Kay28

Kay28

Psychiatric nursing

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About Kay28

Kay28 has 14 years experience and specializes in Psychiatric nursing.


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  1. Age vs Years Nursing

    Age 29 10 years experience as an RN And just graduated with my MSN!
  2. Now THAT'S a lab result

    Mag of 0.7. Alive.
  3. Make sure you are familiar with the medications used in an emergency situation on an inpatient psych unit. We use a lot of haldol, Benadryl, Ativan, and Thorazine (either IM or PO) in emergencies. Also review some of your routine psych meds given suc...
  4. What are the top 5 medications YOU administer daily?

    Inpatient psych: zyprexa, depakote, lithium, trazodone, remeron.
  5. Having to count Risperidone

    We use a pyxis machine at my hospital and sometimes it wants you to count random meds. For some reason the other night it wanted me to do count every time I took out cogentin. No clue why though.
  6. Full Moon

    So it wasn't just my unit?
  7. Can a CNA work in psych?

    On my inpatient psych unit we hire both CNAs and mental health workers. Most of the MHWs have a bachelors degree but their job is very similar. They run therapy groups, assist with vitals/adls, and document on the observation board. They also monitor...
  8. Help! What does Q2P & Q4P mean?

    Maybe "every two hours prn" for q2p?
  9. 8-vs-12 hour shifts?

    8s in Massachusetts
  10. Which diagnosis?

    Personality disorder patients seem to cause the most chaos on our unit
  11. Have you ever had a patient smoke in the room?

    Its pretty common on my unit to catch someone smoking in their room/bathroom/shower even when informed that this is against unit rules and is a fire hazard. When this occurs we have to obtain an order for a room search and fill out an incident report...
  12. POLL: nurse-to-patient ratio

    I work on a locked inpatient psychiatric unit. We can have anywhere from 1:5 to 1:8 on my 3-11 shift. We have to do all of our own admissions, vital signs, and personal care as well.
  13. I should have known to just turn around and go home the other day when I realized I had come into work with my scrub pants on backwards. It was truly the shift from hell.
  14. Nursing Nightmares

    I picked up an overnight shift last night and had the most vivid dreams when I finally went to bed. It mostly consisted of a patient chasing behind me while I was driving my car around the city. I just kept driving and driving, with the guy a few inc...
  15. I work inpatient psych and some of my manic patients can be so hyper verbal and tangential you wouldn't believe it! Thankfully my coworkers are pretty good about rescuing each other from these situations.