little black cat

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1. Seclusion brainstorm help

   little black cat replied to Jules A's topic in Psychiatric

   Those techs work under YOUR supervision, your nursing judgment, and your license. I say this as someone who has worked both as a tech and presently as an R.N. Seclusion of a particular resident is not...

2. How does a psych career affect the psych nurses?

   little black cat replied to malusport's topic in Psychiatric

   I need to have a life outside of work, and leave work at work. When I was a mental health worker, we would staff the groups. We used to joke that we benefited from the therapy,

3. childrens unit good place to start psych nursing?

   little black cat replied to vkunurse94's topic in Psychiatric

   Oh, and the R.N.s do the face-to-face after seclusions &

4. childrens unit good place to start psych nursing?

   little black cat replied to vkunurse94's topic in Psychiatric

   With the exception of one adult unit, which is subdivided into geropsych and short term inpatient, we are strictly an adolescent facility. There are two male sex offender units. These are the kids...

5. Graduation Day

   little black cat replied to MistiroseRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Our pinning ceremony was two days ago. It was the most wonderful thing to see our instructors lined up and watching us walk in. I was crying, too. It was the proudest, most perfect day of my life. And...

6. Do CNA's Make better RN's? HELP!!

   little black cat replied to jdarcy's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

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7. Do CNA's Make better RN's? HELP!!

   little black cat replied to jdarcy's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

   And it gives me more confidence as a jittery, timid student nurse at clinical when I find out that the big, bad, intimidating nurse I have to work with has only been in healthcare half the time I've...

8. What mantra is getting you through nursing school?

   little black cat replied to MySimplePlan's topic in General Students

   It's something a drill instructor told us in Navy bootcamp, and it is now my mantra: "You can do this. I did this, and I figured I wasn't any dumber'n anybody

9. You know you are in nursing school when ctxt

   little black cat replied to tnstudentnurse's topic in General Students

   You don't really do anything to your hair but yank it back into a ponytail or twist it up into a claw, and you don't remember the last time you went to the salon (but it was sometime last school...