PMHNP-1

PMHNP-1 has 10+ years experience and specializes in Brain Illnesses.

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1. Can Psych NPs wear suits to work?

   PMHNP-1 replied to kj954's topic in NP

   Agree. I think it is pretentious - the white coat is also pretentious and designed to show who is boss. I don't like it. It's a status thing. The patients KNOW you are a provider - but you are also supposed to be approachable, and the office or the u...

2. Can Psych NPs wear suits to work?

   PMHNP-1 replied to kj954's topic in NP

   You found jobs as a new grad? Wow! In the state where I live, there were no jobs then, and there are no jobs now. They pay NPs about the same as RNs but PAs make over $120,000. Worst decision of my life, this MSN. May I ask what state or area of the...

3. Can Psych NPs wear suits to work?

   PMHNP-1 replied to kj954's topic in NP

   It depends where you work, whether or not you can or do wear a suit. In outpatient, certainly. In hospital, some hospitals everyone - EVERYONE - wears a kind of scrub, then white coat. Bigger issue: do you know what it is like to work as a psych NP?...

4. Is this true? Salary Question

   PMHNP-1 replied to MexicanFNP's topic in NP

   The salary surveys, provided annually in NP/PA magazine typically show that PAs, who must work with a physician (while NPs don't have to except in Mississippi and Michigan) under supervision, get more by far than NPs. Their salary has been going up, ...

5. Is this true? Salary Question

   PMHNP-1 replied to MexicanFNP's topic in NP

   I do know quite a few NPs who went BACK to work as RNs. I'm pretty sure it is this state - it is notorious for being a very bad practice environment for NPs, there are NO unions for nurses and so wages for them are pretty bad, there is also no patien...

6. Taboo: 10 Things Nurses Should NEVER Say!

   PMHNP-1 replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

   I wish it were meant to be fun. The fact that so many nurses have seen this behavior in their workplaces - and that many nurses are serious about it - means it isn't really "fun".

7. Taboo: 10 Things Nurses Should NEVER Say!

   PMHNP-1 replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

   Actually, several validated retrospective studies show that full moons are NOT the worst. However - the behavior of nurses who "feel" (thinking not in evidence in this case) that this is true CAN affect the behavior of patients.

8. Taboo: 10 Things Nurses Should NEVER Say!

   PMHNP-1 replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

   Hope it is all in fun, since that kind of behavior can also be the sign of an anti-science bias, or show the way to a group of nurses who cannot introduce new evidence-based practices into their work.

9. Taboo: 10 Things Nurses Should NEVER Say!

   PMHNP-1 replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

   Horrible. Rather than encouraging this superstitious anti-science worldview, we should be fighting against it. Nurses who "feel" (thinking doesn't come into it at all) that these superstitions are "real" may also be the anti-vaxxers, the psych RNs te...

10. Accusing Hospice

    PMHNP-1 replied to jeastridge's topic in Hospice

    I do hope it was the family who introduced religion or religious viewpoint into this. If any of my relatives were to encounter someone talking about "gods plan" or any of that, they would have to go through the process of firing the hospice and findi...

11. Need advice please!

    PMHNP-1 replied to TSimpson730's topic in LTAC

    Good for you - you call the state agency in charge of investigating elder abuse, you call CMS also - since CMS certs these places. You should just QUIT. It sounds bad enough that your license could be in danger. It will never ever look bad if you qu...

12. Help please in naming actual issue- I am terrible at this

    PMHNP-1 replied to amychisom's topic in Research

    Please don't call that "research" - use of that term for describing non-research activities is diluting the meaning. You're reviewing the literature, not doing "research". You'll be looking at the peer-reviewed journal articles written by actual rese...

13. I HATE Nurse Practitioners

    PMHNP-1 replied to Angeljho's topic in NP

    Crazynut, that isn't the problem. There is a shortage of psychiatrists who will go into the HOSPITAL to see patients. they don't earn enough to do that, typically: private practice pays more.

14. I HATE Nurse Practitioners

    PMHNP-1 replied to Angeljho's topic in NP

    Newsboy, doesn't sound like any PMHNPs would want to work there. Similar situation in a local beh. health inpatient unit here. A colleague went in...........lasted less than a month. Treated like dirt - not just by the psychiatrists, but by the RNs a...

15. Patient rights to refuse?

    PMHNP-1 replied to wezzie, RN's topic in Psychiatric

    There are probably many more problems in this unit than this punative illegal treatment of patients who won't go to group. Let me guess. According to this "nurse", most patients are "entitled", or "on the border haha", or "needy". Or they're faking i...