windynights

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1. enclosed nurse's station

   windynights replied to margo123's topic in Psychiatric

   I am very curious why you would single me out with a description that feels like I've been assaulted, just to read it?

2. enclosed nurse's station

   windynights replied to margo123's topic in Psychiatric

   What really scares me about this, is that you have so few staff. Our nursing station is always full of staff...sometimes difficult to find a chair to sit in, to do charting. My attention would go to beefing up the staffing, rather than enclosing th...

3. enclosed nurse's station

   windynights replied to margo123's topic in Psychiatric

   If you are fearful of working in a psychiatric facility with an open nurses station, how do you feel about being out of the nurses station, interacting with the patients? I don't understand how you could be uncomfortable in the nurses station and n...

4. Californians: Impeach Arnold

   windynights replied to Town & Country's topic in California

   If the ratio is lowered, wouldn't that mean that the hospital could not take more admissions, if the ratio wasn't met? I'm speculating here, and would like to know what other hospitals are doing when they're out of compliance now. If the hospital i...

5. Californians: Impeach Arnold

   windynights replied to Town & Country's topic in California

   If the ratio is lowered, wouldn't that mean that the hospital could not take more admissions, if the ratio wasn't met? I'm speculating here, and would like to know what other hospitals are doing when they're out of compliance now. If the hospital i...

6. Psych RN Continuing Ed?

   windynights replied to HeyFraydo's topic in Psychiatric

   Try www.mhsource.com Look for the free 4 hour continuing education events around the country...along with the free teleconferences...both for free continuing education units.

7. Are Timeouts really Seclusion?!?!?

   windynights replied to Tracyhbrn's topic in Psychiatric

   Our patients take their voluntary time outs in their own rooms, which are not seclusion rooms and have no locks on the doors. They're either secluded or they're not. We have no involuntary time-outs. Didn't mean to imply that in my earlier messag...

8. Are Timeouts really Seclusion?!?!?

   windynights replied to Tracyhbrn's topic in Psychiatric

   Our facility uses Voluntary time outs, and does not consider them to be seclusions. We view them as a way to avoid having to seclude patients. We explain to the patients that we are trying to help them to avoid seclusion, and want them to voluntari...

9. New med admin system and paranoid pts

   windynights replied to margo123's topic in Psychiatric

   Our paranoid patients have, for the most part, been willing to carry their ID bands (with bar codes) in their pockets, and bring them out when there's a need for staff to see (or scan) the ID. For the extremely paranoid patients, we keep the ID ban...

10. Jcaho

    windynights replied to windynights's topic in Psychiatric

    Thanks for your reply. I'm not worried. I am interested, and would like to see what others have to say about what JCAHO looked at, in their hospitals.

11. Jcaho

    windynights posted a topic in Psychiatric

    What has been the focus of JCAHO in your hospital this year? Just wondering if all the prep is worth the energy, especially when it takes away from patient care. Our nursing director keeps pouring out things we have to do, in order to be prepared f...