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  1. How much does a Behavioral Health/Psychiatric Nurse?

    karynfrances replied to rn4ever?'s topic in Psychiatric

    I am a psych nurse working in an acute psych unit attached to a general hospital in Qld, Australia. I am an 8th year Registered Nurse and I earn approx $30 (Aust)per hour. Our EEN's earn approx $20....

  2. Assessing Clients For Self Harm Tendencies

    karynfrances replied to emmalou*'s topic in Psychiatric

    Surely if you are in a large public hospital you would have access to a mobile psych team that could follow up these people through a phone call etc. I think you need to refer these people on to...

  3. HPPD in psychiatry

    karynfrances replied to psych nurse's topic in Psychiatric

    I work in an acute psych ward attached to a general hospital. We have something in place along the HPPD in place. We start with basic nurse numbers for each shift and then according to the patient...

  4. Why is mental illness considered pts. fault?

    karynfrances replied to mrs.captain.kangaroo's topic in Psychiatric

    Yes the stigma exists, but people like you mrs c k will help to lessen this just by asking

  5. Victorian nurses unprotected industrial action

    karynfrances replied to BRAGGY's topic in International Nursing

    Typical of the government, need to see efficiency and productivity gains to warrant a higher increase in wages. I work in Qld and we have full time nurses working overtime shifts, 20 - 40 hours per...

  6. Why do one year Med surg nursing before going into Psychiatry Nursing

    karynfrances replied to PurifiedH2O's topic in Psychiatric

    I don't really agree that your skills that you have learnt will suffer, sure if you plonked me in the middle of a med/surg unit I would flounder for a while and would be considered slow by the regular...

  7. Why do one year Med surg nursing before going into Psychiatry Nursing

    karynfrances replied to PurifiedH2O's topic in Psychiatric

    It'll be a help to all the psych nurses who didn't do med/surg they'll be able to say that you'll be able to do a procedure better that them(means less work for them) or am I being too cynical? I went...

  8. nursing in australia

    karynfrances replied to sgts's topic in International Nursing

    Nursing issues: poor staffing levels, no lifting policies that are not adhered to,zero tolerance to violence policy that also seems not to be followed, increased paperwork and less patient time,...

  9. It's Official We are definitely short staffed

    karynfrances replied to gwenith's topic in International Nursing

    Generally 8 hour shifts is the norm in Qld, some places offer variations. We also have a shortage of staff and the staff we have is becoming burnt out by the use of

  10. security guards?

    karynfrances replied to fidelio's topic in Psychiatric

    We are a 22 bed unit attached to a small general hospital, we have use of security when someone pushes the duress alarm or to prevent a situation by using a show of force. Our security also look for...

  11. Staffing levels

    karynfrances replied to epg_pei's topic in Psychiatric

    Hi, we have a 22 bed unit and we generally have 6 staff on an am shift, 5 on a pm shift and 4 on night duty. We usually have a CN, and a mixture of RN's and

  12. I Need Days Off for My Own Mental Health!

    karynfrances replied to PsychRN-Kris's topic in Psychiatric

    I also work part time in psych and have a young family to care for. Just remember the reason you took the part time work for - your family- and don't feel guilty, the people you work for can't give...

  13. Discrimination against nurse older 45 years old

    karynfrances replied to xng's topic in International Nursing

    On our ward we have one permanent nurse under thirty (other than our grad nurse who is 20) we have one nurse in his thirties and most of us are in our forties a with a few in their fifties and a...

  14. Recreational Drug-Induced Psychosis

    karynfrances replied to Goodby5's topic in Psychiatric

    the child really needs a lot of education about the whole episode and that if he continues to abuse drugs the likelihood of a good outcome steadily

  15. I'm wondering

    karynfrances replied to lisabeth's topic in Psychiatric

    people with personality disorders are very challenging. sometimes working with schizophenia patients can be like walking into a party where everyone is drunk to some degree and you are the only sober...

  16. Maternity Leave

    karynfrances replied to littlehobo's topic in International Nursing

    In Queensland we now get 3 months maternity leave, and I think you may be able to take it at half pay and thus get paid for six months. You can take up to 12 months off all

  17. should I Stay?

    karynfrances replied to gcja's topic in Psychiatric

    the world needs good psych nurses who do it because they enjoy it. keep

  18. looking for some input from psych nurses

    karynfrances replied to gfmRN's topic in Psychiatric

    we are having similar problems in our unit. managers are telling nurses to diagnose patients even though it is outside of our scope of practice and our nursing body has told us and them this. makes...

  19. Psych Nurse ="not a REAL nurse"?

    karynfrances replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    I work in psych and I'm sure I'm a

  20. Need Help With Patient Communication - Any Tips?

    karynfrances replied to Shaneomac's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    how can you talk to a person whilst trying to listen and take their blood pressure? some things just have to be done without a lot of talk. I'd rather have the person concentrate on the job they're...

  21. Nursing...a profession or just a job

    karynfrances replied to wdkasper's topic in General Nursing

    There are days when it is "just a job" but then there are days when you've worked your heart out and a patient says thanks and it makes it more than that. My Dad has always said that a nurse is just...

  22. EB6 Proposal - Qld to gain wage parity with NSW

    karynfrances replied to Interested Party's topic in International Nursing

    looks like the time we get the final increment of this wage rise to bring us into line with the other states, they'll have headed back to the bargaining table for their next EB's and Qld nurses will...

  23. Civil Commit to Forensics?

    karynfrances replied to FutureRNMichael's topic in Psychiatric

    Hi, why should a person be beyond the law just because of a mental illness, if a diabetic patient assaulted you would that be OK because they have an illness? The person who assaults someone should...

  24. Both my patients died the other night...my first ones

    karynfrances replied to LilRedRN1973's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yes, talk to your superviser and the facility you work in should surely have some form of counseling service for staff. Do something about how you feel or the job will become harder and we need all...

  25. Ready to function as

    karynfrances replied to mebeafrn's topic in Psychiatric

    I don't think all general nurses just hide in the office. I have worked with quite a few. Some I think are fearful of entering the milieu, some percieve psych as being "easy". I have worked with one...