Callisonanne

Callisonanne specializes in Psych.

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1. Least Favorite Things Patients Say

   Callisonanne replied to remotefuse's topic in Relations

   "You can't make me take my medicine." - from a psychotic patient on med against will protocol

2. Do you feel safe at work?

   Callisonanne replied to Nurse4babies's topic in General Nursing

   Our hospital police are sworn officers and carry weapons. I work in psych so they cannot bring a weapon into our section unless there is an active shooter. I feel very safe. Metal detectors don't even help as we had a stabbing at our hospital (on the...

3. Bad Weather--Hospitals could care less about your safety

   Callisonanne replied to Jory's topic in General Nursing

   I forgot to add. My hospital also provided childcare for staff who needed to bring children.

4. Bad Weather--Hospitals could care less about your safety

   Callisonanne replied to Jory's topic in General Nursing

   It really depends on what hospital you work at and what the normal weather is. I worked at a hospital on the coast of NC that had a horrible winter storm. We had all signed up to be on the pre-storm, during storm, and post storm teams. I was on the d...

5. Best MD note

   Callisonanne replied to beckster_01's topic in Humor

   One of our psychiatrists would use the dictation program but never proof read. Naturally it would often pick words that he said a lot even if they didn't make sense. A patient brought in a home medication that was non formulary. The doctor went to wr...

6. ECT

   Callisonanne replied to edie1's topic in Psychiatric

   I would also encourage you to talk to your local ECT provider and see if they would allow you to follow a patient through the treatment. When you get to see it you will say "oh....that's all it is."

7. ECT

   Callisonanne replied to edie1's topic in Psychiatric

   As a psychiatric nurse I can say this - if I was ever in a place where I needed help I would take ECT in a heartbeat. The improvement I have seen in patients, sometimes almost overnight, is amazing. I have seen patients to the point of near starvatio...

8. I'm bipolar, can I be a psychiatric nurse?

   Callisonanne replied to Frybot's topic in Psychiatric

   Ditto what was said above. I am a psychatric nurse. I also happen to have some severe anxiety problems. I think the key is to not use yourself as an example in your practice. I know that I have a good understanding of anxiety but I make sure to not m...

9. new grad with a psych degree, but no experience

   Callisonanne replied to heynow1313's topic in Psychiatric

   I was a brand new grad and got hired to work in a psychiatric hospital right away. The only experience I had was the few psych patients I had in nursing school. You will always learn the skills but the passion for psych is what you really need. That...

10. Psych nursing is easy

    Callisonanne replied to studentnurse9806's topic in Psychiatric

    I have worked acute adult psych for 4 years and just switched to child and adolescent a month ago. I started in psych as a new grad. One of the most eye opening things for me was watching an experienced hospital nurse get floated to psych and actuall...

11. Why don't you just read the chart?

    Callisonanne replied to Guest219794's topic in Relations

    On a completely different spectrum - I am a psych nurse on an acute unit attached to the hospital. I will ask questions like "did they come in really sleepy or was that after they admitting to suicidal thoughts and were left alone with their purse"....

12. Psychiatric nursing... do you really lose all your nursing skills?

    Callisonanne replied to lilmoongoddess's topic in Psychiatric

    It completely depends on what type of psych unit you work in. We have patients going through ECT so we do picc lines and IVs. Patients come in with wounds, catheters, and ports. We draw labs and use feeding tubes. We also have patients with ng tubes ...

13. Have you ever puked/fainted/etc at work?

    Callisonanne replied to 0.adamantite's topic in General Nursing

    My anatomy class used cadavers. One day we were removing the head so we could weigh it to disprove the whole "a human head weighs 8 lbs theory". We had removed the head from the neck which had also been cut sagitally. When someone held the head and o...

14. Differing types of therapeutic self-defense philosophy and techniques

    Callisonanne replied to mingez's topic in Psychiatric

    This is interesting because my facility (i'm in NC) does teach the blocks for all different types of punches.

15. Why I LOVE night shift

    Callisonanne replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    I've been working as a nurse for 6 months with 4 of those on night shift. I absolutely love night shift! Every time we get an admission one person does the search (psych facility) the next does the chart and the primary nurse does the admission inte...