Crystle_clear

Crystle_clear

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  1. Keeping the faith.

    Hey just wanted to give you guys some encouraging news. I got my letter last Wednesday from Ivy Tech Terre Haute for their ASN program for the fall semester and.....I got in!!!! (yah Happy Dance!) Anyway, just want to tell all you guys and gals still...
  2. I have never met anyone like her...

    Shay, I feel your pain. I worked on a psych unit specifically for borderline personalities for about a year. It was the longest year of my life. Imagine working everyday with 16 of those people. They certainly have a knack for just sucking the life ...
  3. Med techs

    I'm working as a QMA (qualified medication aide) right now while I finish nursing school. In Indiana to become a QMA you must have worked as a CNA or certified psychiatric technician for 1000 hours, pass a pharmacology course with an 82% or above, co...
  4. Ivy Tech - Terre Haute ASN program

    Thanks guys for all your replies. I've been stressing myself out over this whole thing for over a year. I'll just be glad to KNOW one way or the other so I can finally relax. My fiance will be glad too. I'm sure he is tired of having to hear me gripp...
  5. Not for profit vs for profit facility?

    I work for a not for profit psych facility and it is sooooo wonderful. I don't know if it just my facility, but they really listen to the employee needs. There are no dangerous cost cutting measures or cutting hours. Plus, as an added perk, since it ...
  6. Ivy Tech - Terre Haute ASN program

    Hi, just wondering if anybody out there will be applying for or have completed the ASN program in Terre Haute. I'm applying this month for the fall semester and I am sooooo nervous I won't make it in. I have an A in all my pre-reqs, but I haven't bee...
  7. Need help talking with new RN

    We do have a two week orientation period where the new nurses follow another nurses around and learn the basics of the unit. After that period a case manager or therapist is assingned to the nurse to help them acclimate to the psych side of things, l...
  8. Need help talking with new RN

    I work in a 18 bed psychiatric facility. I was a case manager there, but now that I'm in my 2nd semester of nursing school I've switched posistions to a QMA. Recently a new RN was hired to work the 2 days the regular evening nurse is off. While she i...
  9. Md's Against Crna's?

    Thank you for proving my point about prejudice without knowing the facts. I got my QMA to help pay for my nursing school and I have several years of pre-pharmacy under my belt. It seems the nurses on here think that you just walk in to a room and sig...
  10. Md's Against Crna's?

    I'm just pointing out some of the hypocrisy I've read in these forums, Marie.
  11. An idea: Change of Shift Report Form

    Our forms are printed up on night shift ready for the day with the pt. name, age, diagnosis, MD, and legal status(ie. commitment, has gaurdian), and V\S from the 0600 rounds. Throughout the day we add new orders, and bx comments and happenings.
  12. An idea: Change of Shift Report Form

    My facility has a "daily report sheet". It is actually more of a booklet because there are two pts. on each page. Throughout the day the secretary write all new orders on it as well as the MAR's and the tech's and nurses all write the basic of the cl...
  13. Did you care for a psych patient today?

    I work in a psych facility too. The thing that makes me so mad is the poor treatment that our patient recieve when at the emergency room. We are a free standing facility, so we have no access to medical supplies or diagnostic equipment. When we have ...
  14. Md's Against Crna's?

    I don't see any difference between the two. It is still prejudice against a person's ability to do their assigned job based soley on their job title or the letters behind their name. All I am trying to say is that everyone deserves respect no matter...
  15. Md's Against Crna's?

    A qualified medication aide