rhapsodyRN

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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...

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...

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 like my head and my body aren't together right now...

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.....

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...

I've given a lot of thought to this. I'm 30 years old and I desperately want to start my family soon. Like before school is over. My SO and I only want one child as he already has a daughter and I really don't want more than one at this point. I'm no...

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 a syringe to give a shot, I tend to hold it like ...

Yeah, I've pretty much decided it's probably not the best thing. I think we'll start TRYING towards the end of my last semester but not before the end of that March or so. That way even if I got pregnant right away, it would be due well after I've gr...

: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 into nursing school.

Hah..we're smurfs too! Blue scrubs, white shoes. :) I call us the "smurf brigade" when we walk down for our lunch break during clinicals.

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 agree with previous posters about the moolah. I m...

If your program is anything like mine, yes. And those books will follow you until you're done with the program. I only had to buy three more books this semester and that's it for the rest of the program, unless I decide to buy any of the recommended ...

Well... I took Anatomy, Micro, Psyc, and a Humanities class in Spring of '05, because I wasn't waiting one more year for nursing school. I got a 4.0 in everything but Micro, which I only missed the 4.0 by about .2 percent. :) I also work full time. ...

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 dose?