Southcal Educational Institute

February 9th, 2010

Established in 1990, Southcal Education Institute is a nurse-own school specialized in NCLEX review and refresher courses and continuing education courses. For more than fourteen years, Southcal Educational Institute has developed unique curriculum and strategies to help RN/LVN candidates, especially foreign educated nurses, pass the NCLEX licensure exam to pursue their nursing career U.S.

Unlike other agencies whose courses were simply to provide crush courses to help passing the licensure exam, our solid NCLEX review and refresher courses are designed to help nurses not only pass the NCLEX-RN/LVN licensure exam but also adapt the American health system and become able to function productively in different health care settings.

Goals

1. To help nurses pass NCLEX-RN and/or NCLEX-VN licensure examinations.
2. To help nurses adapt American health system and enter nursing in America.
3. To bridge the medical systems between western and eastern countries and shorten their differences.
4. To help nurses strive for excellency in their career.

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California

NCSBN Learning Extension

February 9th, 2010

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN), with the help of many experts within the nursing community, created the Learning Extension to help busy nursing students, nurses, and nurse educators meet their educational goals. Since 1998, the Learning Extension has reached 165,000 learners in 120 countries, and counting!

NCSBN Learning Extension offers NCLEX review courses with comprehensive nursing content. Whether you are taking the NCLEX-PN or NCLEX-RN examination, you’ll access content organized according to the latest NCLEX Test Plans.

With NCLEX-style questions, diagnostic pretests, Q&A banks, a free subscription to Taber’s Online and many other study tools, you’ll be well on your way to success. Sign up now!

For international nurses — The International Nurse Course Package gives you a special package price on access to the NCLEX review plus access to the Acclimation of International Nurses CE course.

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Illinois

Psychiatric Nursing NCLEX Review Part 2 Answers and Rationale

February 8th, 2010

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  1. Answer B. Diphenhydramine, 25 to 50 mg I.M. or I.V., would quickly reverse this condition. Prochlorperazine and haloperidol are both capable of causing dystonia, not reversing it. Midazolam would make this patient drowsy.
  2. Answer B. The nurse should directly orient a delusional patient to reality, especially to place and person. Option A and C encourage further delusions by denying poisoning and offering information related to the delusion. Validating the patient’s feeling, as in option D, occurs during a later stage in the therapeutic process.
  3. Answer C. Twelve-step programs focus on recovery 1 day at a time. Such programs discourage people from claiming that they will never again use a substance, because relapse is common. The belief that one may use a limit amount of an abused substance indicates denial. Substituting one abused substance for another predisposes the patient to cross-addiction.
  4. Answer B. By establishing a one-to-one relationship, the nurse helps the patient learn how to interact with other people in new situations. The other options are appropriate but should take place only after the nurse-patient relationship is established. Read more…

Psychiatric Nursing

Psychiatric Nursing NCLEX Review Part 2

February 4th, 2010

1. Which of the following medications would the nurse in-charge expect the doctor to order to reverse a dystonic reaction?

a. Procholorperazine (Compazine)

b. Diphenhydramine (Benadryl)

c. Haloperidol (Haldol)

d. Midazolam (Versed)

2. While pacing in the hall, a female patient with paranoid schizophrenia runs to the nurse and says, “Why are you poisoning me? I know you work for central thought control! You can keep my thoughts. Give me back my soul!” how should the nurse respond?

a. “I’m a nurse, I’m not poisoning you. It’s against the nursing code of ethics.”

b. “I’m a nurse, and you’re a patient in the hospital. I’m not going to harm you.”

c. “I’m not poisoning you. And how could I possibly steal your soul?”

d. “I sense anger, Are you feeling angry today?”

3. After completing chemical detoxification and a 12-step program to treat crack addiction, a male patient is being prepared for discharge. Which remark by the patient indicates a realistic view of the future?

a. “I’m never going to use crack again.”

b. “I know what I have to do. I have to limit my crack use.”

c. “I’m going to take 1 day at a time. I’m not making any promises.”

d. “I can’t touch crack again, but I sure could use a drink. I’ve earned it.” Read more…

Psychiatric Nursing

PRC Initial Registration Schedule for New Registered Nurses (Manila)

February 3rd, 2010

Successful examinees of the November 2009 Nursing Board Exam should personally register and sign in the Roster of Registered Professionals at the PRC Central or Regional Office where he/she filed his/her application for registration.

Those who will register are required to bring the following:

  1. Duly accomplished Oath Form or Panunumpa ng Propesyonal
  2. Current Community Tax Certificate (cedula)
  3. 2 pieces passport size picture (colored with white background and complete name tag)
  4. 1 piece 1” x 1” picture (colored with white background and complete name tag)
  5. 2 sets of metered documentary stamps, and 1 short brown envelope with name and profession
  6. Initial Registration Fee of P600 and Annual Registration Fee of P450 for 2010-2013. 

Initial Registration Schedule (Manila Only)


November 2009 NLE Passers Initial Reg Sched

Nursing Board Exam Result