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    Second career nurses: Do you like nursing better?

    TerpGal02 replied to stefanyjoy's topic in General Nursing

    In my previous life, I worked in insurance first in auto claims and then in provider relations for a large health insurance company. Every day I would wake up and ask myself, "Really? Is this what...
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    Better living--and working--through chemistry.

    TerpGal02 replied to dudette10's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Yep. If you need meds, the difference the right meds make are night and day. And you will notice complaints that you had prior to less disappearing that you never tied to your depression/anxiety....
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    Do you talk about work at home?

    TerpGal02 replied to blackvans1234's topic in General Nursing

    I try to leave work at work to preserve my sanity. If I came home and was still dwelling on what happened at work that shift I would burn out very fast. I might mention something to my DH if we had...
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    Without Orders

    TerpGal02 replied to Apollo8933's topic in General Nursing

    No, we don't do anything without an order, but we as nurses enter the orders (usually just admission orders or anything the doc was not physically there for). Some of our docs are more trusting (read:...
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    Student Nurse Nightmare-Help!

    TerpGal02 replied to RNFiona's topic in General Nursing

    OMG I would never had DREAMED of acting this way when I was a nursing student (not that long ago). We had 2 male students in our class, only 1 of them graduated with us, but it was not due to an...
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    Norovirus

    TerpGal02 replied to sweetstrwbrry1's topic in General Nursing

    Norovirus has been spreading in this area like wildfire. I had it two weeks ago and good lord I hope to never have it again. I woke up at 0400 and I had that nauseous feeling that I was going to be...
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    Best Nursing Shoes

    TerpGal02 replied to bconlee's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I heart my Danskos. I waited tables the whole time I was doing my BA, then did clinicals, etc. All through that, I wore athletic type shoes. At the end of every day, my knees and back would be...
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    ?'s for experienced inpatient acute psych unit staff re: police and pt. observation

    TerpGal02 replied to superpsychnurse's topic in Psychiatric

    We don't call police until a last resort but we're pretty well staffed during the week with the hospital, 2 PHPs, c&a residential program, and school. Our facilities manager will come up too, and...
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    Safe staffing levels

    TerpGal02 replied to chelleanne's topic in Psychiatric

    I work at a free standing psych hospital with 46 beds, that's divided up between adults and C&A. We have 4 nurses on days and evenings, 3 on night. Around 3ish techs on Adults, 2 with the...
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    Why should I become a Psych RN?

    TerpGal02 replied to bellabarbiegirl's topic in Psychiatric

    I've been a psych nurse for just about a year now. I started in community mental health (working on a ACT team with the most chronically ill and unstable patients in the community). I knew I wanted...
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    Medical Marijuana

    TerpGal02 replied to Cathy4836's topic in Patient Medications

    I have had 2 pts at my last job that had medical marijuana cards in other states, its not legal in my state. Both stated it was for pain management and while I have no doubts MMJ has its place and...
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    Your thoughts on the safety of cutting "do not cut" tablets in half

    TerpGal02 replied to Marshall1's topic in Patient Medications

    I take a med that says "do not crush" on the bottle from the pharm, but the pill is scored and the way the script is written is for me to take 1/2 a pill in the am and a whole one in the evening. I...
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    Anyone ever attend South University online RN-BSN?

    TerpGal02 replied to jenne223's topic in Online Distance Learning

    My advice is don't. They are a for profit school, their parent company edmc recently had a lawsuit against it by the DOJ for frqdulent student loan practices. It is insanely expensive and they...
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    Psych RN interview!! Need advice!!!

    TerpGal02 replied to FLLPN3339's topic in Psychiatric

    You might.want to brush up on your psych meds. Many times they ask scenario questions like, "what would you do with a patient that is becoming more
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    Advice for dealing with addicts?

    TerpGal02 replied to garnetgirl29's topic in Addictions

    Working with addicts can be so draining, especially when you are working with them in the community and they are actively using and all you can basically do with them is harm reduction. Addicts while...
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    How does a new grad RN find a psych nursing job?

    TerpGal02 replied to Dewman's topic in Psychiatric

    I am in MD and I got my first job on an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team. Intensive community based mental health essentially. I have always wanted to do psych and all the inpt...
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    Saying a really tough few goodbyes this week

    TerpGal02 posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I currently work on an ACT team and am starting a new job at a free standing psych hospital on Monday. In ACT you get to know the clients really well especially when they are on your caseload and you...
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    New/old new grad in behavioral ltc

    TerpGal02 replied to becky5438's topic in Psychiatric

    Well you are doing more procedures than I have done and I will have one year under my belt in May. I don't know, I never had the desire to do med/surgey kind of jobs, psych was the only rotation in...
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    New Grad Salary

    TerpGal02 replied to Sweet charm's topic in Psychiatric

    It depends on where you work. Right now I work for a non profit community agency that serves low income persons with severe mental illness. Most of our funding comes from billing Medicare and...
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    Moving from community to inpt. Advice?

    TerpGal02 posted a topic in Psychiatric

    Hey all you wonderful psych nurses! I wonder if any of you could share some wisdom with me on this transition I am getting ready to make. I have been working for 10 months in community mental...
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    What's the BEST nursing shoes?

    TerpGal02 replied to BigCSN's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have a high arch to my foot and it puts a lot of pressure on my knees/back. I had Sketchers in nursing school and I would come home practically crying from the knee/back pain. Also had this issue...
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    How long before you were able to get a position as a psychiatric nurse?

    TerpGal02 replied to bellabarbiegirl's topic in Psychiatric

    Good for you! Welcome, welcome to the wonderful world of psych nursing! I passed NCLEX last Jan, was licensed last Feb. I went straight into psych and have no regrets. I always felt called to...
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    Community Based Acute Treatment CBAT

    TerpGal02 replied to RN_SummerSeas's topic in Psychiatric

    Well I do something similar right now, although I work with adults and we are not a residential program. I work on an ACT (assertive community treatment) team. We work with probably the sickest,...
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    Does your employer make accommodations for your disability?

    TerpGal02 replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I rapid cycle too, we are trying to get it under control. It seems that there is a large hormonal influence on my mood. But I KNOW that and take self care measures to avoid totally losing it. I am...
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    Bipolar and Menopause

    TerpGal02 replied to Fuzzy's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I realize this is an old thread, but menopause in and of itself is very destabilizing for women WITHOUT comorbid mental health concerns. I don't know much about htr and mental health, but maybe its...