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The way our floor does admissions is going by an admission log book, it depends on whoever is on the floor and between however many nurses there are who did an admission recently and who did an admission a while back which makes that person first admit. The problem with this nurse is that when I'm last admit or any other number she tries to push first admission on me constantly. She isn't even the charge nurse which is a whole different issue all together.

It sucks but the best way really is to hit this thing head on basically this post was about me trying to avoid "confrontation" but the more and more I think about it and read these comments I feel thats the only way it will really end. I'm just going to have to bring her off her high horse.

Trust me I've done the "no" thing. Last time she kept on trying to push an admission on me and I kept on saying no. Its just a matter that she keeps on doing over and over no matter how many times I say no and I'm pretty tired of it. For some reason she is targeting new grads, all us new grads have been told something or another by her. I've actually told my orientation overseer that she was like this and she told me "you think maybe she was trying to teach you?" Who knows maybe just staying quiet and sucking it up is best if thats the response I'll be getting.

I'm having an issue with one of my co workers. I'm currently off of orientation on my floor and everything is going great but I just can't stand working with this one woman. She literally treats me as if I'm her personal tech. I know it sounds bad but I am a NURSE if there is three techs sitting there waiting for work do not ask me to get your vital signs for you. She continues to ask me to get her vital signs for her in passing and I have just completely ignored her and then she finally asks a tech but she continues to do it and its not vital signs alone she "orders" me to get her stuff for her, she tries to get me to do admissions when its not my turn, basically she just wants have an authority over me and I'm sick of it. I've only been working three months and you know I don't know if the best thing to do is go to my manager, I feel like I've been here for only a short period and I don't want to have "drama" starting with me b/c I think it will make me look bad. Funny thing is she has only been on the floor for a couple months also but literally all the nurses are just tired of her. I just want advice on what to do about this situation because I'm not sure how to confront her about this and I'm not sure if i should bring it up too management.

Oh wow so they just changed that policy in January. Thank you for the website it answered a lot of questions for me.

I'm happy to know that I'm not the only person that is feeling this way or has felt this way. I just had another shift yesterday and it went smoothly, I'm just always nervous I missed something. I feel a lot better now that I actually wrote the post and from all the comments...thankfully my anxiety has decreased I'm not feeling that gut renching fear as strongly as before, so Thank you everyone who replied :)

Usually the locked seclusion orders are written during the evening shift and the physician is there and since its four hours it rolls over to the nights but then during nights we are completely screwed b/c we can't renew it. The resident for the hospital used to do the face to face but now they refuse to do it saying it is not within their scope of practice or something which makes no sense since last I heard residents all have to go through a psych rotation...but thats where we stand currently and everyone is confused.

I'm having an issue with these locked seclusion orders on my floor. I was told by management that during night shift where there is no physician and after about three pm no advanced practice psychiatric nurse then the person who needs to sign the order is a registered nurse. This supposedly has not been approved or confirmed but that is what management is telling me to do. I mean these locked orders only last for four hours. I feel extremely uncomfortable signing these orders and I had my first locked patient and the charge nurse told me that the best thing to do besides risking my license is unlocking the patient while he is asleep and hope for the best. So I unlocked him and thankfully he was fine for my shift. So what is the locked seclusion protocol for your floors I'm so confused about this topic.

I just graduated in May and I went straight into psych nursing and I love it. I was talking to my boss last week and she told me that some people recommend you to go into med-surg before you go into psych, but she also said that if you know your a psych nurse and thats what you love then psych is the way to go. She started off with psych nursing and never looked back and she said that I'm meant to be a psych nurse and I made a good decision. I always hated adult med-surg, I love pediatric though so if I ever go to med-surg I'll go for peds but just thinking of adult is gives me chills. I'm not going to lie though, your skills are going to suffer thats why I plan to go to children's unit eventually to keep up with my skills.

I recently just ended orientation and I've gotten all positive feedback from the managers and co workers and its great.I love my job...I think...and I mean its been such a smooth transition from recently graduating to working on my floor...but...I'm deathly scared. I'm panicking, I feel like the whole world is on my shoulders and I can't shake it off. Just thinking of going into work is making me sweat and I'm worried its already been a week since I've been off orientation but I'm so flat out scared and I can't figure out why I'm like this which adds to my anxiety. I know that my co workers are there to back me up but just the fact that I'm now officially off of orientation is scaring me. I'm now thinking maybe I don't love my job maybe I just think I love my job and blah blah...I know I'm going overboard I tend to think of the worst possible situations but I can't shake it and that worries me more...I just want to get feedback of if this anxiety over nursing is normal or if I need to get some serious help or something. Its kind of the same feeling I had studying for the boards but a little different and I can't pinpoint it....