Rant post: Its not a new concept but its becoming more injected into mental health care setting, but when the phd's get into the mix there is an unrealistic expectation from nursing staff and MHT staff. Its one of those avenues that sounds great with...
puravidaLV replied to getterupp's topic in Psychiatric
More than likely your internal engineering department can build the same cabinets that are used in these cases. For the most part its a night stand with a small hole for the mask hose to go through. Its obviously locked and for most CPAP machines al...
puravidaLV replied to learning247's topic in Travel
yea you could basically travel on 6 months. Certified (deleted my lol) its like a Phd in nursing you're not going to get paid for it, but if it makes you feel better ...yay? if you travel do some research in comps and how taxes work for the state and...
puravidaLV replied to PDXnursing's topic in CNA/MA
This is an old topic but someone reads this and thinks on a psych unit you can force a patient to take a shower you need to look at not only operating procedures, legal status of patient (hold or voluntary), have a PHYSICIANS ORDER because otherwise ...
VA pay doesnt equate to work. You could have 3 psychiatrist on an inpatient unit hosting six patients and all three are getting 215k/each. So in economic view the VA doctor is getting more than the private sector provider who has: overhead, staff, ma...
Aggressive dementia patient attacks you...ten minutes later no memory. Can't press charges, cant put hands on, and get nothing from management. So a) fight back with the probability of getting sued b) run and sit in a janitor closet c) tell doctor/ma...
puravidaLV replied to kandikissesrn's topic in Criminal
Well if it wasn't for "contract nurses" (troubled nursing) most psych facilities wouldn't have nurses working the floors. I worked with one person who headed the state program for the nurses c/ substance abuse problems and let me tell you that list w...
puravidaLV replied to lifeisgood516's topic in General Nursing
Hey, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes you pick your battles. I have had experiences with a manager on a psychiatric unit that would come in and micro-manage within 5 minutes of entering the doors and have no report, no rapport wit...
I am free of charge....I do charge for free basically. I don't get paid to do it. I have 7 patients. I haven't figured out how to piss off management enough yet to stop getting the assignment.
Well nothing like going back to school and redoing Calculus, Organic chem, physics, studying for the MCAT, doing eight more years of school and residency followed by crippling student loans. Both parents are physicians, I was premed in 97 and one su...
Yep, wouldn't have waited till my thirties thought. I think of all the cool JDM race parts, club nights, places i could have done 13 week contracts in/at/around, that 250cc ninja would have been a hyabusa, student loands would be long paid off, NP sc...
If your working psych the likelihood of you getting a raise is near zero to none in the private sector. Most are stuck on the west (US) around 30-35$/hr which comes out to be 70k/yr for inpatient and yes its really easy if your able to put up c/ a lo...
Welcome to HESI/ATI you catch the mistakes and they never fix them. I'm fairly certain there are still errors in the ATI books stating smoking is a healthy option for pregnant men.
puravidaLV replied to NurseUnforgetable's topic in General Nursing
...but why? ...b/c your annoying... huh...but in the past you did it. [Arnold voice] welcome to the future [/Arnold voice and dawn on sunglasses] directed by Michael Bay.