PGH70

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1. way beyond PICA!

   PGH70 replied to PGH70's topic in Psychiatric

   Dear Shamrock, PhePhe and the new girl, thanks for your quick responses. She certainly should have borderline diagnosis also. I'll check when I go back to work tomorrow. She does not self abuse, other than the ingestions, as far as I know. She i...

2. way beyond PICA!

   PGH70 posted a topic in Psychiatric

   I have been researching the Net looking for info on PICA. We have a 23 year old woman, who this weekend swallowed a pen while in the ER. She has a history of this behavior since age 15, having ingested nails, razor blades, paper clips, etc. She has h...

3. Songs that you can relate to nursing.

   PGH70 replied to tattooednursie's topic in General Nursing

   good thread... how about when we lose a patient? you know that is ONE LESS BELL to ANSWER and for us pych nurses. "Sometimes you feel like a NUT. Sometimes you are. And for all nurses We gotta get out of this place! And in memory of Johnny Payc...

4. OB/GYN folks...People who know that "area", c'mere...

   PGH70 replied to LasVegasRN's topic in General Nursing

   its 2:39 AM and I'm thinking about WHAT???? anyway, how about diflucan, or did I miss something here? yuk. good luck.

5. I handed in 5 applications....

   PGH70 replied to askater11's topic in General Nursing

   I am convinced part of the nursing shortage is poor human resource management. That office is probably understaffed just like the rest of the hospital, and I have heard of many applications, including mine, being lost. As a nurse seeking employment,...

6. Documenting visual checks

   PGH70 replied to dachweiler's topic in Psychiatric

   hello dachweiler. I too work in an adult 46 bed psych inpatient unit. the only pts who get q15 minutes checks are those on Suicide PreventionII, and those on SP I get q 10 min. the SP I pts have one to one staff with them at all times, so this is rar...

7. involuntary committments by POLICE!

   PGH70 replied to PGH70's topic in Psychiatric

   thanks for your responses. Do you feel sometimes the patient is committed unnecessarily? Our ER physicians never break the committment, our psychiatrists rarely break the committment out of fear of liability. I feel this system, although created for ...

8. involuntary committments by POLICE!

   PGH70 posted a topic in Psychiatric

   In Florida, all of the police, local or staties, have the power to commit a person, any age, for 72 hours in a mental facility. I am amazed by this. It can be a good thing, because they are in the trenches with the crazies on the street. I'm f...

9. How do YOU keep sane?

   PGH70 replied to adrienurse's topic in General Nursing

   that answer would be prozac and more prozac. it creates a feeling of tolerance and I would not survive without it. After being a nurse for oh my god thirty years, I've learned to do what I can and that's all I can do. And that brick wall between my s...

10. no lift policy

    PGH70 posted a topic in General Nursing

    My hospital is going to a NO LIFT POLICY. They bought thousands of dollars worth of fancy equipment to try to accomplish this. Does anyone out there have this policy. I'm sure we are not trendsetters. Its a good thing, but they told us if we are inj...

11. Need web site for latest restraint regs

    PGH70 replied to Aerolizing's topic in Psychiatric

    dear aerolizing, A few web sites I found, but I haven't checked them out yet. http://www.access.gpo.gov. this is the federal register, think you want to look at 64 Fed Reg 36, 070 http://www.jcaho.org/standa...

12. new restraint regs

    PGH70 replied to PGH70's topic in Psychiatric

    dear aerolizing : its 11 PM, a night off, and here we are discussing night shift on the psycho ward. I hope you have some power, your unit sounds like it needs some changes. Do you pass JACHO inspections? We have 3 levels of precautions, and yes, on...

13. new restraint regs

    PGH70 replied to PGH70's topic in Psychiatric

    dear fellow psycho nurses: thanks for responding to my concerns about restraints. Morghan, I would love to read your paper about this topic, and to learn more about the lawsuits. Dear aerolizing: I love your passion, and your enthusiasm for what is r...

14. new restraint regs

    PGH70 replied to PGH70's topic in Psychiatric

    The helmet offer is the wildest I've heard in a while. What has happened to the rights of the nurse, or the medical staff. We are so concerned about patient rights that nurse safety rights have been ignored. Can you use chemical restraint without th...

15. new restraint regs

    PGH70 posted a topic in Psychiatric

    hello from florida- we are frustrated with the regs our hospital psych unit enforces. Chemical and physical restraints, the patient must be evaluated by a doc within 1 hour. Physical restraint orders are good for 4 hours, renewable x 1. this means on...