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    Should I take my NCLEX sooner or not?

    emmjayy replied to Mshustler's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    My initial advice if you'd asked this question in May would have been to tell you to take it as quickly as possible. Once you get 12 weeks out from graduation, your chances of passing drop...
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    Graduation Hold

    emmjayy replied to bnm65435's topic in General Students

    Can't you just ask the school if they will send the transcripts as soon as you pay up the account? I can't think of any reason for them not to send your transcript in as soon as the hold is released....
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    Job vs grades while in school more important?

    emmjayy replied to Mikespeese's topic in General Students

    If you don't need the job and feel sure that your grades will suffer if you pick up another commitment, don't take the job. You cannot become a nurse if you do not pass your courses and graduate,...
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    Taking my NCLEX tomorrow... any last min advise?

    emmjayy replied to mic_imai's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Do whatever you need to do to ease your anxiety, but don't stay up late. I went to bed early, set a couple of alarms, made sure everything was ready for the morning (breakfast, snack, etc.), and then...
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    I didn't wake up on time and was too late to come for AM shift?

    emmjayy replied to Surgonconurse's topic in General Nursing

    My stomach sank just reading your post, OP! Before I became a nurse I forgot I had to work a shift at my retail job and got a puzzled call from my manager wondering where I was. I was devastated and...
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    the struggle

    emmjayy replied to thisguys1's topic in General Students

    I took my NCLEX two weeks after I graduated. That way, I didn't have to balance anything and I ended up not even needing to work under my temporary license. I highly recommend taking NCLEX as quickly...
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    How Not to be the New Grad Everyone Hates

    emmjayy replied to marie_macmillan's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I knew having my phone could create a barrier to making positive first impressions, integrating into the team, providing great patient care, etc. at the very start of nursing school and got into the...
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    question about subpoena

    emmjayy replied to carmelojames123's topic in General Nursing

    Spent a long time working in the legal field. This sounds fairly legitimate to me. A lot of people try to dodge being served, so whenever I had to serve people I would be cagey about what I was doing...
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    Sexual harrassment or just an old creep?

    emmjayy replied to CBlover's topic in General Nursing

    YOWZA. What the actual heck. I have stronger words than that to describe my reaction, but the site will not allow me to use them. Did she ever share with your wife that she was uncomfortable? Not...
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    Politics in the Nursing Work Place: When Conflicts Arise

    emmjayy replied to jeastridge's topic in General Nursing

    I'm assuming they'd feel ashamed for saying all Trump voters are redneck, stupid, uneducated, racist, bigoted, fill in the blanks..... when I am none of those things. Honestly, your rather histrionic...
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    Thoughts on stress

    emmjayy replied to Jstimmm's topic in General Students

    This is the same guy who made that post about how nursing school is soooo easy and boring. Per him, all nurses do is write down vitals, and maybe he should go to med school so he can finally be...
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    Thoughts on stress

    emmjayy replied to Jstimmm's topic in General Students

    All the rest of the ridiculousness in your reply aside.... are your issues in school really so important that you felt it was okay to divide your attention between complaining about your life online...
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    First day of clinical...physical assessment issues.

    emmjayy replied to aWiiPeanut's topic in General Students

    Organize your assessment from head to toe. Think of every possible thing you could assess for each body area and then write it all down in painstaking detail. For example, starting at the head.... are...
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    Politics in the Nursing Work Place: When Conflicts Arise

    emmjayy replied to jeastridge's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for this article. As a person who voted for President Trump and who lives in a very liberal state, my work place can be very unpleasant at times (e.g., a coworker thought it was appropriate to...
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    I was not close to anyone during nursing school.

    emmjayy replied to Biology2Nursing's topic in General Students

    What the heck! It blows my mind that an unlicensed student who is being hosted as a guest on a unit would ever make fun of an LPN or CNA. They have more to show by way of certification, skills, and...
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    Any RNs considering medical school?

    emmjayy replied to Jstimmm's topic in General Students

    If you feel that all you're doing is writing down vitals, your nursing school is not preparing you for nursing. Period. You need to not just be measuring vitals and passing meds, you should be...
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    Tube Feeding And Hemodialysis

    emmjayy replied to Chisca's topic in MICU, SICU

    This is an issue I've never really had to deal with, because a.) none of my HD patients have been on bolus tube feeds, it's always been continuous and b.) they're all so unstable that they're on...
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    Nursing student in need of advice

    emmjayy replied to Morelaur288's topic in General Students

    I would say I'm a moderately anxious person. It certainly doesn't rise to the level of a disorder, but I almost gave myself an ulcer from anxiety during nursing school and seriously considered asking...
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    Rant. Questions are killing me!

    emmjayy replied to broughden's topic in General Students

    IMO this is not a badly worded question. The answer is very obvious. As you get more used to nursing style questions, proper answers will begin to stick out to you. This is a situation where you did...
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    'My Patient died' Facebook post

    emmjayy replied to miladaniels's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    I never post about work on social media sites that my real name is attached to. In fact, I don't really post here on AN about specific patient situations. Sure, messed up stuff happens and I feel...
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    Where Were You...9/11

    emmjayy replied to Daisy4RN's topic in General Nursing

    I was 11 years old, living in NY (not the city, but close to it). It was the most gorgeous day, I'll never forget that. Sunny and warm and perfect. I wasn't at school for some reason??? And my mom...
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    Mandatory Uniforms

    emmjayy replied to StudentRNmt's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    My hospital requires color coded scrubs and I like it a lot. Everyone wears solid colored scrubs - nurses are navy, RT is bright blue, speech pathologists are purple, PT is green, OT is brown, etc....
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    OB/Maternal be an elective class for male nursing students

    emmjayy replied to carti's topic in General Students

    oh you poor man, having to learn about functions of life that all women go through and that you're likely to get many questions about on that pesky licensing exam you'll need to pass in order to...
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    When did things start to click~?

    emmjayy replied to Wiggly Litchi's topic in General Students

    So I was great at spitting stuff back out on a test during school, but these things did not really start to gel in my brain until I started my job. Now, I literally get to watch how formerly abstract...
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    I hate being a nurse and i'm about to graduate

    emmjayy replied to Newtons's topic in General Students

    It's true. I graduated a couple months ago, started my job as a nurse, and immediately realized that nursing school hadn't prepared me at all for any of this. I mean, the only good it did was...