2ootsRN

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1. how much orientation for new grads in psych?

   2ootsRN replied to celle507's topic in Psychiatric

   Hello Celle507, I've read your question as well as the replies you received. i have to say that I go along with elkpark and TitaniaSidhe's replies esp. Titania...'s. I too have been in nursing too long to even begin to think about it. I also started ...

2. Health Fair

   2ootsRN replied to LisaG21's topic in Psychiatric

   Lisa, have you thought about getting a sponsor (Hospital, MD offices, Co's Mental Health) to provide some $'s so you could purchase podometers and go it from an angle of stress reduction--'exercise' as there is literature out there to suppport that e...

3. Where are the PD nurses

   2ootsRN replied to Claire Chapman's topic in Psychiatric

   Greetings Claire, I work in the State of Wisconsin. Our facility is Community-Based Psychciatric Care and in 1999 we moved out of the main hospital Bldg. Our hospital expanded the AODA facility that we had and we now function on the catagory of "Beha...

4. Psychiatric Documentation

   2ootsRN replied to MBB's topic in Psychiatric

   Greetings the program we use for our computer documentation is Affinity. When our somputer documentattion screen opens up this is the name of the company: Quadramed Affinity Healthcare Information System. One very important info I would also like to...

5. Psychiatric Documentation

   2ootsRN replied to MBB's topic in Psychiatric

   Greetings. Our facility has been doing computerized charting for quite sometime now. Initially we all moaned and groaned when we were told that we were going computerized, now we moan and groan when the computer is down. We have a 'Nursing Informatic...

6. Banning smoking for psychiatric patients

   2ootsRN replied to Bjo's topic in Psychiatric

   I live and work in a Behavior Health Unit (BHU) in Wisconsin. We have three levels of care: I, II and III with level III being the most restrictive. Pt's on all three levels do have the opportunity to smoke, if they are appropriate as smoking is a pr...