faithful11

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1. 28wkr mother posting pics/links and saying THANKS

   faithful11 replied to StephieRN2Be's topic in NICU

   Hi guys! No, not finished yet. Started back to school but between working full time and life's little dramas, I took a hiatus. I aim to go back this fall. Still working in mental health though, which adds to the stress! LOL.:chuckle

2. 28wkr mother posting pics/links and saying THANKS

   faithful11 replied to StephieRN2Be's topic in NICU

   Update on my son again--I LOST MY SIGN IN INFO FROM YEARS AGO, BUT FOUND MY THREAD...this is still stephie! :redbeathe Khalil is now 6 yrs old, in the 2nd grade and is still healthy and happy. Up to this point, from his discharge date til now, he has...

3. Med passing

   faithful11 replied to mcs1505's topic in Student Assist

   If it comes up again, and it relates to YOU---let the RN know what you are ALLOWED to do. I think your friend messed up by not standing up for herself, as well as for placing unknown medications within reach of a child. Nothing bad happened as a resu...

4. New RN program in So Cal!?!

   faithful11 replied to Skysail's topic in California

   Hi! It's funny that I was browing the board of RNs right now, and noticed A NEW SCHOOL...LOL, always searching. Looks like you ladies found it a bit ago and researched it very nicely. I requested info from them, and will call them monday as well. I w...

5. Got Beat Up Badly In Face By Patient

   faithful11 replied to Aviationurse's topic in Psychiatric

   I agree..as far as I am aware, at my state facility, if you are unable to EVADE or GET AWAY...and the state approved techniques ARE NOT WORKING or your LIFE IS IN CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER--then we are reasonably allowed to use reasonable force. Anyho...

6. Got Beat Up Badly In Face By Patient

   faithful11 replied to Aviationurse's topic in Psychiatric

   Micky--I am not sure if I even read correctly as far as ANY consequences occurring. My bad, as well. In addition to the incident report, there at our facility there would have been notification made to the Department of Corrections watch commander, H...

7. Got Beat Up Badly In Face By Patient

   faithful11 replied to Aviationurse's topic in Psychiatric

   Thank you. That's the point I was trying to get across and you also hit on another important aspect which has not been mentioned. People have to think of the proper way (not just ethics here, but the legal aspects as well) to treat and handle patie...

8. Im curious about the 1:1 vigilance

   faithful11 replied to BoogiePop's topic in Psychiatric

   Where I work, any level of care that has been trained to monitor 1:1 observation is assigned to do so. Licensed, NonLicensed, PreLicensed etc. The distance depends on the individual patient. Arms length, 6 feet, line of sight etc...are all distance s...

9. Need info...are you wearing scrubs, other uniform or street clothes on your psy unit?

   faithful11 replied to lkinsworthy's topic in Psychiatric

   I work at the state forensic psych facility---we (level of care nursing staff) wear street clothes, jeans (no shorts) and/or scrubs. We are not permitted to wear khaki anything, as the inmates/patients wear khaki and dark brown. At my sister's prison...

10. Got Beat Up Badly In Face By Patient

    faithful11 replied to Aviationurse's topic in Psychiatric

    In the eyes of Patients' Rights, and along the guidelines of CRIPPA...one must be able to substantiate the decision made to PREVENT, DIMINSH or INTERRUPT a behavior which is dangerous to self or others. So, keeping that in mind ---if patient A has ju...

11. Got Beat Up Badly In Face By Patient

    faithful11 replied to Aviationurse's topic in Psychiatric

    I work at our State Psych Facility in CA. If a patient is CALM or has returned to baseline bx post assault, then you cannot place them in phsyical restraints. The reason is obvious---restraints are used as a PROTECTIVE OR PREVENTIVE measure, NOT for ...

12. Circumcision

    faithful11 replied to RN mom of 2's topic in NICU

    That is what happened when we had our son---LOL, after his 6-8wks in NICU, we were so elated to get him home, LOL we didn't even THINK about circumcision until AFTER. It just skipped our minds. I think his grandmother is the one who noticed.

13. California Frustrates Me

    faithful11 replied to needleklutz's topic in Online Learning

    ---you mean as in certified nurse's assistant? they can challenge something relating to being an rn? here in california?

14. Communication with Parents

    faithful11 replied to Loralai's topic in NICU

    Both my kids are NICU graduates, from different hospitals and 3 1/2 yrs apart. That being said---both NICU experiences went well. The RNs WOULD actually call to let us know how the babies were doing at least once in a 24hr period, and BOTH of my kids...

15. "Did you report her?"

    faithful11 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Someone asked me this in another thread---and I think I explained pretty well what happened. There ARE staff who run to management with EVERY LITTLE THING. "so and so went to lunch at 1131 and it is now 1239 and she isn't back yet!" and who came to w...