WorkingnPajamas replied to WorkingnPajamas's topic in Geriatric
Yes, a nice gentle "safe hold" into the reflection room until she has calmed and we know she is not a threat to herself or others---oh, and lets hand over that jewelry, sister, you might go for your carotid with that little silver wire. And no ativan...
WorkingnPajamas replied to kittylover's topic in General Nursing
Yes, I have one like that too. Miserable soul. Little does she know how we laugh at her. My DON is wonderful and people will scoop dookey out of the hopper and juggle it if she asks them; the Psyche director is another story....funny how, when people...
WorkingnPajamas replied to Navy Nurse's topic in General Nursing
I dropped from 23/hr to 21.50/hr in long term psyche...but an easy 50 grand a year (did I just say easy???? Oh..thats like forgetting the pain after having just given birth....) 50 grand for all the laughs you could get, decubiti you could irrigate, ...
WorkingnPajamas replied to WorkingnPajamas's topic in Geriatric
Maybe DSS with casanthranol-----a little something to put the motility into second or third gear......and what? no toilet paper in the bathroom? Ohhhh I HATE when that happens. My manager thought her med regime should include inderal and depakote. Bu...
WorkingnPajamas replied to WorkingnPajamas's topic in Geriatric
And......as luck would have it.....last night the phone rang and it was a nurse recruiter!! yah! She knew I was looking for a psych position at a larger learning hospital about a half hour away....I am sending her my resume this week. You know, it ne...
WorkingnPajamas replied to FutureRNMichael's topic in Psychiatric
ahhhhh lets see. You left out all the good laughs that you get in the midst of this because you cant read the discharge orders, there is no bed ready for the patient, the housekeeper is busy flirting with the mental health worker, your co-worker just...
Well, wont this be fun. Our psych director (Phd) is a controlling tyrant. Not that I mind, but she is now getting inthe way of Nurses providing proper care. Sectioning people after baiting them to "go off", doing her darnest to get the Nurse (moi) to...
WorkingnPajamas replied to scdon's topic in Geriatric
Aye yeeee! I found that the best way to keep the MDS coordinator/data entry Nurse from strangling me was to bake her cookies and slide faked Telephone Order slips (signed by the Doctor, naturally) under her door. Then she would graciously approach me...