TsavarenaRN

Hi All! Graduated Meridian Community College's ADN program May 2008. I've been working adolescent mental health ever since (private facility then changed to state facility).

2nd semester, OB rotation. I was watching a C-section (first actual surgery experience) not five minutes into the procedure I start sweating horribly, shaking, feeling like that surgery mask was suffocating me, and feeling like I am going to faint (...

Just in short, had a doc treat one of the psych inpatient children with blatant disreguard to apropriate restraint and seclusion technique. We use CPI, not sure if many other facilities do. Pt was turning over furniture and loudly swearing. Def disru...

The only thing I could guess based on what you have written would be a med error due to lack of order for med given. This is usually (and this is based just on MY personal experience) handled by a meeting where you get written up, counseled/educated...

Love and prayers for you, you're team, and the boy. :redpinkhe:redpinkhe:redpinkhe No real suicide attempt on my peds ward since I've been there, (Thank God) but a few fights and some superficial self mutilating here and there. I know how I feel when...

All I can really say is...dive right in! Nursing school did not prepare me for psych, but it was what I really wanted to do. I was able to be hired right out of school I believe because of the lack of nurses willing to apply for psych positions in my...

Last I checked, central MS is still in need of nurses. Especially in long term care and psychiatric facilities. The medical hospitals in my area are still posting nurse openings also.

Sorry this is a little long, but I had an awesome psych instructor in nursing school that taught me this train of thought for mental health assessment. Also inservice at work was slightly helpful. This is based on an entire written narrative, mine at...

As a new nurse in psych I was already anxious/stressed. Also suffering from marriage problems. Started seeing a therapist 3 months ago, using my company's insurance plan. I am even taking some controlled substances prescribed to me; Adderall, Tranxen...

My facility keeps them on the same floor, adolescent girls on north wing, children age 5-12 on south wing. It does seem to pose more difficulties as there is only one elevator for all to share, one med window, 4 baths for showering, one nurse's stati...

I work with female adolescents on a pych ward, everyday the nurse is required to give a one hour nursing group related to the patient's probs, meds, etc. I've been doing this for about 4 months and I'm burned out on the flat boring material that the ...

I work at a psych hospital with assaultive adolescent females, needless to say I get beat up on occasion. After one such incident of being pushed down by a pt. twice my size, my lower back started to become painful, not screaming or crying, just sore...

First job as an RN, at a very nice nursing home, been there about 3 weeks now; I'm learning fast and I feel like things are going well, except for this one silly thing, which I may be getting a little over emotional about... No one believes I'm a nu...

I know how you feel. I got out of school and got my NCLEX results almost the same as you. I went applying like crazy and got pretty discouraged when I didn't hear anything back immediately. I was always up front about being a new grad but that I w...

Why is it that I can make A's and B's on all of my unit exams but then at the end of the semester I have to take an ATI Fundamentals test on the same material and then I fail? Not to mention the fact that I have to go to a testing center where people...

Right now I am working as a patient care tech on weekends while struggling through 3rd semester nursing school. Occasionally the hospital has educational classess for its staff (as I'm sure all hospitals do...) on a particularly busy day on the floor...

I am going into 3rd semester this fall. I am working as a student nurse at a local hospital. Although I do not get to do anything beyond the scope of an aid, the nurses I work with are always offering me learning opportunities by watching procedure...

Hate it. My uniform is a 'feathered' puke green button up top with a collar. It is cut in very sharply in the waist. We have see thru white elastic pants that look like parachute pants (even tho they are my size) and a white lab coat which we are...

The pharmacist prepares and distributes physician prescribed medications. Pharmacists work closely with nurses, physicians, and other health care providers to evaluate the efficacy of clients' medications. The pharmacist can also provide information ...

The words came out of my mouth once after a particularly bad clinical day. But I got over it. my clinical group is really supportive. I just keep telling myself, "It's going to be worth it in the end!!" It really will.

I'm currently in second semester. Since last August I have been working as a tech/sn at a local hospital on the pediatric/med surg floor. At first I was terrified (never worked in a hospital before) but I worked hard, learned as quick as I could, go...

I started college when I was 19, I will graduate from the nursing program when I am 24; two semesters to go! (took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do heh heh):biere:

I'm in first semester ADN, I just got to do my first few IM injections today during clinical, on my fourth injection I accidentally stuck myself after I had stuck the patient. Of course all of my other classmates knew about it. I felt so ashamed. I...

I know...I do agree that the books are pretty helpful with my regular nrsg classess, but I also strongly agree that I am becoming more freaked about them than my unit tests and my upcoming final. I took the practice tests but oddly enough they weren...

I was going to activate it after I had finished taping the cotton ball to patient's shoulder....bad decision I should have done that first. I was concerned about putting pressure on injection site. I didn't know that CDC recommends not aspirating fo...