I have been a psych nurse for years! Diversified to Dir. UR/UM, Prison and now Dir of QA. No experience with Med Surge. I have a bachelor in Psychology and MBA.
Safety Training, Crisis Intervention, Verbal De-escaltion and Behavioral Intervention Techniques (including the use of restraints) should be part of your orientation and competency process.
If you have limited budget...like everyone else - Excel and Access is designed for database collection that could be sorted for dates, expiration, licensure and whateverlse you want to track. You can easily place a formula and auto calculate license expiration dates. Time to learn folks!