I posted a big overview already in a different post earlier! go check that out and thanks!

Thank you and congratulations to yourself as well!!!

Hey everyone, I literally just found out today that I passed the NCLEX! So I would like to explain what I did to prepare for this test so that everyone reading it may pass as well! Briefly about me, I graduated nursing school in Decemeber of 2015. Since I was finally finished with the program I definitely needed some time off just to relax! Which may have prolonged things but hey, I did it lol. I started back studying using the Virtual ATI that our program provided us but did I dislike it around mid January. The program is divided into around 8-10 sections from Fundamentals-Pharm-Med Surg- Peds and on and on. I stopped the program when I finished med/surg so roughly halfway through just because it was taking me forever. The focused reviews it provides are extremely drawn out. I literally spend maybe 2 weeks studying pharm and I literally only got 1/3 through it (waste for my NCLEX got 1 pharm question but great for the long run). So I jumped ship and decided to go a different route. Materials I used to study below with the 1 month I had left 1. Kaplan-NCLEX-RN Premier 2015-2016 w/ 2 practice tests. (Finished) 2. Saunders-Nursing school and NCLEX-RN review (Finished) 3. Lacharity 2nd Edition (not the new one) Delegate and priority (Finished half) 4. Lippincott Q&A 6000+ question NCLEX-RN review (Focused on the Maternity/Peds section only) 5. Barron's NCLEX-RN Q&A cards (mostly pharm) (yikes.. smh) 6. EXAM CRAM NCLEX-RN practice questions 1340 (did around 300 questions) 7. Uworld NCLEX RN Q-Bank. (The beez knees! Completed 600 questions with around a 68% average) Okay let me be honest with you, I WAS NO WHERE NEAR FINISHING EVERYTHING. What would you do if you had all of these sitting on your desk? I went crazy in panic mode, I didn't really know which one to start with and my test was one month away. I actually have a book that I bought that I never even got to because it was too much information to go through in only a month. Call it overkill and trust me it was, but nonetheless I had everything at my fingertips when I needed it. I did all studying in the order as are listed above. About 6 hours a day for a whole month no days off. Trust me it was not fun, but look at me now it was worth it. Let me tell each and every one of you that everything listed above was good. The #1 and #2 was good for content overview but I cannot add enough emphasis to this but UWORLD was freaking amazing. It was unfortunate that a friend recommended it to me when I was only about 2 weeks shy of my exam otherwise I would have definitely finished the whole thing. I've never seen detailed rationales like the ones they give you in this program hands down but everyone is different and you have to find what works for you. The Day before the Test: Sorry guys, everyone said to just relax the day before, but did I? Nope. Did around 100 Uworld questions that I previously got wrong and reviewed Lab values all day. Arriving to the test: I arrived there about an hour early around 6:30 AM was a bit of a drive, doors open at 7:30 . I just sat in my car going over cranial nerves and more lab values. Once the doors opened I walked into the testing center which was nice and the staff was super pleasant which calmed my nerves just a little bit. So it was game time. The Test: I had around 8 SATA, 4 exhibits, 1 medication, 1 order, priority and random nursing content questions. The test took me around an hour and 20 minutes to get to 75. All through the test I feel that the difficulty was spread out some hard ones, then easy, then hard then easy etc.. For example at #60 there was a super easy question that I couldn't believe was given to me, I surely thought I was bombing because the questions are supposed to get harder as you go if you're getting them correct. At question 75 I was like okay I got this, let me just see that famous blue screen people tell me about and I hit next and BOOM it was over. Of course after the test, I was super anxious and depressed. I wouldn't say that the questions I got were what everyone makes it out to be. I've read posts on here (which scared the hell out of me) that omg hardest test ever, I didn't know one question etc..” This only made me more depressed after I was done because I wouldn't say that it was horrendously complex which made me think I was doing bad and getting the easier questions because I wasn't meeting the competent level questions. I narrowed almost every question down to 2 answers although some of the questions were so vague that it was hard to choose the right one. I understand every perceives this test differently but this is just how I saw mine. Now that the test is over and I saw that I passed it makes me believe that it was simply because I was prepared. End note: If I could emphasize a couple points to those of you preparing. Get a review that goes over core content to further concrete your base of knowledge. Then study your weak areas. There are a million question banks out there, if you don't choose the one I did that's completely fine, but get those questions under your belt! Practice practice practice, and when you get a question wrong read that rationale as to why you missed it! Anything is possible and I'm thankful to everyone who helped me along the way.

I passed! Ill be writing something up on what i used to study later! Thanks everyone

did you do the PVT?

Thats awesome, i also just tried the PVT and i also got the good pop up. It wouldnt take my money so i hope that means we passed!