MADHAT6

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1. Burnout

   MADHAT6 replied to MistyDawnRN06's topic in General Nursing

   Nothing left to do but

2. Nursing is Making Me Sick

   MADHAT6 replied to ChristineN's topic in General Nursing

   As you get more experience you will be able to bargain for better hours and jobs,know your worth,you may not be able to make your current employer give you good /better hours,but job hunt and parlay...

3. Psych to medical to psych, then back to medical in the future?

   MADHAT6 replied to Jean1313's topic in Psychiatric

   Once you go psych Med Surg you won't like

4. Violent Borderlines

   MADHAT6 replied to Leahr's topic in Psychiatric

   Determine the secondary gain from these violent attention seeking behaviors and assist the client to find other ways of fulfilling that need,is the client deliberately provoking to acheive the type of...

5. Crappy Nurses Day

   MADHAT6 replied to RunningWithScissors's topic in General Nursing

   I'm just thankful i still have a

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

   MADHAT6 replied to SweetLemon's topic in Psychiatric

   i love my bipolar patients and the things they say like "why the hell can't i be in the damn religious program !" or "i have been fired from over 200 jobs for my excellence,now tell me do you think...

7. Considering becoming a nurse for a drug rehab center any advise?

   MADHAT6 replied to LadyVengeance's topic in Psychiatric

   I have worked detox and rehab units and the thing to remember is that people in recovery have developed coping skills that appear highly manipulative,they can be extremely demanding and assertive and...

8. Still No Job offers

   MADHAT6 replied to dec2008houRNgrad's topic in General Nursing

   try working in a skilled facility,the pay is good and you would be amazed at the types of patients you get to work with,pts with central lines,tpn,on chemo,trac pts,you get to do ostomy care,wound...

9. Stress of violence at work

   MADHAT6 replied to makawiliwili's topic in Psychiatric

   WOW!Have you read your own description of how you feel? you sound like you know you need a break...read your own letter to us and treat it as if it was coming from a stranger then take your own...

10. so burned out

    MADHAT6 replied to edisonnurse's topic in Psychiatric

    Your facility sounds terribly understaffed,i cannot understand why you are assigned 10 patients who are children with this level of acuity,no wonder you and your physician have been injured,you are...

11. leaving inpatient psych nursing...

    MADHAT6 replied to kele24's topic in Psychiatric

    Its never good to criticize your last employer,its better to say it wasn't a good fit or didn't meet your needs,wasn't what you were looking for

12. I have a Question for you Male Nurses out there.

    MADHAT6 replied to lorster's topic in Men in Nursing

    I have read that Ruth Bader-Ginsberg made her reputation by taking on discrimination cases against men...unfortunately what you describe i have seen happen to men and women by clinical instructors who...

13. Specialty with low/least stress?

    MADHAT6 replied to PAERRN20's topic in General Nursing

    i hope this does not sound mean but if you are not even in nursing and yet you are already worried about the stress level is it the right choice

14. why can't we tell them?

    MADHAT6 replied to MADHAT6's topic in Psychiatric

    i am wondering why we can't be truthful,but we have been told to avoid stating why we are not keeping them after medically stabilizing them,i have been truthful and have been,shall we say,redirected

15. why can't we tell them?

    MADHAT6 replied to MADHAT6's topic in Psychiatric

    EMTALA requires us to provide medical screenings and prevent negative consequences,so yes,if they are without medical symptoms and have no insurance and we have no indigent beds or money from the...