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This is my first nursing job, and I want to make it the best possible experience for myself, the patients and the staff who will be training me. Any advice,tips, help, knowledge, books or anything anyone can think of would be so much appreciated.

Recently moved here from California where I worked in an out patient cancer infusion center. I am now living in Plainfield, Illinois. In the process of getting my license. Can anyone point me in the direction of a recruiter or know of anyone who can ...

I will be moving soon to sacramento, my husband is getting a job in placerville and I was wondering as a new RN, I have 6 months experience on the floor at UofM hospital in the bone marrow transplant unit. What areas are good to live in for a growin...

Ok ladies, I have 8 days left before I sit for the tests. Any help on what I should be narrowing my study focus on. I have been doing about 300 questions a day for the past 2 weeks and have been looking at saunders for my weak areas. I have done th...

After my 2nd attempt I passed the test!!! Thank you lord and thanks to all the support of this website. If it wasn't for the stories of everyone here I dont think I would not of been able to retake the test. After giving birth in June I took the test...

I used Kaplan's entire question bank both the qbank and question trainer. I also did the content review also all the way through. I felt when I took the test that I was once again not going to pass, I felt that all the work that I did was for nothing...

My friend is graduating in December with her BSN. What would be a good gift for her. What did you get that you really thought was a good gift. thanks in advance

I took the test on aug 16. 7 weeks after having a son/c-section. So I am having trouble getting motivate to start hitting the books and questions again. I failed 4 areas nearly passed 3 and passed one area, so I really dont know where to focus. I kn...

Congrats:balloons::balloons: Any tips or suggestions that you have that helped you pass the 2nd time would be great. I just found out I failed and need all the help I can get. Its good to know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Again way...

Does anyone know if they consider Saturday a "business day". I took my test on thursday and the wait is killing. I just want to get the answer, because I did not feel I knew the information. thanks

Ok, so I failed the nclex for the first time today. I am numb, confused and crushed all at the same time. I studied for 1 month prior, I did the kaplan q-bank (all of it with good scores) I did review saunders, nsna, lippioncott, nclex made easy, the...

Well I just found out I failed......

CONGRATS :balloons::balloons::balloons::balloons::balloons::balloons::balloons::balloons: ALL THE HARD WORK WAS WORTH IT.. I AM JEALOUS

I took my test on thursday and am waiting for results. I do not feel confident though, there were way tooo many meds that I did not know and selcet all that apply (i suck at these). As for the test I thought it was hard and that there was no way to p...

I am soooooo glad that I am not alone. I took my exam today and thought it was a pharm exam. I got sooo many drugs and did not recognize one of them. My stomach has been in knots all day, i did kaplan q bank, the book, saunders, and more questions f...

I just graduated in may from nursing school in michigan. I have signed up and paid to take the nclex. What is the typical wait time to get approval to take the boards? I am also 9 months pregnant and am very unsure when to take the boards once I get ...

I will be done with my adn program in May of 2007. The problem that I have is that I will be having my second child in late June 2007. I do not know when to take my nclex. I have no clue if even my school will have the needed information to get to t...

I need to get two care plans for OB one is on impaired comfort r/t labor and the other is risk for infection r/t c-section. I know that there are many threads posted on care plans and I have tried searching all boards but can not seem to find these s...

There are a lot of discount book sites. There is ebay and on the actual ebay site to the left is half.com which is where I have gotten almost all of my books except 1st year just because I did not know about it. People I know go a few editions back...

I have a friend that did this 1st year to her med-surg book and said it was not worth the money to do it because the pages just tear out of the binder because they are sooo thin and she ended up losing most of the pages. She did however go to our re...

I was like you keeping all of my books, but I figured that most of my studying will be done by nclex books. I may keep med-surg after this term, not really sure yet. I sold most of my books on ebay and received more that I would of throught the book...

I personally had a hard time with our 1st year tests. Heard from a few people that they would not let us fail out, in fact a few people ended up taking the last test home and brought it back. Also as the tests progressed it seemed like they just repe...

I am a nursing student who will be working in the ed as a tech I am starting to feel overwhelmed at the duties I will be doing and doing them wrong I will be starting my 2nd year in Aug and at our school we do not do a rotation in the er. Am I in ov...

Sorry if I seemed harsh, I was just really upset that 30 people and viewed and no one left anything. Like the one poster said I was having a really bad day. Along with the anxiety of being new to the er. Again I really appreciate everyone who did a...

WOW I really know what I am getting into now Thanks for all the help I thought posting here would get me some "professional" remarks but I guess that only applies to people to who actually care about other people and remember back to when they starte...