manchmal

manchmal

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About manchmal

New grad, RN, Psych nurse 1st year.

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  1. incident report documentation policy?

    Can anyone tell you NOT to file an incident report? Say a doctor or supervisor tells a nurse that something doesn't require incident report, or specifically not to fill one out. Or an RN tells an LVN not to fill one out. The incident reports require ...
  2. Redlining.

    Thanks!! In this instance, it WAS signed by day shift, and they didn't catch the error. So I figured that WHATEVER my signature meant, I didn't want it to appear in 6 months time that I was the third "checker" to sign when there was a dispensing or p...
  3. Redlining.

    I responded to a real old thread but I am not sure if it will show up and I really want info. So...who can tell me what "redlining" is, its history, etc. Nursing school trained us in a 21st century digital world and all the jobs want me to know what ...
  4. did I do the right thing????

    I know it's an old thread but I have a similar question about "redlining". Night shift at my facility goes through the day's written or computerized orders and signs (after the staff that pulled the orders off or acknowledged then) and "verifies" the...
  5. Claiming suicide can get you out of anything!

    Well, after re-reading the original post NOT on my tiny screen phone, I see that I read into the situation a bit r/t the substance abuse -- the OP didn't say the pt. was intoxicated...must have been someone down the thread a bit, or reminded me of pa...
  6. Claiming suicide can get you out of anything!

    I think there are some insightful comments on this topic, and also a few that seem to be written by a person who doesn't really "get" severe mental illness, etc. The OP says this pt had no prior psych hx. Yet a "normal" person doesn't behave like thi...
  7. question about IM emergency meds from new psych RN

    Thank you both for taking time to share your experiences! If anyone else has any other insight, I'd love to hear it, too.
  8. Hi everyone. I did a few searches on here for this topic, and found a couple things, but the site is working too slow for me to keep searching for exactly what I wanted to ask, so I hope you'll forgive me if this has already been discussed! I start a...
  9. Stress of finding a job

    Near Central Ohio -- outside a major city, but within driving distance. So I imagine in northern NJ, the cost of living may be higher. Rent for a 2 bedroom house here is approximately $850/month. A 1BR appt would be between $450-700/month, if that he...
  10. The Truth to the Pearson Vue Trick & My Results Timeline

    Congrats!! I took my test in Ohio last Wednesday morning. Started at 8am, finished around 8:50, 75 questions. Got good popup at PV about 2 hours later. The next morning around 10:30am, I was able to search for my name on the ohio BON website, and it...
  11. Stress of finding a job

    Wow, $25/hr would be considered a VERY good starting salary in my area of the country. That's over $50,000/year. I'd say average starting salary for an RN is $20-$23/hr. here. Is the cost of living high where you are?
  12. Help! Pre-Employment Drug Testing

    I don't understand why these places are refusing prescriptions that we try to bring in to self-disclose LEGAL medication use! I had a pre-employment drug screen last week, and am still kinda weirded out by it and hoping it's okay (dream job). I take ...
  13. Stress of finding a job

    Are you guys in rural areas, or urban areas? I am curious, because job availability seems to vary quite a bit depending on whether you live somewhere where a bunch of other people want to live, or whether you live in a place that is less populated. I...
  14. Any hospital hiring new grads? anywhere in the country?

    I'm a new grad, and I got my NCLEX RN results and a job offer the same day. I had been very worries about finding a job, and I feel extremely lucky. The job offer is actually my "dream job," in psychiatric/mental health, which I know isn't everyone's...
  15. How To Survive (and Thrive) In Nursing School

    Good article. I agree especially about the NCLEX and questions early -- and also don't get totally bummed if you don't do great in Fundamentals...to me, that was the absolute hardest class because it was abstract and because my background was NOT nur...