6 Revealed Secrets on Passing the Prometric Exam for Nurses

         Prometric is a U.S company in the test administration industry. In the prometric exam for nurses, examinees are given two (2) hours to finish seventy (70) questions in a multiple choice format. It is a computer based test and there are only two (2) testing centers in the Philippines. 

1.      Ateneo Professional Schools, 130 H. Dela Costa St., Salcedo Village,

Makati City

(Telephone No.: (632) 8920383)

2.      Tread Inc., Suite 308, Centro Maximo D. Jakosalem St.

Cebu City

 Nurses can either take the exam for Nurse Technician (Graduate of four (4) year Bachelor of Science in Nursing) and Nurse Specialist (Head Nurses, Supervisors). For Nurse Technician, the passing rate is 45% while for Nurse Specialist, they must get 50%.

Nurse Technician exam is comprised of the following parts:

Fundamentals of Nursing – 28%

Medical -                              23%

Surgical -                              20%

Pediatric -                             16%

Community -                        13%

The exam is composed of Assessment – 10%, Nursing Problem – 6%, Planning – 20%, Implementation – 50% and Evaluation – 14%

Scores are available immediately following the exam and the test taker will know whether you PASS or FAIL. If you pass, you will be given a certificate like this!

And if you fail, you will still be given a certificate.

So, what are the Secrets on Passing the Prometric Exam?

1.      Try to Review Notes at least a Week prior to Exam. Of course! Who would take an exam without peeking notes the almost-forgotten-procedures and techniques? Unless you have a SUPER POWER BRAIN or the no-need-to-review attitude/ stock knowledge bases. Trust me! You need that. What to review then? Just the basic techniques, positions before, during and after a procedure. Focus on Fundamentals of Nursing. I would love to give sample questions (as far as I can remember - questions on my exam) but I’m not allowed.

2.      Hospital Exposure Helps a Lot.  It really is. You might forget the theoretical and the on-the-book nursing bases, but your hospital experience could help a lot on answering the test questions on your prometric exam.

3.      Understand the Question. The prometric questions are a bit long and tricky to read. And if your eyes and mind don’t interconnect, you will never discern the possible answer. Try to relax and close your eyes for a bit and understand each word. EACH WORD. SERIOUSLY.

4.      Do Not Just Read the Name of the Disease, Become Acquainted With Its Signs and Symptoms.  Most of us wouldn’t take too much time on understanding the pathophysiology of such disease since almost all signs and symptoms are experienced with the all kinds of illness. But on the exam, they won’t tell you the name of the disease but the characteristics of the disease itself.

5.      Celiac Disease is Always Present on the Exam. Lol but Seriously. This is just based on my experience and the interviews I’ve done with my friends who also took the exam. It’s like 10/10 – Celiac disease was on their exam. So, include celiac disease on your lists. At least you have one sureball answer over a 70 items.

6.      Study Hard. Pray Harder. The most important secret of all. This is the last secret but definitely not the least. Before and after the exam, pass or fail, don’t forget to praise God. Though we may not have the same God but always, always pray and ask for guidance. Ask your family and friends to also pray for you! Trust me! It helps. 

What Can Your Sleeping Position Reveal About Your Personality?

Have you ever thought on how you sleep at night?
What is your usual position when you sleep?

Did you know that your sleeping position can reveal about your personality?

According to psychologists, your sleeping position actually has a connection with your personality and the way you think, feel and behave. This can be better understood in terms of body language. Our postures and gestures while we are awake have something about us.

Here are 6 common sleep positions associated with distinct personality traits.

1. FETAL position. (Curled up on your side)

This is the most common position.

*Sturdy and Strong on first impression
* Introverted and sensitive at heart when better known.
*Reserved
* Takes time to open up to others but when they do,
    they are relaxed and comfortable.

2. LOG position. (Lying on your side with both arms straight down by your side) 

* More sociable and Even tempered
* Shows a natural inclination to be with elite company.
* Called as the "social butterflies"
* Very trusting
* Easy to fool

3. YEARNER position. (On your side with both arms at your side)

* Open to new things
* Suspicious and cynical
* Sets very high standards for themselves.
* Only act when fully convinced of their action
* Once they make up their minds, they almost never change it
    or have any regrets.

4. SOLDIER position. (Lying on your back with your arms at your sides)

* Calm and aloft by and large
* They do not see much point in making a big deal out of things
* Tough taskmasters
* Sets very high standards for themselves as well as for the others

5. STARFISH position. ( Lying on your back with both arms up by the sides of your head)

* Instantly likable people (not without reason)
* Great listeners and make awesome friends
* Always willing to offer help to friends in trouble
* Humble

6. FREEFALL position. 
(Lying on your stomach with hands up and around the pillow, and the head turned to one side.)

 *Confident, Extrovert and Brash
* Enthusiast and Merry-maker
* Take criticisms personally
* Selfish

At the End of Your Comfort Zone

"One's Destination is Never a Place, But a New Way of Seeing Things."

