jchristine89

I'm about to turn 28 years old, I'm very single, and I have a huge passion for travel. I've been feeling so antsy with my life and feel as though I've been a bit stagnant. I've been a med/surg/GI nurse for about a year and three months and, though I ...

Yes!! People in my part (conservative West Michigan) get married in their early twenties and are having babies by my age (or younger). In fact, I'm an odd ball in that I haven't married or had kids yet. So, this is likely the reason why I feel the w...

No way! Patients are in hospital because they are sick. Their bodies aren't functioning "normally" in one way or another. I don't envy that one bit. We take our healthy, normal bodies for granted. Rather, I have much sympathy and empathy for my patie...

Ha... I know I probably sound pathetic to people who are maybe twice my age, but it's still a legitimate question if you look at the fact that I'm getting closer to the end of child-bearing age...

I am a new nurse and I haven't even started my job yet, which is on a GI/GU unit. I will be getting a lot of med/surg experience. Well, I'm honestly terrified. I mean, I'm excited to finally start in my nursing career, but I'm so terrified of having ...

So, basically, you believe that new nurses nowadays don't have the same level of a beginner's competency due to making the exam 'easier' to pass? Or, maybe not nowadays, but in years since the NCLEX was made to be computerized? Do you think NCLEX may...

I recently graduated and my professors said that the NCLEX has changed in recent years. They said the NCLEX people made it tougher as well. That may have something to do with it! How they knew these things, I'm not sure.

Thank you for your response and advice. I don't mean to sound whiny... I guess it just felt better to express my concerns rather than hold them in. My sister, who is also a nurse, worked on a unit where she was given a large patient load and she told...

I'm a brand new nurse with no experience and I've been offered a position both for a progressive care unit and a digestive diseases unit. I would be working night shift for both. As a new nurse, which one would be best to start off with? Thank you so...

Hi there! I have actually taken up a position on the GI/GU unit. I think I will get great med/surg experience there, which is precisely what I'm looking for. The progressive unit is quite a bit more acute in its own way and I have a feeling I may ben...

Congrats!! Woo!!

Thank you for your input! I think I'm going to go with progressive care. :)

Have you checked your BON site for licensure? My name popped up on there not even 15 hours after I took the exam.

I felt like the SATA questions were fairly easy... The test shut off at 75 questions. Is this a sign that I failed? I had such a hard time focusing because I felt like I really didn't know the answer to majority of the questions, even after Hurst Rev...

@cptforge.gil : I had absolutely no drag and drop questions or diagrams but I did have one easy computation problem. I also had a question where I thought all four answers were incorrect, but I suppose that in this case, it was up to me to choose th...

(@optimism08) Thank you very much! I used Hurst Review, but I watched all the videos first while I filled out the booklet that comes with the review. It gave me a strong foundation of all the need-to-know basics of everything med-surg. After that, I ...

Good news: I PASSED!! Woooo! I truly believed that I had failed, but I passed!! I'm officially an RN, BSN!! Lord, thank you!! I am so relieved! Thank you to all who replied to this thread as well. I appreciate your advice and support very much! ☺

I can completely relate to this post. I'm glad you spoke up because I, too, have a lot of anxiety over self-doubt and worrying about whether I will make a good nurse. There were many times in nursing school where I felt so... I guess "incompetent" wo...

I took it in Michigan! I think I'm gonna wait and do the PVT. And thank you! :)

Thank you for your reply! That's encouraging to hear, for sure, but I don't want to let myself think I'm just fine to avoid horrible disappointment in case I didn't pass. But that is good to hear. :)