Freaking OUT!

[Sodium Duck]

I'm taking the state nursing boards tomorrow to become a legit registered nurse. Four years of school being put to the ultimate test. Bright and early, have to be there at 7:30 AM. Ahhhh! I feel like the guy in my avatar!

[JustAnotherAsian]

good luck.

all you need to know is systolic and diastolic, and you're good to go! haha.

but really, good luck.

[Sodium Duck]

LoL

[Tamago]

don't drop the soap!


wait, what?

[Sodium Duck]

I shouldn't drop it in a sterile field, because then I would have to start all over again, doh!

[EasyDriver]

I shouldn't drop it in a sterile field, because then I would have to start all over again, doh!
If you were able to pass all the tests and classes already to get to this point....then you know your stuff. A good night's sleep will contribute to your doing your best....on a test that you already know the answers. Have confidence in yourself....your first answer is usually your best. If you have time review your answers....if you don't have a better one than you already marked on the test...then that's the correct answer!

Good luck!!!!

[IllusionX]

good luck buddy!

[GeneW]

I'm taking the state nursing boards tomorrow to become a legit registered nurse. Four years of school being put to the ultimate test. Bright and early, have to be there at 7:30 AM. Ahhhh! I feel like the guy in my avatar!

Memories...

I still remember going to Baltimore to get my FCC license, which I needed to graduate from Tech School.

We showed up at the Motel on the outskirts of Baltimore at roughly nightfall. Our neighbor, a "working girl" was being woken up by her "friend" at roughly the time all six of us checked in.

His wake up call was not terribly friendly though - "Wake the f--k up, Bitch!".

She was pretty, but had a busy night. We heard her going at it all night long.

We slept on towels on our beds after we discovered cockroaches in the Kleenex box. One of us, some degenerate, wanted to bring two working girls back to "play" with us. Forty bucks a piece. Everyone but two of us were flat broke, and we weren't sharing loot to acquire STDs. They went elsewhere to peddle their asses.

Next day we woke up bright and early, got an Egg McCoronary at the local McDeath, and went off to the tests.

We were given five hours. Only two of us gutted it out that long, me and some dude from the NSA (if you're reading this, Mike, howdy). The rest were done in four hours, some less.

One of the kids panicked, like you're doing Natria, and failed the test. We put him on "suicide watch" while we toured the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

If you get ready you'll be fine. If not you'll panic and perhaps crash and burn. You should know the material as a "second nature" by now, and all you need is some preparation by getting enough sleep.

Otherwise, well, you can take them again. Our suicide watch candidate did and graduated later on.

You're not going to die if you don't pass these things. So quit stressing out and get some sleep.

Gene

[GeneW]

I'm taking the state nursing boards tomorrow to become a legit registered nurse. Four years of school being put to the ultimate test. Bright and early, have to be there at 7:30 AM. Ahhhh! I feel like the guy in my avatar!

What's the difference between a Nurse and a Volkswagen?

Not everyone has ridden a Volkswagen.

Gene

[Sodium Duck]

The testing is done on a computer adaptive thing. It basically gives you an easy question and if you answer it right, it gives you increasingly harder ones -- then when it is satisfied you are consistently answering above a passing level, it shuts off.

So there is no going back and changing answers, you do one, then move onto the next! Grrr. Minimum 75 questions (technically 60 because they give 15 experimental, don't count type questions), maximum 200 something. But if you make it out to 200+, then the computer clears the slate and makes you start over for the last 50 or something questions, because at that point it can't tell if you're at a passing level since you would have been going up and down and up and down and it wouldn't have shut off.

[Sodium Duck]

What's the difference between a Nurse and a Volkswagen?

Not everyone has ridden a Volkswagen.

Gene

Hahahahaaa

[TLyttle]

Ah, my sheltered youth... I got that the other way around...

[Sodium Duck]

Bed time for me! Night!

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Damn, NCLEX eh? I still have another year in my BSN program. I feel you tho.

LOL, I hate sterile fields!!!!!!!!!!! Anywho, good luck. Let us know how it goes.

