chickapin

chickapin specializes in OB.

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1. Visiting hours?

   chickapin replied to chickapin's topic in General Nursing

   Notice how I did mention that it depends on the patient's condition? Of course I have no problem kicking people out if I think it benefits my patient and I have no problem sending people home if they're being too loud, have too many people in the roo...

2. Visiting hours?

   chickapin posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm a new RN on an OB floor - postpartum and antepartum. All the postpartum patients are in private rooms. AP usually is private unless we are full then we will start to double them up. Our visiting hours last til 8PM...some people are strict enforce...

3. Survey: New Grad Pay

   chickapin replied to palee's topic in New Nurse

   I started at the end of January at $22 as a new grad. Got my first raise (promoted to RN-1) and now I am at $24.64.

4. So Happy I found this site!

   chickapin replied to Charon's topic in NCLEX

   lol. i am like 26 hours post-nclex right now (75 questions) and i too find myself staring at "your exam results are not available at this time." over and over again, all day long, i go back to the pearson site!! eventually i will go and they'll be av...

5. 75 ?'s going through my mind, nonstop

   chickapin replied to Dakota28's topic in NCLEX

   OMG now I understand how it feels!! I took it this morning and it stopped at 75. I was hoping it would but still it's awful when it finally does stop. When I was at 74 my heart started pounding. I swear my HR increased at least 20 BPM! I only had 1 c...

6. Started orienting this week!

   chickapin posted a topic in New Nurse

   Hi guys! I started orienting as a GN on my unit on Monday. :w00t:I had been a unit secretary for almost 3 years on a busy postpartum/antepartum unit. When I started my BSN program I was almost positive I wanted to do peds, most likely NICU. Then in s...

7. Waiting on ATT letter...

   chickapin replied to Aedana's topic in New Nurse

   I got my ATT on Monday so I'm signed up for the NCLEX on the 28th. I was very lucky to get that appointment, I think someone rescheduled theirs as I was looking at the times. I don't have my eligibility letter yet that says I can work as a GN though....

8. No Motivation To Study For NCLEX

   chickapin replied to land64shark's topic in New Nurse

   I'm taking it the 28th, and I've not started studying yet either. I feel like my school prepared me well. I got 99.99% on all but 2 of my HESI's (and the other 2 were 92% and 96%). My school made us do the Kaplan online program in order to graduate s...

9. Tampa/W. Coast Students Roll Call!

   chickapin replied to Nashima's topic in Florida

   Hey. I remember rushing to try and get the stuff done before orientation but it really wasn't necessary. A lot of people hadn't even started getting their stuff done by the time orientation came around. You can always call and double-check but I thin...

10. Best NICU for a new grad?

    chickapin replied to chickapin's topic in NICU

    Thanks...yeah you're pretty much telling me what I was thinking. Sigh...well I'm going to call the recruiter at one of the other hospitals I've not applied to yet. Everything I've heard says they won't hire new grads into the units, but it can't hurt...

11. Best NICU for a new grad?

    chickapin posted a topic in NICU

    Hi there. I'm graduating with my BSN in December and I've really been leaning towards the NICU for quite a while, though I'm also starting to get curious about PICU. Anyway, I'm lucky in that I live in a metropolitan area with several different hospi...

12. "It shouldn't be that hard to be a nurse"

    chickapin replied to SharonH, RN's topic in General Nursing

    We did Med/Surg I & II this spring, so thankfully, I'm done! I really enjoyed most of it though and I'm very glad we took both at the same time because I think it made the med/surg HESI much easier with all the info being fresh. Plus I felt like ...

13. Did anyone here not hate nursing school?

    chickapin replied to summersent's topic in General Students

    I love it! I love my ABSN program at my school and I've got great teachers and I've made great friends and have had awesome clinical experiences. Sure, I'm tired a lot during the semester because I don't always get enough sleep, but that's really my ...

14. "It shouldn't be that hard to be a nurse"

    chickapin replied to SharonH, RN's topic in General Nursing

    :angryfire I really don't feel like many people have actually read the whole article. So many people are just making these quick judgments on this girl over one comment she made. Where does it say she expects to "breeze through it"? The article isn't...

15. Clinical Sites in Tampa

    chickapin replied to MB37's topic in Florida

    Yeah that's how it went for us too. We were all together and any mention of the accelerated students was an afterthought, or else we had to try and get the info out of them. We did our orientation and matching on the same day, but you had orientation...