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  1. Forced IM meds...always ethical??

    Where i work it really depends on the unit. On the inpatient floors most cases we would go ahead and give the Po unless we have a reason to suspect it is a ploy on the patients part. In the crisis unit once we go hands on 9 times out of 10 the patien...
  2. 72 hour notice/AMA

    Until about 3 years ago we had a 65 to 70 percent release rate of voluntary's who give the 72 hr notice and they did have to sign a 2nd ama form. Then we had a patient released on an ama within 24 hrs of the 72 hr notice who killed himself and his wi...
  3. Intake Nurse

    It can be violent at times. Intake can be a bit more violent due to not knowing the patients as much as say a floor nurse knows their patients so it is harder for us to avoid triggers etc. That being said we probably restrain 1 to 2 times a shift dep...
  4. Intake Nurse

    I work intake now i work in a dedicated psych facility which makes it easier in some ways. Less concerns about having patients pushed on you prior to being medically safe due to shortness of beds or staff in the er. It can be interesting at times lik...
  5. "hard" restraints?

    we use the posey ones in the op as 4 point restraints those are they only type of 4 point restraints we have we use to use those as soft restraints and leathers as hard restraints however we stopped using the leathers a few months ago although they a...
  6. Reception bell at a psych nurses station

    i can picture a little sign next to it please ring bell once for im haldol ring twice for seclusion lol haha. relax people i am joking
  7. Which diagnosis?

    psychosis patients and the invol holds tend to be the most problems for us.
  8. Hubby thought thermometer was a pregnancy test...

    tell him its a male one bend over haha
  9. Seeing adults when "slow"?

    where i work pt we have 3 er's adult physch and peds we never ever put adults in the peds er however we use adult er beds for non violent physch patients when we really need to and have on occasion used a spare physch er bed for a non acute er patien...
  10. weird patient demands

    the first has a history of admits and gets sexually aroused by enemas we offered oral laxatives and we got a refusal and our charge nurse on the inpatient unit has a habit of accepting crisis admins before we discharge for the day sometimes
  11. weird patient demands

    lol wow
  12. weird patient demands

    Hi there in the past week i have had 3 incidents of weird patient demands. first was on a overnight shift in the crisis intake unit i had a female patient ask me for a enema i had asked why and her response was during the last few weeks all the stres...
  13. How do you keep your clinical skills sharp?

    i work the occasional medsurg or er shift at the hospital i work at usually 3 or 4 shifts a month
  14. question about "cutters"

    Well said.
  15. The Daily Habits Of A Psych Nurse

    being from philly area mind if i ask where you worked?