New Angel replied to Umberlee's topic in Psychiatric
I began psych nursing a year ago, and graduated 2 years ago. I work in a tiny office with many high energy, big attitude, sometimes seemingly anxious staff members who have 5 to 10 to 15 years med/surg & ER experience....many are cynical, sarcast...
New Angel replied to Bouncyball's topic in Psychiatric
Hello! I work at a psychiatric hospital that has a casual dress code. It is suppose to help create good rapport & relax the patients who identify scrubs/uniforms as being 'establishment' oriented. Psych nursing involves a lot of one-to-one verbal...
New Angel replied to joel leong's topic in Psychiatric
Our voices and phone paging systems are our personal alarms. If we yell the word 'Staff!', then people know to run to the voice, and beyond our unit doors we use a phone paging system for good ol' Dr. Strong over the phone intercoms, they run through...
New Angel replied to TerpGal02's topic in Psychiatric
This is a hot topic around my office as well....Some say that certain employees have higher propensities for antagonizing pt.'s then others. I try to have the optimist's mindset and hope that noone would ever purposely antagonize a pt.. Firsty, I co...
Its a very strange job market out there right now for new nurses.....Your previous experience means nothing to human resources if it is not straight up acute care as an RN. I know the feeling of having phat ER experience and not getting hired. I grad...
New Angel replied to Quit Floating Me's topic in Psychiatric
I am also a Night nurse at a 24 hour psychiatric locked facility. Thank goodness I have a manager that will always work when others call out sick, she's the best! However, one sunday morning, she was out of town and my morning nurse relief-coworker c...
New Angel replied to 302queen's topic in Psychiatric
I don't necessarily think the whole story is fiction...It sounds like a typical scenario: If you are hitting walls/kicking or banging doors and cannot stop yourself you are at a risk of self harm and are escalating into severe agitation with some vio...
New Angel replied to HellooooooooooMurse's topic in Criminal
Congratulations. I commend your statements on honesty and not lying about your experiences. I am glad you are able to work and move on with your life. Honestly: initially, it is alarming that people with drug trafficking history can be licensed to p...
New Angel replied to Mandychelle79's topic in Psychiatric
I work in a very small psych hospital and we also have had disgruntled interactions with the local ER. My coworker has been suggesting for months that we do a training experience where the ER nurses spend a few hours on our facility and our psych nu...
New Angel replied to Umberlee's topic in Psychiatric
Our facility also mandates a MD to MD consult & discussion before accepting a Pt. that is to be medically cleared. But on my night shift, I myself do a great deal of the chart review & recommending to the MD on-call {very small facility, we u...
New Angel replied to Paige2014's topic in Psychiatric
I recommend perusing the facility website and familiarizing yourself with their mission statement, values, motto, etc. Read up on your states most important psychiatric laws, such as seclusion, restaraints, emergency medication {mostly IM}, Legal Ho...
New Angel replied to Isitpossible's topic in Psychiatric
I have also been extremely alarmed by the cursing and 'venting' commentary of my coworkers. I only see this type of talk during shift change reports, and if I ever felt a patient was being mis-treated I would not hesitate to address the issues with t...
I have been a psychiatric nurse for a short while and find my most challenging patients to be those with diagnosed 1>Borderline Personality Disorder & 2> Intermittent Explosive Disorder. It is especially difficult when the pt. has both diag...