Tonnabelle-SN

Took the NCLEX-PN yesterday in Mobile, Al at 1300. Little over an hour and exactly 85 questions later and I was done....I stumbled on the PVT last night while furiously googling everything I could about the exam and tried it and got the good pop up. Now I'm checking the ABON every 1.3734 minutes to see if it updated with my license. My test was almost 100% STAT. I maybe had 15 just multiple choice, 2 math, 2 pharm, and that was it. Due to the positive information about the PVT, I have faith that I passed the test, and I'll be updating as soon as I know for sure. :)

Providence is certainly a nice hospital (both my OB and my Neuro) are there, and they're wonderful. People are always smiling and seemingly in a good mood, which would indicate internal happiness with the facility. Being that you're moving to P'cola (Just moved from there), do not discount Baptist Hospital. I worked there for 3 years there, first as a CNA on the cardiac floor, then telemetry when my pregnant belly wouldn't let me bend over or squat anymore, and I finished as the UC for ICU. Not a lot of floating required, and it's pretty cool when the Helio takes off and lands. AS A CNA, I started out at $11 an hour for previous military medic experience, and was given a raise three times, with a final pay of 15.55 an hour base pay. Both hospitals are top notch, and on top of the game. I wish you the best of luck.

I wanted to post on this (my first post!!!) subject. While I am a nursing student and starting my OB rotation next week, I wanted to add something regarding the birth of my first son. He was born in a military hospital, NAS Pensacola, to be exact, and while the experience itself wasn't the best it could have been (imagine a 46 hour labor with induction methods of cervidil, cytotec, pitocin, manual dilation with the use of a Foley cath, and finally AROM when I was 42 weeks. Too many student doctors, student nurses, (most military hospitals are training hospitals) grouchy RN's and rude housekeepers....but my shining light...or my shining KNIGHT if you will, was the male RN that was my full time nurse during the day. Randy was his name, and he was awesome. He knew what I needed well before I did, and he took care of me through every grueling bit of my labor and subsequent emergency C-section at hour 48. For the first hour or so I was uncomfortable with the thought of having a male nurse, but he put me at ease instantly. He chatted with me and learned a bit about me personally, NOT me and the baby, and it made a huge difference. Believe it or not, he was also pro-breastfeeding and was well equipped (well.....) to work with Donovan and I with our latch issues and by the time we left his care, the baby was a champ at BFing. So to those of you do enjoyed OB and want to make a career of it, go for it. He was so much better than the "Female RN" I had at night and when he was off duty. I had Randy from Friday when I went in until Sunday, then he came back to me on Wednesday. On this day, we were joined by another male OB nurse, Greg, and between those two.....I don't think I'd have ANY pleasant memories of the birth. I'm sorry some of you didn't get the experience you wanted out of OB, and I hope you have a chance later down the road to get into it some. Male nurses DO belong in OB, and they're darned good at it. -T