docpsychrn42 ASN, RN

:crying2:I am really embarassed to have to ask for help for my problem but I am at the end of my rope. All I could think of at midnight was other nurses that might be able to help me. Funny thing is...I am a psych nurse and can't seem to fix myself h...

"She just cut her neck with a broken light bulb!" said the aide. I told the nurse to call a code blue but the pager system was down. So another aide ran down the hallway yelling for help from another unit. A few aides came running over. The other pat...

I am having a lot of difficulty finding a job at 44 yrs of age. Granted I specialize in psych but most facilities that I have applied to or interviewed with are not willing to train me. They will train a new grad but not a nurse with 23 years of ex...

What hotline are you referring to that I can call? I live in a very small town so I would have to call the next big city. I know that there is a place near me that is a clinic based on income but there is a 4 month waiting period! Let me know what...

Jahra and all my nursing family, Things are no better than they were I am sorry to say. I have spent countless hours on the computer, filling out applications, sending resumes and going to interviews. Because my speciality is in psych, I can't find...

i lost my job this week. i put in almost 4 1/2 years and was let go in less than 15 minutes. i wasn't told why. i had another job that wanted me to interview and even had a unit that i was to manage...they called and cancelled their invitation to h...

I understand about the speaking English part, I just added that to my list of problems. They did have a policy that we were to speak only English though. We had so many doctor's that came from overseas that the Director made sure that was in the po...

Nurse75, I will look into that! Thanks for the information. I was complaining constantly to the corporation about discrimination because the boss and her secretary were constantly speaking spanish in the workplace! They would do it all day with pa...

BrokenRN and Smithbc1: Thank you for such kind and compassionate responses. BrokenRN, you brought tears to my eyes and really touched my heart with your words. You are right, nurses are being treated so unfairly in our fields and let me tell you......

Purplemyst, Thank you for your suggestions and believe it or not, I have the reference of one of the upper management people at the company I was just fired from! I also have several physicians that have called and told me to list them as reference...

I was given a written warning for something that a bunch of us girls had done. I didn't think it was right that I be written up for something that we had already been talked to about. My HR person told me to send a rebuttal and this is what I did. ...

They are suppose to here too, but they have nothing. I just got my notice of a raise the day after they let me go! They had just typed it up the day before they let me go? I have nothing in my file to support any wrong doing and I was shocked! I a...

i was just checking to see if anyone else is constantly being threatened with a lawsuit by an inmate if they don't get the medication they want? i am baffled that one offender we had several years ago actually has a lawyer and is attempting to sue b...

i have a question....we have an inmate that is on suicide watch in our facility. he does not want to come off suicide watch because he will have to go to the hill. so, everytime we see him (the psychiatrist and myself) he says he will kill himself ...

does anyone work for a contracted company under correctional medical services? in our state we were contracted by cms to provide mh care to the offenders and then lost that contract last year. what i am needing to find out is if cms is ultimately o...

i know that working for doc is much safer for a nurse than working in a state forensic hospital. for one thing, an offender can get 5 years added to their time for assault against a doc employee. there are consequences to their behavior unlike the ...

having worked in a maximum security forensic hospital for the criminally insane, that type of assault was an everday occurrence for the staff. i just wish we were able to get video out to the public to show the kind of abuse we had done to us. pers...

I use to work for the State and now work for CMS. HUGE difference! Working for the State gives you better benefits, more resources and in my opinion, a decreased amount of errors in the pharmacy department. I would give anything for us to go State...

Unfortunately, we do have to do all that we can do to address their issues. We call these people "borderlines and histrionic personalities". They will "fake" over and over and then there is the ONE time that they are truthful and with our luck, tha...

We have one camp that is geared towards the juveniles and they are kept seperate from the adults. Juveniles are a whole diffent type of nursing being as they are in the "tween" stage of being a child and then almost an adult. Juveniles tend to act ...

i worked in a maximum security forensic hospital for 7 years and i am working for a prison now. i can't tell you how much better it is in the prison! i suffered many concussions, broken nails, human bites, hair pulled out, knee and back injuries et...