Reds5588 BSN

I have a feeling this is going to sound a bit neurotic but I'm going crazy... So I took my NCLEX at 8am yesterday, I had 75 questions, I felt "ok" about it but no overwhelming pass or fail feelings. I had 21 select all that apply (even though I know...

So, I have been an RN, BSN for 5 years. I did one year at a subacute rehab before transferring to a med-surg floor in the same health system. I really loved my floor, it was a small inter-City hospital that was kind of rough but I really enjoyed it...

Thank you everyone for the good advice and words of wisdom. You’ve confirmed my beliefs that I am where I belong. The only reason I was contemplating even leaving because I didn’t want to be “selling myself short” or missing learning opportunities....

I faced a similar situation a few months ago. I liked my job/co-workers, but after moving to a new state I was then commuting an hour each way. I applied in March to a new hospital (with better pay/benefits) 10 minutes from my new house. Literally, ...

So, for the past year my family has been prepping for big changes to our employment status. My husband and I are both RN,BSN. My husband is about to start his final year of FNP school. I have been a medical surgical nurse for 4 years, part-time for ...

Good point... that would be terrible. I guess The only positive in that situation would be that no Clinicals would mean no urgency to stress about switching jobs this month though.

I should also add: some people may say “you should have done this months ago.” Which obviously crossed our minds, but my husband really wanted that full time ER position to help with his gaining more knowledge and experience for school, and he was ab...

Background: I've worked for a hospital affiliated short stay rehabilitation unit (located in SNF, down the street from actual hospital) for two years now. I have received nothing but great reviews since starting. I accepted the position as a new gra...

We already work for the same health system, as we have for several years now. He works on the ICU and I applied for the ED, the unit managers cover for each other sometimes, which is how she knows my husband. In the interview the unit manager said ...

I was a CNA for ten years before becoming a nurse, and I learned to master mouth breathing. As the years go on it won't even bother you as much. And to the previous poster who said its the "CNAS problem," I hate to break the news to you, but you are...

Its hard work, but you have to stay focused. I was widowed two years ago very suddenly during my 2nd year of nursing school. I was left a single mother to two young children. I had a few key support people and I also sacrificed a lot of sleep. I ne...

I'm sure you've heard about the nurse in the news recently who lost her license for taking a picture of her patient's penis... So yeah, that'll do it...

Service attendants??? Wow...

I agree that its common in nursing school to see students get treated differently. When I was in med surg 2 (8 months pregnant with many complications during finals too), I bombed my final and missed the passing cut off by 0.87 percent. Two other s...

I have a weird phobia about fingernails. After a bad experience involving cleaning feces from under a patients fingernails (very tricky task), I always get grossed out when I see dirty fingernails. Really long fingernails creep me out too.

My school had a representative from a review course come and talk to my class about a month before graduation. They like gave this whole presentation that basically convinced us we would fail if we did not take their course. They even had like free...

What is the most professional way to ask via E-mail about the status of a job offer, and to imply you need to know ASAP!?!?! The idea of it sounds so rude to me, but I have one job offer at LTC Pediatric facility, and I have about a week to officia...

Hello, I graduated in December, passed NCLEX in February and have been on 3 interviews since then. My 3rd interview was yesterday, at a major magnet hospital. All applicants are offered a shadow experience, which I am doing next week. I got along w...

Thanks for all the input, I'm glad to know some of my concerns are valid! I am hoping the nurses I see during shadowing will give me some insight. I'll update on Wednesday!

Congrats! I quit last month! I Graduated in December. my dream job (which I interviewed for last week. ... fingers crossed) tests for nicotine in urine upon hire. I needed to quit anyway, but this job opportunity was a great motivator! It's tough...

I felt Kaplan was really good. I thought the questions were pretty similarly structured to nclex.

I did the red cross CNA course like 9 years ago, before I went to nursing school. I was straight out of high school with hardly any medical experience but I found it to be fairly basic. I graduated with a perfect 4.0 (I am normally a 3.0 kind of stu...

I was a "medication administration technician" with a CNA license before I went to nursing school. This was in an assisted living community and It was a great experience for me, I made a point to look up and try to understand every med I was giving,...

For my boards in PA it was like a long laminated sheet of paper and fine tipped felt pen (mine was out of ink). I only needed it for keeping tally of how many select all that apply questions I was getting so I'm not entirely sure about what is ok to...

Management of care questions are worth the highest percentage of your overall nclex score. So I would focus a lot on those types of questions. I recommend the linda lacharity book titled something like "prioritization, delegation..." it has nothing...