Nimrodel BSN, RN

Nimrodel has 6 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in Psychiatric/Mental Health, Med-Surg, Corrections.

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1. school decision help: Emory MN pre-licensure vs RUSH GEM

   Nimrodel replied to waterair's topic in School Programs

   I'd like to clarify: is this decision for BOTH your MSN and phD automatically, or is just the MSN, and you're reflecting on future options? My two cents: nursing doesn't care as much about name schools as much as most other fields. *especially* for...

2. Inpatient psych patients refusing to wear ID bracelets, so scanning compliance is poor - what is your practice?

   Nimrodel replied to deweydecimal13501's topic in Psychiatric

   We have had this issue also. Management says: offer them a new ID band at each med pass. Of course, sometimes that just sets the pts off (not to mention, slows med pass - there's one medication nurse for 20 pts). There is an index of pts by room numb...

3. DNP Public Health Nursing vs Population Health Nursing, thoughts?

   Nimrodel replied to bsnorbust's topic in Doctoral

   What do you want to do? You say you want increased growth, autonomy, salary; those could likely be obtained without a DNP. Rather than looking at it as "what can I do with a DNP", consider it as "how will a DNP (or other advanced degree) get me where...

4. Understaffed and feeling unsafe

   Nimrodel replied to jnks's topic in Psychiatric

   Re CA staffing, yes, only psych hospitals which are attached to a “medical” hospital have ratios. Otherwise the magic 1:7 does not exist in freestanding psych hospitals.

5. Scary Paranoid Thought

   Nimrodel replied to paramedic-RN's topic in NP

   As an RN I’ve called in scripts, including controlled substances once in a while, at work. So I’m not sure what would stop that honestly. Hopefully the pharmacy has some form of countermeasure.

6. How to Prepare for First Day on the Job

   Nimrodel replied to ForTheKids's topic in Critical

   I do not have ICU experience but I am a fairly recent graduate and honestly I have always struggled a lot with skills (in that I can do them, but it seems to take me a couple more tries than other people to get them). Personally, I learn next to noth...

7. How do you become a palliative care NP?

   Nimrodel replied to lemonlove's topic in Hospice

   As others have mentioned there are various program options. CA specific, I know UCSF has a palliative care subspecialty for NPs. If relocating is an option, there are also a select few palliative care NP "residencies" - usually a year in length....

8. Stanford vs UC Salary New Grad

   Nimrodel replied to kmalone's topic in New Nurse

   For any UC, because they are government jobs, you can look up “UC (whichever one) salary scales”, sometimes you gotta throw a health in there or something. The title code for nurses with experience is 9139 or 9140 for new grads, that’s basically acro...

9. Anyone NEVER been hit/hurt working psych?

   Nimrodel replied to kingvonnBSN2017's topic in Psychiatric

   I've been in psych for a year now. So far I've dodged everything ;) but yes, I've been spat at, patients tried to bite me, kick, hit, etc. Not sure when my dodging luck will run out though.

10. Want to leave Psych for Med Surg or something else...

    Nimrodel replied to Dulari94's topic in Psychiatric

    You could look into doing a refresher course. The BRN has a list of them (not approved or anything, but just as a resource). The content varies, but I imagine some of them review some clinical skills and the like. https://www.rn.ca.gov/education/co...

11. Senior practicum in oncology unit

    Nimrodel replied to Wendy_z's topic in Oncology

    Hi! I am about halfway through my oncology preceptorship. I’d say the biggest way it affects my learning (when contrasted with med-surg) is just there are some things I don’t get much exposure to...like I’ve had zero IV starts, and out of 30 patients...

12. Trans Patient

    Nimrodel replied to Neo Soldier's topic in Psychiatric

    Trans guy here - She's not male. That's an inaccurate and harmful assumption. Other people have made good points regarding policy and patient safety, but I'd like to address something else. Nearly half of trans people have attempted suicide. The les...

13. Psych Nursing - Boring?

    Nimrodel posted a topic in Psychiatric

    Hi all, So I'm a nursing student and we are halfway through our mental health clinical rotation. I am finding it completely boring, and so are many of my classmates. It seems as though the nurses only chart, pass meds, and call the physician, with ex...

14. PMHNP & LCPC Advice Needed

    Nimrodel replied to sdeymonaz's topic in Psychiatric

    Some PMHNP programs include a fair amount of therapy training. There's not really a practical reason to pursue LCPC - it's years of additional schooling without much payout. With PMHNP, you can do both therapy and med management. If your passion is t...

15. gender "issues"

    Nimrodel replied to rac1's topic in Psychiatric

    You claim to be open to other viewpoints and professional opinions, and yet your words very clearly indicate that you have made up your opinion and don't care who you harm by having that opinion. I'm out.