misssarahRN

misssarahRN

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About misssarahRN

misssarahRN specializes in psych.


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  1. Is it OK to dance with a client?

    A stalking victim never sees it coming. Not that being a psych patient makes you stalker material, but stalkers most always are (or need to be) psych patients. We've had several stalking cases at my hospital perpetrated by both patients and staff. My...
  2. I'm about 10 weeks pregnant with my 1st. This hasn't been what I believe people call "an easy pregnancy". I am seriously considering quitting or something, because my current job( but it may just be working as an RN) and being pregnant don't seem to ...
  3. Staffing Levels in Psych

    Wow, all of these facilities are generously staffed! On our most acute unit shares it's night staff the subactue/step down unit( and everyone else depending on the volume of admissions). If the combined census of the acute unit and the step down unit...
  4. Any entreprenurial nurses out there?

    I am a psych nurse, but lately I have been thinking about starting inhome headlice removal business. I am not especially passionate about it, but I have been the lucky nurse chosen to treat and comb several patients during a recent outbreak. I stumb...
  5. Did anyone consider becoming a psychologist first?

    I've actually been thinking about this a lot lately because, yeah I did. Nurisng was totally out of the question, because my mom had give me considerable pressure( she was an LPN and i was 18) and I frankly just thought it was gross. When I was about...
  6. Violence in Psychiatric Nursing

    While I have not been personally assualted, I have/had many coworkers that have been. We have a detox unit, adult acute unit, adolecent unit and a step-down (from the acute unit and/or SI and depresion).The only limitations to admission are level 2 a...
  7. Future of PSI, Inc and UHS?

    I work at a facility in the NW that was PSI and I was hoping the merger would bring more job openings, but I'm not feeling especially optimistic. If my facility is an indicator, it looks like they are trying to cut costs even more. There have been nu...
  8. Mike, pt abandonment, defined by my state doesn't occur until after you've accepted the assignment (receiving report and allowing the other nurse to leave) and THEN you walk off the job. Also poor nurse to pt ratios by defacto results in pt abandonme...
  9. I am am in my third quarter of my registered nursing program. I know the stress is ridiculous, but I am growing concerned that I may have a mental illness displaying itself. i don't have insurance and don't really have the time to be formally checked...
  10. HElp peer evals due and my group sucks

    I just turned the evaluations in this afternoon and grading them wasn't as bad as I thought. Of the three members in the group, two actually completed all of their work on the care plan. The care plan was still incomplete but I gave the two contribut...
  11. HElp peer evals due and my group sucks

    well our instructor said that charge nurse feed back was 80% of our grade. With two CN evals turned for each student. So individual input is worth 20% our grade and we need 85% to pass. The lab is now over and I am the last CN to turn in nurse evalua...
  12. This forum is sooo awsome! I've got a problem only student nurses can really appreciate. I'm in the 3rd quarter of and ADN program and we have lab that's run like a med-surg floor with us playing the various roles of LPN/LVN, RN and Charge Nurse. Aft...
  13. To my clinical group: You guys suck! I always step up and help you guys study. I let you borrow my textbook when you forgot yours. I do the most work on our care plans or group projects. I offer help with difficult patients. I encourage and support ...