guitarguy2

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1. New Psych RN Here!

   guitarguy2 replied to normj's topic in Psychiatric

   I hope you like your psych position. A theme I hear from med-surge nurses turned to psych is 'wow, people in psych are actually nice to work with'.

2. Your nursing school's grading policy

   guitarguy2 replied to edcampbe's topic in General Nursing

   The grading scale for me in 2004 was this: 94-100 = A 92-3 = B+ 84-91 = B 82-3 = C+ 74-81 = C Below a C was failing. I think nursing school grading scales are garbage. If their trying to prove that nursing school is harder, then actually it makes sen...

3. Neglect...LPN was fired, RN was not

   guitarguy2 replied to KacyLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

   It seems the problem started with the assignment of 12-14 patients, one of which being the GI bleeder. That's waaayyyy too heavy of a load. I'd have to know what the LPN was doing during that time...if they could show they were tied up with a code, ...

4. As a psych nurse, what non-psych nursing skills do you wish you were stronger in?

   guitarguy2 replied to Thunderwolf's topic in Psychiatric

   I would like to know more about diabetes, and also various neurovascular problems, such as stroke, head trauma, etc. Those problems seem to have a lot of overlapping symptoms with psych disorders, so training in how to differentiate between these pro...

5. Stigma against Psych.

   guitarguy2 replied to Keely-FutureRN's topic in Psychiatric

   I'm a psych nurse as well, and I love it. I wouldn't do med-surg for anything. My advice is to not worry about what others say, and definitely don't defend why you are interested in psych - you don't owe an explanation to anyone but yourself when it ...

6. Considering - Navy Nurse Candidate Program

   guitarguy2 replied to fry.girl's topic in Government

   Hi, I am also interested in doing signing up with the Naval Reserves as a psychiatric nurse (RN). I've heard that deployment for them is mainly in Germany. I wonder if this is true, and if so, how frequent is it happening?