puravidaLV

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1. Truama Informed Care is a pipe dream in acute psych -Change my mind

   puravidaLV posted a topic in Psychiatric

   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...

2. Have you ever been attracted to a patient?

   puravidaLV replied to LilaDavis's topic in Psychiatric

   Yes I've been attracted to their fist, their spit, and most above all else endless proposals of how i can eat what rhymes with "ship"

3. Secure cases for CPAP machines?

   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...

4. Is 2 years Psych Experience enough to Travel?

   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...

5. forcing baths on dementia patients?

   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 ...

6. Everyone is in NP school !

   puravidaLV replied to Atl-Murse's topic in NP

   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...

7. Violence in Nursing

   puravidaLV replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   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...

8. Working with a felony

   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...

9. Manager interrupting

   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...

10. Do you have a free charge nurse on your unit?

    puravidaLV replied to EllaBella1's topic in General Nursing

    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.

11. Ditching NP school for MD?

    puravidaLV replied to ICURNPA92's topic in General Nursing

    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...

12. If you could redo it....would you choose nursing?

    puravidaLV replied to ICURNPA92's topic in General Nursing

    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...

13. NP Salary vs. RN salary

    puravidaLV replied to Health-Nut's topic in NP

    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...

14. Error on official HESI Practice Question?

    puravidaLV replied to Aedyl's topic in HESI

    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.

15. Responding to annoying co-worker who asks you to work for them every week?

    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.