Positivity Beckons Positivity
1.30.2012
I passed NCLEX Video
Just wanted to post my video of my joy from passing NCLEX! Enjoy!
Positivity Beckons Positivity
Positivity Beckons Positivity
1.28.2012
I PASSED NCLEX!
OH MY GOSH GUYS!! I passed NCLEX! I AM A REGISTERED NURSE!!
That test was HARD, CONFUSING, and just plain INSANE! There is absolutely no way to study for that test. It is such a random test that it may just test you in an area where you are weak in. I don't want to scare any of you but this was just my experience. NCLEX is all about test taking techniques and skills, to pick the BEST ANSWER. If you remember that, you will do GREAT!
I took the test on January 26 at 8:00am. I had 91 questions and the computer screen turned blue. I sat there in SHOCK. Like frozen in time, staring at this blue screen for at least 30 seconds. The worst thing is that you WILL leave there feeling like you failed.
When I got home, I tried to Pearson VUE Trick (PVT). I got the good pop up where it didn't allow me to re-register and I was so happy! I was screaming!!! If you don't know what the PVT is check out www.allnurses.com. There are a lot of posts about it. It basically means that you have passed NCLEX!!!
So when I paid for quick results this morning I was confident I was going to see PASS!
I plan on doing a lot more posts now that I am not studying every second of the day, lol. If anyone has any ideas or requests for any posts, don't hesitate to ask below! Talk to you all soon!
Positivity Beckons Positivity
That test was HARD, CONFUSING, and just plain INSANE! There is absolutely no way to study for that test. It is such a random test that it may just test you in an area where you are weak in. I don't want to scare any of you but this was just my experience. NCLEX is all about test taking techniques and skills, to pick the BEST ANSWER. If you remember that, you will do GREAT!
I took the test on January 26 at 8:00am. I had 91 questions and the computer screen turned blue. I sat there in SHOCK. Like frozen in time, staring at this blue screen for at least 30 seconds. The worst thing is that you WILL leave there feeling like you failed.
When I got home, I tried to Pearson VUE Trick (PVT). I got the good pop up where it didn't allow me to re-register and I was so happy! I was screaming!!! If you don't know what the PVT is check out www.allnurses.com. There are a lot of posts about it. It basically means that you have passed NCLEX!!!
So when I paid for quick results this morning I was confident I was going to see PASS!
I plan on doing a lot more posts now that I am not studying every second of the day, lol. If anyone has any ideas or requests for any posts, don't hesitate to ask below! Talk to you all soon!
Positivity Beckons Positivity
1.23.2012
Scope of Practice
Today a post on Twitter caught my attention.
It is about an Arizona registered nurse who educated a patient about his/her surgery using the hospital provided pamphlets and also educated the patient on hospice. The doctor taking care of the patient became enraged when he/she found out about what the nurse did. Although the nurse documented and also SBAR'ed the oncoming nurse about the patients misunderstanding about the procedure, the nurse was seen as being in the wrong. The doctor wanted the nurse to be fired and her license to be revoked, the doctor got his way. She is due to stand in front of the board of nursing in February.
What is interesting to me is that according to the nurse, the hospital didn't contact the ethics committee and she acted within her scope of practice; the hospital, and even her nurse manager, still wasn't on her side. No one stood beside this nurse.
I have learned in school that as future nurses we have to advocate for the patients and ourselves. We also have to be a part of nursing organizations in case of situations like this arises. As most of us are getting closer to graduating and even taking NCLEX, you have to be aware of your hospital's policy's and procedures. KNOW your scope of practice in your residing state and KNOW the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses like the back of your hand.
I still need to know all the facts to this case because things like this hardly happens, especially if we belong to a professional nursing organization.
Read the post http://vdutton.posterous.com/ and comment below with your thoughts.
Positivity Beckons Positivity
It is about an Arizona registered nurse who educated a patient about his/her surgery using the hospital provided pamphlets and also educated the patient on hospice. The doctor taking care of the patient became enraged when he/she found out about what the nurse did. Although the nurse documented and also SBAR'ed the oncoming nurse about the patients misunderstanding about the procedure, the nurse was seen as being in the wrong. The doctor wanted the nurse to be fired and her license to be revoked, the doctor got his way. She is due to stand in front of the board of nursing in February.
What is interesting to me is that according to the nurse, the hospital didn't contact the ethics committee and she acted within her scope of practice; the hospital, and even her nurse manager, still wasn't on her side. No one stood beside this nurse.
I have learned in school that as future nurses we have to advocate for the patients and ourselves. We also have to be a part of nursing organizations in case of situations like this arises. As most of us are getting closer to graduating and even taking NCLEX, you have to be aware of your hospital's policy's and procedures. KNOW your scope of practice in your residing state and KNOW the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses like the back of your hand.
I still need to know all the facts to this case because things like this hardly happens, especially if we belong to a professional nursing organization.
Read the post http://vdutton.posterous.com/ and comment below with your thoughts.
Positivity Beckons Positivity
1.06.2012
ATT
If anyone knows anything about
anything, you know what ATT means. Authorization to Test. I got mine
AND a date for NCLEX today. I will not share my test date because I am WAY too
paranoid. lol
But lets just say when I got the ATT, I nearly passed out. Like seriously, all the blood rushed to my toes. I couldn't remember the year of my birthday date when I was signing in. It was terrible. And even worse I started to hyperventilate while making a date and I started crying. It was horrible guys.
Anyways, I was already planning on doing a post on a NCLEX review software that I have been using, before I received the life changing information, lol.
So as you know, I have been putting in some hard hours into my NCLEX review and I have been using all resources available to me.
Being that I am a NSNA member, I saw a discount on a review software that I saw while reading their magazine. The product is Delmar's NCLEX-RN Review Online with CAT Logic (Computer Adaptive Testing). It is an amazing product. How it works is that it simulates the way NLCEX is prepared with 5000 questions and full length mock exams, that will cut off at a point where it feels you proved your knowledge base. You can do a lot practice exams and it has great rationals to the answers. What is also amazing is that the product has a section where you can review information on topics ranging from med surg to maternity.
As I mentioned before I am a NSNA member so I received a discount on the product but if you are interested in checking out the product and/or are a NSNA member here is the link www.cengagebrain.com
Enjoy and Good luck!
Positivity Beckons Positivity
But lets just say when I got the ATT, I nearly passed out. Like seriously, all the blood rushed to my toes. I couldn't remember the year of my birthday date when I was signing in. It was terrible. And even worse I started to hyperventilate while making a date and I started crying. It was horrible guys.
Anyways, I was already planning on doing a post on a NCLEX review software that I have been using, before I received the life changing information, lol.
So as you know, I have been putting in some hard hours into my NCLEX review and I have been using all resources available to me.
Being that I am a NSNA member, I saw a discount on a review software that I saw while reading their magazine. The product is Delmar's NCLEX-RN Review Online with CAT Logic (Computer Adaptive Testing). It is an amazing product. How it works is that it simulates the way NLCEX is prepared with 5000 questions and full length mock exams, that will cut off at a point where it feels you proved your knowledge base. You can do a lot practice exams and it has great rationals to the answers. What is also amazing is that the product has a section where you can review information on topics ranging from med surg to maternity.
As I mentioned before I am a NSNA member so I received a discount on the product but if you are interested in checking out the product and/or are a NSNA member here is the link www.cengagebrain.com
Enjoy and Good luck!
Positivity Beckons Positivity
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