meeep BSN, RN

meeep has 9 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in Psychiatry.

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1. Average nurse/patient ratio?

   meeep replied to annak92's topic in Psychiatric

   Highly recommend looking for an inpatient position at a teaching hospital. Ratios will be much safer than freestanding facilities. We staff by acuity so sometimes I have 1-2 patients but a normal...

2. Question to all nurses who work in Psych

   meeep replied to VegGal's topic in Psychiatric

   I work in inpatient acute psych. We occasionally will have patients with IV's, but it's typically only the sickest catatonic patients receiving fluids or an ativan challenge. For the most part, we do...

3. 5 Smart Goals

   meeep replied to Susan Pennington's topic in Psychiatric

   A SMART goal is just an acronym for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-based. OP - Are these goals for your own learning progression she wants you to set? Or goals with

4. University of Minnesota - DNP 2020

   meeep replied to rach5251's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   No, I didn't get a confirmation after I selected a

5. University of Minnesota - DNP 2020

   meeep replied to rach5251's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   It’s possible they have different dates for the different tracks and haven’t sent out invites for the other specialties yet. They are doing the psych track interviews next

6. University of Minnesota - DNP 2020

   meeep replied to rach5251's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   I received an interview invite today, so check your emails!

7. RN career development path

   meeep replied to SparkMaster's topic in Nursing Career

   Has she looked into becoming an ND (naturopathic doctor) at all? That seems more suited than the NP role for her interests and

8. Report process

   meeep replied to Tomi90's topic in Psychiatric

   I work in a 25 bed locked acute unit. We have a group report at the start of the shift with all the oncoming nurses/techs and charge RN. The charge RN goes over the highlights of the unit, any...

9. University of Minnesota - DNP 2020

   meeep replied to rach5251's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   A few of my co-workers are in the PMHNP program, and they said they received interview invites in December, for both December and January interview dates (I believe you sign up for a date & time...

10. University of Minnesota - DNP 2020

    meeep replied to rach5251's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I also applied for psych

11. Suggestions and Tips for RN-BC PMHN Certification

    meeep replied to EWachacha's topic in Psychiatric

    I took it recently and it wasn't too bad. There were a few pretty detailed questions that weren't covered in the book, but oh well, I still passed. I used the mometrix book posted above as well as the...

12. Staffing Ratios

    meeep replied to Tigerlily8's topic in Psychiatric

    We definitely know how spoiled we are. We are hiring! They provide relocation assistance as

13. Staffing Ratios

    meeep replied to Tigerlily8's topic in Psychiatric

    I work for a private, not for profit hospital on a locked, acute psych unit and our ratios are almost always 1:3. Sometimes we are 1:4 if we are short but have never gone higher than that. Mood...

14. Emory is it really worth the money?

    meeep replied to bamwife06's topic in Georgia Nursing

    Most BSN grads I know have gotten jobs in the units they wanted, regardless of school attended. I do not think it is something unique to

15. Piedmont Residency Fall 2016

    meeep replied to Etomidating's topic in Georgia Nursing

    Piedmont is one of the last of the area hospitals to open applications for their residency, so you may end up in a position of not knowing when other hospitals have already made offers. My suggestion...