craftirn

craftirn has 24 years experience and specializes in psych, peds.

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1. Job shadowing in a psych unit?

   craftirn replied to tessa45's topic in Psychiatric

   I forgot to mention career paths without nursing. Mental health tech--they usually need a BS in Psych or experience social work-- out pt services include group homes that are always looking for people, I don't know what experience they need. Occupati...

2. Job shadowing in a psych unit?

   craftirn replied to tessa45's topic in Psychiatric

   My hospital is not a teaching hospital, but we do get students--nursing students. Due to HIPPA I doubt they would allow high school students into a psychiatric unit. Having worked in a psyc unit for 20 yrs I can tell you she would need to have a stro...

3. E-mar

   craftirn replied to craftirn's topic in Psychiatric

   No, They feel paranoid because they are being scanned like a grocery item!!

4. E-mar

   craftirn replied to craftirn's topic in Psychiatric

   Odd that ya'll don't have e-mar as we were told it was a FL law that all hospitals had to be on it by OCT!! It is electronic medication administration record. Oh well. We've adjusted adn kind of did our own thing with it.

5. E-mar

   craftirn posted a topic in Psychiatric

   Anyone using the E-MAR in Psyc yet? We just started it yesterday and the patients are very paranoid of it. Anyone find something that works, pass it along!

6. medically cleared?

   craftirn replied to betterliving's topic in Psychiatric

   Our medically cleared get UDS and BAL prior to coming to the unit from the ER. Suffice it to say that does not medically CLEAR anyone and there are many problems with getting medical doctors down to our unit in a timely manner. Unless it is an obviou...