taydian

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1. Which diagnosis?

   taydian replied to nursegreene's topic in Psychiatric

   substance abusers with personality disorders are by far the worst forme. Can't stand those guys. Nothing but grief all day. I'll take an aggressive psychotic over a manipulating addict any day.

2. Male Psychiatric Nurses

   taydian replied to fiba's topic in Psychiatric

   I appreciate any male staff around, nurse or nurse assistant, depending on the type of patient is involved. I don't depend on a male staff member to deal with patients directly if I'm the first one to respond. I'm fine to redirecting or deescalate a ...

3. How do you know when it's time to move on?

   taydian replied to NYNursingStudent's topic in Career Support

   Maybe because I'm on a psych facility, to me shifts are meaningful....evenings and nights are WAY less stressful than days. You mentioned "night". Do you work night shift? If you're a night shift person, then move to day or evening. (or day if you're...

4. It is so hard to be nice sometimes.

   taydian replied to taydian's topic in Psychiatric

   Oops. The last response was in reply to Elkpark

5. It is so hard to be nice sometimes.

   taydian replied to taydian's topic in Psychiatric

   I'm not so sure I entirely agree. Maybe its because of the type of facilities I've worked at. I've never worked at a private facility before... The types of units I've worked at were rampant with malingerers. The way I see it, personality types have ...

6. It is so hard to be nice sometimes.

   taydian posted a topic in Psychiatric

   I'll admit: I have a hard time being cool with the personality folks and substance abusers (the etoh's, however, haven't been bad at all). I hate how dramatic they can be. I hate how manipulative they try to be....I hate even more when I see staff be...

7. Hospital Unit Secretaries

   taydian replied to TheCommuter's topic in CNA/MA

   I love having a unit secretary. I used to work evening shift at my previous job so there was no need for a secretary. But now I work day shift at a new job. Last Friday, we had so many call-outs campus-wide, including our unit secretary. I'm still p...

8. I never expected....

   taydian replied to dsb_fam's topic in General Students

   One day during a peds rotation, I was taking care of a little boy, around 6 or 7 yo. I can't remember what he was admitted for, but he was soon to be discharged. So, towards the end of my clinical day, I asked him and his parents if there was anythin...

9. How did you get out of getting the Flu shot?

   taydian replied to Surg-OncRN's topic in COVID

   Do you really believe that every single person washes his/her hands after a sneeze or cough? Do you really believe every health care worker washes their hands after contact, period? Not everyone does the Elmo elbow block. Many people still block thei...

10. What Baffles You?

    taydian replied to GundeRN's topic in General Nursing

    Because the incentive spirometer is an exercise and they are being told to do it. Funny how the mind (and personality) works.

11. "Seasoned Nurses will eat their young"

    taydian replied to taydian's topic in Relations

    I kind of figured this topic has been worked to death....but, hey, you never know what others have to contribute.....hence the "disclaimer" up top

12. "Seasoned Nurses will eat their young"

    taydian replied to taydian's topic in Relations

    Oh, not me....I am a "new" nurse. My kids' school nurse is the one who worked at my current facility 15 years ago. Sorry for the ambiguity :)

13. "Seasoned Nurses will eat their young"

    taydian posted a topic in Relations

    Probably a recurring question on here............but........... Is this still generally true? Have any of you seasoned nurses treated new nurses badly? I heard about this often, but I, nor other nurses I know who have graduated within the past 5 yea...

14. psych nurse position second chance!

    taydian replied to britmansf18's topic in Psychiatric

    Fair enough. However, my patients don't know how I interact with people outside of the unit, so, as far as they know, I fist bump everyone. It does fit my personality and they're all very receptive towards it. But when I see one too many patients eng...

15. Frequent Flier Teachers

    taydian replied to Kschaefer90's topic in School

    "You're the nurse. You're the one who is supposed to deal with the crap I'm not hired to deal with. I teach. You deal with the yucky physical stuff.............and if I don't send this kid to you, I'll be held liable in a sue happy society". ---since...