JJL618 RN

This was what I did yesterday. Coworker needed a catheter placed in a women, so I told her I would be glad to do it for her. Everything went without a hitch until I went to pull on the cath to make sure the bulb inflated. The cath came straight out, ...

I graduated on May 10, got my ATT last week and scheduled my exam for June 5. I was out of the country until this Monday and I started studying on Wednesday. I have been doing practice questions about 100-200 a day. I have a Saunders book, but I don'...

Ya'll. I passed! I cannot believe it. I had the worst feeling and literally woke up at 2 am shaking I was so nervous. Then I couldn't go back to sleep. God is good. Thank you for all the good vibes sent my way. I appreciate it!

I know it is adaptive and all that, but with the questions I got, I don't see how it determines if you will be a competent nurse. I mean I was asked stuff that I probably will never even think about again because it doesn't have anything to do with p...

I felt the questions were a lot different than I was used to. I didn't use Uworld, though. The majority of them were simple one maybe two sentence questions. Then the answers were elaborate and hard to narrow down to two by the way they were worded. ...

I took my Nclex today and I have to agree with everything you all have said. It was the hardest and weirdest exam I have ever taken. I got the first question right I know for a fact, but then it was downhill after that. It seems like I would spend se...

I just got done. I got 75 questions with 17 of those SATA; 2 drag and drop. It took me over 2 hours to do that amount. I felt I didn’t know anything they were asking. I don’t have a very good feeling and I just got done crying a little over it. But i...

I take it at 8 this morning. I slept like crap, which I usually do before a big test. Hoping and praying for a clear mind and less nerves as I am a little anxious right now. LOL.

Our school made us take two exit HESI's in our last semester. Both 165 questions. They were a total of 50% of our grade, so I know the pressure they induce. I used the green HESI book and did practice questions. Our school has made us do prepu and pa...

I’m about to graduate, so I’ve been applying for jobs. What is the best way to go about practicing or being prepared for interview questions? I don’t have much experience in interviews, and today I had a question in one that I didn’t know how to answ...

I will be graduating in May. I have two job offers but I’m struggling to figure out which would be best for a new grad with no healthcare experience. Both are day shift offers. The first is on a general surgery floor with 41 beds. This will be lower ...

Thanks for the tips. That sounds better than what I said ? The only other thing I remember her saying was the one BP was 70/40. But she was talking too fast like she just wanted to be done with the interview because she had two pages to get through o...

Can anyone offer tips for the Fundamentals HESI final? I know there is a HESI book, but I'm not fond of it. I have the Saunders NCLEX and the Davis Fundamentals Success book, but some of the stuff in those books, we didn't learn even though it's unde...

It was towards the end of the week they told us. I want to say it was a Thursday. Good luck!

So, I'm curious if other programs are like this. The program I'm in it seems like we have to teach ourselves the majority of the material. They will put stuff on the exams they never went over in class. It's not in the PowerPoints or class notes. Nev...

Thanks for the tips about IO. One problem was like half a page long. And it said at so and so hour you stop the continuous infusion because your giving an IVPB and it had 3 BM on there. We didn't know how many mL we were suppose to count for that, if...

The syllabus just has vague topics for instance it only states nutrition, elimination, mobility/immobility, etc. Then when we get to the topic they give us a concept map that lists the exemplar. So like the exemplar for elimination had bph, urinary ...

It's a community college, but the state changed all the curriculum about 5 semesters ago, so all the kinks are still being worked out. I have the dosage calculations down just not I&O since we haven't been taught that. I'm going to watch YouTube ...

I read the assigned chapters but it doesn't always stick in my mind. I'll be honest too, I do not like reading. It's hard for me to sit down and read a fiction book that I find interesting much less a textbook lol. I don't know why that is maybe beca...

One of our instructors said if we mention it in class we think it's pretty important to know. Maybe not for the unit exam but definitely for the HESI. Well if they don't talk about it in class how do we know what to study or what to read. They give u...

How did you get through it? Or what resources did you find helpful?

On the exam today that most of the class failed, we had 4 I&O calculations. We have never been over how to calculate IO, never been told we needed to know if for this exam (I figured they would teach it when we needed to know it) or I would have ...

First, I hope I posted in the right area. If not, please move or delete. I'm hoping someone can give me some advice. We learned about malpractice in school this past semester, but I never thought I might get to see it firsthand. I had a root canal ...

Wow I don't like the HESI. LOL. It was terrible I thought. I'd rather have one of our instructor's test as a final. Maybe if we had access to their adaptive quizzing, the questions wouldn't have surprised me as much, but they were very wordy. I made...

That's great. That type of stuff wasn't my favorite this semester. Did you have to bring headphones? I just learned we do and that we may have to listen to heart and breath sounds.