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  1. Graduate Psych Education (Survey)

    When you look at your barriers to grad school, what are you thinking would help? That would be helpful to know as we update our programs. Thanks.
  2. anyone out there waiting for their NCLEX-RN results?

    If you wait a few days and check your state's Board of Nursing website, you can look up your nursing license. If it says "active" it means you passed! The Boards of Nursing get the results weeks before the test-takers do. I did this and it resulted i...
  3. Setting Limits W/ Pts on Medical Floor Who Also Have Psych Concerns?

    I agree in that "difficult" patients on a medical floor require a case conference and a "united front" (a term we use in psych) from all the staff involved in the patient's care. Sometimes the nurses do a great job and then the MD happens to get mani...
  4. Psychiatric Patient's triaged through ER?

    At my hospital, almost all psych patients are triaged through the ER. Keep in mind that a psychiatric emergency is as important as a medical emergency -- without treatment, a psychiatric patient could be injured or die without intervention. I spent s...
  5. Graduate Psych Education (Survey)

    What's holding you back from getting an advanced practice degree in psychiatric nursing? I am a research assistant at Catholic University of America School of Nursing. We are conducting research assessing the barriers to pursuing graduate education ...
  6. The notion of doing a year of med-surg before psych is a fallacy to get more nurses to work in med-surg, where the crux of the shortage exists. In reality, your med-surg experiences from school will still put you years ahead of the nurses who have be...
  7. New To Psych

    Psych nursing is a great career choice! The most important thing is to remember empathy and respect. Read some works by Peplau and Grayce Sills on milieu management and interpersonal theory. Learn everything you can. Take the interpersonal skills you...
  8. I need your advice ASAP

    My advice? Quit that job ASAP! It would be impossible to safely care for patients -- which is heart of psychiatric nursing (and any type of nursing, for that matter). There are better hospitals out there and better psych nursing positions. I work on ...
  9. Detoxing a patient

    I work on an acute psych & detox unit-- of my daily patient load of 4-7 patients, at least half are detoxing from alcohol, opiates, or benzos. The biggest thing to keep in mind is that addicts/alcoholics have a legitimate illness that is beyond t...