concretegold91

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1. New Hire

   concretegold91 replied to BrightEyes3468's topic in Psychiatric

   Biggest piece of advice....safety...pts will be much more mobile. Know where your patients are. Risk assessments - triad of lethality. Risk factors for violence, AWOL, suicide. Code white procedures. Look into trauma informed nursing care; review how...

2. Confusion over what psych nursing is really like?

   concretegold91 replied to PsychNursStudent's topic in Psychiatric

   Love it!! I'm in the program to be an RPN, will graduate in April 2017. May I ask what province or type of ward you work on? IV meds aren't super common in psych, from what I've seen in clinical so Im curious!

3. Doulgas psych nursing jan 2015

   concretegold91 replied to ecamp427's topic in CA Programs

   Late response, but the program is great so far. I'm in Semester 4 of the Bachelors program. Are you doing 2nd year direct entry or are you starting in January with the Biology, English, etc?

4. Doulgas psych nursing jan 2015

   concretegold91 replied to ecamp427's topic in CA Programs

   im in the program - 13 points sound pretty good. if you don't get in on the first shot, there is a waitlist that moves very quickly for that intake. I had 11 points, was #20 on the waitlist and got accepted a month or so later.

5. Psychiatric school in BC

   concretegold91 replied to kenzie2614's topic in CA Programs

   hi - i go to douglas, just started my 2nd year in the bachelors of psych nursing program. 1st year was just biology, english, etc. (foundational courses). we've gotten all of our course outlines for this semester and it is definitely ramping up! i'm ...

6. A&P textbook in hardcover or loose leaf?

   concretegold91 replied to LadyLamp's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I have loose leaf and I dislike it! Pages have ripped out of my binder because they're bad quality, and now they're all mixed up because different sections of the course required different pages to study….plus now I can't re-sell mine even if I wante...

7. Douglas College Psychiatric Nursing 2013

   concretegold91 replied to kacey1307's topic in CA Programs

   any idea what's going on with the online ethics course? nothing has been posted that i can see :/

8. Douglas College Psychiatric Nursing 2013

   concretegold91 replied to kacey1307's topic in CA Programs

   I personally found anthropology more interesting than sociology, but socio. would definitely be a good course to take because it can cross over into psych a bit.

9. Douglas College Psychiatric Nursing 2013

   concretegold91 replied to kacey1307's topic in CA Programs

   hey, I've already taken all of my electives and I had taken Sociology & Anthropology before...it said basically any 3 credit University Level Course, right? So I think that's pretty much up to whatever you're interested in! I have't gotten my reg...

10. Douglas College Psychiatric Nursing 2013

    concretegold91 replied to kacey1307's topic in CA Programs

    Yeah it cost me 50 bucks and was a lot faster than I thought. Awesome. Just need to send in all my immunizations and I'm set! The first year looks pretty generic, only one psych nursing course! I've already taken 4 of the courses, so my schedule for ...

11. Douglas College Psychiatric Nursing 2013

    concretegold91 replied to kacey1307's topic in CA Programs

    how did it go with the physicians assessment? I made an appointment but I don't know how long it will take/how much it will cost :S

12. Douglas College Psychiatric Nursing 2013

    concretegold91 replied to kacey1307's topic in CA Programs

    got my acceptance yesterday!! :)

13. Douglas College Psychiatric Nursing 2013

    concretegold91 replied to kacey1307's topic in CA Programs

    I think if you contact them you can get an extension! (I remember reading that on another forum..becuase of appointment dates, etc)

14. Douglas College Psychiatric Nursing 2013

    concretegold91 replied to kacey1307's topic in CA Programs

    Just found out I'm #4 on the wait list!! :)

15. Douglas College Psychiatric Nursing 2013

    concretegold91 replied to kacey1307's topic in CA Programs

    11! yeah I know..I have a feeling I'll get accepted last minute. And yeah I'm checking every couple of days so fingers crossed!