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  1. Mixing Teenagers with Adult patients

    BoogiePop posted a topic in Psychiatric

    Recently, the administration had one of their "great ideas" , and decided to open another ward next to the teenagers ward. Problem is, this ward treats adult population, and the only thing separating...

  2. Question about Seroquel

    BoogiePop posted a topic in Psychiatric

    Is it true that the less mg you recieve of seroquel, the more drowsy you get? I remember a psychiatrist once telling this to a patient but I couldn't find any objective data on the internet or in the...

  3. Question about Seroquel

    BoogiePop replied to BoogiePop's topic in Psychiatric

    Found it! apparently Wren 54 was right, its because of the Histamine receptor. you can find the link here; http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/484929_8 or try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seroquel and...

  4. How often do you use Valium?

    BoogiePop posted a topic in Psychiatric

    Here we never use it. We use a lot of klonopin and Ativan, but never valium. We still have it though, but I don't know why we don't use it. I read somewhere that the Ativan was actually more potent as...

  5. Question about Seroquel

    BoogiePop replied to BoogiePop's topic in Psychiatric

    I think she is wrong. Can't ask her today cause she's not in here today. However I wanted to make sure nobody else had heard anything. Thanks anyway, and if someone else knows anything else it will be...

  6. Question about Seroquel

    BoogiePop replied to BoogiePop's topic in Psychiatric

    yes. I also understand is not an hipnotic nor an ansiolitic. The thing that this patient was complaining that the seroquel 400mg that he was receiving was making him sleepy, and ask the psychiatrist...

  7. Question about Seroquel

    BoogiePop replied to BoogiePop's topic in Psychiatric

    I understand this, but what I need to know is if a low dose of seroquel, is more potent for sleeping that a high

  8. Im curious about the 1:1 vigilance

    BoogiePop posted a topic in Psychiatric

    How does your hospital do it, and who does it? What's the apropiate distance that the staff must have from the patient? During nightshift while the patient sleeps, do they allow the staff to read a...

  9. Halucination recording

    BoogiePop posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I heard there was a recording that allows you to hear or at least gives you an idea of what a squizofrenic patient hears during what seems to be a job interview. May someone please tell me where to...

  10. Halucination recording

    BoogiePop replied to BoogiePop's topic in Psychiatric

    wow! thank you very much! it is quite different than the one they describe me but it still great!! it will sure help a

  11. Staff Abuse

    BoogiePop replied to fawnsternurse's topic in Psychiatric

    That's horrible! isn't OSHA supposed to do something about it? Kind of makes me think because in my hospital we do get our share of violence but never on these

  12. Halucination recording

    BoogiePop replied to BoogiePop's topic in Psychiatric

    thank you very much, it will certainly help. Still it would be nice to find the recording. One coordinator at my job told me some pharmaceutical company played it on a powerpoint presentation they...

  13. adolescent detox

    BoogiePop replied to Nurse1966's topic in Psychiatric

    The patient detox process varies depending on how long has the patient's been abusing from the substance and the quantity. From what I seen, in teenagers or adult patient that go on detox for...

  14. Im curious about the 1:1 vigilance

    BoogiePop replied to BoogiePop's topic in Psychiatric

    It puts me in a stressful situation. For my part, I won't scold the assistants for reading or doing other stuff while watching the patient, because I can't expect them to do something that I know not...

  15. FNP/PMHNP question

    BoogiePop posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Is it possible to make a specialty in Family Nurse Practitioner and then make another one on Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner? I love psychiatry, and I like working on mental hospitals,...

  16. 1:1 Vigilance is sooo boring....

    BoogiePop posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I work as an MHT auxiliar in a psychiatric institution and I hate having to watch the patient 1:1. It's such a frustrating job, even more on nightshifts, where you have to watch the patient sleep...

  17. 1:1 Vigilance is sooo boring....

    BoogiePop replied to BoogiePop's topic in Psychiatric

    Yeah I always bring my books and stuff from college to study. I often work the nightshift so my supervisor doesn't mind, but my DON, thats a completely different story. She expects us to sit tight and...

  18. Puerto Rico CRNA schools

    BoogiePop replied to joenl's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Im sorry to tell you this, but currently in PR, APRN aren't really practicing their profession. The only APN that practices is the anesthetist and THEY MUST be supervised by an MD. Also Im not sure...

  19. Puerto Rico CRNA schools

    BoogiePop replied to joenl's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Im from Puerto Rico. And currently the ONLY CRNA school officialy aproved by the ANA is the Program they offer at the Interamerican University on the Arecibo district. Recinto Medico lost their...