Ever since I was young, Ive been always praying and dreaming of working and living abroad. Without thinking the advantages and disadvantages of it, as long I could fly and leave my comfort zone. 

Now that it's coming and I feel it, It feels like taken aback because I'm scared. It would be my very first time traveling and living alone. No one would be there to help me. No one would take care of me when I get sick. No one would be able to comfort me when homesickness strikes and of course, I will leave everything to where I came from.

"Life might be difficult for a while, but I would tough it out because living in foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world". -David Sedaris

I honestly don't know where fate would lead me. Mom always say, it would make her happy If she sees me grow, find an adventure and at the same time seeing me happy with what Ive always been dreaming of.

Live abroad. 

Until You Spread Your Wings, 

You Will Have No Idea How Far You Can Fly

I dunno what to feel yet because I'm still on the processing state. I guess I would just go with the flow. Pray.

and would just let it go. 

I'll be taking chances and I believe in God. He would be my comfort zone. 

and I believe...

Life Begins at the End of Your Comfort Zone. 

God Bless me and See You When I see You.. :)

The Agony of Realizing That "The One" Is Now Somebody You Used To Know

To be very happy is to have experience much sadness. In fact, it isn’t possible to experience true happiness unless you have a true understanding of what it means to be miserable. Knowing happiness is to only know one side of the coin; knowing sadness means gaining a new appreciation for the whole thing, entirely.

Knowing how deep of a hole it’s possible to fall into only elevates you higher when you find yourself on a mountain peak. And there is no better way to understand the highs and lows of life than to know what it means to be in love.

To understand love is to understand what it can do to you, how it can make you feel and how it permanently changes a person. Love consumes your life and inevitably is the deciding factor in living either a great or miserable life.

It isn’t possible to love without feeling the pain that must accompany it. When you think about love and what it means to love a person, you likely only consider all the good feelings, ignoring all the bad. We like to imagine love as the pinnacle of happiness — but that isn’t what love is.

Love isn’t just the good feelings we experience, but also the awful ones. It’s the entire experience; it’s both the amazing and horrible thing that makes being in love the most exciting and alive you’ll ever feel.

You neither can nor should try to avoid the sadness of love. There is always some loss associated with loving a person. You don’t want to own them, but to fuse with them, become a part of each other – and because you can never fully become one, you’ll always feel that there is a part of them that you won’t truly know.

There is always a chance of losing them, if not now then somewhere down the line. In fact, you are guaranteed to lose them sooner or later as death has a nasty habit of cutting the ropes that bind two lovers together.
If death alone is the only force that can separate the two of you then consider yourselves blessed. Sadly, life itself and the decisions we make along the way are often more than enough to mangle the love between two individuals.

The truth is that relationships sometimes die – and the love that once was goes along with them. Time changes people. People change people. The love that you once had too often fades or burns up in a blaze and the person that once meant the world to you is suddenly a stranger.

More likely than not, that person no longer even exists. You may find yourself still part of a relationship in which your partner has become a stranger.

You may have spent the last few years together only to now have to accept that the person you wake up next to every morning isn’t the person you remember once waking up next to. They changed. You changed. The lovers that once were no longer exist.

Finding out that the person you loved is no longer the person you love is an incredibly frightening realization. The two of you, though living in such close quarters, have managed to lose each other.

Now a decision needs to be made: Do you continue walking forward with this person by your side or do you make a change? Do you find a way to resuscitate that love or do you cut your losses and move on with your life?
I feel that most people find themselves in a position in which the person they once loved no longer exists.

 Even if we don’t find ourselves part of a relationship in which we lose our lover, we all look back and realize that one or several of the people we once loved – that were once a huge part of our lives and shaped the people we are now – we no longer know.

Too many people, even those we at one point deemed to be very important to us, become strangers.
The thought alone is depressing. Love has to die for it to have any value – just as we, ourselves, have to die in order to have importance. You will one day look back with tears in your eyes at the shadows of the people who made you, you.

The memories will fill your heart and then leave you with an emptiness once reality kicks back in. You will feel sad. You will feel pain, but smile: what you are experiencing once again is love.

These people may no longer be parts of your life. They may no longer even exist, but the love still does – even if in a slightly different form. Feel the pain that those memories bring and then turn the coin over.


Source: http://elitedaily.com/dating/sex/the-one-is-now-somebody-you-used-to-know/744519/

A Journey To Remember

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, 

but is played out over and over again

 in the quietest chambers. 

