Aydia1

Aydia1 has 4 years experience and specializes in psychiatry.

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1. Loan Repayment Options

   Aydia1 posted a topic in New Nurse

   Wondering if someone can educate me on the various types of loan repayment options. I am a new psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner working at a community mental health clinic (where I have worked as a nurse for the past 4 years). These are...

2. Psychiatric Certification

   Aydia1 replied to Aydia1's topic in Psychiatric

   The test was not as hard as I expected, but I studied pretty hard. I just want something that makes me stand out more than others, thats all.

3. Working with psychopaths/sociopaths, please advices!

   Aydia1 replied to zuzi's topic in Psychiatric

   Hi there. I am a psych nurse working in a clinic setting. One of my doctors let me borrow a book of his called "Without Conscience" by Robert Hare. It describes in depth the challenges of working with psychopaths/sociopaths. While it may not give...

4. Has Anyone Ever USED Their Malpractice Insurance?

   Aydia1 replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for all of the advice everyone. I do tend to be a little naive, even though I am a psych nurse and worked at our state prison prior to this job. I will certainly be getting nursing insurance, most likely through NSO. Thanks!!

5. Has Anyone Ever USED Their Malpractice Insurance?

   Aydia1 replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

   One of the members of our risk management team stated that in some instances, a private policy would not even cover the work incident. Has anyone else found this to be true?

6. Has Anyone Ever USED Their Malpractice Insurance?

   Aydia1 replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

   Going on with this same thread, my hospital assures me that I do not need any extra insurance, and that they will cover me. This is a large Catholic hospital that I would like to believe would cover me. Has anyone else heard this from their hospita...

7. Psychiatric Certification

   Aydia1 posted a topic in Psychiatric

   Does anybody know what certifications are available for psychiatric nurses? I have recently taken the ANCC certification and passed, but am wondering if there are any more from any other certifying organizations.

8. Psychiatric-Mental Health Certification

   Aydia1 replied to Deb117's topic in Psychiatric

   I recently took and passed the ANCC exam. I did use the book provided by ANCC, but another nurse suggested the review manual by springhouse publishers. It is quite a bit cheaper than the ANCC manual, and I felt it was very useful. I ordered it thr...