totally_nuts

totally_nuts specializes in mental health, aged care/disability care.

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1. Carry Me Across

   totally_nuts replied to morecoffeepls's topic in General Nursing

   From a fellow psych nurse, that is a brilliant piece of writing. The clients are lucky to have you :)

2. Grow Brave Through Reflection: Moral Distress in PICU (Part II)

   totally_nuts replied to NotReady4PrimeTime's topic in PICU

   looking forward to the rest

3. Methotrexate in an OB setting

   totally_nuts replied to FLOBRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   why do you give a chemo drug to ectopics? Sorry, I'm a psych nurse and don't know much about ob.

4. If you love your job, what is your speciality?

   totally_nuts replied to PAERRN20's topic in General Nursing

   I love my psych job!! It's not always easy but it's a great feeling watching them go home and know that you helped them through an episode or prevented them killing themselves. I've only been a psych nurse for 6months though. I came from residential ...

5. What to you like about being a nurse?

   totally_nuts replied to 2RNornot2RN's topic in General Nursing

   I like being a nurse when my patient says to me "I'm really glad you're my nurse today. You are really easy to talk to and you seem to get me". I'm a psych nurse and any day I can stop my patients suiciding is a great day! I also like it when my team...

6. Things you'd LOVE to tell coworkers...and get away with it!

   totally_nuts replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in Relations

   NO! you don't get to ignore me or talk over the top of me when I'm asking if anyone needs help and then run to the boss whingeing that no one ever helps you! And while we're at it, whoever told you that green hair is attractive was WRONG!! You might...

7. Funny Names for Nurses

   totally_nuts replied to randomnamees's topic in Humor

   My son's paediatrician is DR Smiley and my grandfather's surgeon was Dr Butcher.

8. Such a bad rap

   totally_nuts replied to Simply Complicated's topic in Psychiatric

   Can we not have a ***** session about this? Yes those jobs are dangerous but they are usually freak accidents. Nurses and police officers get hurt more frequently from what I have seen.

9. very little patient interaction

   totally_nuts replied to Simply Complicated's topic in General Nursing

   Like GoldenGirl22, I spend most of my shift with the patients so I can assess their mood, and get a fix on how they are travelling that day but there are some of the staff who have little contact.

10. What kind of holiday bonus do you get?

    totally_nuts replied to cbcle's topic in General Nursing

    You get a holiday bonus??? Wowee!!! I've never had such a thing

11. Blood, Bodily Fluids and Germs OH MY!

    totally_nuts replied to Lisa, MA's topic in General Nursing

    "Originally Posted by Lisa, MA Those of you who don't shower after work or change clothes, I have to wonder what school you went to." AS a previous poster said, the same kind of school you went to and yes, we learned all about germs there but se...

12. What I really think of nursing

    totally_nuts replied to jmeng's topic in General Nursing

    your post is really difficult to read.

13. *Vent* RN's make toast?!?!?!

    totally_nuts replied to WickedRedRN's topic in General Nursing

    It's probably because the management got sick of complaints of cold soggy toast being served and they figured that if the nurses do it the toast would be fresh. I can see their point but that doesn't make it right. We go to nursing school not chef s...

14. I got my dream job!

    totally_nuts posted a topic in Psychiatric

    As a mental health nurse!! I'm absolutely ecstatic I've been trying desperately for a psych job since I finished school and kept getting told that I needed a minimum of 2 years experience in an acute ward BEFORE I could work in psych. I was so bumme...

15. Such a bad rap

    totally_nuts replied to Simply Complicated's topic in Psychiatric

    Good on you! Ignore them - they don't know what they are missing ... lol ... or maybe they do!! I start my psych ward job on 4th Dec and have also been asked if I'm the one whose nuts. I love mental health nursing! Good luck