PsychRN98

PsychRN98 ASN

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About PsychRN98

PsychRN98 has 26 years experience as a ASN and specializes in Psych.


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  1. Thoughts on Nurse Nav job for Psych?

    Thanks for your input @oldmahubbard. I am actually surprised by that no-show rate! Not sure how long the wait was at your practice, but I do wonder if the no-show rate was partially because those folks ended up needing a higher LOC after having to wa...
  2. Hi Guys! It has been quite some time since I have been on, but I am looking for suggestions/advice/thoughts about a new job. I was hired at a peds practice for a grant-funded position as a BH Nurse Navigator and I start next month. This is a brand n...
  3. Nurse Concierge - any experiences?

    OP, check out a company called Accolade, Inc. Essentially, they are nurse concierges, but apparently a lot more too! The RN position is titled Clinical Health Assistant.
  4. Haldol and Ativan cocktail IV

    Haldol and Ativan IV? Never gave it that route in either the freestanding emergency psych facility I worked at for 8 years or the hospital-based psych unit and psych ER I worked at for a year. We always used IM meds, and usually they were effective. ...
  5. psych tech to psych nurse?

    This is actually very common. Many of the psych techs I have worked with have went on to become psych nurses, and of course get jobs right away b/c they are known to the facility already. Absolutely a smart move. You will get to see so much and learn...
  6. question about IM emergency meds from new psych RN

    Yes, America has quite the nasty psych history as well, so I believe what you are saying completely. One of the reasons I went into psych nursing was because I saw how horribly people with psychiatric illness have been treated, and unfortunately sti...
  7. question about IM emergency meds from new psych RN

    @manchmal All very good questions to be asking ahead of time, as in the moment it can be very high-adrenaline. Know that the first few times you might shake a little and be nervous about giving a shot with 10 people standing around. I always hate whe...
  8. question about IM emergency meds from new psych RN

    That's so interesting @irishpsychintern that you have to, by law, ask a pt. 3x to take something po. I'm sure that gets old in a code situation.
  9. Am I Nursey Enough For You?

    This post made me chuckle. I have been a psych nurse for the past 12 years, low on the nursiness scale. And to make matters worse I am now back in school for healthcare IT and hopefully eventually informatics. WOW..way off of the nursiness scale. I d...
  10. the himss board of directors approved this position statement describing how to transform nursing practice through technology and informatics nurses are key leaders in developing the infrastructure for effective and efficient health information techn...
  11. Community College? You must be stupid.

    I actually went to a private 4 yr college right after high school b/c my family wanted me to be a doctor. Well, that lasted about a year. I came home, went to CC, and became a nurse. Now I'm going back to school again, choosing CC again (for many re...
  12. New ED psych unit, need advice

    Oh, and this unit also did not allow any personal devices of any kind. Pts. are admitted from the ER in hospital clothing to the psych ER and any visitors onto the unit had to pass through a metal detector. All cell phones, mp3 players, etc had to be...
  13. New ED psych unit, need advice

    These things are sometimes trial and error unfortunately, and a lot of times it seems to be because "it hasn't been done before". And then it takes some negative event for change to come around. I was lucky enough to work for a hospital that opened u...
  14. Want to get into NI as soon as I can!

    Canchaser, I am going back to school in August for my HIM bachelor's, starting with a coding cert, with my ultimate goal to get into informatics down the line. Anyway, would you mind if I PM'd you about your coding experience and your thoughts on tha...
  15. This is kind of funny. I have been a nurse since 1998 and I am looking to get out of bedside care. I had been researching for many months what the options might be for someone like me. I think ultimately I want to go into informatics, but one needs c...