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Hey guys, just feeling down about the start of my nursing career. I am 4 months into my nursing career, i am in the ICU at a small community hospital. I am 4 days of orientation, orientation was 12 weeks. I just feel like i am constatly being screamed at and being belittled. I want to leave but its hard to find a job here and I dont know if ill ever get into the icu again as a new grad. yesterday I got yelled at by my nurse manager because i was not prepared when EMS came to transfer my patient to hospice. The thing was I told her that my patient was going to be transferred to hospice about an hour before EMS came, the family had signed the papers and then I went to let her know. Well, when EMS came they required a few documents such as the patient DNR sheet, face sheet, H&P, etc. I did not know this. She just kept saying, see.. this is why you let us know ahead of time just being very unprofessional in front of the EMS workers. I did let her know and she know I did, at some point before the EMS arrived the patient family even spoked to her and thanked her for our service here she hugged the family members. so how the heck did she not know (annoyed). I guess I should have asked for help with the process, because the patient still had their foley and midline in. I didn't know the patient could not be transferred with those things. anyways, I am thinking of looking for another job, before they let me go.

Hey guys, I am a new grad who just started in the icu. I am feeling discouraged because recently my preceptor decided she no longer wanted to work with me. She told the manager that I was not receptive of her teaching. Orientation is 12 weeks long and thins was my 6th week. I am now assigned to a new preceptor and I will be starting with her tommorow. I guess, I have already given up. I wanted to be an ICU nurse, but I have been feeling so depressed and discouraged lately. I guess part of the problem is that I just moved to a new state to start this career. I have no family or friends here to discuss my feelings with. Just down in the dumps. I am not sure what to do now. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this. Any words of advice would help at this point.

Hello I am graduating from an ADN program next tuesday. I have already submitted everything to the board of nursing, all I have left to do is to graduate and take my NCLEX. I am not going to lie, I don't have any motivation left. I just bought uworld and I have been doing like 30 questions a day but there are days when I don't do any. So, I don't know. really scared about my NCLEX.

Hi guys, well, its finally here. This friday I am taking my last exam for nursing school. It's the HESI. I have been anxious all week. There are days when I get really excited about completing nursing school and moving on with my life and there are days where I'm thinking what if I don't do well on the hesi, what should I do with my life then. I hate this feeling, fear of the unknown is really taking its toll on me.

Hello, I am in my final semester in nursing school. I just took my third exam yesterday and received a 76%. My spirits are crushed and I'm honestly not motivated anymore. I really need to get motivated again, I hate this feeling of trying to push myself to study and pass my other exams. I did well on the previous two exams, 88, 93. I'm just really down about the fact that my grade went from a 90 to an 85. We have two more exams and then the hesi. I really need my grade to be as high as possible before the Hesi. I cannot depend on the Hesi to help keep my grade above an 80 and pass the class. And I cannot be at an 80, going into the hesi, this will just freak me out knowing that I have to get a really good score on the hesi in order to pass. I'm having really bad anxiety now. and I think I really just need someone to talk to. we took a practice hesi three weeks ago and I scored the third highest in the class, but really you never know with these exams. What if I don't do as well on the real one. I think failing an exam really change the positive attitude that I had in the beginning of the semester, now Im just worried. I'm so scared for these next two weeks. Seems, like her exam are getting harder because i studied the same way like I did for the other two, but somehow did not pass. ughhh!

Ok, so far I have solved 18 of my 20 math calculation problems. These 2 are similar. 1. An IV infusion time is 13 hr 20 min. What is its completion time if it was started at 10:45 a.m.? 2. A 20gtt/mL set is used for a restart of 750ml of D5W at 3:03 p.m. at a rate of 32 gtt/min. Infusion time_________Completion time_____________ I feel like I have done similar problems in the beginning of my program. But now that I'm going into my senior year we are redoing things that we have already been taught. Unfortunately, I seem to have forgotten how to do them. For the second problem. I did this. 750 X 20gtt/1ml X 32gtt/1 min. I got 15000/32=468.75 I divided 468.75 by 60 minutes to get 7.8125. so 7 hours. then I got the .81 from 7.8125 and multiplied by 60 minutes. so, .81 X 60= 48.6. So, my answer was 7 hours and 49 minutes for infusion time. for completion time I just counted from the time started 3:03, which gave me 10:00. then i added my 48 minutes to the 3 minutes and got 51. so 10:51. I'm sure there are simple steps to solving these problems.

I solved it and did the the other problems that were similar. 287.7 mcg X 1 MG/400 MG X 250ML/400 MG X 60/1 hour =4315500/400000=10.78 Now, I'm stuck on another problem. lol But thank you for your help with this.

