KellySaraLynne

Wow @JHan2288! That sounds crazy?! Have things gotten better? Did you stick it out? What hospital were you working in?

At the hospital system I work for, RNs can only wear solid ceil blue or white scrubs and the tops and bottoms must be the same color, no white tops and blue pants, etc. This dress code was mandated about 2 years ago and all nurses had to pay for their own scrubs. RTs can wear black but they don't have to be solid, they can wear prints. NTs can only wear teal green and theirs are provided by the hospital. Lab wears burgundy. It's pretty boring, I'm sick of white and ceil blue.

In my chronic illness class, we each have to do a report on a chronic illness and for our final, we teach the class all about our illness and I have chosen Alzheimer's disease. I am teaching the class next Tuesday and I am the first one to go in our class. I have my powerpoint presentation, case study, articles and a website that has an interactive tutorial of Alzheimer's and the brain (I have to teach the class for two and a half hours so I need a lot). I would like to do some sort of teaching activity to do with the class that has to do with Alzheimer's or memory, but nothing too silly or childish. Anyone have any good ideas? Thanks!!!

I really didnt review anything for my CCU interview, although the nurse manager did ask me a ton of questions! They mostly wanted to know general things, what were my strong points/weak areas, and she gave me a list of general scenarios and asked me what I would do in this situation or asked me to "Tell me about a time when there was a problem on a unti that needed to be solved" etc kind of questions. Out hospital actually has a printout of those questions that they ask at all nursing interviews. Sometimes though, they throw in other things. I also interviewed on a telemetry floor and she asked me to explain to her, step by step, how to put in a urinary cath from memory haha. So really, you never know what they will ask. From my experience, try to learn to toot your own horn, but dont exxagerate because you dont want to give them false answers and look dumb later. They like to hear that you are organized and excited to learn new things. Hone in on your critical thinking skills because they will probably ask questions that will require it. GOOD LUCK! You will do great!

Our ICU has visiting time during the day but we try to clear everyone out around 9pm or so our patients can rest. I'm training on days right now, then I will be working nights, thank goodness! I am used to the units who have 15-20 min visiting times every other hour, its just different to get used to. I understand though, if it was my family member, I wouldnt want to leave either.

Im in NC and I took mine monday at 9am and got my results at like 1030 this morning. Half of mine was meds too, it was awful. A lot of people have been saying that on here recently. I passed though and I'm sure you will too. GOOD LUCK!!!!!

I just checked Pearson Vue for my results and they were finally available. I PASSED! Thank you God!!!!!!!!!

I should find out after 9am tomorrow. I will be sure to post my results on this thread. I dont know if I will be able to sleep by then. I'm feeling a strong urge to clean my entire house top to bottom to keep my mind off of it. At least tomorrows the 4th and I'm going to a cookout at my best friend's house so if I dont pass, I will be able to stay occupied. I really want to be positive about it, but I'm afraid to. I feel like there is no amount I could have studied to be prepared about that test!!!!! I mean, who can memorize the side effects/interactions/dosage of ten billion medicines?? Not even a pharmacist would probably know all of that! I wanted questions on cardiac and GI, diabetes, stuff that I actually studied. I mean I studied pharm too, I spend my whole last week doing only pharm on the Qbank and in my Kaplan book, but it only helped on a question or two. My school didnt have a separate pharmacology class, I wish now that we would have.

I took NCLEX-RN on monday morning and since then I have felt so sick. There are moments when I forget that I just took the most important test of my entire life and I feel ok, then I remember and the stomach pains come rushing back. I had 75 questions I think, I know it was in the 70s when it cut off and it had to be at least 75. Mine seemed like they were ALL medications and teaching about medications, tons of prioritization with a few reg. teaching ?s and a little psych thrown in for good measure. Pharm is my absolute worst and those medications were so strange, without even prefixes or suffixes to go off of. I swear, some of them looked like they were names of Russian cities or something. I am so worried I failed I cannot do anything. I have so much riding on this. I am getting married in a few weeks and both his family and mine are waiting with bated breath to hear my results, as well as a few friends from school. Also I have a great job in CICU waiting for me and if I dont pass, they told me I would probably lose my spot there, although I could get a job on another unit. So far, no one out of my nursing class has failed and I do not want to be the one who screws up the trend. Our teachers were so obsessed with us having 100% pass rate. I will be so upset and embarassed if I failed but I just do not feel good about it at all. I know everyone says that so I have no idea what to think.