NCLEX Review for your Smartphone?

Wow!   Seems like there are tons of NCLEX apps for your smartphone - many of them free.  Are they any good?  Depends.  Our ace investigative team scanned the mobile world and found over 200 apps that might be worth downloading.  The free ones are not as robust as the $ versions, but they are free, so check them out!  At the very least you can train the brain in your spare time.

We're not endosing any of these, but here's a list of NCLEX apps for Android and iPhone from appszoom.  They seem to do a pretty good job of scanning the universe of what's out there and how much it might cost you.  Let us know which apps you found helpful!

Elsevier's NCLEX Practice Question of the Week

Did you know Elsevier offers an NCLEX question of the Week on their Facebook page?   They also have a blog on Tumblr that has even more NCLEX questions - all free!  The Tumblr site is nice because you can go to Archive and scroll back several years for lots of sampe test questions.

Addict, Heal Thy Self

-by David Hechim, SN

I’m a proponent of patient participation in their own care plan. I’m a firm believer in the medical team helping a patient help themselves. But the latest medical device to be released by Richmond, Virginia based manufacturer, Kaleo Inc., seems to put this concept into the hands of someone who may not be able to use it at all. Evzio, a hand-held auto-injector that delivers a 0.4mg single dose of naloxone and will be available this summer, according to medical journal reports. Naloxone, commonly called Narcan,

Nursing New Grad – Now What…?

-by David Hechim, SN

What kind of nurses will we be? The first answer, of course is “a good one!” But, where? Maybe not so easy to answer. Especially with the changing dynamic in which health care is delivered. Seems that hospitals aren’t exactly the “place to be”, like they once were. Home health is on the rise. There seems to be a demand for Research Nurses. There are private practices, skilled nursing facilities, community health centers, schools, the list seems to go on and on. But the first question a lot of us will be asking ourselves after our final is, “Where would I really like to work?” The answer to that question is probably a lot closer than we might think. For myself, I look back on all of our clinical rotations. Do I want to be a Psych Nurse? Pediatric Nurse? Work in Labor and Delivery? Med/Surg as a floor nurse? Oncology infusion clinic? Wound Care? Dialysis? OR? ER? ICU? Which one of these felt right for me?