inthesky

inthesky

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  1. Hate floor nursing but reasonable to get DNP?

    inthesky posted a topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    i am a 5 month new grad bsn rn and i am really disappointed in floor nursing. i knew that it was going to be hard and i was prepared to be overworked, but this is seriously ridiculous. i recently left...

  2. can't do nightshift anymore..on the verge of having nervous breakdown

    inthesky posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am a new grad and have been working on a psych unit for 4 months. I like what i have been doing and I am actually pretty good at it, but night shift is destroying me. It began insidiously. First...

  3. shaken about psychotic patient incident last night.. very long..

    inthesky posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I am still quite a new psychiatric nurse (almost one year). I still get really scared and shaken during incidents of patient violence and restraints. We had a 19 year old patient. It was her psych...

  4. Fear of online NP programs..words of wisdom?

    inthesky posted a topic in Post Graduate Students

    I am determined to be psychiatric nurse practitioner and I must do an online program to be able to stay in Arizona. I had applied to UofA and ASU online program. UofA closed their program a few...

  5. distance NP education. faculty travel expenses?

    inthesky posted a topic in Post Graduate Students

    Some online NP courses require that students pay faculty expense to visit their out-of-state clinical sites. Is this standard? It could be $1000! Plane ticket, transportation, lodging, food..etc....

  6. slow med pass? am I really being unreasonable?

    inthesky posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I work a combination of day and evening 8 hour shifts. I worked an evening 3-11 shift last night with a night nurse who is a straight-up bully. For those kindly reading all my posts, she is the same...

  7. nursing students and behavioral health units

    inthesky posted a topic in Psychiatric

    At my unit, we have students once a week during semester clinical times. It is rough on the milieu as there are 10 students to 15 patients..but what are you going to do when the student-teacher...

  8. nursing students and behavioral health units

    inthesky replied to inthesky's topic in Psychiatric

    You can be the nurse who is different! It is a bummer. I knew that I wanted to work psych after doing behavioral health tech work, not after nursing school rotations. I did BHT PRN for an agency....

  9. long-winded musings on my tumultuous first year of nursing

    inthesky posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    It has been 1 year and 3 months since I started my first nursing job. It has been an extremely dramatic roller coaster of events and emotions. Nursing is the most love/hate entity I have ever...

  10. Being a Team Player

    inthesky replied to trixie's topic in General Nursing

    I think the ideal form of 'team player' is very important. At my work, the term "team player" is often perverted into a way to criticize and bully colleagues. I do my very best to help out and spend...

  11. Advanced Patho stress!

    inthesky replied to buster4's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I can relate. I just finished a 5 week neuropsychopathology class. It make it worse, the professor is an absent slacker and missed the first week and other than online discussions it was pure book...

  12. What's the dumbest remark you've heard yourself make...

    inthesky replied to KidsRNstill's topic in General Nursing

    I was reading this thread in amusement, deciding whether to post anything. I say far too many stupid things to ever chronicle. I tell patients to follow me around the corner (there is no corner) to...

  13. Advice on Choosing a Job - MUCH shorter version!

    inthesky replied to ivyleaf's topic in Psychiatric

    My question for you is where do you want to end up? Which job will better suit

  14. Thoughts on the 3-11 shift: I can't fall asleep afterwards!!

    inthesky replied to ivyleaf's topic in General Nursing

    I have a love/hate with 3-11. good: more sleep, later bedtime, no early morning, less stressful busy shift bad: sleep too much, go to bed too late, get nothing done =P I websurf too late as

  15. adverse reactions to medication handouts

    inthesky posted a topic in Psychiatric

    My unit has found yet a new way to hinder nursing practice. It is procedure to give patients handouts when they receive new medications. Being med nurse, it is extremely important to me (and my job)...

  16. adverse reactions to medication handouts

    inthesky replied to inthesky's topic in Psychiatric

    Nope, it was definitely thorazine. After the patient panicked, they THEN tried trazodone. The patient still didn't really have good results; she probably needs a sleep study. As an update, the unit...

  17. Nurses "on-call" related to low census; Am I rightfully angry?

    inthesky posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work on a small 15 bed behavioral heath unit at a local hospital. Even though the economy took a dump, our census has not really been affected. More and more people come in depressed with nervous...

  18. Nurses "on-call" related to low census; Am I rightfully angry?

    inthesky replied to inthesky's topic in General Nursing

    Boo to that "HR" policy of having to call every few hours and not being paid for it! Thanks for putting some things in perspective. Psych is rough to skeleton crew as our 'codes' are violent...

  19. adverse reactions to medication handouts

    inthesky replied to inthesky's topic in Psychiatric

    hmmm mandated.. i should dig out a patient's bill of rights or something. I have my next shift tomorrow and will probably just verbally ask the doc for general med handout permission rights. If that...

  20. Can nurses be forced to work during pandemic

    inthesky replied to nursey04's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I'm a psych nurse without med surg experience. I would want to do my civic service, but this would be awkward. Keep me away from critical care patients and IV starts and I'd probably make do with...

  21. The ER is turning into "Swine Flu Damage Control Center"?

    inthesky replied to Andy S.'s topic in Disaster Preparation

    it is a record 101 today, so you might be in luck

  22. I must be an idiot.

    inthesky replied to eriksoln's topic in Psychiatric

    You are definitely not an idiot =P Nurses get very little psych training and it's great that you are interested in learning! Everyone is different, but for my anxious patients.. *Let them vent. *go...

  23. psych-mental health NP vs Psychologist

    inthesky replied to LolaBunnie's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    PMHNPs (at least in my state) do much more medication than therapy. I'm a pharmacology nerd so this is ok for me, but psychology might truly be a better fit for

  24. Important Lessons my Patients have Taught me...

    inthesky replied to SweetLemon's topic in Psychiatric

    off meds + crack + meth= hearing voices. Why this surprises patients is beyond me. :trout: but well..no complaints the last few weeks. I was happy to serve a lovely group of

  25. Zoloft anyone...???

    inthesky replied to silentRN's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Self-medicating with old meds is not a good idea. It is really important to take those under Dr supervision as that 'mania' could be a harmful reaction. Psych meds are so plentiful and randomly hit...