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  1. 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?...

  2. 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...

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

    rhapsodyRN replied to amalbon's topic in First Year After Licensure

    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...

  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...

  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...

  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 Intensive Care, ICU

    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...

  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...

  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...

  9. 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

  10. 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 lady partsl birth. I saw a c-section but even though it was amazing, it didn't hold a candle to watching the lady partsl delivery. I...

  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...

  12. 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...

  13. Celexa issues?

    rhapsodyRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Anyone here ever taken Celexa? I started on Friday and I'm noticing that I feel a bit disconnected from myself right now. I'm not anxious at all, which is good because that was my problem, but I feel...

  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...

  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...

  16. Help with giving injections

    rhapsodyRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Okay, I really do think I know what I did wrong, but I still need someone to tell me that all nursing students make mistakes. :) I won't go into specifics, but I'll just generalize in that when I hold...

  17. It just isn't fair

    rhapsodyRN replied to tigress_8207's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire i'm so infuriated by this statement that all i'm going to say so that i don't get banned is: please lose that attitude quickly, and well before you get...

  18. will somone enlighten me?

    rhapsodyRN replied to sweetface18's topic in General Nursing

    Pumpkin...you have the best screen name I've ever seen. I used to call my son that when he was a baby. :) I saw your name and almost spit coffee over my monitor I was laughing so hard! :) To the OP, I...

  19. Math Help? What is the correct answer.

    rhapsodyRN replied to shady_angelz's topic in General Nursing

    Or not. :) Maybe they're considering the 50mg/kg to be each dose? In which case you'd end up with 3000 total and 1500 for each

  20. Math Help? What is the correct answer.

    rhapsodyRN replied to shady_angelz's topic in General Nursing

    Divide 66 pounds by 2.2 to get kilograms. In this case, the body weight would be 30 kg. If the dose is 50mg/kg, then you will multiply 30 by 50 to get 1500 mg. Now, since the dose is twice daily...

  21. Going to nursing school soon, should I keep my job?

    rhapsodyRN replied to rhp123's topic in General Students

    thrashej, I have a program similar to this one. We had to have our careplans done by the Friday after clinicals, and we had clinicals on Wednesday. Last semester we had clinicals two days a week every...

  22. ? for nursing students

    rhapsodyRN replied to ibmaryann's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hmm...lots more work on dosage calcs. I still have to review before each semester. Also, I wish I would have bought some of the NCLEX type books before classes started so I could really do well on...

  23. The Frustrated Learner Thread aka "I HATE studying MORE THAN ___!" All rants welcome!

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

    I hate studying more than the feeling of a small bug crawling down my leg while watching a horror movie in the dark basement. :) And I really hate it right now because we only have 26 days off between...

  24. Too Old?

    rhapsodyRN posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    On the other side of the coin, how old were most of you when you became NPs? I am 30 right now, will be 32 when I get my RN, and then a school in my state offers an RN-MSN program. I'd be about 36 by...

  25. What other shcools are represented?

    rhapsodyRN replied to L&Dwant2b's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Lansing CC here. Hi AnnaN5! I hope you get in too!! I'm jealous of you UofM people..that's where I want to go..but I'm going to get my ADN and then commute to A2 and do the RN-MSN program there to get...