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  1. Becoming a Mental Health/Psychiatric NP - Advice

    algebra_demystified replied to Medic362's topic in Psychiatric

    It's not as competitive, but there are reasons for that. There's the old standby... Psych is the first thing to go. When budgets get cut, mental health services get cut before med/surg. If you can,...

  2. Accepted! Now what?

    algebra_demystified replied to mmills63's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I left something out. Nervous system receptors. Opioid, muscarinic, nicotinic, etc. Get to know all of them very well, they will come up again and again and again. The most important part of...

  3. Custom scrubs

    algebra_demystified replied to algebra_demystified's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I'll take some

  4. Custom scrubs

    algebra_demystified replied to algebra_demystified's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Oh, I done did it. $150 in silk/cotton blend material for four scrub tops with a half a yard of rayon/poly/whatever blend. It's all shades of blue from midnight to sea foam green. All four colors...

  5. Resources for new Psych nurses

    algebra_demystified replied to mangopeach's topic in Psychiatric

    Pretend the patients are actual people who have their own individual life stories that make them who they are instead of psych patients presenting for an intake interview. I would venture so far as...

  6. Landed a dream position in psychiatric nursing!

    algebra_demystified replied to metricalpound's topic in Psychiatric

    You're going to be doing a lot of paperwork and error checking/correcting. You will be reviewing charts to see whether care plans have been written. You will be second-checking medication orders to...

  7. Had a patient call the unit after discharge today

    algebra_demystified posted a topic in Psychiatric

    It was one of those tough love conversations. "He didn't tell you his last name or give you a phone number for a reason. I'm trying to save you a lot of headaches later. Only hook up with the...

  8. What does it take to be a good psych nurse?

    algebra_demystified replied to paulschwinn's topic in Psychiatric

    There is no "taking notes smiley." You'll see it on your patients'

  9. Tell me how a nurse with no psych experience and no psych certification get picked o?

    algebra_demystified replied to edchunt's topic in Psychiatric

    Another way of asking the question is, "Why did I, with all my experience, get passed over? What did I miss? Why was this other candidate with no experience chosen over me?" Maybe there's another...

  10. Motivating Burnt-Out Staff

    algebra_demystified replied to lulain's topic in Psychiatric

    Well, I'm glad I'm out of there anyway. I've moved on. In some ways it's the best thing that could have happened to me. It lit a fire under me to improve myself. In another three years, I'm not...

  11. Motivating Burnt-Out Staff

    algebra_demystified replied to lulain's topic in Psychiatric

    I had that situation in a former workplace. A coworker would sit in the day room with the patients and watch TV for hours at a time. I told him to stay out of my way while I did the work. He had no...

  12. Accepted! Now what?

    algebra_demystified replied to mmills63's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Here are things you will need to know from anatomy, physiology, and med/surg i-iv. 1. Cholinergic/anticholinergic 2. Parkinsons vs Alzheimers 3. Diabetic medications. All of them. Every last...

  13. Resources for new Psych nurses

    algebra_demystified replied to mangopeach's topic in Psychiatric

    Verbal Judo Thank You for Arguing The Psychopath Test Sun Tzu's The Art of War Yalom's Existential Psychotherapy Motivational

  14. Tell me how a nurse with no psych experience and no psych certification get picked o?

    algebra_demystified replied to edchunt's topic in Psychiatric

    PEBCAK This means they made an idiotic error. -

  15. Nursing intervention for schizophrenic patient having sex?

    algebra_demystified replied to robinslapsRN's topic in Psychiatric

    Hmmm, I wonder what the HIPAA rules say about

  16. What does it take to be a good psych nurse?

    algebra_demystified replied to paulschwinn's topic in Psychiatric

    I think a lot of it lies in getting rid of the power differential between the patient and the nurse. Patients see the nurse as a powerful figure who can dictate a lot of their behavior, can punish or...

  17. Patient abuse

    algebra_demystified replied to algebra_demystified's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    After I turned in the supervisor to the DON, she went around to my coworkers and solicited letters of complaint about me. She got a nice thick stack of them, sat me down, and wrote me up. I had to...

  18. Yet another unnecessary takedown

    algebra_demystified posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I'm fed up with the number of unnecessary takedowns at my current employer. We had another one tonight. I'm the "big guy" on my unit and refused to escalate a conflict, so staff called another nurse...

  19. Patient abuse

    algebra_demystified replied to algebra_demystified's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I put in my report that I will be following up with the BON in two weeks, and I mentioned that the CNO is a mandatory reporter. I think it's only fair that I give her a heads-up on this. It was so...

  20. Patient abuse

    algebra_demystified replied to algebra_demystified's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    To make a long story short, I got cornered at work by the DON. I'm going to give up the

  21. Wow, did I step in it at the new job

    algebra_demystified posted a topic in Men in Nursing

    Early on at this place (early on is your first week to two weeks) I was doing meds while another nurse worked the floor. What I'm used to is the med nurse does the meds, the floor nurse works the...

  22. Have you read The Psychopath Test?

    algebra_demystified posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I was surprised to read what he had to say about the DSM. To think it was a handful of people yelling over each other, arbitrarily making up diagnoses, just makes me sick. It sounds as though the...

  23. Getting Hurt in the Units

    algebra_demystified replied to HolyPeas's topic in Psychiatric

    You might have gotten me wrong. I'm not a tough guy. It's not about whether you could do any of a number of things on your own, except in the final defense of your life or serious disability/loss of...

  24. Getting Hurt in the Units

    algebra_demystified replied to HolyPeas's topic in Psychiatric

    If I were in your shoes I would think hard about a few topics before taking a position on the floor. Here's a short list. 1. Power tripping 2. Drawing a line in the sand 3. Hospital policies and...

  25. Shady S/R practices. . .

    algebra_demystified replied to BSNBritt's topic in Psychiatric

    As a psych nurse, S/R is Code Blue. This is the most acute situation you can be in. Consider the crash team in the ED as the equivalent of the S/R situation on a psychiatric ward. There are many...