DaMale Nurse

DaMale Nurse

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  1. Patient Care or Man Handling???

    Previous post have already covered most of the really good interventions that you have to try first. I have worked with allot of pts at a inpatient pscy unit where this comes up pretty frequently....
  2. NP vs PA

    A PA is someone who has a base of at least 2000 hours in direct pt care. Usually this is from people who served in the Military as medics. Once you have the requirement you can apply to the masters...
  3. In my work I always go with I need a doctors order unless it specifically states I can do that in my policy and procedure manual. Since I work with pscy geratric pts it can get interesting when...
  4. Psych drugs and BP's

    Xanax is one of the better ones to give it terms of blood pressure. Although you will probably see a drop it's most likely due to the relief of the anxiety not from the drug. I think your talking...
  5. Does this sound like "a little much" to you??

    Before I graduated the staff at a Neuro unit I worked as a CNA instituted this. We were required to sign of every hour and offer to do anything they needed and tell them we would be back in an hour to...
  6. agressive patients

    I work in a pscy facility. Some times you don't have a choice but to medicate. But I usually try to avoid it if I can talk to the pt and see what's going on right at that moment. In terms of meds I...
  7. When my niece was to have open heart I went up to the peds floor and asked the nurses about the surgeons and the anesthesiologists. They knew me from school several weeks before and they were more...
  8. Will (ADN) RN-MSN programs be phased out?

    I heard during school a while ago that North or South Dakota passed a law only allowing BSN degrees for a RN license. It was dropped after 2 years due to the vast drop in available RN's. With the...
  9. How do you not get caught up with long winded patients?

    I work in a pscy facility and there are a couple of ways. 1. Schedule a time w/ limits. Like I will talk to you for 10 mins at 4pm or something like that. Just make damn sure you can make it. 2. Say...
  10. Family Doesn't Want Patient To Know?

    During my last bit at school I took care of a 16 yr old diagnosed w/ ALL. We were giving her chemo and radiation treatments at the time. She had only been diagnosed about a month but the family still...
  11. At my work, Eastern State Hospital(one of Washington states mental hospitals) there are two large graveyards where pt's were berried from the start of the hospital 1889 to 1957. Most of the grave...
  12. My first medication error-help!

    You really don't need to worry about being sued. First, you gave the drug as prescribed by a physician, you were to medicate the pt according to agitation and as you said the pt was agitated. It seems...
  13. Orienting a new nurse...need advice

    I think your doing great so far. I feel that you just need to encourage her to be more efficient with her time management skills and let her get swamped. But before that happens a good way to get her...
  14. for how long is new grad new grad???

    In my work place, an inpatient psychiatric hospital, I was considered to be a new grad for about 3 months. After that I was the charge nurse about 2-3 shifts a week. Although my boss and her boss both...
  15. How to deal with the constant violence

    After a really bad night I always ask myself if I did everything in my power to help the patients or staff. If I can answer myself yes I did it seems better for me. I am not a god, just a nurse. If I...