Aerolizing

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1. Electric Shock Therapy

   Aerolizing replied to Mazzi's topic in Psychiatric

   Where I work, ECT is done quite often especially to those patients who have complicated medical histories who may not be good candidates for the usual antidepressants or who have had no sucess with antidepressants. The patient is NPO after mid...

2. pain control

   Aerolizing replied to zelda's topic in Geriatric

   I work in a long term facility. We call in hospice for our folks with end of life pain control issues and they do a wonderful job getting pain meds ordered. We also tend to use a lot of transdermal patches (fentanyl)sp?. They last for three days a...

3. LTC charge nurses

   Aerolizing replied to momrn50's topic in Geriatric

   I am new to ltc and man oh man, I could fill up all available space to talk of my concerns. I am getting ripped from family members every day. I am getting no support from administration when I have serious concerns for my patients from the care t...

4. Nurses vs. psych techs

   Aerolizing replied to Tumbleweed's topic in General Nursing

   I work with mental health specialists and have worked with behavioral health techs and psych assistants. The best ones have been college educated as a requirement of the position. I have worked with many CNAs who had zero psych training working as ...

5. What is professionalism?

   Aerolizing replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

   competence respecting your patient and family punctuality honesty ability to listen patient advocacy

6. I read an online article about the former

   Aerolizing replied to prn nurse's topic in Psychiatric

   I have worked with a few post partum psychotic women. With each and everyone of them, we had family meetings. In those family meetings we could not stress enough that the patient was never to be alone with the baby. There was always to be a family...

7. any tips or ideas welcome

   Aerolizing replied to Mkue's topic in General Students

   For some of my tougher classes, I would read the whole chapter into my little tape recorder and then play it at all available chances like in the car on the way to and from school, when I went to bed, I played it until I fell asleep. I also got rea...

8. Relative drug costs--eye opener!

   Aerolizing replied to aimeee's topic in Hospice

   We had a young nurse who came to our hospital to request that her spinal cord be severed. (That is how she ended up on the psych unit.) She knew that meant paralysis and life in a wheelchair. She had pain that was not controlled by multiple surger...

9. specialized "Deaf/Hard of Hearing" acute care unit

   Aerolizing replied to greg in mass's topic in Psychiatric

   Not in Cleveland. We have plenty of people who sign so communication is not really a problem. We have even had a deaf, mute, and blind patient. So if you specialize, do deaf people ever "hear" voices or do they just have obsessive bad thought...

10. Need web site for latest restraint regs

    Aerolizing replied to Aerolizing's topic in Psychiatric

    Hi PattyJo, I have some distant relatives in Lone Pine and one of my second or third cousins was going to be a psych nurse. Been there a few times and everyone there knows everyone else. Pretty neat. Anyway.. In my experience as a nurse...

11. Need web site for latest restraint regs

    Aerolizing replied to Aerolizing's topic in Psychiatric

    Hey PattyJo, Do you have people in Lone Pine????

12. nurse externships

    Aerolizing replied to Brown Suga's topic in General Students

    Hi Brown Suga, I was a nurse tech, not sure if that is the same thing as an extern but probably close. I was based on an ortho floor and got to have my elective floor (since no one in their right mind would ever want psych) sometimes. I...

13. dilema

    Aerolizing replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

    As for the breaking of sterile technique, I would simply say, ooops, you touched this or that. Then I would offer to open up or go get sterile supplies if I was there doing the assisting. As far as iv sticks, some patients are so hard, even th...

14. new nurse blues

    Aerolizing replied to neokabuki's topic in General Nursing

    I had been hired as a new grad on my first unit with 6 weeks of orientation. After that, I still had my preceptor. She still worked with me and was my resource person whenever I had any questions. Everyone on my unit reported my every move to my p...

15. Cleveland Clinic destroys wages

    Aerolizing replied to mopsi's topic in Activism

    I think one of the reasons that fav nurses did not cave in was that they pay their nurses approx $10.00 less per hour than the other area agencies. Passing on the savings to the CCF. To lower that by another 35% as requested would have made t...