rhapsodyRN

rhapsodyRN has 1 years experience.

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1. Any current "happy nurses" in HH?

   rhapsodyRN posted a topic in Home Health

   I've been reading through the board and I'm finding a lot of negative comments lately about HH. I have also read through the stickies and it sounds like a lot of you do really enjoy your job? I know paperwork is a big negative, but what else is drivi...

2. Home Health and Having Babies

   rhapsodyRN posted a topic in Home Health

   Hello all, I'll start off with a question. How many of you had babies/very small children while working home care and do you feel you were better off doing it that way as opposed to working bedside? I'm considering a change from bedside to home healt...

3. Help! Struggling to maintain happiness on the night shift

   rhapsodyRN replied to amalbon's topic in New Nurse

   I loved nights for a few reasons. Not as many docs milling around, patients sleeping for the most part, having a little more time with the ones that couldn't sleep, not having to deal with meals, 80 family members, etc. The nurses that I worked with ...

4. 72 hour per pay period RN contracts....popular?

   rhapsodyRN replied to lab211's topic in General Nursing

   It's usually 72 hours because you work 3 12 hour shifts per week, and that adds up to 72 hours in 2 weeks. I still get overtime if I am asked to work an extra shift that puts me beyond 80. Or a lot of nurses just pick up 8 hours on our floor or anoth...

5. hemorrhagic cva

   rhapsodyRN replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in General Nursing

   I agree with Nightcrawler, you are seeing this from the ICU perspective. I work on the floor and I can't put a foley in someone because they "might" decompensate. If they are incontinent, our first move is to put an Attends on them anyway, not stick ...

6. Do you think a general neuroscience unit is a good place for a new grad RN to start??

   rhapsodyRN replied to AJ BSN 2008's topic in Neuro

   Yes yes!! I love my neuro unit. We're neuro/med-surg/progressive and I really like it. I was terrified at first because I felt like I was in a nursing home..LOL..but now I really enjoy my job. There are days, trust me, but you will get tons of great ...

7. Why does everyone groan when I say I'm going to take a neurosciences position?

   rhapsodyRN replied to GoECU's topic in General Nursing

   RNPerDiem - Neuro ICU and a neurosciences unit are not necessarily the same. We do have tragic situations but we don't have the hugely depressing factor like the ICU. I don't think I'd ever want to work ICU. Neuro stepdowns are much more rewarding. ...

8. Why does everyone groan when I say I'm going to take a neurosciences position?

   rhapsodyRN replied to GoECU's topic in General Nursing

   sonny is partly right. I work on a neuro unit and if your hospital doesn't have an "official" psych unit, neuro is where those people will end up 9 out of 10 times. However, you'll also get lots of experience with back and neck surgeries, seizures, s...

9. Do I Love Nursing? What Day Is It?

   rhapsodyRN replied to Purple_Scrubs's topic in General Nursing

   This is so true..yesterday I had a hectic day and thought I was going to end my 3-in-a-row on a bad note. But at 6:30, when I went to say goodbye to my patients that will most likely be discharged before I come back on Tuesday, one of them and their ...

10. How far do you drive?

    rhapsodyRN replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    I drive 55 miles (takes about an hour from my door to the shuttle lot). But when I work I stay with family so it's not that bad. I'm trying to unload my house so I can just move where my job is.

11. Anyone have any experience with Absence Seizures?

    rhapsodyRN replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    I had a few absence seizures when I was younger. I grew out of it by the time I was in my teens. My neurologist at the time just told us to watch it and of course bring me in if anything severe happened. But usually I'd just sit there like you descri...

12. Does it ever get old?

    rhapsodyRN posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    We just finished our OB rotation Friday. I finally got to see a vaginal birth. I saw a c-section but even though it was amazing, it didn't hold a candle to watching the vaginal delivery. I didn't even hardly know these people and I was in tears. And ...

13. Worried that I'm to much of an airhead.....

    rhapsodyRN replied to luvmy3kids's topic in General Nursing

    OMG..I can't tell you how many times I've done this. And not just in clinicals at the hospital. I do it anywhere! I'll be telling a story and then all of a sudden I'm trying to figure out why I was telling it and where I'm going with it. Or I just fo...

14. Celexa issues?

    rhapsodyRN replied to rhapsodyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to everyone for relating their stories. Thanks Blu..I should have said that too...I'm definitely not seeking medical advice, just wanted to know I wasn't alone in the weird side effects. :) The sluggish and tired feeling is what I have today.....

15. Do I have to let them know about panic attacks?

    rhapsodyRN replied to RNOTODAY's topic in General Nursing

    It will probably depend on your employer's policy. I am not a nurse yet but where I work if you're off more than three days you need a doctor's note to say why and when you'll be coming back approximately. Just so people aren't using their sick leave...