chicookie BSN, RN

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    Took my NCLEX-RN this AM

    chicookie replied to Pixiesmom's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    YAY!
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    working in jacksonville

    chicookie replied to britgirl's topic in Florida Nursing

    You can pm me your resume, I can look over and make adjustments as needed. I just helped hire a coworker, and I was the one looking through the resumes so I have a bit of insight as to what people...
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    How to tell your mom it may be time to stop chemo?

    chicookie replied to cowspotzchic's topic in General Nursing

    *hugs* I am so sorry you have to go through with this. traumaRUS gave you wonderful advice and the only one I can offer/stress is to be honest. Beating around the bush isn't going to solve anything....
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    working in jacksonville

    chicookie replied to britgirl's topic in Florida Nursing

    I think its more because of her specialty. She is a NICU/L&D nurse, and at least at Baptist someone has to die before there is an opening in that
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    Is lack of attention to "The primary purpose" killing the medical field?

    chicookie replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    Let's see, the hospital where I work has 2 gifts shops, 2 coffee shops, and monthly sales of something or another. Sometimes its jewelry, sometimes its electronics, sometimes its movies/books, oh and...
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    Nurse burnout/Moral distress/Compassion fatigue

    chicookie replied to Lee238's topic in General Nursing

    If there is one thing that my parents have taught me is that life is too short to be miserable. I would leave that job ASAP. Its not going to be easy but you can do it! You would be amazed at what a...
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    St John's Regional Medical Center Joplin Missouri

    chicookie replied to crb613's topic in General Nursing

    My prayers are with you and your family along with everyone else in that area. Stay safe! And I am glad that at least your family was
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    Staff Meetings: What Are They Good For?

    chicookie replied to steelydanfan's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Staff meetings: what are they good for? Making me come in on my day off -_________- Actually what my old manager used to do is have different departments come in and do an in service. I learned about...
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    New Student Advice

    chicookie replied to johnsonny2fl's topic in General Students

    Class-wise yes. I think really the stress and the desire to be the best was what really brought me down. You just have to take it easy and not stress too
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    New Student Advice

    chicookie replied to johnsonny2fl's topic in General Students

    Pharmacology kicked my butt. I stressed way too much about it and failed. After that first semester, it was so easy. I just really freaked out and let my fears control me and I froze. I didn't go out...
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    Magnet status? Hospitals choosing BSN new grads. Important!!!! over ADN??

    chicookie replied to mirc88sl's topic in General Nursing

    This is my thinking on that. When I was picking between a BSN program and an ADN program this is how the difference was described to me. The ADN program is more hands on and the focus is more tasks....
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    Magnet status? Hospitals choosing BSN new grads. Important!!!! over ADN??

    chicookie replied to mirc88sl's topic in General Nursing

    The hospital where I work is a Magnet hospital, and they are no longer hiring ADN. I do know that in order for a hospital to maintain its Magnet status it has to have a certain percentage of nurses...
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    Would you take a pay cut?

    chicookie replied to nicu4me's topic in General Nursing

    I took a 2 dollar pay cut to have this nice office patient advocate job. Totally worth it. I work 7 to 3:30, M-F. No weekends or holidays unless I want to. I am sometimes on call, I only deal with a...
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    Either she goes, or I go...

    chicookie replied to BroomQueen's topic in Florida Nursing

    I 100% agree with this. When I worked at the library we had the same problem. All the pages finally got feed up with it and just stopped talking to her unless we needed to. After a couple of weeks,...
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    working in jacksonville

    chicookie replied to britgirl's topic in Florida Nursing

    I am glad to hear that you got a job! A good one at that. Congrats (I think its been a year.....) I haven't been on in a while and I have no decent
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    RN jobs with high amount of patient/family teaching

    chicookie replied to Junebug0710's topic in General Nursing

    Bloodless Medicine. All I do is teaching, even though jobs like mine are super rare.
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    Staffing levels on Telemetry Units

    chicookie replied to missangelkitty's topic in General Nursing

    1:6 day shift with an aide. And for nights its usually 1:
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    Do you ever....

    chicookie replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

    All the time! Actually last month I was out with my friends and a new person I didn't know. I just so happened to glance down to his hand, and without even thinking I said "Did you know that you have...
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    What are the major issues you have struggled with as a nurse?

    chicookie replied to Nurse Mentor Nancy's topic in General Nursing

    Being too "young" to be a nurse. I'm going to completely honest with this one: racism. Not from staff from patients. For me it was super hard not hurting that one patient that told me instead of a...
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    Giving kids botox vs. refusing lifesaving medical treatment...

    chicookie replied to Despareux's topic in General Nursing

    "But then you have parents who refuse their children lifesaving medical treatment, and they will absolutely die without it--definitely harmful from a medical perspective; yet, their parental rights...
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    Getting Sick at Work

    chicookie replied to meaganellise's topic in General Nursing

    Yup! I had pericarditis last year. horrible, horrible experience. I was 22 at the time and thought I was going to die. For a little while I thought my manager thought I was
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    L&D versus Surgical floor.

    chicookie replied to DeLovely's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with tablefor9 completely. That being said if I were in your shoes right at this moment I would take L&D with my eyes closed. Why? A) because that has always been my dream. B) in this job...
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    Should we curtail the growth of nursing programs?

    chicookie replied to MikeyBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I have to agree. Where I live is a decent sized city yet we have 3 universities that have nursing programs PLUS from my knowledge I think we have 3 other schools that also have RN programs. Way too...
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    To apply or not to apply. That is the question.

    chicookie replied to chicookie's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Sure no problem. Frontier School is completely online and after reading about it I really like it http://www.frontierschool.edu/admissions/admissions-criteria/msn-admissions-criteria And Seattle...
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    To apply or not to apply. That is the question.

    chicookie posted a topic in Post Graduate Students

    So I finished my BSN last year and am looking to apply to a Masters' Program. I have always wanted to be in Labor and Delivery and the goal is to be a Midwife. Now that I am looking at programs, I...