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looooooove my scrub tops depending on the day of the week will wear them with black jeans or blue on the weekend. The louder the print the better (lots of Hawaiian ones)... my patients comment on ones that they like in particular (especially if I'm wearing animals), everyone else gets mistaken for a doctor when in street clothes... as a matter of fact one of the patients asked me if he could speak with the doctor that gave him his meds (I told him I wanted to be part of HIS insurance co. that had the money to pay a Dr. to pass meds, but I digress)... I can't remember the last time I wore all street clothes or even WHY I did working in psych.

Speaking of dead people.... The resident, one of the male NA's and myself were at the bedside of a woman,DNR, that had obviously passed away... just standing there looking... the NA turned to the resident, who was there to do the pronouncement, and said "Do you think I should have used foreplay?" This same poor woman had needed to be suctioned earlier that tour (really on the way out), the LPN suctioned her and reported that she didn't like doing that because she was afraid the woman would die just then and there while being suctioned... I let the resident know her thoughts and when we went back to the nurse's station, he sat down hard on one of the chairs and exasperatedly said "All I want to know is WHO was the last person to suction that woman?"... The LPN looked like she was going to be the next to go...

God Bless those psych RN's who DO have the staffing, I hope their DON's have the best of holidays but there are places that do not have staffing and what the heck!...an enclosed nurse's station is not too shabby a thing to have... I work on one and I worked when we didn't have one... all in all... I like it, when my young and virile brain damaged patient demanded to be let out for a smoke and wouldn't relate to verbal intervention, it was the plexiglass that broke not my nose, and my poor unfortunate hiv and hcv + patient that can't get a word out edgewise without spraying spittle all over your face on the medication line got the plexiglass and not me! When Im on the floor to care for one of the patients, I do not have to put away all the stuff on my desk because it will still be there when I get back, and when one of my guys wants to have a heart to heart, he can come on in to the nurse's station and not worry every other patient and their brothers will catch all or part of the conversation. Computers, printers, phones, monitors, plants etc... do not have to be drilled to the desk and bolted up so tight Houdini couldn't get at it to prevent someone with anger management issues rearrainging the office furniture and all the other lovely things that can happen when you work with emotionaly challenged, impulse disordered, perspective altered, cognitively skewed and behaviorally rearrainged patient groups with the occasional odd antiChrist or demon spawn thrown in for yuks. I love this stuff, wouldn't go back to regular nursing no way, this type of nursing is waaay better than an E-ticket ride, and my nursing staff is the best I've ever worked with, I do not worry about wether or not my back is covered... but even with the best of equipment and best of staff and best of intentions... spit happens and isn't is nice to have goggles on when it does?

LOVED IT ! We use to do that too when I was a medic and then sing them at the Christmas parties... most were unit specific One of them was to Winter Wonderland and part of it that wasn't specific was Sirens blare ! are you listening in the rig's nitroglycerin a Code 55 we'll bring back alive rushin' doin' 90 all the way Remember in the snow yo can't defib them if yo do you'll look just like a tree with lights and if you do you know well go a give ya some bicarb and some lidocaine tonight

When I worked 12's we did three 12's per week and one 8 every two weeks wheich came out to 80 in a two week period, loved it

When I worked 12's we did three 12's per week and one 8 every two weeks wheich came out to 80 in a two week period, loved it

WOW... child/adolescent psych... I work in an adult psych acute admissions unit (also in jersey)... I've never done adolescents but a colleague of mine has, and basically be prepared for an exercise in mental gymnastics, your limits will be tested and expect to have fun, because you will... as for psych in general my feeling is that there isn't much difference between myself and the person on the other side of the locked door, circumstances (some self induced and/or some environmental) put them there and not me... I try not to lose sight of my sense of humor, I try to realize when I'm being manipulated vs when someone is being straight with me (I'm not always able)...you will not relate to everyone, and some will push your buttons any chance they can get... they are creative, observant, and can tune into you sometimes faster than you can tune into them, and they know whats going on on the floor sometimes better than you do. Hey, good luck in your adventure, personally I'm happy I left the ER and went to psych.

Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Hi Jackieliz, did you check out the website for the International Association of Forensic Nurses ? It has a list of resources by state. Try the State Forensic Nurse Association as well, that's how I was able to find my class. I took the course here in NJ this past January, it was an eye opener for some things and validated things I knew from working the ER and in psych and waaaaaaay back when in nursing school. I haven't persued the program further (SANE certification that is) because my interests are in forensic psychology, but it's all a part of it. besides now I have papers that proove I'm SANE. (although the tell me they are going to change the acronym) Good luck with the course.

decapitation... yep that would do it

decapitation... yep that would do it

They make Ice Cream don't they?

Before the universal precautions era, I worked a paramedic unit, when we would do a code in the field our trash would go into a plastic bag, generally ont of the EMT's would be nice enough to bag it for us as we used it, an then we'd toss it in to the rig on the way to the hospital, my medic partner sat on the ambulance bench, on top of the plastic bag with a bicarb bristojet sticking up out of the bag (OK he wasn't sitting long), we were amused... Then as an EMT, we responded to a head injury on campus, my crew chief was "muy macho" and the head injury victim was very pretty, he assumed control of the scene and put the vic on the stretcher backwards, we tried to warn him, the stretcher would not fit in the rig and we pulled her back out of the ambulance, Mr. Macho decided to just turn the stretcher around and lift it by himself, in the process, (she was still on the stretcher) he smacked her head into the back of the ambulance door... this last one, the injury in itself was not the funny part, the x-ray scene was, and Italian woman was making sausage, and her fingers and hand had become stuck in the grinder, she came to the ER and then had to go for x-rays... her anxiety level was up a bit , to say the least, they couldn't communicate with her because she had trouble speaking english, we had to cut her bra off but they weren't getting the point across, finally I said (in an Italian accent and broken english) "I'ma sorry buta we gonna hafa to cutta dis off", and she happily said "OK cutta, cutta"

I am also a Reki II practitioner and have had some results that amazed me, personally the Reki Master that taught em was my headnurse and I developed Bells Palsy one weekend... I was given pred. but started having an adverse reaction to it and was told that I would just have to wait it out, it was thought that I would be stuck with it for a few months until it resolved itself but "Out of the Mist, with a hearty HI HO Silver" came my headnurse to the rescue and the Bells Palsy was gone in two weeks and I have no residual effects left. The key to Reki is that you have to give permission to be worked on and be willing to take the treatment, my instructor had warned "you can do Reki for anyone as often as as long as you can but if they are not willing to accept the healing, it will not work"

There are reservations in upstate NY, Conneticut, (Iroquoi Nation, Pequot) one tiny one in NJ (Rancocas reservation, Pohatwan I don't even think I spelled that right) I was psyched out thinking I could get a job with BIA and settle in one of these places but when I submitted my application the only choice they gave me was S. Dakota and while I may be a rural kind of girl at heart, I'm not that rural.

Color is not the point to this thread, Groov but if it was, you wouldn't be able to make that statement since you've never seen my (I was going to say butt, but) legs before the summer :imbar wax on vs wax off pink caddilac vs little GTO Nashville vs Motown Sounds of Silence vs Shout