teece3

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1. Psych Travel Nurses

   teece3 replied to Psychonurse34's topic in Psychiatric

   I just accepted a position in North Carolina with a travel agency. I start in early January. I've been a psych nurse for 18 years and can't imagine doing anything else. I took a HUGE pay cut when the psych hospital I was working at closed and I ne...

2. working three 12's

   teece3 replied to jacey's topic in Psychiatric

   In my experience with child and adolescent psych units (I worked one for about 6 years), 7pm to about 10pm will be very busy getting evening meds doled out and getting the kids settled down to sleep. After that it's extremely quiet, barring a few ad...

3. Advice for first travel assignment?

   teece3 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Travel

   Thanks for the advice. I'm also starting my first travel job next month. I'm looking forward to it but it's a little scary. I love to travel and I figure I've tolerated my last "real" job for 13 years, 13 weeks should be a cake walk! Anything els...

4. BuSpar, Xanax, or other Alternatives For Anxiety?

   teece3 replied to RN-PA's topic in General Nursing

   I agree with much of the what has been written previously. I would avoid benzos at all costs not only because they are addictive but because they can "impair" you. And no one needs to worry about being impaired when they're trying to deal with anxi...

5. Care Plan Hell

   teece3 replied to kimtab's topic in General Students

   Wow! I've been out of school for 18 years and write care plans every time I complete an admission and then have to evaluate them to see if the patient is progressing. It's been this way as long as I've been a nurse. Wish I didn't have to write the...

6. Sent home from Clinical

   teece3 replied to JuicyJem's topic in General Nursing

   Another thing...you said it was a clinical...isn't there a staff nurse on the floor also assigned to care for the same patients? That's how we did it when I was in school and that's how we do it now. The students have to report off to the staff nur...

7. What field of nursing would you NEVER consider working?

   teece3 replied to PMHNP10's topic in General Nursing

   If you had asked me this 20 years ago when I finished nursing school I would have said PSYCH! I hated every minute of my clinicals and it seemed like no one ever got better--of course I was only there a few hours/day for a couple of weeks and we cha...

8. Introductions

   teece3 replied to Brian's topic in Nebraska

   Gee, there must not be very many nurses in Nebraska. Only one post. I'm a nurse in Nebraska...Omaha, right now. Anybody else out there?

9. Psychiatric Patients in ER

   teece3 replied to Dolphin777's topic in Emergency

   The involuntary measures the mentally ill homeless have had to endure come more from the de-institutionalization mandated by the federal government that occurred in the 1960's and 1970's. These mentally ill persons were released from long-term psych...

10. Psychiatric Patients in ER

    teece3 replied to Dolphin777's topic in Emergency

    Sometimes alternatives aren't used. At the hospital where I work, after a particularly difficult and aggressive "psych" (and I use the term loosely here) patient was admitted to a M/S unit, the next psych patient (one with a long psych hx and a mart...

11. Ever feel like a hotel porter ?

    teece3 replied to chad75's topic in Psychiatric

    I've been a psych nurse for a long time and that's been one of my biggest gripes. I don't have any trouble with treating people well but a little discomfort (not torture or anything quite that dramatic ) goes a long way to getting them out the door ...

12. Nurses Storyline on "ER"??

    teece3 replied to -jt's topic in General Nursing

    I was stunned to see something like that on ER. I agree there have been some "over the top" episodes but this took the cake. I've been a nurse for a fair amount of time and have experience working with agitated, psychotic, aggressive patients and I...