[cali yaris]

you'll be fine, the more relaxed you are, the more you remember.

[PETERPOOP]

good luck! eat a good meal before the exam! don't puke or crap your pants.

[Bob Dog]

Inhaling deeply each time one feels a pang of anxiety during a major exam can do a great deal to relieve tension.

[Revsson]

By the time you read this, you will have taken the test. Hope you did well. Perhaps
you will find a hospital to work at that also has a Amateur radio setup in it, which could
work to your advantage on getting a job??

[highwaypass]

good luck!

[KCALB SIRAY]

the answer is "C" haha

[Sodium Duck]

By the time you read this, you will have taken the test. Hope you did well. Perhaps
you will find a hospital to work at that also has a Amateur radio setup in it, which could
work to your advantage on getting a job??

That's actually quite funny. I work at the VA and they do have a ham radio station, and I will be joining up with it eventually. It's apart of RACES/ARES. :biggrin:


So yea, test is done. That was an adventure.

[Altitude]

good luck! eat a good meal before the exam! don't puke or crap your pants.

To be more concise, it's OK to crap your pants then puke, just not the other way around.

[GeneW]

To be more concise, it's OK to crap your pants then puke, just not the other way around.

Speak for yourself.... I got slammed right in the door from work yesterday evening. I'm still recovering from it. I had bleach all sorts of stuff to get it reasonably clean.

Gene

[Sodium Duck]

wow!

[Sodium Duck]

I just cleaned my apartment from top to bottom -- EVERYTHING, as if I had OCD. I'm trying to do anything to take my mind off the test results coming in. Sipping on some wine now. Feelin' pretty loosened up, can't wait to stretch, do some deep breathing, and hit the sack.

Test results should be in tomorrow afternoon!

[EasyDriver]

I just cleaned my apartment from top to bottom -- EVERYTHING, as if I had OCD. I'm trying to do anything to take my mind off the test results coming in. Sipping on some wine now. Feelin' pretty loosened up, can't wait to stretch, do some deep breathing, and hit the sack.

Test results should be in tomorrow afternoon!
I like walking with an mp3 player....works off the stress, and it's good for you!

[Sodium Duck]

I've been thinking I should start walking more often. My backyard is basically woods and trails to ponds and rock formations. How long do you walk for usually?

[EasyDriver]

I've been thinking I should start walking more often. My backyard is basically woods and trails to ponds and rock formations. How long do you walk for usually?
I'm in town so the walk is not exciting. I walk for about a half hour=2 miles. Put some peppy music on your mp3 player and step on out! It sounds like you got some decent hiking territory near you.

[Sodium Duck]

I am a registered nurse! It's official, I passed!

[EasyDriver]

Congratulations.....that is a very difficult course of study and a hard test for certification!!!!! All worth it in the end though.

Yes.....the walking thing is still a good idea too.

[BDD]

Congratulations!!! Now you can rest easy... for now!

[JustAnotherAsian]

I am a registered nurse! It's official, I passed!
congrats! you can put out that fire now! (avatar pic haha)

[Sodium Duck]

You're right -- I feel like being Popeye for a while now. =]

[GeneW]

I am a registered nurse! It's official, I passed!

What are you going to do the first time a patient dies on you? You better learn to chill, pronto.

Gene

[Sodium Duck]

I don't have any issues with death and dying. I'm actually interested in hospice care. =]

[GeneW]

I don't have any issues with death and dying. I'm actually interested in hospice care. =]

I spent eight years as a bio-med tech, watching people die. After a time I could walk around a clinic and tell you who was "next". About the time I started disliking patients and hating a few of them - ESRD is rough and make some folks mean and ungrateful - I knew I was burned out.

Best of luck to you, Natria. I won't go back unless I have no where else to go.

Gene

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Congrats. I had a patient die on me. I wasn't the nurse in charge, but they had asked me to help out. The patient was terminally ill already, it was hard since the day she passed was barely a year after my dad passed.

[yaris-me]

Congratulations!:thumbsup: