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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...

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...

:yes::wavey: scary to think about... gonna double check LOL gave me a laugh though...

@edmia You are correct Larry did not say those things the persons mentioned above did and yes it a deplorable attitude in a manager or even a human being sounds like stuff you see posted on Yahoo...

Personally as a nurse I have had many interviews with those structured type questions. I have had my mind go blank at times but I recovered however in my heart I dont think answering hypothetical...

@ Netglow... must have in those days but now just a tired monkey covered up at all times LOL....

LOL you gave me my first laugh of the day. You know I know you were embarrassed but you causing those family members to smile in their time of grief was probably good. I know I did something similar...

I am currently going through a legal issue that I am paying restitution and doing community service for and the agreement with the judge if I do this at the end it will not result in being on my...

You go JBMommy. You have a great attitude and I would be honored for you to be a co-worker of mine. Best of luck to you and LTC is great . It and psych are my true loves. One clinical area psychiatry...

NewBoy, I am an experienced psych nurse and I have lead an acute care team. You are the team lead and it is your nursing judgement and the physician's order who decides who is IMed. While I have...

Everything all prior posters said ... wonderful points and most of see the person behind the diagnosis . I work with 38 residents dealing with schizophrenia and not a darn one of them are the same...

Xoemmyloux, I am afraid of that too. Its time for me to move to another state as soon as I can if these proposed rules become rules of law under the RCW and WACs in this state. I just voted in the...

I enjoy working the holidays for the extra money of course but when I was a new nurse I had just went through a divorce and my ex had my kids that year at Christmas. I would have had a miserable day...

Hi all. This is for Washington state RNs in particular and I am sure in coming years other states are going to attempt this in state BONs. The DOH ( which is our BON here in Washington ) has...

@Do good.. I went to school in the early 2000s and we learned gravity drips as well. You are right all nurses should know how and I am glad that I do so if in a natural disaster or no pumps.. I can...

@ CountyRat. I watched the debate and I heard that comment to however I did not take offense. He or it meant to me that there needs to be some job training and help for returning vets . I do think...

I think I may move down to California next year instead of back to the Midwest. I have been a nurse almost 10 years and I do think until the federal and or state governments mandate ratios it will be...

Patti_RN, You said it all about psych nursing. I too love it and the people and you are so right in the education you give others about what psych nursing is and is not. Bless you.

I no long work LTAC but you will never forget the patients and families. You will learn so much. Hopefully find a co-worker who loves to teach new nurses and you will do fine. Good luck and God Bless...

Jeannepaul, I agree that the original OP was given the shaft. She is agency was doing her best to help out a facility in the way the administrator wanted. It looks like it was poor communication...

Dang Carolladybelle and floridanurse, I once considered moving to Florida to live and do nursing there glad you all are truth tellers and giving us the skinny. I sometimes think our healthcare...

Thank you for that beautiful essay. It touched me very deeply.

I am attempting to pick some per diem shifts and I was told by a staffing agency recruiter that because the agency is Joint Commission certified that no RN or LPN that presently works in long term...

@ nursecard and MN- nurse.....That was the company too that had me doing the hash slinging along with meds.. LOL.. and they always need nurses and can't hire them. I wonder why.

@Neatnurse 30, I work as an RN and I am not having children I have already raised them and the government isn't paying for them or me. I am most certainly not on drugs and I have no insurance...