SeeK

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1. Charting Bloopers

   SeeK replied to AHarri66's topic in Humor

   oooohhh and my husband is an ICU nurse, he said one dr. wrote in the patients chart...."if patient codes, be sure to SLOW code him, IF he makes it through the night, get chest xray"...my husband called him and said "i dont think you should of wrote t...

2. Charting Bloopers

   SeeK replied to AHarri66's topic in Humor

   i once wrote in a paranoid schizo's chart that had a BS on the lower side...."offered patient a snake"....of course you know i meant snack and even after i drew my line through it you could tell what it said and i was teased for awhile....lol

3. patient load and other gripes :)

   SeeK replied to G'smommy's topic in Psychiatric

   this is how our unit is staffed and according to accuity it can change, we just have to say something.... adult psych- 20 beds, 2 nurses, 2 techs, split in half evenly all the way down to 10 beds filled, then it is 2 nurses and 1 tech (it has only go...

4. How "MEDICALLY" stable do pt's need to be on a geropsych unit in a hospital?

   SeeK replied to RN1263's topic in Psychiatric

   i wanted to add...the reasons we do not have patients with IVs, trachs, feeding tubes, ect...is for safety...other patients may go into the other patients room and mess with the equipment, suicidal patients may use the equipment on them selves (cords...

5. How "MEDICALLY" stable do pt's need to be on a geropsych unit in a hospital?

   SeeK replied to RN1263's topic in Psychiatric

   i am a geriatric psych nurse on a unit in a HOSPITAL, the unit is locked and they HAVE to be medically stable...this unit is not like a nursing home at all (I have worked at a nursing home to). the patient have the same problems as 65 years and young...

6. Inpatient Visitation Times

   SeeK replied to p0969's topic in Psychiatric

   our times are only m-f , 6p-7p