Piper12

Piper12 has 25 years experience and specializes in Psychiatric.

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1. Going to accept position, wish me luck!

   Piper12 replied to Little Panda RN's topic in Psychiatric

   I think you will be surprised how much you know about psych from working in the medical world. Watch the other nurses that pts want to talk to, check out the nurses style of communicating. If he or she is good you can copy some of their methods unt...

2. Do you know of any short stay Children's Units?

   Piper12 replied to Meraki's topic in Psychiatric

   Two Rivers Psych Hospital in Kansas City Missouri

3. What is it like working in psych?

   Piper12 replied to CNAinNeb's topic in Psychiatric

   Regarding the chances of physical harm. I work in a state hospital where we used to put pts in restraints "to prevent harm to self or others". This occurred at least weekly. I will tell you that in the last 2.5 years we have not used restraints. ...

4. What is it like working in psych?

   Piper12 replied to CNAinNeb's topic in Psychiatric

   I am a psych RN of 25 years and it is my passion. The secret to learning the trade is to genuinely care about your patients, realizing there is a fine line between those that are diagnosed with a mental illness and those of us who are not. It may b...

5. How do you inventory pt valuables?

   Piper12 posted a topic in Psychiatric

   :uhoh3:Please share how you inventory pt valuables at the time of admission. I need a method that can be utilized from adm TO dc....so when a pt needs a valuable during their hospitalization, it is accurately recorded as removed and again recorded w...

6. What should I do?

   Piper12 replied to Frecklestoo's topic in Connecticut

   The great nurses that I worked with over the years were the nurses who knew on a very deep level that being a nurse is truely who they are. You sound very definite. It can be very difficult to get into nursing programs....I agree that you should ...

7. Need to know if this happens at your facitlity?

   Piper12 replied to hdhnurse's topic in General Nursing

   In the last 25 years this has happened several times to me! It is so frustrating. Several years ago, I was "pulled" to a child and adolescent psych unit. A few minutes after going to the unit, I quietly called my husband and told him to call the u...