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Yes, without any stimulus the pt would either lay in bed without any response or move around in bed every few minutes. Yeah I pray that he was able to get it drained in time. This has me double thinking my GCS scores. Would you give him a 3 then? really hard to say if he was confused or not.

Hello, im a still a fairly new RN in the ED I had a pt come in to the ER with a mass in the third ventricle that was increasing ICP (confirmed by CT), my initial gcs was 11 (E2,V4,M5)and I was during neuro check every 30 min. Beside being Bradycardic in the 40's he was not showing any other signs of hernitaion, pupils still reactive to light, SBP was in the 110's-120's with no signs of widening pulse pressure, respirations were even and unlaboured. My question/concern was that during my neuro checks. Verbal: for the verbal part though i has to stimulate him for about 10 seconds before i can get words coming out of him, all he would say was that his head hurt, not really answering any questions, would you give him a 4 or a 3? some nurses in my unit stated that i had to stimulate him too much before i got a response and that it was a 1? can someone please help me out with it, i feel horrible that i gave him too high of of a GCS score, and that if i would have seen a GCS of a 8, i would have pushed for an intubation on him. The pt was transferred out quickly since i work at a smaller hospital and they were not able to perform any type of intervention besides administration of mannitol. Thanks for the help.

I used 4 courses: 1. NCLEX Nursing Tools app- good breakdown for meds, labs, and diagnostics that all nurses should know. 2. Kaplan (good for help on how to answer test questions) 3. Hurst (they do a pretty good content review on the essentials to know on all areas of nursing school) 4. NCSBN (Personally, i found that one overwhelming, it reviewed everything in nursing school to the smallest detail, the test questions were tough but helpful if you catch on to how they word their questions and how they expect you to answer) 5. HESI (Good questions to review). There's a lot of resources out there, and they all have their own qualities. It mostly depends on what you feel you need the most help on, either content review, or test taking strategies, or etc. I suggest you stick to one or maybe even two, because you can overwhelm yourself with information and end up studying for much longer than you needed to. You will never feel fully prepared to take the NCLEX. Go in there with the mindset and goal to answer 265.

I never took a pharm course before nursing school, but I'm sure it wouldn't hurt as long as you don't overdue it. You can endlessly study for pharmacology, there's a whole career on it. As a student nurse, you should be okay with what they are teaching you in class, the basics, you can iron out all of the small details as you go along. The drug handbooks are very overwhelming and contain a lot of information for all health professionals not just nurses. "NCLEX Nursing Tools" is a good free mobile app I used that contained only relevant information for student nurses to know. It is what I used and still do as an ER RN, good luck. This is the website if you want to check it out nclexessentials.barcalabs.com

A mobile app called "NCLEX Nursing Tools," I still use it as an RN in the ER. It's good free app on the mobile stores to help you with pharm, labs, and diagnostics if you need help with that. The website is nclexessentials.barcalabs.com. Best of luck.

There are a lot of resources available nowadays too. There's a good free app on the mobile stores to help you with pharm, labs, and diagnostics if you need help with that. Check it out, its called NCLEX Nursing Tools or the website nclexessentials.barcalabs.com. Best of luck.

I spent no more than 3hrs/day studying/working on assignments. There is an endless amount of information in nursing and in medicine in general. Focus on the basics, and getting through nursing school. You will overwhelm yourself and burn out quickly if you don't put a limit on yourself. Remember, you will constantly learn, nursing is a life career not just the 2-3 yrs of school. Besides, to get a full understanding of what you read in books/class, you have to get a job and see it everyday.Cheers

Good advice. What I would do, is that I would stop studying the content at least a day before the test. The last day before the test I would only do the questions that are at the end of the chapters we went over and/or questions related to the topic. I would also review the content the last day but I would not dig in to anything any more, just went with what I had. You will overwhelm and confuse yourself if you study for too long or too much before the test. I made sure I had a good night sleep and a good breakfast and basically rocked the tests. People are different though, this is what worked for me.

My suggestion and what helped me out the most was that I spent no more than 3 hours a day studying or working on assignments and homework. There is an endless amount of information in nursing and in the medical field in general. Focus on the basics, fundamentals, and getting through nursing school, you can iron out all the small details as you go along in your career. You will overwhelm yourself and burn out quickly if you don't put a limit on yourself, and enjoy those around you. We all want to be the best nurse we can be, but we also have to mindful that nursing is a life career not just the 2-3 yrs of nursing school. Hope this helps. There are a lot of resources available nowadays too. There's a good free app on the mobile stores to help you with pharm, labs, and diagnostics if you need help with that. Check it out, its called NCLEX Nursing Tools or the website nclexessentials.barcalabs.com. Best of luck.

