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1. I can't take one more day of psych!!!!

   edisonnurse posted a topic in Psychiatric

   I have been a psych nurse for 10 years now. To say I hate it would be a HUGE understatement!!! Honestly, I deal with very few true psych patients and more with drug addicts. I have zero respect for these people. They lie, steal, manipulate, have no a...

2. so burned out

   edisonnurse posted a topic in Psychiatric

   I graduated nursing school one year ago and started working in psych upon graduation. No med surg for me!!! (although I question that decision daily). I really thought had I worked med surg I would have quit nursing immediately. I hate anything medi...

3. Question about Seroquel

   edisonnurse replied to BoogiePop's topic in Psychiatric

   I work as a psych nurse in an adolescent facility and I distinctly remember our medical director, who has been a psychiatrist for over 29 years, telling a patients family that very same thing...the lower the dose the more drowsiness the patient exper...

4. A big mess!!!

   edisonnurse posted a topic in Psychiatric

   I just recently graduated from nursing school and went immediately into psych nursing because it is my passion, but something happened today and I'm so upset. I was told that when giving Ativan to small children to just go ahead and give Cogentin wit...

5. Am I selling myself short???

   edisonnurse posted a topic in Psychiatric

   A little about me....I just graduated nursing school May 11th and took my Nclex on June 13, passed, and got hired in an adolescent behavioral unit. I just completed my first week of work last Friday. When I got hired at this facility I was told that...

6. 4th day and I made a MAJOR mistake, what would you do?

   edisonnurse posted a topic in New Nurse

   Well today was my 4th day and I made my first big mistake. Here's the story... We have a book with the names of the people who are allowed to talk to the patients on the phone. The people in the book must know the password before we can confirm that ...

7. tomorrow is the big day...YIKES!! HELP!!!

   edisonnurse replied to edisonnurse's topic in New Nurse

   Hi,I am a nurse who graduated from Edison in Ohio...I wish it were Florida!!!! ....

8. Is it bullying or am I too sensitive???

   edisonnurse replied to Pumiky's topic in New Nurse

   I don't have any expert advice, I just had my first day today, but I just wanted to say I'm so sorry that you are being treated that way. You graduate, you are excited to start a new career, then BAM, you are hit with that!!! Nasty, Nasty women!!!No ...

9. tomorrow is the big day...YIKES!! HELP!!!

   edisonnurse replied to edisonnurse's topic in New Nurse

   Thanks everybody...well I did survive. I really just watched and tried to take in everything. Obviously some of it I have already forgotten, but thankfully they don't expect me to come in tomorrow and run the unit. The people were nice, I love the fa...

10. need help with priority questions

    edisonnurse replied to Ms.RN's topic in NCLEX

    wow i knew the answer when it wasn't even there!!!!..guess all that nursing school did teach me something...

11. need help with priority questions

    edisonnurse replied to Ms.RN's topic in NCLEX

    my two cents...pain... I would have picked vitals first, but that wasn't an option..my rationale..the question doesn't say anything about them losing blood or experiencing any fluid volume deficit so I would discard IV fluids, it didn't say anything ...

12. Can you work while going to Nursing School?

    edisonnurse replied to 2btxnurse1972's topic in General Students

    That is a good question. I think it depends on the person. The optimal situation for all nursing students would be.....dedicating 100% to school only, unfortunately that isn't reality for most people. I know many of my fellow nursing students worked ...

13. tomorrow is the big day...YIKES!! HELP!!!

    edisonnurse posted a topic in New Nurse

    Hello everybody...well tomorrow is the BIG day...my first day of work. I wrote another post a while back about how stupid I feel. That has changed somewhat. I certainly don't feel ready, but I did pass nursing school and the evil NCLEX, so I couldn't...

14. What semester is the hardest?

    edisonnurse replied to blueberry21's topic in General Students

    For me, it was fourth semester. I was so burnt out by then that just studying became an overwhelming task, and I think the fear of "Oh my gosh I am about to graduate and become a REAL nurse" scared the daylights out of me. Part of me wanted to be abl...

15. Anyone else feel like this?

    edisonnurse replied to cherokeesummer's topic in NCLEX

    I felt that way the entire time I was in nursing school!!! It was so much new information that after each test I felt like I cleared my brain of that information in order to make room for the new stuff....the reality is that although you probably don...