Psychtrish39 BSN, RN

MDS RNAC, LTC, Psych, LTAC

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About Psychtrish39

Psychtrish39 has 13 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in MDS RNAC, LTC, Psych, LTAC.


I started out in step down telemetry unit as a new nurse. I have worked in cardiology, skilled, LTC, psych, geripysch and lived in three different states in last 9 years. I have alot of experience but my varied skill set both helps me and hurts me professionally

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    What is the grossest thing that's happened to you???

    I was working in a PCU and a man was having a STEMI and I was trying to IV push him morphine and he promptly threw up all over me and my scrubs. It made the CNA start gagging and she had to run up to the surgery floor and get me some surgical scrubs ...
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    RN shortage

    Exactly.
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    RN shortage

    I agree in my area of the Midwest experienced nurses cant land a job in hospitals but new grads can but local hospital systems have a steady supply from local colleges so there is a shortage of experienced RNs but that is because hospitals here dont ...
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    Overweight RN talked about

    I would tell someone like that to well you know for saying that. I would let them have it. Yes I am obese. Got RAI for Graves disease gained 25 lbs. That is utter BS.
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    I can't get "poop" taste out of my mouth?

    Yep that really helps . So does a tiny bit of vicks under the nose.
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    How many MDS coders

    Gosh I am only MDS coordinator in a 100 bed facility and our census usually is 92 and about 5-10 Medicare A. My facility is budgeted for a half time but they can't find another MDS coordinator.
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    My patient committed suicide last night

    Big AL you are right and my son was bipolar and committed suicide. The hardest thing for me is as his Mom I helped so many people find the light but couldn't help my own son. The disease won. He was just newly diagnosed when it happened. I appreciate...
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    Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    Amen I am an MDS coordinator and basically this is what our 2 hour stand-up consists of.
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    When should nursing homes be allowed to evict residents?

    In the state I practice in its 30 days before a LTC can formally discharge a patient.
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    Should I leave this racist town?

    I am white and middle aged recently moved back to the Midwest and yes those racist attitudes still exist in some areas of this country. . I want to change jobs because I for one don't think that way and have lived other places where it was not so acc...
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    Concealed Carry for Caregivers

    Amen I dont care for this post all the concealed carry people dont ever change any violent outcome also do we need guns carried in the hospital by staff that could be taken away from them. ? Dont think so .
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    Hanging It Up

    VivaLasViejas, I don't think its bad you will be a state surveyor unlike some you have floor experience and you will know what the nurses in LTC are up against and also state gets onto the management at places not the nurses though the nurses do the ...
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    Let's call it "organ support," not life support

    I unfortunately understand this better than most my son committed suicide in August of last year in jail as such he was a young healthy man other than having bipolar disorder newly diagnosed and after they resuscitated him he coded three times on the...
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    Dr Oz's show on antidepressants...your thoughts?

    I didn't see the show but from prior posters and also as a person with depression as well as a psychiatric nurse he did his viewers a disservice by advocating that antidepressants are over prescribed maybe they are or maybe they are not but they save...
  15. I am an oversight nurse at a boarding home for chronically mentally ill residents who are able to do ADLS, take medications and do their own blood sugars etc. Part of my job is to go assess a resident that is in acute care for a physical illness to c...