TerpGal02 ASN

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About TerpGal02

TerpGal02 has 12 years experience as a ASN and specializes in Psych.


RN with 10 years of Behavioral Health experience across the lifespan in both inpatient and community sertings

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  1. TerpGal02

    No chlorhexidine scrubbing at home anymore?

    I'm not an OB nurse but had a planned c section for placenta previa in May at one of the busiest L&D units in the area. I did not do a chlorhexadine scrub at home prior to surgery. I was told to take a shower with my regular soap but scrub my b...
  2. No I've not seen routine accuchecks for Pts on atypicals unless of course they are diabetic. Usually what I have seen in tje settings I have worked in is that the prescribers will get an A1C on initiation and then regularly thereafter. I have seen ...
  3. I am an INFJ. Psych so far has been a pretty good fit [discounting the trauma I suffered after being assaulted my a pt in his home). The job requires a lot of supportive listening, therapeutic support, motivational interviewing, psycho ed which are...
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    Visually impaired nurses

    I was diagnosed with Stargardt Disease a year ago at age 37. It affects my central vision and is a progressive genetic condition. I have 20/80 corrected in the right eye and 20/60 in the left. So far I can still drive and practice safely with adap...
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    Not so sure about psych anymore

    Thanks all! Yes, I have been in therapy for this incident and am now going through EMDR. This individual basically has to come to the office as we will no longer see him in his home if 2 people can't go. He has a long history of violence when into...
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    Holding voluntary patients - illegally?

    Really I think it boils down to what the law is in your state regarding psych admissions. I don't know of any state, although I am sure they are out there which says voluntary psych patients can just AMA whenever they want. In my state, patients ar...
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    Trans Patient

    One facility Inworked in had all private rooms so problem solved there. Another facility had double rooms and the policy was that trans patients got a private room. The unit eventually moved to all private rooms so again, problem solved. That tran...
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    Not so sure about psych anymore

    I have been working in psych for 6 1/2 years now, my entire nursing career. I knew I wanted to work in psych my first day of psych clinical in nursing school. I have seen it all as far as psych goes. Children, adolescents, adults, geri patients, p...
  9. I would review psychotropic meds, their indications for child/adolescent patients. I would also review your therapeutic communication techniques. I would also suggest that you take another look at your Human Growth and Development and your Erikson's...
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    Imminent danger

    I would agree that alternate methods should be tried first just like previous posters have said. If the docs are on the floor, I would let them make the call but the psychiatrists IMO spend on about an hour or 2 on the unit seeing pts then they bugg...
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    Nursing with vision loss/low vision

    It's good to "meet" someone else with Stargardts. No one else in my family has it. I am 37 now, did not start noticing something was wrong until I was 36. No one else in my "real life" has Stargardts either. Being a rare disease, it's hard to con...
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    IM Injections

    You're talking long acting injections right? I work on an ACT Team and I give lots of long acting IM's. Usually when I'm in a clients home I will casually ask them where we did the injection last time (and I do look it up before I get there) then ...
  13. Hi all! I have been an RN working in mental health nursing for 6 years now. I currently work in a community based mental health agency on a mobile treatment team. In April, I was diagnosed with Stargardt Disease which for all intents and purposes ...
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    Psych NPs and COPD/CHF/CKD/etc clinics

    We have this at the agency I work for. We habe the outpatienf mental jealth clinic and our agency has partnered with another agency that pdovides primary care so that they have a clinic in the same building. They do this at 2 of our locations. Its...
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    Physical demands?

    If you work on inpatient child/adolescent, things can get quite physical. You will find, especially with kids under 12 that they are in the hospital for behavior problems/aggression along with ADHD. Pediatric patienfs simply do not have the impulse...