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- I don't think the union should represent you before the bON. You can help your union representative with the links. It...1
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- I am still confused.....was the med you prepared given to the wrong pt??? if you did not tell the other nurse to do this,...1
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- I strongly suggest that you do the med-surg thing first. As well as reinforcing what you learned in school, you learn...2
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- I did med ed groups on adult psych. I didn't ever identify what drugs anyone was on. Sometimes they brought it up...3
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- Everyone who has already posted has offered good advice, but I'll just offer a couple of bullet points because it's late and...2
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- hey there, new grad! i recommend the pocket guide called "psych notes" put out by the people that put out other pocket...2
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- I live and work in the UK. A few years ago we introduced smoking bans and we have some of the same problems mentioned here....3
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- I have worked detox and rehab units and the thing to remember is that people in recovery have developed coping skills that...7
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- I agree that there are confidentiality/HIPPA issues with doing a medication education group unless it's handled in a very...2
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- I have an objection to having a GROUP for medications if it shares what each person is prescribed, since that's personal and...1
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- Im not a psych nurse but I am an ex smoker and I dont think an inpatient acute care setting is the right time for people to...1
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- In the most litigious country in the world - I'd like to see an employer force an employee to be exposed to a carcinogenic...2
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- I love the ability to just sit down and talk to my patients, going over plans, goals, hopes and dreams for their future. I...4
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- I have to say, I am very impressed with this man...taking that extra step. Again, you can throw tons of pills at the...2
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- HI It really doesn't make sense that you got turned over the BON - unless you were the supervisor, and even then thats not...2
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- i briefly mentioned this book in another thread. i read it many years ago, finding it both instructive as well as...4
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- patients often feel an antidepressant placebo affect when they 'feel' ssris work within a few days when i think it is more...2
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- I totally agree. Polypharmacy has become a problem. And.............There is NO magic pill or pills. I am a firm...2
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- I think that the practice of polypharmacy doesn't do much to help people. Sometimes prescribers forget that not everyone...3
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- the topic of aspd is always an interesting one. previously known as sociopathic pd, a predator mentality with a lack of...2
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- God bless Peter Samuelson who started off this program in California for those homeless who are without shelter. The...2
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- Your facility sounds terribly understaffed,i cannot understand why you are assigned 10 patients who are children with this...1
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- P.S. AFTER fiilng your WRITTEN complaint at your next job (presuming you like it and want to keep it), be prepared for the...3
- Forum: General Nursing Discussion
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- Dear WhoaNelly: Here's the deal: most if not ALL employers are paranoid of potential litigation. When any employee...1
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- Toxic environments offer little but provide poison to its members. If you are not in the position of power to make...6
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- self harm fits many theories: 1. To "feel" the pain that is otherwise intangible - a detachment from emotions; inability...2
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- Keep in mind that many psych nurses have no experience in medical nursing or none recently-- I was one of few with medical...2
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- I was a psych nurse for years. One of the hazards of working psych is missing something because you assume that the patient...1
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- Also dizziness, and a hx of seizures. By the time pt got halfway through the list of complaints, I was on the phone calling...6
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- Depends a lot on which sort of PRN you're talking about. The simplest way is to get the prescribing pdoc to take...3
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- It's an interesting concept. And it's already rapidly growing. Neuromodulation is already a tested technique (in rats)...2
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- I didn't read all of the replies, so this may have been said before, but I use Meditech too and at our hospital we got IT...1
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- A few things you could say (depending on the presenting problem not all will be applicable to everyone)... I'm creating a...4
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- Looks like all that can be said has been said. The OP has received many replies and hopefully can make the right decision...3
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- i'm thinking that while a nurse may work 20 miles away to escape recognition, that patrons would also likely go to...2
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