Hallows_Eve

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1. What to wear on a unit where nurses wear street clothes and not scrubs?

   Hallows_Eve replied to tareija's topic in Psychiatric

   Our facility just ended years of wearing street clothes and started requiring scrubs again, they almost made them uniform, but couldn't come up with a justification for the stipend they would have to pay. So its our own scrubs. I was already wearing...

2. Psychiatric nursing... do you really lose all your nursing skills?

   Hallows_Eve replied to lilmoongoddess's topic in Psychiatric

   Our BH units include a fair amount of detox and rehab areas- the former especially keeps up my med surg skills as all types and conditions go through various withdrawals, from alcohol, pain meds, crack, street rx drugs, etc. I do stoma cares, trach c...

3. Paranoid patient not certifiable?

   Hallows_Eve replied to joanie2341's topic in Psychiatric

   Not sure if this helps but in the Psych ER where I float to we are seeing a lot more K2 and Bath Salt cases, which often are marked by lingering paranoia and anxiety (24 hours+ after the hit), and doesn't turn up in normal tox screens, especially the...

4. What keeps you going? Why do you stay?

   Hallows_Eve replied to NCindasun21's topic in Psychiatric

   I am a float LPN at a BH program that includes about 10 different units. You didn't mention how safe you felt at your workplace, but I can say in ours that safety is a factor in our turnover rate- not just physical safety (although that is huge) but ...

5. What is a Psych Nurse's daily routine?

   Hallows_Eve replied to Macann's topic in Psychiatric

   I am a float nurse that is often scheduled between the in-patient floors and the psych ER. For inpatient, we too usually assign staff to specific tasks, as an LPN I am often either the med nurse or the milieu nurse (nurse on the floor with the patie...

6. Are there any psych LPN's?

   Hallows_Eve replied to sakiohma's topic in Psychiatric

   I am an LPN, and I've worked on the Behavioral Health floors at my hospital for nearly a year now, also floated to the drug and alchohol rehab floors as well. In my area (WNY), there were plenty of openings for LPNs for BH. I was hired literally righ...

7. Death and Dying Cultural Report Topic Needed

   Hallows_Eve replied to Amysuenu's topic in General Students

   Just some ideas to toss to you... going off of memory from Catholic school. If you go with Catholic faith, you could discuss the processes of the Anointing of the Sick and Viaticum. There is also the cultural aspects of the patient going through Con...

8. LVN school problem need help

   Hallows_Eve replied to stuart_2994's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   Not sure if this will help, but if you received an email to a school-run email address, you might be able to have the IT for the school's system show that your address got the email, but you did not open it up. This will be a bit harder if it was a ...

9. LPN Program~Interview Questions

   Hallows_Eve replied to goodthings2come's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   One thing that came up in my interview was my promptness- the interviewer noted that I was 15 minutes early (as noted by the receptionist) for my appointment with her. They also took note of my preparedness-there was a letter regarding what paperwor...