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  1. How many shifts & hrs worked every 2 weeks do you work?

    Piki replied to Gottago's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I work 24 hours per week, 3 eight hour shifts weekly, every other weekend,

  2. question on getting a job as a new grad

    Piki replied to EDnurse2009's topic in General Nursing

    You can give an approximate date but you are correct, you have to graduate first to schedule an NCLEX appt. We filled out some sort of application prior to graduation (our school director explained...

  3. Do hospitals hire NEW NURSE GRADS?

    Piki replied to nursngstudent05's topic in General Nursing

    I'll second MirandaRN's post. I just graduated in June of 07 and had a job offer in January, months before graduation. I had already researched which hospital I was most interested in, and over the...

  4. Is being a post-op nurse the same as being a med/surg nurse?

    Piki replied to Godswill's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with the others. I just took my first job out of school this summer on a post-op unit. It is VERY busy! We are also a tele unit, so we get pts on the monitor as well. We get alot of ED...

  5. Personality Type and Nursing

    Piki replied to Mesomorph's topic in General Nursing

    I'm an

  6. ONLy 4th Week in and Getting Compliments!!!!

    Piki replied to shonte19's topic in First Year After Licensure

    That is great. Congrats!! I'm just a week or two ahead of you orientation wise. I have been with different preceptors. I felt really great 2 weekends ago when the night nurse (I worked 3-11:30, was...

  7. How to give report.

    Piki replied to Salesman217's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I feel I'm getting better at doing report but I still feel like a boob at times. lol We tape our report but sometimes have to give person to person report (I like that better, as they can ask...

  8. Have You Had Your Gall Bladder Out?

    Piki replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    I had mine out 2 mos ago (ironically during the week of my new hire GN orientation). I sat in the restraints class with the worst pain of my life, had been ignoring it for mos thinking it was just...

  9. "Don't waste your time getting your BSN..."

    Piki replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Are you kidding me? :uhoh21: First of all, I am proud to say I am a Diploma grad from 2007 from a hospital based school of nursing. They are actually very popular (and common) up in this area of...

  10. How soon did it took you to find a job?

    Piki replied to azabache21's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Ditto, definitely. Where I work, only GNs were eligible for the sign on

  11. How soon did it took you to find a job?

    Piki replied to azabache21's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I had a job offer 5 months prior to graduation. I applied online over Christmas break at the hospital I wanted to work at (they had indicated they were taking in apps for graduate nurses and...

  12. I took the Kaplan course and FAILED the NCLEX

    Piki replied to NurseLumpia's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Sorry to hear your news. I just passed boards last month. I didn't take the Kaplan class; however we were advised by our school to get several different sources to study from. The ones I found the...

  13. Whites or Colored scrubs?

    Piki replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm still a newbie nurse, but our hosp has a dress code, unless you are in the ICU, CCU or ED, Rn's wear all whites. It doesn't bother me, I'm just excited I don't have to wear my ugly student...

  14. Did you work as a CNA before RN?

    Piki replied to doglover1's topic in General Nursing

    Yup, I was a CNA (briefly). We lived in WI when I first applied to the ADN nursing program at the State technical college system, and no matter what track you were in - say surg tech, or ADN, or LPN...

  15. ages:)

    Piki replied to iluvmynavyman's topic in General Nursing

    1) what is the adverage age of a new nurse ?? No clue but I'm betting around age 30. 2)what made you want to become a nurse ? Second (well really 3rd!) career for me, have an undergrad in...

  16. Pat on the back..

    Piki replied to maximaxi's topic in First Year After Licensure

    :balloons: Good for you!

  17. Nursing school question

    Piki replied to toonces73's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Having had both children and nursing school, this is a toughie. Personally I found nursing school much much harder than my undergrad degree or the master's I got way back when I was a working...

  18. Getting ready to start...feel STUPID!

    Piki replied to cherokeesummer's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Very common! I was much in the same boat as you - graduated in June, didn't start on the floor until early August (not counting the week of orientation and week of med-surg review class they paid for...

  19. The first day....alone

    Piki replied to KckStrt's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Good luck Steve! I will be in your shoes in a few more months. I'm already scared. It's good to hear Music say you're never really alone. That's comforting to

  20. NCLEX-Feeling like I failed

    Piki replied to NewNurse16's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Congratulations!!! To Gauge, the nursing student, you can pass/fail at any # of questions. True, to fail at a low number of questions you would have to miss most of them. But I know of one person...

  21. NCLEX-Feeling like I failed

    Piki replied to NewNurse16's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Well, have you found out yet if you passed? I hope it was good news. I had to wait 48 hours and they were the longest 48 hours of my life... I passed at 75

  22. What should orientation be like?

    Piki replied to jam2007's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Gosh, 3 weeks on a cardiac rehab floor doesn't sound like near enough! Yikes, I'd be nervous. I'm on a med-surg (post-surgical unit) and our orientation is 3 months. So far I will have had 3 weeks...

  23. OMG! First day as a nurse!

    Piki replied to Celtfire's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Congratulations!! I am much in the same boat as you, just graduated nursing school in June and this is a 2nd career for me as well. Just relax, be yourself and like lovelylpn said, ask questions....

  24. Just finished first week of orientation

    Piki replied to sleepyjane's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Don't feel bad.... I am only just starting my 3rd week of orientation and felt the same exact way my first week. First it had been several months since I had been on my last rotation of clinicals...

  25. Does your salary increase after passing boards?

    Piki replied to NurseEmily22's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Not at my hospital. I was hired at 19.82 and right when I started, there was a hospital wide raise, so my pay went up to 20.32. No pay difference for GNs vs newly hired RNs. But GNs can do...