jpRN84 BSN, RN

Hello all, I was wondering if there were any Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialists on here from PA? I live in PA and am interested in getting my MSN as a Psych CNS, but when I search for jobs for it, I can't really find any. In my state CNS's cant p...

When I worked 2nd shift at a State Hospital we barely ever got admissions and most of the orders were taken off on dayshift. Most of the time was spent passing meds, treatments, interacting with patients, taking them outside to smoke. Staffing wise t...

I've worked in a drug and alcohol detox/rehab for about 4 years now and we give Phenobarbital for people coming off of benzo's, methadone or suboxone for opioid addicted people, and librium for people coming off of alcohol.

I think almost all of the states require you to sit for the NCLEX. Good luck to you!

It sounds like she was drug seeking. One thing to always remember is, that patients should know all the medication they are taking by name, it's their right. Just because someone asks for their med by name doesn't mean they are drug seeking. Never fo...

You can't control what people are going to say, just ignore the ones that feel the need to talk down to people. They have the right to voice their opinion, and we have the right to ignore it.

I agree with Nialloh, you are a New Grad, with not much experience I'm guessing. You will need someone to lean on for advice and help and mentoring. I wouldn't take it if that wasn't available to you. If that is available to you, I would take it if y...

I like the term Psychiatric Nursing, not Behavioral Health Nursing or Mental Health Nursing. It is Psychiatry after all, I never heard of a Psychiatrist call themselves anything else.

Thank you for your reply elkpark. It's very sad that they would hire people with less education to do the therapy. But as the say, money makes the world goes around, and companies are gonna pinch their pennies any chance they can get, even at the exp...

I ALWAYS knew I wanted to be a psych nurse, and when I graduated nursing school, there were no psych jobs available, so I did medical nursing for 6 months, which now that I did that, Im glad that i have that experience to draw upon. Good luck to you!

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she said she did check the arm band, but got it mixed up after getting interrupted, and wasnt sure who was supposed to get what med...Now at that point, if you wasnt sure, you should have went back to medication administration record and check again....

I know when I was in nursing school, one of our instructors who's an NP worked in the hospital as an RN, and didnt come across any problems. She only did the RN thing PRN though for a summer before our clinicals to refresh herself as working as a bed...

It's discrimination- plain and simple!

I work in a drug and alcohol detox/rehab. We use methadone and suboxone to treat opiate withdrawal, except they cant have suboxone if they have been on benzos or using alcohol. We use phenobarbital to taper people off of benzos, and we use Librium fo...

Psychiatric clinical nurse specialist or psychiatric nurse practitioner for me.

I have no problems with either having an ASN or BSN. I am glad I got my ASN when I did and wouldn't have done it any other way. I am going to be starting an RN-BSN program soon as I want to get my MSN eventually. If I didn't want my MSN though, I wou...

ALSO, the point of my original post was to show that each individual is different, and shouldn't be judged solely on whether they have an ASN or BSN.

I SAID people should be evaluated on more than just the degree they have. Meaning, they should take other things into consideration than just the person's degree. YES having a degree is necessary, BUT also evaluating other things should be done also.

I am an ASN grad, my sister is a BSN grad, I KNOW for a fact I had more clinical time than her. Some programs have more, some have less. I took the NCLEX-RN one time and passed, my sister the BSN grad had to take it four times until she passed. I kno...

I work in an inpatient detox/rehab, you would get plenty, plenty, plenty of psych nursing experience working in one.

I've been a RN for a little over 3 years, and have worked in health care for 11 years, and in my past experiences, more often than not I have seen the more experienced nurse bully the new nurse.

Thanks Deb, I really don't want to prescribe meds, and I am way more interested in doing therapy. But in Pa, where I live, most of the jobs out there are for Psych NPs and not Psych CNSs, as most companies want the NPs that can do med management, as...

What free standing psych units are in Harrisburg?

Congratulations! Right now I'm torn between going for Psych CNS or Psych NP. In my state, PA, Psych CNS's cant prescribe meds, and therefore there doesn't seem to be many job offerings because of it. Oh what to do...