MentalRN74

MentalRN74 has 13 years experience and specializes in Psych- child, adolescent, adult, and CD.

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1. Joint commission requesting to see diploma

   MentalRN74 replied to akinaRN's topic in Professionalism

   From the CDC CLIA Regulations:Sec. 493.1423 Standard; Testing personnel qualifications. Each individual performing moderate complexity testing must-- (a) Possess a current license issued by the State in which the laboratory is locat...

2. Joint commission requesting to see diploma

   MentalRN74 replied to akinaRN's topic in Professionalism

   Everyone in our hospital who provides patient care recently had to do this. Even the PCT's. Anyone who might check a blood sugar or collect a urine sample, or do anything concerning lab had to do it. It had something to do with CLIA standards. Either...

3. Pay, benefits, etc @ UHS facilities

   MentalRN74 replied to TheNurseIsIn's topic in Psychiatric

   Good luck is all I can say. I spent 7 years working for a UHS facility and the quality of the workplace went down year after year. Best of luck to you.

4. Future of PSI, Inc and UHS?

   MentalRN74 replied to rayfocker's topic in Psychiatric

   A friend who just gave her 2 week notice at the UHS facility that I used to work at talked to me last week about the staffing. On day shift they are running a unit with 23 acute patients with 1 RN, 1 LPN (med nurse), and 1 tech--insane! Census has to...

5. Future of PSI, Inc and UHS?

   MentalRN74 replied to rayfocker's topic in Psychiatric

   I was a UHS employee for 7 years, with about 3 years of that being in management. Sadly, I wouldn't expect any of your hopes to come to fruition. Sure, they will be discussed. Even planned on a committee, but never followed through on. Google them an...

6. Future of PSI, Inc and UHS?

   MentalRN74 replied to rayfocker's topic in Psychiatric

   As a former UHS employee, all I can say is Good Luck to you guys.

7. Need help with charting...

   MentalRN74 replied to skyla1978's topic in Psychiatric

   I often add something about: -whether they make eye contact -what their appearance is like (neat or disheveled) -that even though they deny any hallucinations they seem to be responding to internal stimuli AEB talking to and laughing at unseen ind...

8. Violence in Psychiatric Nursing

   MentalRN74 replied to Mashira's topic in Psychiatric

   Good luck with your nursing career! I also went straight from graduating to working in child/adolescent psych--on night shift (and was promoted to house supervisor within 6 months). I used my down time to read the charts to learn more about things I ...

9. Adolescent psych and a NEW RN????

   MentalRN74 replied to tj_Medic_RN's topic in Psychiatric

   Hi Tammy! I too went to work at a child/adolescent psych facility directly out of nursing school. I ended up going to work at the hospital where I did my psych clinical rotation. I just knew during my clinicals that psych was where I wanted to be. In...

10. Psych Medications

    MentalRN74 replied to Toothbrushx2's topic in Psychiatric

    Yes, antipsychotics such as Abilify, Risperdal, Geodon, Risperdal, etc are known to cause increased triglycerides. At our hospital, we run a lipid panel on all admits who are on any antipsychotic, or anyone who is started on one to determine a baseli...

11. 3 hot's and a cot

    MentalRN74 replied to Billikin's topic in Psychiatric

    What bothers me are the admissions we get from detention who know that if they say they are suicidal, they will get to come to the hospital and any days they spend there will count as "time served" on their sentence. This takes beds away from people ...

12. Do you know of any short stay Children's Units?

    MentalRN74 replied to Meraki's topic in Psychiatric

    Bridgeway Hospital in North Little Rock, AR