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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. Survey: New Grad Pay

    chickapin replied to palee's topic in First Year After Licensure

    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

  4. So Happy I found this site!

    chickapin replied to Charon's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    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...

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

    chickapin replied to Dakota28's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    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...

  6. Started orienting this week!

    chickapin posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    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...

  7. Waiting on ATT letter...

    chickapin replied to Aedana's topic in First Year After Licensure

    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...

  8. No Motivation To Study For NCLEX

    chickapin replied to land64shark's topic in First Year After Licensure

    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...

  9. Tampa/W. Coast Students Roll Call!

    chickapin replied to Nashima's topic in Florida Nursing

    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...

  10. Best NICU for a new grad?

    chickapin posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    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...

  11. Best NICU for a new grad?

    chickapin replied to chickapin's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    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...

  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...

  13. "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...

  14. Clinical Sites in Tampa

    chickapin replied to MB37's topic in Florida Nursing

    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...

  15. Clinical Sites in Tampa

    chickapin replied to MB37's topic in Florida Nursing

    Hi there! Oh yeah, Match Day is just a day full of propaganda! Unless they've changed it, you'll get to sit through about 3 hours of presentations by the participating hospitals telling you how...

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

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

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  17. Tampa/W. Coast Students Roll Call!

    chickapin replied to Nashima's topic in Florida Nursing

    Hi, new USF nursing students! I just finished semester 2/3 of the accelerated program. I remember how excited I was to go to orientation and then for classes to actually start. Good luck

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

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

    Hey, what school are you at? Actually I did a little looking around and now my guess is that you're one of the accelerated USF Pinellas county students? I just finished semester 2/3 on the main...

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

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

    Totally agree with you! When I spoke to the nursing advisors at the school I was attending for my undergrad, I asked them if they weight any courses by difficulty or put more emphasis on the science...

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

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

    I really dislike how so many nursing programs only look at GPA when making admissions decisions. I was originally a biology major intending on going to either vet school or med school, and I took...

  21. Accelerated BSN and working while in school...

    chickapin posted a topic in General Students

    So I went to my orientation yesterday and learned a lot. I got assigned to my clinical site, which is the hospital I currently work at as a unit secretary. Unfortunately, they seriously recommended...

  22. Thoughts on Apple's Mac

    chickapin replied to shippoRN's topic in General Students

    This is driving me crazy! It's Mac - not MAC. It's shorthand for Macintosh, not an acronym. Anyway, I switched to Mac in 2002 after the worst experience w/ Dell computers. I do still use Windows when...

  23. See-thru white scrubs

    chickapin replied to blueberry21's topic in General Students

    Target has boycut flesh-colored seamless underwear that works pretty well under white scrub pants. They're sold out online but they have them in the stores, in 2 different fleshy shades. I hate having...

  24. Scientific calculator for Chem?

    chickapin replied to AZmom's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Before I needed a graphing calculator for physics and calculus in high school, I always used a Texas Instruments scientific calculator and loved it. You can find them at Target/Walmart/Office...

  25. Microbiology Vs. Medical Microbiology?

    chickapin replied to salsaking's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Check with your school...My school only needs the 4 credit micro for health professionals for the BSN, as did the school my friend went to, but they will accept the 5 credit class as well...I took the...