Psych77 replied to Jerry 75's topic in Correctional
I may see 5 people with chest pain in a day. Most are fake; for us we need a doctor on site to do an EKG; so at night, we just have to go by vitals, our assessment, age, IM's history, and bulls*** meter. If everything looks good, they are young, and ...
If I were you I would totally just study for a couple months, get all the help you can get with courses, study groups, tutoring, whatever you can do. I failed a semester in school (days before graduation), and it sucked but I repeated it the next y...
I stopped trying to convince them that its justified, it never goes anywhere. You just have to tolerate that they are upset with the system and you are the messenger. On a positive note, a lot of nurses I work with forget to have them fill out the pr...
Psych patient with disheveled hair sprawled out in different directions, and a wide eyed kind of stare, "I haven't slept in seven years". She would say it every day, like a mantra. Of course she's observed sleeping every night.
Hopefully you can study and get that 92%. I flunked out of my last semester of my ADN. They let me go back the next year, and I finished and am now working. I met a lot of people who repeated courses and then finished. I would also say most nursin...
So those in corrections know we deal with fake chest pain, fake abdominal pain, fake seizures, fake everything all the time. My latest technique I just discovered is....making them wait while I monitor them. Sometimes I'm not sure if something is re...
haha...they told us that too...I tried it for one day( maybe even for one patient?), and it felt so absurd, and then I realized that no one else is saying this.
Psych77 replied to reptilesavvy's topic in Correctional
I was just talking about this with the nurses at work; people were saying, don't get the insurance (unless you are rich), because lawyers can find out you have it and sue you personally instead of just the prison.
Psych77 replied to femaleRN's topic in Psychiatric
I used to do the same thing at my psych rn job (now I'm in corrections). It seems appropriate rather than...what you said, socializing in the nursing station, which is what generally happens. I guess nurses and doctors feel that they just do the me...