I was a pediatric and NICU nurse for the first 21 years of my career. About a year and a half ago I finally jumped into psych nursing on a very acute inpatient eating disorders unit. I love the psych part of it but so much of eating disorders was no...
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Ours is about 8 weeks on our eating disorder units. I believe it is the same on the other units. If you are a float you spend several days on each unit to get signed off in meds, milieu, and charge. You are also expected to spend a week with the ...
I'm a seasoned nurse of 20 plus years but brand new to mental health nursing. Here is something I've heard several folks say that confuses me. "I love going green/hands on." Now I'm new to this, but possibly missing something. I could see where p...
I'm excited? After 23 years of pediatric/picu/nicu, I finally chased my original dream and got it. I've been offered the dayshift charge poaition on the Child/Adolescent Eating Disorders unit at a very nice local psych hospital. What tips can you gu...
Just out of curiosity for someone working on transitioning into psych nursing. Why do most psych jobs seem to be 8 hour rather than 12 hour shifts? Personally I like 8's so no big deal, but curious about this when most "medical" slots seem to be 12 ...
I have been a pediatric and NICU nurse for 24 years and over the past several years have worked with an increasing number of kids and families with significant addiction and other mental health comorbities. I have really felt drawn to these populatio...
All our NAS babies are monitored until they are at a very low dose of diluted morphine and are off any clonidine or phenobarbital they may have needed. Maybe suggest setting up some monitored rooms so that the babies can still be with mommy but can b...
Hi everyone! My husband and I are moving to the Tulsa area in the next couple of months. I am currently in my Family Nurse Practitioner program and will be starting clinicals this fall. I am trying to find some preceptors (1 for Adult, 1 for Womens,...