ScarlettRN

ScarlettRN has 10 years experience and specializes in Med-Surg, Tele, ER, Psych.

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1. Psychiatric Travel Nursing??

   ScarlettRN replied to MiaLyse's topic in Psychiatric

   Let me tell you about 2 of the facilities in NC. The one in Butner, Central Regional, is in so much trouble all the time, can't get accreditation and seems to attract scandal. The one in Raleigh, Dorothea Dix has their act together, but you only get ...

2. Hello Psych Nurses & Future Psych Nurses, Please Read

   ScarlettRN replied to little_miss_hulk's topic in Psychiatric

   I strongly suggest that you do the med-surg thing first. As well as reinforcing what you learned in school, you learn something that is invaluable to a nurse in any setting. ORGANIZATION skills. All of the things you listed about med-surg basically ...

3. Agencies that do lots of contracts in NC (RTP area)

   ScarlettRN replied to Noxi's topic in Travel

   If you are an experienced psych nurse, then I can recommend Dorothea Dix, the crisis stabilization unit is very organized and well staffed, most of the time. I just can't recommend WWTS to you. I am very pleased with Supplemental. Your recruiter can ...

4. Agencies that do lots of contracts in NC (RTP area)

   ScarlettRN replied to Noxi's topic in Travel

   WWTS treated me very bad. So I am not going to recommend them to anyone.

5. Agencies that do lots of contracts in NC (RTP area)

   ScarlettRN replied to Noxi's topic in Travel

   The state of NC is hiring travellers like crazy if you are willing to work psych. They have a medical unit if you don't want to be on the front lines on a ward. Supplemental is the only company that is working folks in psych, I believe.

6. Psychiatric Travel Nursing??

   ScarlettRN replied to MiaLyse's topic in Psychiatric

   I am currently in the NC State run system. Boy are they screwed up here. I am trying to decide whether to extend. I hear stories from regular employees here and they all seem to think that the facility is not capable of (or willing to) supporting th...

7. Psych Travel Nursing

   ScarlettRN replied to Psychonurse34's topic in Travel

   I just took a position at the new Central Regional in Butner, NC. It has been with some misgivings that I took it after reading stuff on the internet about the state of psych treatment in NC. You all aren't making me excited to be going!

8. How many patients per RN/LPN?

   ScarlettRN replied to medsurgrnco's topic in Psychiatric

   Wow. I thought my place was bad. I think we have it sweet here! I work for a state psych hospital on one of the 2 adult acute wards. We can have up to 40 patients but usually our census hovers at 23-25. We are staffed according to patient observation...

9. Psychiatric Nursing Differences?!

   ScarlettRN replied to medsurgrnco's topic in Psychiatric

   I have no idea why a psych assessment would have lungs/abd sounds. When our patients are admitted, they are seen by an NP, who does the head to toe assessment. We still do narrative charting in my dinosaur of a hospital, and unless there is a medical...

10. What ONE change would you make to increase nurse retention where you work?

    ScarlettRN replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Making everyone work weekends, that being Fri, Sat, and Sun, would be nice. Then fix it so we don't have to work every other, but maybe every third weekend, or even once a month. I have been to too many hospitals that give some folks really sweet sch...

11. How do you know that you want to choose to become an RN over a PA?

    ScarlettRN replied to nursestudentx's topic in General Nursing

    PAs would compare closer to a Nurse Practicianer than to a Registered Nurse with a BSN or ADN. Scope of practice for them is normally the doctor's office, but I have worked in EDs where both PAs and NPs are considered "physician extenders" and see pa...

12. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    ScarlettRN replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    According to the report filed by the guardian who was appointed by Gov Jeb Bush back in 02 or 03, Terri and her husband were trying to have a baby, and that doesn't sound like estrangement to me.

13. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    ScarlettRN replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    Tweety, because this is now a circus in the worst possible way, and because so many question the veracity of her dx, I guess it would be a way of presenting current information to the world. Maybe because I have a deep-seated desire to please everyon...

14. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    ScarlettRN replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    I can't go thru all these posts, so I need to ask, has it been mentioned yet that an MRI is out of the question with a stimulator in her brain? I don't know how feasible it is to remove the thing, either. If I were King Solomon (Just call me Queen Sc...

15. Anyone else hear about doing away with DNR to AND?

    ScarlettRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I had a talk with one of the case managers, QC/QA/QI (whatever) person and she told me that the next thing will be to do away with the term DNR and start calling it AND, Allow Natural Death. The rationale is that families as well as patients react ne...