There's an indie documentary making rounds called the "Waiting Room." It chronicles the daily occurrences in the ED in a public hospital in Oakland, CA. Worth a watch. You can go to their website and watch clips. There is also a facebook page. Wort...
koi310 replied to nateprentice's topic in Psychiatric
Hi Nate: 1. IMO, psychiatric nursing with a BSN is mostly about millieu, passing meds, therapeutic communication, the occasional takedown, suicide/razor precautions, etc. You are also responsible for nursing care such as IV therapy (you see it in...
Well, the experts predict this impending "job shortage" by 2020, so you'll have to wait almost a decade. Regardless of Obamacare, the healthcare industry is contracting and trying to save money any way it can, including cutting nursing and UAP staff...
What interests you the most: taking care of a person's physiological or their emotional/psychological/social needs? Nurses focus on the former; SWs/counselors on the latter. Your general psychiatric nurse is not trained in psychotherapy. (S)he is...
There is a backlog of new grad BSNs from UHM and HPU dating from 2009 at least. Most of the ward clerks, aides, and techs are new grad BSNs. Most hires for new grads are internal. Hope that helps.
Looking at the number of banner ads for nursing programs on this site, you'd never guess there *wasn't* a nursing shortage lol. But seriously, even people in healthcare thought healthcare was "rescession-proof" until when...?
Telemedicine will probably require nurses with experience and those nurses will probably have a high caseload. These jobs will probably be outsourced outright or nearsourced to states with comparatively low wages and no unions.
I forgot to add: you might want to look at rehabilitation-oriented jobs like PT/OT/speech or audiology. If you're looking at a 2-year vocational program, then PTA/OTA /EMT.