An advice for pharm in general is that you can endlessly study for it, there's a whole career on it. As a student nurse, you should be okay with what they are teaching you in class, the basics, you can iron out all of the small details as you go along. I made an app, it contains drug classes, drugs associated with the classes (generic and brand name), and all of the information school, clinicals, and the NCLEX required me to know such as MOA's, vitals, labs, common/severe side effects and nursing considerations to watch for. Check it out, its free, it's on the app stores or through our website nclexessentials.barcalabs.com. Good luck. I just passed my nclex last August and this guide is all I studied to prep for pharm.

I made an app, it contains drug classes, drugs associated with the classes (generic and brand name), and all of the information school, clinicals, and the NCLEX required me to know such as MOA's, vitals, labs, common/severe side effects and nursing considerations to watch for. Check it out, its free, it's on the app stores or through our website nclexessentials.barcalabs.com. Good luck. I just passed my nclex last August and this guide is all I studied to prep for pharm. PS. You can endlessly study for pharmacology, there's a whole career on it. I suggest you focus on the basics for now.

There's a lot of resources out there, and they all have their own qualities. It mostly depends on what you feel you need the most help on, either content review, or test taking strategies, or etc. I have never heard of Happy NCLEX but I passed my nclex last august and I used 4 courses: 1. Kaplan (good for help on how to answer test questions) 2. Hurst (they do a pretty good content review on the essentials to know on all areas of nursing school) 3. NCSBN (Personally, i found that one overwhelming, it reviewed everything in nursing school to the smallest detail, the test questions were tough but helpful if you catch on to how they word their questions and how they expect you to answer) 4. HESI (Good questions to review). I suggest you stick to one or maybe even two, because you can overwhelm yourself with information and end up studying for much longer than you needed to (like I did). You will never feel fully prepared to take the NCLEX. Go in there with the mindset and goal to answer 265 questions and get through it. There's a good free app on the mobile stores to help you with pharm and labs if you need help with that. Check it out, its called NCLEX Nursing Tools or the website nclexessentials.barcalabs.com. Best of luck!

There's a lot of resources out there, and they all have their own qualities. It mostly depends on what you feel you need the most help on, either content review, or test taking strategies, or etc. I never tried Khan academy, so I can't help you there. I used these 4 courses: 1. Kaplan (good for help on how to answer test questions) 2. Hurst (they do a pretty good content review on the essentials to know on all areas of nursing school) 3. NCSBN (Personally, i found that one overwhelming, it reviewed everything in nursing school to the smallest detail, the test questions were tough but helpful if you catch on to how they word their questions and how they expect you to answer) 4. HESI (Good questions to review). I suggest you stick to one or maybe even two, because you can overwhelm yourself with information and end up studying for much longer than you needed to (like I did). You will never feel fully prepared to take the NCLEX. Go in there with the mindset and goal to answer 265 questions and get through it. There's a good free app on the mobile stores to help you with pharmacology, labs, and diagnostics, if you need help with that. Check it out, its called NCLEX Nursing Tools or the website nclexessentials.barcalabs.com. Best of luck!

I dont think you need a tutor, just my opinion.There's a lot of resources out there, and they all have their own qualities. It mostly depends on what you feel you need the most help on, either content review, or test taking strategies, or etc. I used 4 courses: 1. Kaplan (good for help on how to answer test questions) 2. Hurst (they do a pretty good content review on the essentials to know on all areas of nursing school) 3. NCSBN (Personally, i found that one overwhelming, it reviewed everything in nursing school to the smallest detail, the test questions were tough but helpful if you catch on to how they word their questions and how they expect you to answer) 4. HESI (Good questions to review). I suggest you stick to one or maybe even two, because you can overwhelm yourself with information and end up studying for much longer than you needed to (like I did). You will never feel fully prepared to take the NCLEX. Go in there with the mindset and goal to answer 265 questions and get through it. There's a good free app on the mobile stores to help you with pharm and labs if you need help with that. Check it out, its called NCLEX nursing tools or the website nclexessentials.barcalabs.com. Best of luck!