Tiggur

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1. counting controleds when your the only nurse?

   Tiggur replied to Tiggur's topic in Psychiatric

   I work as an out pt nurse in a rural area, for mental health ... im the only nurse in this program....and to reply to one of the other ,,,,,so the state pharmacy board would be the one that would be able to help me come up with a way that would be ac...

2. counting controleds when your the only nurse?

   Tiggur replied to Tiggur's topic in Psychiatric

   Im it in the program that we have there are 3 other nurse with their own progarms and we dont see each othe on a daily basis ... my meds are delivered from a local pharmacy such as a cvs .... i count when they come in and each time i have to open the...

3. counting controleds when your the only nurse?

   Tiggur posted a topic in Psychiatric

   I am the only nurse in a small rural communty psyc setting on out pt setting ... i need to come up with a policy that will cover my tale i have another nurse once a month count with me. but i dont have one every time im into my countables but i do ke...

4. Psych Nurse Recently Diagnosed Bipolar

   Tiggur replied to Nutty RN's topic in Psychiatric

   i worked with a nurse in a psyc unit inpatient that had a diagnosis of bipolar .... she was a super nurse and a wonderful psyc nurse .. if its what you love and what you do best then you ll be fine ... she has moved on to travel nursing now and she s...

5. Mom of 3 trying to go back to school

   Tiggur replied to MYAgirls3's topic in General Nursing

   it can be done but i will tell you from experience everyone sacerfices/suffers...im telling you though by the time i graduated that if i would have had to go through the stress of taking one ,more test , missed my kids one more minute i would have qu...

6. does a misdemeanor affect chances of becoming rn?

   Tiggur replied to Busy20yo's topic in General Nursing

   i have a battery charge on my record from when i was 18 and i had to write a letter telling about the situation to send in with my appication to take my boards.... i had no troubles at all... i took the advise of others i was honest and everything we...

7. desperate need of info

   Tiggur posted a topic in General Nursing

   im in desperate need of info on falls in elderly patients. one is what constitutes a fall does walking in a room and finding a patient on the floor concidered a fall if there is no apparent injury. and what type of interventions are out there being u...

8. Need advise from experienced psych nurses

   Tiggur replied to BadBird's topic in Psychiatric

   i have three teenagers in the house and they are a hand full in anycase just being teenagers .....my heart goes out to you ... hang in there ...

9. I need help...i have to do an inservice

   Tiggur replied to Tiggur's topic in Psychiatric

   thank you von ...von do you guys document a fall if you just find a patient on the floor ....do you guys have ways of identifing higher risk patient then others ... i have heard other places use like a stop light sytem they put dots on the doors of t...

10. Help! Min. safe staffing issue

    Tiggur replied to jlc's topic in Psychiatric

    i work in gero psyc and we work with one rn and one tech but of the time we have two techs usually have 5-7 patients average ... and we all feel the same way unsafe at times, overworked ,,,and very stressed ...

11. I need help...i have to do an inservice

    Tiggur replied to Tiggur's topic in Psychiatric

    The web site was wonderful good help ....But any personal input would be great...on how your units deal with falls .....Big Thanks .....Tina

12. I need help...i have to do an inservice

    Tiggur posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I have to do an inservice on falls... i work in a geriatric psyc unit our fall #'s have been up so there was a group of us picked to be on a fall task force and do some research on how other facilities deal with falls ? one big question was if you wa...

13. What is your new class size?

    Tiggur replied to moni rn's topic in General Students

    im not sure yet what our final count is yet but it was sure sad lots of tears tuesday ...some happy some sad .....we lost two i know and that is very sad .... seems our whole class instrutors and all really had a crazy semester i think were all just...

14. Help with math please!!!

    Tiggur replied to Lisa1970's topic in General Students

    This site has alot of good information, about care plans, med math, etc.. I hope this helps http://members.tripod.com/susanp3/snurse/id15.htm

15. The 1st thing to do after graduation?!

    Tiggur replied to Lausana's topic in General Students

    Gosh i have a year to go ...But after i pass state boards i wanna buy a new car and go some where nice ,,,and then spend the rest of my life spending time with my family oh and working .....those are nice thoughts ......oh and one more thing and when...