400,000/250=1600

Well we have 400 mg if we convert to mcg we have 400,000 mcg

The total mcg in 250 ml is 250,000mcg. I divided 250/0.001

There was this formula that I saw online (ATI website): (dose/kg/time) (time converted to hourly) (weight in kg)/ (drug concentration per ml) I started plugging the numbers in according to the formula. (3mcg/kg/min) (95.9 kg)/250 ml. My hunch is I have to multiple 3mcg by 95.9 kg this equals 287.7 kg/mcg then convert to mg.which is 0.287 mg. I converted to mg because the solution is in mg. But my answer is not matching the answer sheet.

This is a two-step ml/hr flow rate problem. I need help please. Medicaton is ordered at the rate of 3mcg/kg/min for an adult weighing 95.9 kg. The solution strength is 400 mg in 250mL D5W. Calculate flow rate to the nearest tenth mL. Is there a formula that can be applied here.

our school have hesi exam each semester. This is considered our final exam for the semester. So since I was taking OB/peds I had a OB/peds hesi. In our final semester we will have a cumulative hesi this is everything we have learned from the beginning starting with fundamentals. I will be studying over summer break for this one. Yikes!

Well.. just took my ob/peds hesi. I scored a 1023 which converts to 93% in the hesi world. I am now a senior nursing student. I used hurst, hesi comprehensive book/questions, and saunders to study. This was a class that I was reepeating because I failed the hesi last semester. I just want every nursing students who are struggling to know that you can do it! It's hard but do not give up! last semester hesi I scored a 483 (embarassed..lol)I received 0 points and I studied for a month. This time around I since I was repeating the class I kept all my notes and started studying in the beginning of the semester that's 6 month of studying for the hesi. I got the full 50 points. Of course, toward the end when everyone was freaking out about the hesi, I wasn't because I've been studying all along. Now since I will be on summer break for 2-3 months I will be studying for my final hesi come december. My goal is to do 10,000 nclex questions by the end of summer. All thanks to god!

well... just got done taking my ob/ped hesi. Happy to say that I am a senior nursing student. I received a score of 1023 which converts to 93% in the hesi world. I am a senior nursing student!!! Bitter sweet moment, knowing that if I hadn't failed I would have been graduating next week with my original cohort. This time around I used the hesi comprehensive book, saunders book and cd, and hurst review. If I had to say which one helped the most I would say the hesi comprehensive book did and the questions that comes with the book. Also there was a sticky on here that discussed how to break down the questions: who is the client? what is the problem? and what are you asking of me? This is the method I used as well as eliminating wrong answer choices. Well, you know what I will be doing this summer? studying my BUTT off for my final semester hesi. This one will be cumulative!!!! AAAAHHHH

Well, I cannot believe we are here again. After having to retake this semester due to not passing my hesi last semester I get another chance to redeem myself. I cannot believed I endured 6 WHOLE months of repeating, what seemed like my life again not a semester. It has not been easy and it's only going to get more challenging. Sometimes I still cannot believe that I actually just repeated a whole 6 months of school. This semester was filled with a lot of up and down. Mostly due to my internal emotions of having to retake a class and notbgraduating with my original cohort. In preparation for my hesi I have used the hesi comprehensive book, Saunders book and cd, semester notes. I am going into the hesi with and 89 average, in contrast to last semester when I went in with an 84 average. I tried my best! Although not an A. I scored horribly on the hesi last semester and brought my grade below an 80. Hesi questions just trip me up. Idk the questions just trip me up. I prayed and prayed. Here's hoping to passing this time around and becoming a senior. God willing... 🤞

You really have to develop a backbone to pursue a nursing career. Do you know how many people will try to discourage you? a lot. If it's what you really want keep at it raise your gpa, go to another school. Look, it's not going to be easy you are going to feel defeated sometimes but keep your head up and strive for your dream. I am in a program right now, failed a class while all my friends moved on, targeted by one of my teacher in clinical. Do I feel like giving up sometimes? Of course. But I take it day by day, I pray for guidance and assistance, and I do not want to give this teacher the upper hand. Good luck!

Thank you so much! I struggle with the hesi every semester and I failed OB/PEDS due to receiving a low score on my hesi. I actually just made a post asking if I should use uworld to study for my hesi exit, since I heard it's really good for the nclex. I have my OB/PEDS hesi in about 8 weeks. I have been doing practice questions from Saunders, hesi comprehensive book, nclex 3500, hesi case study, etc I think I'm going to purchase the uworld in the summer to prep for my upcoming senior semester and hesi exit.

Can you tell me what study guide you used. I'm retaking OB and peds right now due to failing hesi. I have the hesi book and will be using this and I've done a lot of questions and read rationales from Saunders book/cd. I plan on doing hesi case studies and doing more nclex questions from other sources. Any tips? Congrats on the 904.

