marsy

marsy has 2 years experience and specializes in Psych, I/DD.

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1. Nurse to client ratios

   marsy replied to cd1229's topic in Disabilities

   I work at a residential facility that has over 80 clients but I am the nurse for only 24 people working 40 hours per week. I worked previously at a day hab and was responsible for over 160 people working 35 hours per week.

2. DDNA certification info

   marsy replied to loveDDRN's topic in Disabilities

   loveDDRN I'm soo glad to hear how much you love this field! I started my RN career at Day Hab and absolutely fell in love! (Clearly agencies do hire new grads - I graduated in 2008) From that I moved to Residential and I also do Home Care for this po...

3. Insulin given by nursing assistant?

   marsy replied to LightsMyWay's topic in Disabilities

   I think you should find out what the regualtions are in your state first. I'm here in NY and we work under OPWDD. We have AMAP staff who can administer medications (PO, topical, eye/ear drops) but not Subq or IM...

4. Newer nurse to DD/MR nursing

   marsy replied to HappyNurse09's topic in Disabilities

   I work at a residential program with this population and I LOVE IT!!! I started off at a day hab center and from there went to a residence. I kind of prefer the day hab though because in residential I feel like I bring my work home with me (Especiall...

5. Top 10 Myths of the "MURSE"

   marsy replied to mikethemurse's topic in Humor

   haha that was really funny!

6. very badly behaved ped client

   marsy replied to anon456's topic in General Nursing

   First off I think that a tone of a message can get quickly turned depending on the reader's mood/connection with statement. Because there were no CAPITAL LETTERS or !!!!!! I read OPs message as more of a concerned "I'm trying to understand how I coul...

7. Pink Glove Dance : The Sequel

   marsy replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

   This was great! I loved it :loveya:

8. changing fields

   marsy replied to broadwaylover's topic in Disabilities

   I've worked both psych and DD. I love DD and its nothing like psych at all. The way you interact with them, the way you become a detective when something is wrong with them because they may or may not be verbal, everything they do is completely diffe...

9. med administration by DSP's

   marsy replied to dmacrn's topic in Disabilities

   I'm in residential and we use the MARs. My company is backwards so I don't see anything changing with this. Larrythenurse, at first I was very uncertain about people being able to give medications under my license but this is how it goes. They are r...

10. Funny doctor orders

    marsy replied to laurenicoleRN's topic in Humor

    Hmm, maybe you should have provided a PDR to him...

11. moving to nyc.. nursing homes? bk hopspitals?

    marsy replied to nurseyNJNYC's topic in New York

    You can try OPWDD (Office for People with Developmental Disabilities)residencies or day centers. They pay $30-$35/hr and hours are not too crazy, no weekends or holidays. I love it...

12. Turmoil with salary vs lifestyle - need advice.

    marsy replied to IcanHealYou's topic in General Nursing

    I live in NYC and therefore make a nursing salary so I can identify with you. One of my other friends (a nurse) works in a hospital and does home care as well so she makes over 100k without having to go back to school thus more loans. She owns a hous...

13. 2 Medical dictionaries, which to choose???

    marsy replied to RPN_2012's topic in General Nursing

    Taber's is the way to go...

14. DDN certification

    marsy replied to male_nurse22's topic in Disabilities

    I'm pretty sure this is only for the US. I know that in the UK you actually take classes to become a developmental disabilities nurse. However, check their website...ddna.org

15. How does it work in your world?

    marsy replied to Evalina's topic in Disabilities

    I'm a Residential Nurse over here in NYC and manage 4 apartments and one house (24 pts in total) The Managers do all of the appointment making I review every medical paper that comes through. I maintain their medical binders and when I do my monthly ...