nina539

nina539 has 2 years experience and specializes in Psych.

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1. "blacklist" for patients?

   nina539 replied to beccajean's topic in Psychiatric

   That makes me really sad to hear. In the last year we had a psych nurse, a psych tech and a med-surge nurse (responding to a mistakenly called code) all assaulted by the same violent pt. 2 concussions and a broken nose were obviously cause for concer...

2. Can you assess a patient's mood?

   nina539 replied to NCindasun21's topic in Psychiatric

   I have to agree that mood is what the pt says it is. I have found in my experience that it can be helpful to chart something like "[patient name] reports they are feeling ..... (sad/angry/upset/frustrated/etc..) and then follow up with something like...

3. Effective coloring????

   nina539 replied to behensley's topic in Psychiatric

   I work inpt psych and our dress code is just scrubs or scrub pants and t-shirts, no specific color. Most of the older nurses tend to stick with very traditional scrubs while some of us newer nurses have taken the scrub pant and t-shirt route. We have...

4. Looking for ideas for educational/informational groups

   nina539 posted a topic in Psychiatric

   I am an LPN on an acute psychiatric unit. My nurse manager has given me and my fellow LPNs the task of coming up with ideas for educational/informational sessions with our patients. I was hoping maybe there was someone out there who has some ideas or...