Do nurses work in clinics/hospitals with rehab patients?

[futurelpn09]

hey i have a question. i was wondering if nurses work in clinics/hospitals with patients who are in rehabilitation?

[TazziRN, RN]

What kind of rehab? Chemical dependency? Physical? In either case, yes, both places employ nurses.

[futurelpn09]

What kind of rehab? Chemical dependency? Physical? In either case, yes, both places employ nurses.

while it doesn't matter really to me, i f u or anyone have any experience with that please let me know. not trying to be funny but i was watching intervention on vh1 and i told myself that that i may do that after lpn school, please share your experiences if any

[TazziRN, RN]

Nurses will mostly be responsible for passing and monitoring meds to inpatients; the actual rehab work would be done mostly by therapists and physicians trained in chemical dependency. At least, that's been my experience.

[futurelpn09]

Nurses will mostly be responsible for passing and monitoring meds to inpatients; the actual rehab work would be done mostly by therapists and physicians trained in chemical dependency. At least, that's been my experience.

o ok thanks alot i have so many question and i can always count on people like you on this site to help answer my questions thanks God bless.

[Murse901, MSN, RN]

I just transferred out of an inpatient Dual Diagnosis (substance abuse/mental illness) and will NEVER go back. The patient care itself is very easy. Basically just passing meds. But the patients are the worst. You have a bunch of patients who are already known to be drug-seeking, basically just replacing street drugs with Rx drugs. Most of them are borderline and are very skilled at staff-splitting, and most will tell the MD that you are refusing to give them their meds if you don't give them exactly what they ask for (sorry, I'm not giving you a PRN Xanax, Phenergan, Percocet and Ultram all at once).

Granted, you will find these sorts of manipulative patients anywhere you go, but to purposely put yourself into the position is madness.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

In 2006, I had a part-time PRN job as an LPN/LVN at a small community psychiatric hospital on the inpatient chemical dependency unit. My role was strictly to administer the patients' medications (nothing more, nothing less). The patients were all ETOH abusers and drug addicts.

[leslie :-D]

speaking as a mom of a pt (my dd) in a dual dx unit, there were some excellent nurses, and others who didn't do their jobs.

in one hospital, my dd and 5 other girls, had been pocketing the meds in their cheeks, and when the nurse was gone, spat them out, grouped them together and later, divied them up.

they had no idea what ea other was taking.

and the story goes on, and yes, there was hell to pay.

my point being, the nurses did more than merely pass meds.

there's a lot of psychological and physical intervention...

a job, i could not do.

my hats off to the competent psyche nurses out there.

leslie

[futurelpn09]

I just transferred out of an inpatient Dual Diagnosis (substance abuse/mental illness) and will NEVER go back. The patient care itself is very easy. Basically just passing meds. But the patients are the worst. You have a bunch of patients who are already known to be drug-seeking, basically just replacing street drugs with Rx drugs. Most of them are borderline and are very skilled at staff-splitting, and most will tell the MD that you are refusing to give them their meds if you don't give them exactly what they ask for (sorry, I'm not giving you a PRN Xanax, Phenergan, Percocet and Ultram all at once).

Granted, you will find these sorts of manipulative patients anywhere you go, but to purposely put yourself into the position is madness.

o wow thanks for the info