NurseNinja1990

NurseNinja1990

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  1. Lost Integrity: When Nursing Students Cheat

    After I left my final last semester, I heard one girl literally had her phone out during the exam and was looking up answers. I felt cheated because I spent so much time studying, but took solace in...
  2. Inpatient or Outpatient for future PMHNP?

    Honestly, if I had the choice I'd go outpatient full time and per diem inpatient. Inpatient can be incredibly demanding and challenging, but you'll learn so so
  3. Transitioning to Psych / tips wanted!

    Congrats! A few things I usually include in the report: 1. Diagnosis of the patient. I'd become familiar with some common psych diagnosis, their common medications, and their presentations 2. The last...
  4. A few things I can think of. 1. Join the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. 2. Get Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) certified. 3. Learn the role of the PMHNP and the scope of practice in...
  5. Hi all! I'm about to finish school and was told about a Nurse Practitioner residency at a site where I did clinical hours. I had never heard of something like this, and it felt like a great...
  6. Would you take this job as a new gad?

    Thanks for the insight,
  7. I'm doing my budgeting for the year and was curious how long the process takes between graduating and taking the boards is.
  8. Just thought we could all use a warm and fuzzy topic. Nursing can seem like a thankless job at times, and when you do get that rare validation from a patient or another staff member it sticks with...
  9. Worried about PTSD

    Hi everyone, I'm mostly just here for moral support on this one. A few months ago while I was at work, I was assaulted by a patient who screamed racial slurs at me while getting in a few...
  10. Worried about PTSD

    Thank you everyone, I really appreciate the support. I think I'm going to ask about the counseling they offer at my job. I'm going through a very difficult time right now and I'm just trying to make...
  11. Failed dosage calc test and feeling like a failure.

    I did! The only reason I didn't end up in the same situation as you is we had 3 attempts to get a 90. My advice to you is take a deep breath, and find a way to be productive while you wait to retake...
  12. I want to quit during orientation...

    I've quit during orientation before. I showed up at the place after being promised a part time night position with rotating weekends only to be told it was days only, every weekend. I flat out told...
  13. NP Salaries/Location/Specialties

    TBH I'd be ecstatic to make 50+ dollars/hour if it meant I could work much less to make the same amount I make now as an RN. Work/life balance is my #1
  14. Anyone NEVER been hit/hurt working psych?

    I had my first true assault the other day. Turned around to answer a question of another nurse and got sucker punched right in the jaw. My supervisor was kind of a jerk about the whole thing, and...
  15. I was a nurse's aide in college at a pretty poorly-run nursing home. A woman I was assigned to had a walker next to her bed and asked me to grab it for her so she could make her way over to the...
  16. Whats your favorite part of nursing?

    I always have a crazy new story every week. I'll never leave
  17. Nursing nightmares.

    I had just discharged an extremely challenging and abusive patient then went home and dreamt that I was trapped on a 12 hour bus ride with
  18. Dodged a swift kick to the face today

    During a code situation I finally had a clear shot to give an injection to a combative patient and right as I finished getting the Thorazine and Benadryl in he broke loose from one of the staff...
  19. Anyone NEVER been hit/hurt working psych?

    I've been scuffed up in code situations in psych plenty of times restraining violent patients. The worst incident I've ever seen was a patient took a pretty hefty bite out of someone's arm, spilling...
  20. What is your worst visitor story?

    I used to work in detox and patient's families brought in drugs all the time. The two big ones I can remember was one lady brought in a teddy bear stuffed with 50+ klonopin tablets which were then...
  21. Uhhhh, That's Kinda Personal

    I go out of my way to give as little information as possible while staying polite. I have a coworker who has to go to court every 6 months to re-file her restraining order against a former patient who...
  22. Zyprexa and Ativan IM Compatibility - (Haldol Allergy)

    From my own experience, we typically do Zyprexa and Benadryl, and in 2 separate syringes at
  23. What is harder- nursing school or first year working?

    Oh man, for me nursing school was 100% harder. I owe it to the complete lack of support from professors, the number of hoops I had to jump through, and the general pervading feeling of anxiety that...
  24. I jumped into psych right out of school and haven't looked back :) Not for everyone, but I love
  25. Many nurses do not chart?

    I just learned some keyboard shortcuts that really cut down on my charting time. That, and videogames have made me a fast typer lol Some examples: TAB to go to the next section, and SPACE to select...