Shanna M

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1. starting on psych/med floor from ICU any advice:how cn I prep

   Shanna M replied to Amayalu's topic in Psychiatric

   I work in a psychiatric hospital and we are affiliated with a local hospital. Pt's are admitted to PMU (psych med unit) after suicide attempts, to get medically cleared to be admitted to inpatient-sometimes family will bring pts with their first psyc...

2. Psych Travel Nurses

   Shanna M replied to AUMPsychRN's topic in Psychiatric

   It's interesting that nobody mentioned the pay rate of traveling nurses....I'm curious to know how much they make...I've been thinking of going into it.

3. What to expect as a Psych PCA/PCT?

   Shanna M replied to chessknightRN's topic in Psychiatric

   Yep that pretty much sums it up. Where I work we are responsible for vitals, close observation of all Patients 5 times per hour, visiting hours/protocol, we do half of new admissions paperwork/interviewing, we run one group/class usually a goals grou...

4. Newbie psych nurse seeking feedback (long)

   Shanna M replied to elizabethgrad09's topic in Psychiatric

   I think some nurses tend to not give as good of care as they could to mentally ill patient's d/t their dx. Yes sometimes psych pt's will tell you they are having chest pain to get sent to the er for meds or just to get off the ward, but there are tim...

5. Disappointed

   Shanna M replied to enurse10's topic in Psychiatric

   We just went over lateral violence in my class last semester, and unfortunately I've seen it at every job I've worked in- it was worse when I worked in Geriatrics though. It is sad that that we are doing the work of healing people and especially in p...

6. Psych Pet Peeve

   Shanna M replied to Mashira's topic in Psychiatric

   I will put "Pt has been out in social areas and interactions are appropriate" or "Pt isolates to self when in social areas" or "Pt has been isolative to room the entire shift" never seen anyone report visible on the unit before.

7. Question about Nursing Care Plan

   Shanna M replied to Shanna M's topic in General Students

   haha yes we are :) I'm also at GRCC. Small world I wanted to put that DM in my plan somewhere to but I guess it comes down to priorities and we only really need 2 r/t causes and apparently the edema takes priority for skin breakdown over the DM. Ede...

8. Question about Nursing Care Plan

   Shanna M replied to Shanna M's topic in General Students

   Ok thank you this has been helpful :)

9. Question about Nursing Care Plan

   Shanna M replied to Shanna M's topic in General Students

   No I added that into my care plan already that was actually the first reason that I listed, but I want to make sure that I am thorough and don't miss anything. I thought it might also be important to note that because the Pt has DM that also causes t...

10. Question about Nursing Care Plan

    Shanna M replied to Shanna M's topic in General Students

    I think it's important to note that the Pt is at risk for skin breakdown because he is Diabetic so I'm not sure how I could incorporate that into my care plan, maybe I'm getting too far ahead of myself. What exactly is it about having Diabetes that p...

11. Question about Nursing Care Plan

    Shanna M replied to Shanna M's topic in General Students

    So the etiology part of the care plan never involves medical reasons for the nursing diagnosis, only the signs of that medical diagnosis that the PT is exhibiting? I know that the nursing diagnosis is never the actual medical diagnosis but I was unsu...

12. Question about Nursing Care Plan

    Shanna M posted a topic in General Students

    I just started my first week of nursing school and I'm working on my first nursing care plan. The nursing diagnosis that we are given to work with is Risk for Skin Integrity Impairment. The Pt's medical diagnosis/conditions include CHF, DM-type 1, +2...