karynfrances

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1. How much does a Behavioral Health/Psychiatric Nurse?

   karynfrances replied to rn4ever?'s topic in Psychiatric

   I am a psych nurse working in an acute psych unit attached to a general hospital in Qld, Australia. I am an 8th year Registered Nurse and I earn approx $30 (Aust)per hour. Our EEN's earn approx $20. If that helps?

2. Assessing Clients For Self Harm Tendencies

   karynfrances replied to emmalou*'s topic in Psychiatric

   Surely if you are in a large public hospital you would have access to a mobile psych team that could follow up these people through a phone call etc. I think you need to refer these people on to psych for the patients sake and to keep you safe in yo...

3. HPPD in psychiatry

   karynfrances replied to psych nurse's topic in Psychiatric

   I work in an acute psych ward attached to a general hospital. We have something in place along the HPPD in place. We start with basic nurse numbers for each shift and then according to the patient acuity our numbers can go up from there, we do not ...

4. Why is mental illness considered pts. fault?

   karynfrances replied to mrs.captain.kangaroo's topic in Psychiatric

   Yes the stigma exists, but people like you mrs c k will help to lessen this just by asking why

5. Victorian nurses unprotected industrial action

   karynfrances replied to BRAGGY's topic in International

   Typical of the government, need to see efficiency and productivity gains to warrant a higher increase in wages. I work in Qld and we have full time nurses working overtime shifts, 20 - 40 hours per fortnight sometimes, as we have not got the staff to...

6. Why do one year Med surg nursing before going into Psychiatry Nursing

   karynfrances replied to PurifiedH2O's topic in Psychiatric

   I don't really agree that your skills that you have learnt will suffer, sure if you plonked me in the middle of a med/surg unit I would flounder for a while and would be considered slow by the regular staff, but if we get a patient on our unit who ha...

7. Why do one year Med surg nursing before going into Psychiatry Nursing

   karynfrances replied to PurifiedH2O's topic in Psychiatric

   It'll be a help to all the psych nurses who didn't do med/surg they'll be able to say that you'll be able to do a procedure better that them(means less work for them) or am I being too cynical? I went into psych nursing after only a couple of months ...

8. nursing in australia

   karynfrances replied to sgts's topic in International

   Nursing issues: poor staffing levels, no lifting policies that are not adhered to,zero tolerance to violence policy that also seems not to be followed, increased paperwork and less patient time, inability to attend training/education because of poor ...

9. It's Official We are definitely short staffed

   karynfrances replied to gwenith's topic in International

   Generally 8 hour shifts is the norm in Qld, some places offer variations. We also have a shortage of staff and the staff we have is becoming burnt out by the use of overtime.

10. security guards?

    karynfrances replied to fidelio's topic in Psychiatric

    We are a 22 bed unit attached to a small general hospital, we have use of security when someone pushes the duress alarm or to prevent a situation by using a show of force. Our security also look for prompts from nursing staff in these situations. Ou...

11. Staffing levels

    karynfrances replied to epg_pei's topic in Psychiatric

    Hi, we have a 22 bed unit and we generally have 6 staff on an am shift, 5 on a pm shift and 4 on night duty. We usually have a CN, and a mixture of RN's and EN's

12. I Need Days Off for My Own Mental Health!

    karynfrances replied to PsychRN-Kris's topic in Psychiatric

    I also work part time in psych and have a young family to care for. Just remember the reason you took the part time work for - your family- and don't feel guilty, the people you work for can't give you back the time you miss out on with your family. ...

13. Discrimination against nurse older 45 years old

    karynfrances replied to xng's topic in International

    On our ward we have one permanent nurse under thirty (other than our grad nurse who is 20) we have one nurse in his thirties and most of us are in our forties a with a few in their fifties and a couple have reached 60. So no there is no age discrimin...

14. Recreational Drug-Induced Psychosis

    karynfrances replied to Goodby5's topic in Psychiatric

    the child really needs a lot of education about the whole episode and that if he continues to abuse drugs the likelihood of a good outcome steadily decreases.

15. I'm wondering

    karynfrances replied to lisabeth's topic in Psychiatric

    people with personality disorders are very challenging. sometimes working with schizophenia patients can be like walking into a party where everyone is drunk to some degree and you are the only sober one there!! manic patients can be extremely tiri...