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First of all, let's start off with a workable definition of fear, which is one of the most primitive emotions that affects us today. Fear is an emotional response to a perceived threat or impending danger that results in an urgent need to get away fr...
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As a final assignment near the end of nursing school, I was asked to write an essay describing my most memorable experience as a nursing student. Wow...
As I contemplated the MANY memorable (the good and the yuck) moments of nursing school, one ...
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To get there, first you must go through at least 2 years of education about the entire process and your responsibilities in the said field could mean life and death for others...some of them would still say "ok". Now, mention that it's nursing. "Whoa...
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You really, really want to be a nurse. In fact, becoming a nurse might have been a lingering childhood dream of yours. Perhaps nursing was never a childhood dream, but you somehow came to the realization that you wanted to be a nurse in adulthood for...
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I'm an EMT, gone LPN, and now and finally an RN! I knew healthcare was my calling and I loved the excitement of each license, but I needed something more. I attended Miami Dade College for both my LPN and the transitional program to RN (which was bru...
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First off give yourself credit for completing nursing school and getting to this point! So many wish they could be in your shoes, so never discredit yourself although it's hard to not doubt yourself as you're going through the brutal studying that is...
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It wasn't professional. It wasn't healthy. It wasn't encouraged and it certainly was not expected of a "professional" nurse. I probably lasted six months. Here is a true account of a patient I met (and was destined to meet) one weekend morning during...
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1. Help from a tutor
If you have the opportunity to have help from a tutor, take it!
2. Quizlet
It's amazing. I learn best by testing myself and Quizlet lets me do that. I highly suggest making your own flashcards, because then you'll le...
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They were cramming for pharmacology and very anxiously awaiting the grades from a principles test. Some were crying even, and all of them were so stressed out it made me want to pull my hair out along with them. The girls were so pale and tired from ...
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I have the somewhat unique position of being in the no-man's land between nursing school and real world nursing: I have a whopping 3 months of nursing experience under my belt. Well, 2.5, but I can round up, okay? A few months ago, I was a note-writi...
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When I was preparing for my boards, I loved coming to this website and reading everyone's NCLEX story, so, I thought I'd write mine. I was an LPN for 2.5 years before graduating with my BSN at the end of April 2014. I took two weeks off studying afte...
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I'm writing this article in the hopes that even one person can relate to my life and be given some confidence that life can be hard, but thinking positive can get you through it. So here it goes. This article is based on my personal life experience t...
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"Don't give up," advises Cheryl, a South Carolina RN who passed the NCLEX-RN in June 2005 on her second try. "You persisted until you graduated from nursing school, and you will also have to persist and apply yourself until you pass the state boards....
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Opportunities to practice skills often came in waves with proclaimed "learning opportunity" attached to tasks that others didn't want to do. I was OK with this approach because I really wanted to learn and help out. So the days came where it was my t...
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It was in a part of the hospital known as Phillips House 22, a lockdown medical-surgical unit on the 22nd floor of the Ellison Building, a modern glass tower that's part of the Mass. General main campus in the West End. Phillips House is a unit of pr...
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What I learned in nursing school is how to set up an IV fluid set, what to do when a patient is exhibiting signs of septic shock, the most intricate details of hundreds of medications, how to give different types of intramuscular injections, and how ...
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Scroll down to WHAT I LEARNED to get what you came here for. Disclaimers: Everyone studies differently, and what works for me will not work for everyone. None of the tips are absolute guarantees: there will always be a question that seems to contradi...
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It was at 3 am that the patient, a young gentleman man with cardiac monitoring, was sent to us. Sitting in high fowler, breathing via nasal prong and on infusion amiodarone running through the peripheral vein, he seemed to be alert and conscious. "On...
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Standard Precautions
These are the safety measures that should be taken with all patients.
Wash Your Hands - Most important step in infection control. It prevents nosocomial infections.
DON Gloves - Before coming in contact with any...
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I'm writing this article on my bed, wiping my tears away and making sure that this article makes sense to those who are reading it. I just finished a 13-hour shift yesterday night at the CVICU. I am in my final semester of nursing school and I am so ...
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Year after year, responses to the annual Gallup Youth Survey reveal that teenagers list math as the subject in which they encounter the most difficulty. The difficulties tend to follow these teenagers well into adulthood, as evidenced by the sheer nu...
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NCLEX, an acronym that stands for National Council Licensure Examination, is a crucial gatekeeper in the nursing profession because no one is granted a nursing license in the US without satisfactorily passing this test.
The 85 percent of US-educ...
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I am an older 30 year old male married with children who had very little if any experience other then nursing school in healthcare. I graduated from a much respected private university that had 98% of their grads pass the NCLEX the first time, accord...
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I did math first because I am someone that writes everything down, even with a calculator. I also double check that I typed into the calculator the right equation. MOST of my questions were PROPORTIONS! They were the easy ones too, 5:9 and x:20, solv...
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Certainly, this is based on my own experience, some has been great and some not so great, my philosophy is "take what you like, and leave the rest".
Firstly it feels fantastic to be able to write from my heart: heartbeat and my own feelings rath...
