PsychNurseDee

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1. abilify and cogentin

   PsychNurseDee replied to shankar's topic in Psychiatric

   I work in a state psych facility with children and adolescents. I have seen a better response to clonodine for tremors in adolescents, but I agree, if this is the first drug that has been tried with...

2. Your experience with massage

   PsychNurseDee replied to nurseyperson's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

   I will graduate from massage therapy school on Dec. 16th:D I have been a RN for 17 years, and pursued it as an area of interest after I myself recieved my first massage several months post op for a...

3. Is it worth it to double major with nursing/psychology?

   PsychNurseDee replied to Euphrosyne7's topic in Psychiatric

   Hi, In my opinion, the double major is probably unecessary pressure. I graduated with a BSN and went straight to work in a psych facility. Within a few years, I took the exam to become a RNC, with...

4. Questions, Psych Nurses!

   PsychNurseDee replied to sbic56's topic in Psychiatric

   In Louisiana they are about to open some positions like this. I am not sure what the specifics are, it is within the state system, so salaries will be consistent with MS pay scales. My...

5. 2 year old prescribed Risperdal?

   PsychNurseDee replied to Tiki_Torch's topic in Psychiatric

   I think this is absurd!! Please get a second or third opinion. I might also recommed a dietary consult. Many children has severe hyperactivity as a response to some preservatives, colors,...

6. Massage Therapy Question

   PsychNurseDee replied to VickyRN's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

   Nurseyperson I am in MT school now, and have been a RN for 17 years. I have certainly learned that there is ALOT I didn't know about the benefits of massage..and it is certainly more involved than a...

7. What does CHF NOS mean?

   PsychNurseDee replied to dosamigos76's topic in General Students

   Perhaps if there was no previously identified etiology or risk factors it is classified as NOS. Or, as in psych, it doesn't fit one of the already common categories of heart disease ASHD, etc. Not...

8. Psych Nurse Recently Diagnosed Bipolar

   PsychNurseDee replied to Nutty RN's topic in Psychiatric

   Of course you can provide good nursing to psych patients. You have more insight into their needs and feelings than many. I am a psych nurse who has major depression. I went through the same...

9. questions long sorry

   PsychNurseDee replied to catz's topic in Psychiatric

   I agree. Getting the right diagnosis is important to ensuring you are put on the right med for you. Having an emotional disorder, controlled with treatment, should not preclude you from being...

10. Want to be psych nurse

    PsychNurseDee replied to MisterArnold's topic in Psychiatric

    I have been a psych nurse for 17 years. I went to psych straight out of college. I have to agree, it is important to keep up your medical skills because psych patients have medical issues too, and...