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Thank you everyone for your input!! Again I have only worked and seen how this one hospital operates so I was just curious if this is a common occurrence!

Thanks for your insight guys! Always interesting to hear about other hospitals. We also as OB nurses feel like peds is more med surg? As our patients are healthy and typically the peds kiddos that are admitted are sick sick kids with things like peg tubes and cpap and all sorts of stuff we don't do and haven't worked with in years! Unfortunately no union here. It wouldn't be overtime, it would be to fill in and float there when needed. We float to all areas but are unassigned. This would be a float and being assigned a full patient load (when we are long and peds is short). Which is increasing with RSV season and again the lack of peds nurses.

So I am a labor and delivery nurse at a hospital with something like 220 beds in the facility, and on labor we do 5 deliveries a day just to give you a background. The pediatric unit at my hospital has been moved to the OB/labor floor due to them rarely having more than 1 patient and whatnot. Well this caused a ton of peds nurses to leave because they were having to work mom baby. And now peds has to legally move back to their own floor we've been told. now that they lost almost all their staff, we are being forced to orientate to pediatrics (postpartum and labor nurses) for a 12 hour shift then are going to have to take full loads of peds patients when needed. First of all, I feel this isn't safe as someone who has only worked Ob for many years. Peds is a distant memory from nursing school years ago, so after 12 hours of orientation would I be a safe practicing nurse to do this? And is it legal? To be forced to work a job that you didn't apply for or be properly trained for? Any thoughts appreciated! I only have worked at this hospital so idk what other hospitals are like, if this is completely normal and I'm just crazy or what. Thanks

Kaplan and Uworld are both great! I used all the Kaplan QBank and I bought Uworld the night before the NCLEX lol! I liked uworlds rationales better but I felt like kaplans difficulty level was higher, don't stress! I was so surprised how easy the NCLEX turned out to be and how much I feel I overstudied!

Update... I PASSED!!!! And I also want to add for all the poor souls like me, the Pearson vue trick, while I believe works for some people, DID NOT WORK FOR ME. So I spent the last 48 hours of my life stressing because I kept getting the "bad pop up", but I passed!!!

All throughout nursing school I was always quick, I went with a "I know it or I don't" technique so I wouldn't dwell and change answers.. It worked for me I graduated with a 4.0 but I understand it's not for everyone! Thanks guys I really hope I passed.. Won't find out until Saturday tho I guess. Start on the post partum unit on Monday.

28 select all. I'm freaking out. Do u guys think I passed!? And I've always been a super quick test taker

Okay.. I finished 5 minutes ago.. 75 questions.. No email from Pearson yet so I haven't done the trick.. The whole test took me 15 minutes. Ton of select all

Thank you everyone so much! You have helped decrease my anxiety a ton! I'll let you know what happens tomorrow!

Is there a certain amount of time you have to wait to do the "Pearson vue trick"? Or can I walk out of the test center and check right away? Thanks !

Thank you so much! That makes me feel so much better! I start my first RN job on Monday so I NEED to pass first time around lol.

Hello everyone! First of all congratulations to everyone who passed!!! I test tomorrow on the 16th and I am freaking out. I graduated may 13, and didn't start studying until about 10 days ago. I used Kaplan and my scores were 50-70%. After reading this post I also purchased the U world bank and so far my scores have been high 60s. Is this comparable to you that have passed!? I am so nervous!! thank you!!

Sara I have been taking tests set up with 75 questions and scoring in the 70s

Thanks so much! We used the lacharity book throughout school so I have that all done!

What is the Qtrainer test!?