K.P.A.

K.P.A. has 2 years experience and specializes in mental health.

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1. new grad/new nurse....In need of some honest advice

   K.P.A. replied to lillyh_90's topic in Psychiatric

   Your patient is floridly psychotic with extremely delayed responses. He's got the word salad, flight of ideas, tangential, etc. He was dropped off by someone who doesn't want him around. He's paranoid...

2. Psychiatric Unit Staffing

   K.P.A. replied to dopdop's topic in Psychiatric

   It's the rare day that we have "core coverage" = 1:8 for techs, 1:18 for RN, 1:24 for LPN, 1:3 for line of sight, 1:1 and 2:1 for :-) Numbers are lower for night, weekend, and holiday shifts. As far...