inthesky

inthesky

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About inthesky

inthesky has 1 years experience and specializes in behavioral health.


I'm a persistent independent thinker who will eventually succeed with my credences intact. I am excited to be starting my psychiatric DNP in the fall!

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  1. nursing students and behavioral health units

    You can be the nurse who is different! It is a bummer. I knew that I wanted to work psych after doing behavioral health tech work, not after nursing school rotations. I did BHT PRN for an agency. I'm not sure what is up with psych and students.
  2. Being a Team Player

    I think the ideal form of 'team player' is very important. At my work, the term "team player" is often perverted into a way to criticize and bully colleagues. I do my very best to help out and spend every single minute of my floor time for work. I...
  3. Advanced Patho stress!

    I can relate. I just finished a 5 week neuropsychopathology class. It make it worse, the professor is an absent slacker and missed the first week and other than online discussions it was pure book learning without handouts or recorded lectures. 10...
  4. I was reading this thread in amusement, deciding whether to post anything. I say far too many stupid things to ever chronicle. I tell patients to follow me around the corner (there is no corner) to my med window (it is actually a door with no windo...
  5. Advice on Choosing a Job - MUCH shorter version!

    My question for you is where do you want to end up? Which job will better suit that?
  6. I have a love/hate with 3-11. good: more sleep, later bedtime, no early morning, less stressful busy shift bad: sleep too much, go to bed too late, get nothing done =P I websurf too late as well.
  7. adverse reactions to medication handouts

    Nope, it was definitely thorazine. After the patient panicked, they THEN tried trazodone. The patient still didn't really have good results; she probably needs a sleep study. As an update, the unit manager decided that this was indeed a legal issue...
  8. Boo to that "HR" policy of having to call every few hours and not being paid for it! Thanks for putting some things in perspective. Psych is rough to skeleton crew as our 'codes' are violent patients going off. Sometimes we can make special calls ...
  9. adverse reactions to medication handouts

    hmmm mandated.. i should dig out a patient's bill of rights or something. I have my next shift tomorrow and will probably just verbally ask the doc for general med handout permission rights. If that fails, I'll just get back to the printer anyway a...
  10. It has been 1 year and 3 months since I started my first nursing job. It has been an extremely dramatic roller coaster of events and emotions. Nursing is the most love/hate entity I have ever experienced. I started psych right away. Med-surg is t...
  11. Can nurses be forced to work during pandemic

    I'm a psych nurse without med surg experience. I would want to do my civic service, but this would be awkward. Keep me away from critical care patients and IV starts and I'd probably make do with supervision. =P
  12. The ER is turning into "Swine Flu Damage Control Center"?

    it is a record 101 today, so you might be in luck =P
  13. I work on a small 15 bed behavioral heath unit at a local hospital. Even though the economy took a dump, our census has not really been affected. More and more people come in depressed with nervous breakdowns due to financial pressures, job and hom...
  14. My unit has found yet a new way to hinder nursing practice. It is procedure to give patients handouts when they receive new medications. Being med nurse, it is extremely important to me (and my job) that patients know what medications they are taki...
  15. I must be an idiot.

    You are definitely not an idiot =P Nurses get very little psych training and it's great that you are interested in learning! Everyone is different, but for my anxious patients.. *Let them vent. *go over all treatments one at a time without an air ...