PsychRN98 ASN

Hi Guys! It has been quite some time since I have been on, but I am looking for suggestions/advice/thoughts about a new job. I was hired at a peds practice for a grant-funded position as a BH Nurse Navigator and I start next month. This is a brand n...

Thanks for your input @oldmahubbard. I am actually surprised by that no-show rate! Not sure how long the wait was at your practice, but I do wonder if the no-show rate was partially because those folks ended up needing a higher LOC after having to wa...

OP, check out a company called Accolade, Inc. Essentially, they are nurse concierges, but apparently a lot more too! The RN position is titled Clinical Health Assistant.

Haldol and Ativan IV? Never gave it that route in either the freestanding emergency psych facility I worked at for 8 years or the hospital-based psych unit and psych ER I worked at for a year. We always used IM meds, and usually they were effective. ...

This is actually very common. Many of the psych techs I have worked with have went on to become psych nurses, and of course get jobs right away b/c they are known to the facility already. Absolutely a smart move. You will get to see so much and learn...

Yes, America has quite the nasty psych history as well, so I believe what you are saying completely. One of the reasons I went into psych nursing was because I saw how horribly people with psychiatric illness have been treated, and unfortunately sti...

@manchmal All very good questions to be asking ahead of time, as in the moment it can be very high-adrenaline. Know that the first few times you might shake a little and be nervous about giving a shot with 10 people standing around. I always hate whe...

That's so interesting @irishpsychintern that you have to, by law, ask a pt. 3x to take something po. I'm sure that gets old in a code situation.

This post made me chuckle. I have been a psych nurse for the past 12 years, low on the nursiness scale. And to make matters worse I am now back in school for healthcare IT and hopefully eventually informatics. WOW..way off of the nursiness scale. I d...

the himss board of directors approved this position statement describing how to transform nursing practice through technology and informatics nurses are key leaders in developing the infrastructure for effective and efficient health information techn...

I actually went to a private 4 yr college right after high school b/c my family wanted me to be a doctor. Well, that lasted about a year. I came home, went to CC, and became a nurse. Now I'm going back to school again, choosing CC again (for many re...

Oh, and this unit also did not allow any personal devices of any kind. Pts. are admitted from the ER in hospital clothing to the psych ER and any visitors onto the unit had to pass through a metal detector. All cell phones, mp3 players, etc had to be...

These things are sometimes trial and error unfortunately, and a lot of times it seems to be because "it hasn't been done before". And then it takes some negative event for change to come around. I was lucky enough to work for a hospital that opened u...

Canchaser, I am going back to school in August for my HIM bachelor's, starting with a coding cert, with my ultimate goal to get into informatics down the line. Anyway, would you mind if I PM'd you about your coding experience and your thoughts on tha...

This is kind of funny. I have been a nurse since 1998 and I am looking to get out of bedside care. I had been researching for many months what the options might be for someone like me. I think ultimately I want to go into informatics, but one needs c...

I feel a great disservice has been done to the mental health community by closing the majority of psychiatric State Hospitals. They were working, making a few bucks, feeling useful, finding comfort in the solidarity of peers, and most importantly, be...

I've never been a hiring manager in nursing, but I think honesty is important. Tell them just what you told us. Your enthusiasm will show. Good luck with your interview and your journey in psych nursing:)

I went to psych right out of school and mostly loved it..did it for 10 yrs. Then I got burned out from nursing altogether, but not the patients I was working with, more the politics of nursing. Now I'm going back to school for Health Information Tech...

When my unit was transitioning to siemens EMR, bar code med admin, CPOE, etc, all this past year or so, they had mandatory training sessions on all shifts. You had a certain amount of time to complete it, i.e you had to fit yourself in to the class ...

I've always worked nights and I have always emptied trash that needed to be emptied, cleaned up urine, vomit and feces, and changed linen bags, including throwing them down a chute. There is almost NEVER enough housekeeping staff at any facility on t...

I just found this post while doing a search for HIM and clin doc specialist, in my seemingly infinite quest to figure out which direction I want to go to get away from the bedside. Eerily, I took the test and am also an INTJ. Literally as I read the ...

Have you looked into nursing informatics at all? There is a forum on here about NI which is very informative and can probably answer some of your questions and possibly guide you a bit.

Hopefully this link works. From my 2 favorite fields, psych and informatics. https://readingnurse.mednewsplus.com/html/topicdetails.asp?topic_id=25519&section_id=146

here's the content...computerized system slashes psych drug errorsby charles bankhead, senior writer, medpagetoday reviewed by robert jasmer, md; associate clinical professor of medicine, university of california, san francisco march 24, 2011 use of...

Also having worked in many aspects of psych nursing for the past 12 yrs, including psych ER and intake, I would concur with mentalhealthRn completely. You really need to have experience in psych assessment before being able to do this job. There's so...