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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 assignment is 3 patients per RN. We have an admission/discharge nurse, group nurse, and charge nurse who do not carry a patient assignment, so we have a ton of resources. Having security on site can't be beat either - I know a lot of freestanding facilities do not have security. We typically have 2-4 techs who do vitals, meal trays, and safety checks. One of the really nice things about a teaching hospital is we always have attendings and residents on site, so obtaining orders for your patients (should you need something) in a timely manner is a cinch!

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 not accept patient's with IV's or with feeding tubes. We will very occasionally accept patients who self-cath but it's extremely rare.

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 patients?

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

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 week.

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

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

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 behavioral issues etc to be aware of, upcoming discharges, new admits, safety issues, then we all get nurse to nurse report on our patients from the off-going nurse.

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 that works for you). They received decisions in February.

I also applied for psych specialty!

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 ANCC study guide for the exam. I mainly just skimmed those and did a bunch of practice exams to study.

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

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 disorders, geri/med psych, and our adolescent psych inpatient units have the same ratios. I just can't imagine how you would be able to safely care for 10-15 patients per 1 nurse ?

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 Emory.

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 would be to decide where you truly want to work and dedicate yourself to obtaining that goal.