hiphopRN

hiphopRN has 3+ years experience and specializes in Psychiatric Nursing.

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1. Patient Population?

   hiphopRN replied to smoup's topic in Psychiatric

   I work with adults (18+) of all diagnoses. However, our unit ends up getting a much higher percentage of psychotic and trauma patients than other diagnoses. When I first went into psych I wanted to be far away from psychotic disorders, now I can't ge...

2. No visiting hours?

   hiphopRN replied to NursesRmofun's topic in General Nursing

   Our psych hospital has extremely limited visiting hours. 7p-8p M-F, 2p-4p Sa-Su and holidays. In certain cases we allow additional visits outside of visiting hours, but only in special cases. We also only allow outside food during the visit, we canno...

3. Charge Nurse Pay

   hiphopRN replied to JeffTheRN's topic in Management

   I get $1/hr since I'm a designated Charge, but when people fill in and in the year I did it before getting "promoted" I got nada.

4. Did You Go Into Nursing For One Specialty?

   hiphopRN replied to Satori77's topic in General Nursing

   When I started nursing school with my psych degree, I was obviously interested in heading that way. But I was also not naive to the job market. I applied to my current employer but did not get a call or interview. So I looked elsewhere. I worked med/...

5. Giving versus taking...lol

   hiphopRN replied to Brian's topic in Rock

   I've been told several times that I give pain-free injections...and I've had looooots of practice. And recently with doing blood draws at the clinic I've been volunteering at, I've been told they barely feel it when I stick them. I must have a way wi...

6. Do you think your work place should support healthy eating?

   hiphopRN replied to Brian's topic in Rock

   We have our vending machines with chips, cookies, sodas and juice. I don't think I could do without them. We just got new kitchen staff which changed up our menu to more healthy options. I like having the options, but they close at 6pm. So if I'm run...

7. What's your go to outfit after work?

   hiphopRN replied to nurse_jess's topic in General Nursing

   Recently I'm working 16 hour days multiple times a week, so after work I shower then go to sleep. On my "usual" days I either stay in my scrubs until bed, or change into sweatpants and a hoodie. With my normal 3-11 schedule I'm usually up til like 3a...

8. Nursing Salary Survey 2014

   hiphopRN replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

   Geographic location: Baltimore, MD Area Pay rate: $26.05 base +$3 for evenings +$1 for Charge = $30.05/hr In which area / specialty do you work? Psychiatric What type of license do you have (RN or LPN)? RN since 2011 What type of degree and/or certif...

9. To lock or not to lock the rooms

   hiphopRN replied to natalissa's topic in Psychiatric

   For us we can only lock doors if it was part of their treatment plan. The most common instances we use this for are med paneled patients that have been seen cheeking or spitting out medications. We lock their doors after they receive medications for ...

10. What's your Myers-Briggs personality type?

    hiphopRN replied to bekahinpink's topic in General Nursing

    Back in the day I was always an INFP, now I have slowly changed over to an ISFJ. ISFJ - psych

11. B52 cocktail

    hiphopRN replied to zzyzx's topic in General Nursing

    We've done 10-2-50 before but not 10-4-50. That sounds wonderful.

12. What's in your pockets?

    hiphopRN replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

    If I have cargo pants on like I usually do then its: Right upper pocket: Unit Cell phone, at least 1 pen, unit keys Right lower pocket: More pens (I usually have between 2 and 4 with me all the time) Left upper pocket: meds while I walk back from the...

13. B52 cocktail

    hiphopRN replied to zzyzx's topic in General Nursing

    I do think Geodon is pretty effective, we usually do Geodon and Ativan though. We hate when the docs order Zyprexa IM most of the time because for the majority of our patients it doesn't ever phase them. I also tend to like the B52 better for emergen...

14. is it nurse's week?

    hiphopRN replied to NurseCard's topic in General Nursing

    So far we've never gotten gifts, but there are food events planned each day this week. They do a raffle as well so some people win things but the rest of us just get free food. Oh, and we usually get a potted plant/flower too. We have a new clinical ...

15. padded isolation

    hiphopRN replied to 302prince's topic in Psychiatric

    My coworkers and I have talked about this recently and are requesting one for our new facility. If not for every unit at least for ours. We get the more aggressive patients, the self injurious patients, and the screamers so it would work well for us....