pinkiepieRN

pinkiepieRN has 8 years experience and specializes in adult psych, LTC/SNF, child psych.

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1. Can you take phentermine during a nursing shift?

   pinkiepieRN replied to Nsco2018's topic in General Nursing

   Do you just "skip" it on clinical days? Most people with valid prescriptions take their meds as prescribed and know how their meds effect them. How would they even know you were taking it - a drug test?

2. Writing order and having Dr sign later..your thoughts?

   pinkiepieRN replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Nursing

   Whether you call a doctor or lie about it, an MD still has to sign off on that order within 24 hours for it to be valid, so I'd call someone!

3. Writing order and having Dr sign later..your thoughts?

   pinkiepieRN replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Nursing

   Definitely call a provider if it's a med needed for discharged and they're going to be discharged before seeing someone to write that order!

4. Geri-Psych Admissions: Where's the Line?

   pinkiepieRN replied to sideshowstarlet's topic in Psychiatric

   If someone purely has a psych dx of dementia, I'm not sure that an inpatient stay would do much for them. I worked at a facility in the past that had two geri-psych wings: geri-psych mood disorders and geri-psych psychotic/dementia. Patients with d...

5. Imminent danger

   pinkiepieRN replied to fworkentin's topic in Psychiatric

   I work with kids right now so YMMV but with kids there are often few warning signs that something is going to get out of control until a child places their hands on staff or another patient. There are often warning signs in my experience with adults...

6. First Instructor interview..... help

   pinkiepieRN replied to Nurseyfabulous1's topic in Educators

   Teaching CNAs in a high school turned out to be the opposite of a dream job for me - no support from the other educators and unmotivated teens. It was a learning experience and I've actually taught CNAs again since then (and not much enjoyed it) jus...

7. Transition to concept based curriculum

   pinkiepieRN posted a topic in Educators

   I just accepted my first faculty position after graduating with my MSN in Nursing Ed 2 summers ago. I'm starting with a colleague who's been in this position for a year but they're changing to a concept based curriculum for the fall and following se...

8. Writing order and having Dr sign later..your thoughts?

   pinkiepieRN replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Nursing

   That's what the on-call is there for!

9. I am not "such a good nurse!", a vent

   pinkiepieRN replied to Swellz's topic in General Nursing

   Did this patient even have capacity to refuse? I've spent so much time working with involuntary psych patients that I realize even though people can be declared "incapable" of making their own decisions, it's a ****** to get people properly medicate...

10. Psych Nursing - Boring?

    pinkiepieRN replied to Nimrodel's topic in Psychiatric

    PM shifts are definitely more patient time centered. It's also for me when less groups tend to be going on and patients have more "down time".

11. Why nurses don't want to talk to a ward psychologist?

    pinkiepieRN replied to manjar's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry if I missed this somewhere, but what is your *ROLE* as a psychologist on the unit? Is it to counsel staff or act as a clinical liaison between staff, patients and families? I guess it could be both but I'm wondering if you're trying to st...

12. Switched to Psych, HELP!

    pinkiepieRN replied to nurse2yu's topic in Psychiatric

    How's it going?

13. Ped Psych RN

    pinkiepieRN replied to lmb117's topic in General Specialties

    Maybe not your cup of tea, but you could always consider Adult Psych. Adult Psych often has more medically complex patients (depending on what your unit accepts) and there's of course the obvious co-morbidities, like asthma, COPD, HTN and obesity. ...

14. Do psychotropic meds contribute to poor decision making sometimes?

    pinkiepieRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I would love to argue with you, but you've got an interesting perspective there. I have anxiety myself and have taken prescription anxiolytics before. *I* don't think they effected me like that but YMMV.

15. Do psychotropic meds contribute to poor decision making sometimes?

    pinkiepieRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Without more specifics, it's hard to make a generalization to your posed problem. Anxiety medications alter neurochemistry but I don't believe they alter thinking in such a way to "dull common sense". Most anxiety (and psychotropic) meds have warni...