The mind can never break off from the journey.

Seventh Heaven

The world is a book. And those who do not travel read only one page.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. We took off around 23:00. Everyone seemed so charge even if some of them were very drained of hospital work. I missed working with them. It's been almost a year now since I left my second home. My hospital duties, giving an hourly medication to a dying patient, administering intravenous drugs, starting an intravenous lines etc.. AHHH! I missed everything! Hahaha! (~~,) #MsSenti

But then! I couldn't help my excitement and happiness, knowing that we'll gonna have a huge and exciting vacation for the next 8 hours. 

 #SurigaoCityHereWeCome

Surigao isn't an unfamiliar place for me since we used to travel with my mom and it's where the port is stationed for Visayas travelers.  But it was just a passable place and I haven't explored it yet. 

Not until today.

Surigao City is located at the northeasternmost tip of Mindanao Island in the Philippines and the capital of the province of Surigao del Norte. 

The city serves as a jump off to visitors of nearby Siargao, Dinagat and Bucas Grande Islands.

And that's where were going. 

The ride took off around 7-8 hours to the port of Hangayabon.

From here, we took a 40minute pump boat ride to the island. 

and then, CHARAN! First pit stop. 

Welcome to the Cinamon Island of Bucas Grande, Sohoton Socoro Island.

This kind of scenery will welcome you as you slowly approached the shore of Cinamon Island. This is where we stayed for 2 days and 1 night for P 2, 450.00 - (54.46$.) That includes free breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. But expect to have lots of sea foods every meal. 

With airconditioned room that starts only when you go to sleep. :D #Seriously

Electricity starts only from 6pm til 5am the next day. #TheyOnlyUseGenerators

On and Off Water flow. #SometimesYouHaveToShout #NOWATER!

On and Off Phone signal! You don't have the right to complain because duh! You are on an Island! 

#IdealForPeopleWhoWantsToBeAlone

My co-nurses enjoying the soft, pure white sand beach in Markaa Islet.

Exploring God's creation.

These 24 Bakery Fails Made Cakes Instantly Awesome.

 

SOURCE: http://9gag.com/gag/areM5vy

Fighting Chances

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. 

Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

                                                                  -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everybody deserves a second chance. When you fathom what true love is, forgiveness unfolds. 

He has hurt me so bad that came to a point of loosing myself. The feeling of betrayal and the miffed heart when you have given all your love and your best to be the best for him. That moment when you feel your heart has been stabbed a million times and even the strongest pain relievers couldn't take that pain away.

Five years on a long distance relationship has never been easy. You might think it's crazy or stupid or a lie to have a relationship with someone, you have never met for real. Only video chats and pictures are the only things that kept your relationship alive and having the hope you will be on each other's arms someday. 

But when problems and trials strike the both of you, there you can say destiny always has its way of testing this so called unbreakable bond.

I called it "the silent break up" when he started not talking to me, deactivating all the social media accounts - (on where our only place we could communicate) just two months before our sixth year anniversary. I almost got crazy that time. Always on denial and that I am just dreaming, that he is just busy or whatever. I communicated all his friends and even thought of following him there. But it seemed that the odds has never in my favor. 

Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression and Acceptance.

It took me a year to finally accept the fact that we are really over. That he chooses to stay away and cherry-picked the days/months relationship over the five years. 

But what always hurts me the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.

Two years after, August 30th on a rainy day, he sent a message and asked If I could talk to him even for just a minute. He sent me a link and  found out that the woman on the picture was the woman he had a relationship married to a different man. 

At first I thought "So what? As if I care.." 

But the long lost love you have for someone can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.

Something happened that I couldn't explain when I decided to hear the side story. But it's private so I'll just left you with the thought that he never really left. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

There's always been a special level of comfort between two matching souls. An unbreakable bond of constant support and closeness. It's when a warm embrace feels so right or when two hands fit so snugly. It's a feeling that's hard to define but easy to recognize. And when you find that comfort, you'll just know, you'll never let go. Everybody in this world is scared and sometimes, it takes two scared people to do one brave thing. To fall in love.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success  of the future. 

Being with him again is scary yet the happiest. They say love is sweeter the second time around. And this time, I believe. It will be forever. 

 

You're Somebody's Type!

the Gift of Blood is the Gift of Life

On an ancient system of medicine in which blood and other bodily fluid were regarded as "humors" that had to remain in proper balance to maintain health, it is claimed to have been the most common medical practice performed by surgeons from antiquity until the late 19th century, a span of almost 2000 years. 

So why donate blood?

Because the blood you donate gives someone another chance at life. One day that someone maybe a close relative, a friend, a loved one  - or even YOU.

Life is precious. Be a Life-Saver. Give blood.