BSNBritt

BSNBritt has 5 years experience and specializes in Nonviolent physical intervention.

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1. Is this doable? Advice!

   BSNBritt replied to BSNBritt's topic in Med-Surg

   Thank you for your response! If I'm being hones then I have to admit that putting my 8 week old in daycare is just a deal breaker for me. I'm a lactation counselor and supplementing is pretty much out of the picture too. I think writing HR the lette...

2. Is this doable? Advice!

   BSNBritt posted a topic in Med-Surg

   So I am an RN, BSN who has basically only worked psych since graduating five years ago. I did one year of pseudo skilled nursing (pretty minor stuff, one vent, some G/J tubes, some end of life). I recently applied for a med-surg job PRN, not thinking...

3. Charge nurse?

   BSNBritt replied to BSNBritt's topic in General Nursing

   To be honest, I'm not really sure what my goals are now. I thought I wanted something more medically geared than psych but now that I'm doing it, I don't know that I like it. I feel horrible saying this but some of the things I do are just kinda of g...

4. Psychiatric Emergency! Fumbling Syringes?

   BSNBritt replied to Angeljho's topic in Psychiatric

   Personally I've never had a provider tell me to place all three meds in different syringes. Where I was trained we always mix the two and leave the Benadryl in its own.

5. Charge nurse?

   BSNBritt replied to BSNBritt's topic in General Nursing

   I've been there for only about a month but I applied for PRN and they sort of pressured me into taking 28 hours a week to help cover the floor. It's pretty bad . They have the worst staffing issues I've ever seen. In fact, I've seen direct care staff...

6. Charge nurse?

   BSNBritt posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello All, I right now I have 5 years of experience in inpatient psych and just recently took a job at a skilled/long term facility to beef up my nursing skills. I was afraid of being labeled as a psych nurse "with no real nursing skills". I am getti...

7. Will I be stuck as a Psych Nurse forever?

   BSNBritt replied to Peppermint_RN's topic in Psychiatric

   Hello, I've had the exact same fear, "Will I be stuck as a psych nurse for the rest of my life?". I started my inpatient psych job right out of school and kept it for going on four years. I have also applied for countless Med/surg jobs with not even ...

8. Shady S/R practices. . .

   BSNBritt posted a topic in Psychiatric

   Hello all, I just accepted a job at a new psych facility, and so far it's pretty awful. Besides the nurses being completely rude and hostile to me all the time, there are some shady things going on with their seclusion and restraint practices. For o...

9. RNs and M:1??

   BSNBritt posted a topic in Psychiatric

   I'm an RN, BSN working at short-term locked facility in Colorado. Today I was taking a mandatory quiz on holds (yuck) that comes with an ajoining powerpoint. In the powerpoint, there was a page about who can legally put someone on a 72 hour involunta...

10. switching to night shift

    BSNBritt replied to bdbrdb's topic in Geriatric

    I only worked days, and used to be a morning person, but now I'm working nights full time. On my days off I typically sleep from about 0300 to about 1200. The biggest problem I've had with working nights, is feeling like I miss out on more during the...

11. shaken about psychotic patient incident last night.. very long..

    BSNBritt replied to inthesky's topic in Psychiatric

    This hasn't worked in my experience. I work in an acute stay psychiatric hospital with an adolescent, adult, and pediatric unit. I've tried offering patients that were escalating a time out, or a PO med, but it's never really panned out. Most of the ...

12. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    BSNBritt replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Humor

    When I was a student, I had an elderly man with dementia. He pressed his call light, and when I came into the room he said, "Miss, all these phones are in my bed". He was referring to his telemetry monitor, call light, and TV control. I told him what...

13. What's the weirdest baby name?

    BSNBritt replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I grew up with a girl named "anastarr" prounounced, On-a-star. Apparently her mother wen to a traveling carnival while pregnant, and saw the carni gypsy. The gypsy told her not to name her baby "Milliani" as she was planning. The mom said, well what...

14. Losing MSurg skills?

    BSNBritt replied to BSNBritt's topic in Psychiatric

    Thanks everyone for the advice! I am getting some MS skills working where I do. I did 7 blood draws in one shift once, ha ha. Lately we have been having a lot of more MS patients. . . in sorts. Things happening like seizures, EPS, A-fib, and cirrhosi...

15. Losing MSurg skills?

    BSNBritt posted a topic in Psychiatric

    Hi Everyone, I graduated this year with my BSN and started working full time in inpatient psych right away. Before I started working, I had heard the recommendation to get two years of med/surg experience. I applied for a couple places with no succes...