IMustBeCrazy

IMustBeCrazy

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  1. XL Humane blanket?

    I'd be long gone from that environment. Your facility is not providing safe and proper resources, monitoring or policies for milieu control. Is it any wonder that your unit is experiencing a spike in acting-out behavior? It has become sport for your ...
  2. Bipolar is wrecking my family...

    If she's not suicidal, taking overdoses, harmful to others or such a self care deficit that she a harm to herself (for example so grandiose/delusional she is walking out in the snow in the dead of winter in bare feet), then she is beyond your reach a...
  3. acuity assessment tools

    Acuity tools on inpatient psych are very misleading IMO. Acuity is supposed to be a numeric measure of the TIME spend with a patient or on their care (med rec, getting orders, completing admit paperwork etc.), based on their condition. So, theoretica...
  4. Student nurse gives out number to patient !

    IMO you are just a call away from a HIPAA violation (privacy, remember?) and losing your license. Former patients? All attached to you on the internet?? Scary stuff.
  5. Sucker punched. First time I was ever punched by a man.

    Law Enforcement officials can NOT deny you the opportunity to give a written statement. In fact, you can hand write a statement and deliver it to the nearest LE office. I don't care if the situation occurred 2 weeks ago. Sounds like someone is try...
  6. Smelly co-worker

    I have no problem being compassionate. However, in the U.S., stinky = unclean. Unclean is probably not what we want to project in a hospital environment. It makes patients (as well as staff) uneasy and feeling like they're getting poor care. Pres...
  7. bingo! i had viral meningitis, and it was nasty. my head was splitting, i wanted no one or nothing to come near me. any stimuli is too much. you better remember to turn the lights off or very low when you are done assessing your pt. no or very lo...
  8. Self Defense Against Patients

    CPI is a complete joke. I suspect it was put together by corporate bean counters who have never had to be out from behind their desks in their entire career.
  9. BPD View

    Amen!!! I agree 150%! I have said it before and I will say it again, psych nurses need to have EXCELLENT assessment skills AND the fortitude to advocate for their patients, no matter what their diagnosis is. The often thought but extremely incorrec...
  10. Letter to Congress: ANA "Safe Staffing Saves Lives" campaign

    Understood. But this doesn't even qualify as a "compromise." It is merely a shell game where you lose sight of the real issue via and smoke and mirrors. The ANA, with their purported massive resources, is proprosing schlock like this when CA has st...
  11. Letter to Congress: ANA "Safe Staffing Saves Lives" campaign

    This sounds like a great idea in theory, how many of you have read the letter in its entirety? (bolds are my emphasis): --------snip---------- I am writing to urge you to cosponsor the Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act (S. 73/H.R. 4138), legislation...
  12. Ana

    1. No 2. I haven't seen a compelling reason to join. They seem to be their own best enemy, for example in proposals that seek to divide rather than bring together nurses from all backgrounds, from Diploma to ADN to BSN and beyond. In addition, I ...
  13. No flame here, just another viewpoint. I work with families all the time that are crazier than the one admitted. Here is my take: The bottom line is that the POA-HC is *supposed* to act in the best interests of their charge, unless there is some re...
  14. Patient handoff

    How typical for mgmt to say "just make it work" rather than meet with staff to come up with a decent working model. /vent off
  15. BPD View

    The suffering that I refer to is the change in the therapeutic milieu that occurs for the patient when it is obvious that the nurse is also having problems with mental health issues. This is completely different than, say, a nurse with cardiac issu...