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1. Restraints for acute patients...

   psych-rn replied to jojo's topic in Psychiatric

   WOW I can not believe the use of restraints. What happenned to risk management? If a client is a risk for violence why not call in extra staff to assist? We have two ten bed closed units at my hospital, no jackets and no wrist restraints. We have ...

2. Nursing outside the USA

   psych-rn replied to beckyjo's topic in General Nursing

   Nursing in Australia is good. Not only is climate nice, but working conditions are good. As a Registered Nurse you are paid in incriments of 1st year to 8th year. 8th year gives you approx $41,000. That is for South Australia. Wages are more in ...

3. Acuity Systems

   psych-rn replied to Zee_RN's topic in General Nursing

   Hard topic. We have a rostering system that interfaces with another system that is used for generating care plans. Our staff are also paranoid re management wanting to cut staff. I have seen where rosters are altered on a unit level to meet acquit...

4. Tell us about your computer system

   psych-rn replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   I am a Clinical Nurse working in Nursing Informatics. The hospital is a psych hospital only. The system used currently is Excelcare and soon will become E-Care. I am desperately attempting to round up information on these systems re: psych and any ...

5. What can nurses really do to help our dying profession?

   psych-rn replied to Blue11RN's topic in General Nursing

   Lighten up guys. I don't think anyone has addressed the question. Nursing has a large population and to increase wages minimally potentially could blow the governments budget. I'd appreciate if the hospital I worked for treated me as a private pat...

6. My mental state

   psych-rn replied to jobo's topic in Psychiatric

   Don't panic. I work for the government in Australia and so I can only give advice as to our award. If you have been working only for a year, It is possible that your experiences are related to PTSD. Being confronted every working day by those same...

7. safety on an inpatient psychiatric unit

   psych-rn replied to Callan's topic in Psychiatric

   Issue 1. We have had a huge drug problem at our hospital. management have employed security staff to monitor the activities of clients and others around the grounds which has decreased the amount of drug deals. We also have warnings that those who...

8. psychiatric pathways

   psych-rn replied to Callan's topic in Psychiatric

   I'm also very interested in creating pathways in psych. We have a clinical indicators committee running that could use this information. We use electronic nursing care plans but I am lost as to the creation of creating pathways. Would love to comm...