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  1. Nurses with bipolar disorder?

    krisssy replied to lizzychica02's topic in Psychiatric

    I think you mixed me up with someone else-I am recovering from PTSD not alcoholism. But I do agree with you that people who have gone through diseases and come out well, are very good at helping...

  2. MS Psychiatric Nursing with no experience?

    krisssy replied to krisssy's topic in Psychiatric

    Oh thanks Chris for the encouragement. The problem is that I just had two abdominal surgeries, and I am not able to work now-still recovering. So I thought in the meantime, I could learn online...

  3. MS Psychiatric Nursing with no experience?

    krisssy replied to krisssy's topic in Psychiatric

    BeckbBSN-because of you and your encouragement, I have just submitted my psychiatric nurse practitioner graduate application! :wink2: Thank you so much!

  4. Dealing with borderline

    krisssy replied to Cute_CNA's topic in Psychiatric

    I would also like to say that you don't have to have a borderline personality disorder to be annoying. I have seen nurses at the nurses station and teachers in the teacher's room who do not stop...

  5. Nurses with bipolar disorder?

    krisssy replied to lizzychica02's topic in Psychiatric

    In my opinion, you should definitely follow your dreams and become a psychiatric nurse and a psychiatric nurse practitioner. I believe that nurses and anyone for that matter, who has any type of...

  6. MS Psychiatric Nursing with no experience?

    krisssy replied to krisssy's topic in Psychiatric

    BeckbBSN, Thank you so much for your post. You sound like you must be a wonderful nurse, and you will be a wonderful psych. nurse practitioner. Yes, I have always thought that people can do whatever...

  7. Dealing with borderline

    krisssy replied to Cute_CNA's topic in Psychiatric

    What does research say causes a borderline personality disorder? How do doctors treat it? Are there specific medications or types of therapy that can help the person who is

  8. MS Psychiatric Nursing with no experience?

    krisssy replied to krisssy's topic in Psychiatric

    Thank you all for your advice and experience. Unfortunately, I cannot work right now, because I am recovering from two abdominal surgeries. I have been in a lot of pain and have been just diagnosed...

  9. Suboxone Detox

    krisssy posted a topic in Psychiatric

    Has anyone had any patients detoxing from opiates with Suboxone? How much did it help the withdrawal symptoms compared to a detox without it?

  10. Suboxone Detox

    krisssy replied to krisssy's topic in Psychiatric

    Nurse Kelly 217, what is your opinion regarding giving Suboxone from a Doctor's office with the doc being a certified Suboxone giver-no inpatient hospitalization -for someone on 4 percosets a day for...

  11. is there really a place for holistic medicine in the "real"nursing world

    krisssy replied to chicagrl72's topic in Holistic

    I am an RN who has been very ill for the last four years both physically (two very painful abdominal surgeries) and mentally (first major depression and now post traumatic stress disorder. ) I just...

  12. psychiatric nurse practitioners

    krisssy posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I am going to be starting a psychiatric nurse practitioner program-online. Can anyone tell me what the courses and clinicals are like? Is it much harder than nursing school? Also can anyone tell me...

  13. Need Some Advice on Personal Statement

    krisssy posted a topic in Post Graduate Students

    I have to write a personal statement of my professional goals and how this program will help me achieve them. Any advice on things they are looking for. I am applying to an online psychiatric nurse...

  14. Need Some Advice on Personal Statement

    krisssy replied to krisssy's topic in Post Graduate Students

    This really helps a lot! Thank you so much.

  15. Suboxone Detox

    krisssy replied to krisssy's topic in Psychiatric

    That is great to hear. Thank you so much for replying.

  16. Meds. off floor taste YUMMY!

    krisssy replied to NurCrystal22's topic in General Nursing

    I am always washing my hands and worried about germs. I even shower when I get home from the hospital. BUT think about eating in restaurants. Who touches the food? Who drops it on the floor and...

  17. Need Some Advice on Personal Statement

    krisssy replied to krisssy's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Thank you guys-this has been very helpful.

  18. MS Psychiatric Nursing with no experience?

    krisssy replied to krisssy's topic in Psychiatric

    Well the problem is that I cannot get a job. So I am thinking of 1. Get my master's in psych nursing. 2. Take another med surg refresher course after that-with clinicals 3. Get a job as a staff...

  19. psychiatric nurse practitioners

    krisssy replied to krisssy's topic in Psychiatric

    Sharp in what way? What is their day like in terms of what they do? Thanks

  20. pills left by bedside when patient is in the bathroom

    krisssy posted a topic in General Nursing

    When I was being mentored in med surg, I noticed that my mentor left the patients pills in a cup on her bedside table. She yelled into the bathroom that the patient's pills were there when she was...

  21. Is experience necessary?

    krisssy replied to jaylynn67's topic in General Nursing

    The only experience I had in health care was being a volunteer at 16. I really don't remember any of us having any health care experience. We had all just finished highschool and were 17 or 18....

  22. Meds. off floor taste YUMMY!

    krisssy replied to NurCrystal22's topic in General Nursing

    great

  23. Nursing Application Essays/Personal Statement

    krisssy replied to chiliwings's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    What is an

  24. Meds. off floor taste YUMMY!

    krisssy replied to NurCrystal22's topic in General Nursing

    I had a patient complain to me that the day before, she had a treatment from a Dr. who left the blood and bloody sheets all over the floor. The patient told the nurse, and the nurse made a face and...

  25. Meds. off floor taste YUMMY!

    krisssy replied to NurCrystal22's topic in General Nursing

    I was working as a psych nurse in a psych hospital. I saw a little old man pull a dirty plastic cup out ot the garbage can, take the cup to the water fountain and drink it. I was new, so I mentioned...