MADHAT6

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1. Burnout

   MADHAT6 replied to MistyDawnRN06's topic in General Nursing

   Nothing left to do but smile,smile,smile

2. Nursing is Making Me Sick

   MADHAT6 replied to ChristineN's topic in General Nursing

   As you get more experience you will be able to bargain for better hours and jobs,know your worth,you may not be able to make your current employer give you good /better hours,but job hunt and parlay your experience into the hours you want,make it a c...

3. Psych to medical to psych, then back to medical in the future?

   MADHAT6 replied to Jean1313's topic in Psychiatric

   Once you go psych Med Surg you won't like !

4. They're All Liars. Are They Really?

   MADHAT6 replied to burnbabyburn's topic in General Nursing

   People give you as much information about themselves with their lies as they do with the truth...it's important to listen and hear what is really being said

5. Violent Borderlines

   MADHAT6 replied to Leahr's topic in Psychiatric

   Determine the secondary gain from these violent attention seeking behaviors and assist the client to find other ways of fulfilling that need,is the client deliberately provoking to acheive the type of destabilized environment she is used to,or to rec...

6. Crappy Nurses Day

   MADHAT6 replied to RunningWithScissors's topic in General Nursing

   I'm just thankful i still have a job!

7. Important Lessons my Patients have Taught me...

   MADHAT6 replied to SweetLemon's topic in Psychiatric

   i love my bipolar patients and the things they say like "why the hell can't i be in the damn religious program !" or "i have been fired from over 200 jobs for my excellence,now tell me do you think that is right!?" or "why shouldn't i borrow money fr...

8. Considering becoming a nurse for a drug rehab center any advise?

   MADHAT6 replied to LadyVengeance's topic in Psychiatric

   I have worked detox and rehab units and the thing to remember is that people in recovery have developed coping skills that appear highly manipulative,they can be extremely demanding and assertive and are often not like the grateful clients you find i...

9. Still No Job offers

   MADHAT6 replied to dec2008houRNgrad's topic in General Nursing

   try working in a skilled facility,the pay is good and you would be amazed at the types of patients you get to work with,pts with central lines,tpn,on chemo,trac pts,you get to do ostomy care,wound care,iv pts,psych pts,its really amazing and hospital...

10. Stress of violence at work

    MADHAT6 replied to makawiliwili's topic in Psychiatric

    WOW!Have you read your own description of how you feel? you sound like you know you need a break...read your own letter to us and treat it as if it was coming from a stranger then take your own advice,sounds like you need to work in a caring supporti...

11. so burned out

    MADHAT6 replied to edisonnurse's topic in Psychiatric

    Your facility sounds terribly understaffed,i cannot understand why you are assigned 10 patients who are children with this level of acuity,no wonder you and your physician have been injured,you are working in the equivalent of a psychiatric picu and ...

12. leaving inpatient psych nursing...

    MADHAT6 replied to kele24's topic in Psychiatric

    Its never good to criticize your last employer,its better to say it wasn't a good fit or didn't meet your needs,wasn't what you were looking for etc

13. I have a Question for you Male Nurses out there.

    MADHAT6 replied to lorster's topic in Men

    I have read that Ruth Bader-Ginsberg made her reputation by taking on discrimination cases against men...unfortunately what you describe i have seen happen to men and women by clinical instructors who have too much power, it may be a case of male dis...

14. Specialty with low/least stress?

    MADHAT6 replied to PAERRN20's topic in General Nursing

    i hope this does not sound mean but if you are not even in nursing and yet you are already worried about the stress level is it the right choice ?

15. why can't we tell them?

    MADHAT6 replied to MADHAT6's topic in Psychiatric

    i am wondering why we can't be truthful,but we have been told to avoid stating why we are not keeping them after medically stabilizing them,i have been truthful and have been,shall we say,redirected ?