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I have been seeing more and more people of all ages just after they have overdosed and i am finding it difficult to cope with seeing so manyserious suicide attempts. i have been a psych nurse for 14 years and love my specialty but every day now there...

I have been working at a community mental health crisis emergency room for 12 years and just returned to the hospital setting this week,i cannot believe how tied down the nurses are by the computer system which is designed to meet JCAH/MEDICARE/MEDIC...

Nothing left to do but smile,smile,smile

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 your experience into the hours you want,make it a c...

Once you go psych Med Surg you won't like !

People give you as much information about themselves with their lies as they do with the truth...it's important to listen and hear what is really being said

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 destabilized environment she is used to,or to rec...

I'm just thankful i still have a job!

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 that is right!?" or "why shouldn't i borrow money fr...

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 are often not like the grateful clients you find i...

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 care,iv pts,psych pts,its really amazing and hospital...

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 advice,sounds like you need to work in a caring supporti...

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 working in the equivalent of a psychiatric picu and ...

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 etc

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 have too much power, it may be a case of male dis...

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 ?

I just feel like venting! i am a psych nurse who acts as liaison for inpt psych,when we have indigent clients we assess them for acuity,if they meet criteria we admit them or petition them to the state hospital, but when we have substance abusers who...

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 ?

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 state/county and if our local inpt rehab has no indige...

i did not have the support of my partner but i went ahead anyway,it's tough when the person you lives with does not support you and actively argues against your chosen field,and like you i was 33 when i went back,but once i graduated and it was clear...

Speak to HR,this is clearly a violation of same job,same pay and violates common HR practices and sets the institution up for a law suit they cannot win

what a beautiful story,you made my day,thanks

what a gift of grace that you were there at the right time and right place,when cruelty is at issue there is no line to cross,we all have permission and a moral duty to stop it or mitigate its effects

YOU ARE AWESOME !How lucky that family is !

one of the problems with psych nursing is that an act of kindness must always be considered in terms of boundaries,there would be no problem bringing cookies to a med surg unit or an ortho unit are we really so different that we can't just accept coo...