I know that uworld is geared toward the NCLEX but I am really desperate as to finding the best resource to passing the hesi exam. I heard that UWORLD is the best resource for NCLEX and i was thinking of using it for the HESI. The resources i have so far are: 1.hesi comprehensive (green book) 2.hesi comprehensive (red book)-latest edition 3.saunders 5th edition 4.elsevier adaptive quizzing 5.Hesi case studies 6.Mastery NCLEX app-both LPN and RN. (I'm LPN by the way in the bridge program) 7.ATI-LPN (this was a requirement for my LPN program. I still use it sometimes for practice questions. Although its LPN based.) 8.NCLEX 3500 (this is a free practice questions online) 9.NClEX 4000 (this is another free practice questions online) I am planning on purchasing uworld and the lacharity priotity delegation book. I feel like I am overloading myself. I just have to pass this HESI. We only have one attempt at the hesi at my school. my school average it out into our final grade. As long as we get an 80% when everything is calculated we pass. BUUUTTTT I suck badly at this test, usually in the 600s. I feel that I am just wasting money sometimes. lol. its crazy!!!

How are you studying? Maybe we can offer advice from there.

Not really. I would prefer my future husband to be a firefighter. Lol. being honest :)

Hi guys. I am writing this because lately I have been feeling very discouraged. I am currently and LPN, been an LPN for 2 years but mostly work home health. I am in an LPN-RN program but failed last semester. I am retaking the class over now. I am discouraged and just do not feel like my teachers want me to succeed. Before I failed, I was hopeful and I saw myself graduating with my degree. Now, I'm not so sure. Do I see myself graduating? I don't know. I think part of it is because I'm the only lpn that failed. there was 10 of us. Now, I'm placed in the generic program with the regular students. No one in this class are aware that I'm already nurse, not really keeping it a secret just a quite person. I feel like I'm fighting a battle that I will not will, my teachers are against me no one sees potential in me. I am not sure what to do. I'm also upset because I had an 84 average before I went to take the final exam (HESI). I'm not good at that test and this caused me to fail the semester. I am 4 weeks into my new semester and my emotions have been up and down (mostly down). There are 2 other students in the class that failed as well. I'm friend with one of them. She's going through the same thing I am, but she is worse than me (I think, or maybe I hide mines really well). She actually has anxiety. Her doctor recently prescribed her low dose xanax because of the anxiety that she is experiencing this semester. She takes it 30 minute before and exam, but she is not passing. She has received the lowest score in the class on 2 of the quizzes we have taken so far (these are the similar quizzes from last semester). Her anxiety is getting the best of her. Me, I'm not anxious per se. I think more like depressed. I was depressed for a good two weeks when I failed the class and it has been four months now. I keep going in and out depression. somedays I just drive my car to the park and sit in my car and stare at nature and feel the breeze. that helps me some. Some days I do not want to get out of bed, some days I feel like I have no purpose in the world. Some days I question on whether I want to continue in the program, just quit now. quit my job, move to another state and start over. Despite the up and down emotions I've been feeling. I am doing ok in the class. I have an 88% right now, but we've only had 2 quizzes. Anyways, the class is not hard as I passed all my exam las semester. I just have to keep my average high enough so the HESI do not cause me to fail again. I have been doing 30 NCLEX questions a day and have been persistent with it. So far I've done 700 questions, not much but as we get closer to the HESI I will kick it up a notch and start doing 100 questions. BUT, I still feel hopeless, discouraged. I feel like I don't have any potential. I feel like I have become a laughing stock to my teachers, as one professor told me las semester that I am not up to par as where I should be. So when I failed the hesi and now repeating the semester it kind of sealed that belief. She's friends with many instructors and have told them about me. I don''t have her this semester, I have her friend and I know for sure I have been talked about. I'm not sure what to, just living day by day and finding the courage to put one feet in front of the other. But honestly, I don't know how long I can go on living like this and experiencing the emotions that I'm feeling. I've withdrawn from everything in my life, church (I don't want anyone asking me how school is going or wont them to know I fail), deleted all my social media account, been communicating less at work, don't really hang out with the little firends I do have. I want to think that I'm doing this to focus more on school but honestly just depressed and sad all the time and no longer enjoy life. I basically just go to class, clinical, work, home.

I would say. Don't give up. I failed out of nursing school too. In fact, I'm repeating the semester now. I am 3 weeks in. Do I understand the material? Well, I think I do. So, why did I fail? My school makes us take a hesi exam and I did not score well. Am I upset? Heck yeah, I am. Especially when I am an LPN, have taken an nclex exam before, and pass all my teachers exam. But guess what this hesi exam predicts it all. According to my hesi score I will not pass my rn boards. Sigh;( what can I do? All I know is that I want to be an RN, the only way to achieve that goal is repeat the semester and get better at HESI testing. Good luck and keep at it. I have a wall paper on my phone that says "Don't give up, don't ever give up." Look, I just turned 24 so we are around the same age do anything you can to motivate yourself. I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

One more question. Are we doing the same CEU every renewal period?