Lame

So essentially I’m very lame and have no very good excuses as to where I’ve been for the past few weeks. School has been totally kicking by butt time commitment wise (and therefore emotion wise) Today I spent no less than 10 straight hours on this beautiful sunny day hunkered down in Panera typing up [...]

Indecision

I’ve been doing lots of thinking. I know I’ve mentioned that I’m currently in an RN-BSN program and on track to roll that over into an MSN program to be a Nurse Practitioner in a few years… I’m pretty sure I’ve also mentioned that my mother is bribing me to apply to an anesthesia school [...]

Special Emergencies and Copious Rudeness

I work in a hospital with a reputation for female issues, we get lots of pregnant ladies all the time. I’d say 1/3 of our ER cases are pregnant bleeders and maybe 1/5 are pregnant pukers followed by another 1/3 of “abdominal pain”. We don’t -under normal circumstances- handle babies or deliveries. Since I started [...]

I’m a real RN!

I finally broke down this morning before work and paid the $8 to find out my results. All my other friends had their results posted on the verification site the next day but I must have checked 30 times at work the next day (yesterday) and NOTHING! So when I got up at 10 this [...]

NCLEX

I took it this morning. I either really passed or really failed because the computer turned off at 75 questions. (there is no grade only a pass or fail, so it doesn’t matter, but you catch my drift)
We joked in the hallway before the let us in that they should provide barfbags in addition to [...]

Severe Brain Death

I’m currently experiencing severe brain death. I can feel my brain cells slowly dying off one by one due to the repetative and boring nature of preparing for this damn NCLEX. The past, 6?, days off I’ve had I’ve spent literally hours either studying something I feel might be important (peak insulin times, childhood vaccine [...]

Saved

Saved by the Hubbin! Hubbin just returned from Starbucks with a gift of iced coffee, bless his little soul!
I’m taking practice tests on my computer right now with my Mosby’s NCLEX CD. I can feel my brain slowly shriveling up and dying. I don’t know if it’s because I was up too late last night [...]

Yikes!

I got my authorization to test today! Now I’m officially freaked out because there is a concrete time frame… I’m authorized to test from tomorrow through Nov 17th. Holy shit! I better start studying! :-/
I finished basic arrythmia today and only missed 1 on the final! 99%!
Next up advanced cardiac life support! (little nervous about [...]

Boards

Genuinely I was not too worried or worked up about boards. In our NCLEX prep class they told us you should consistently get above 75% on your practice tests before taking it. I’ve always done at least that well on our big ATI tests, and I got middle-high B’s the whole way through school, so [...]

PALS Certified

So I’m on ER orientation for 6 weeks and for those 6 weeks there are all sorts of classes I need to take. So for the month of August I’m only actually working with my preceptor about 7 times. (obviously I’ve negotiated to extend my orientation period)
Last week I got certified in PALS which is [...]