Kungfuzed

This is a basic question I have been wondering about ever since I started working in a mental hospital. I thought the answer would reveal itself over time but I still find myself asking why nurses run the mental hospital instead of people with psych degrees. It seems counterintuitive to take someone with an ADN and put them in charge of a psych unit with Recovery Specialists who have their BS in psych who know way more about what is going on. In my opinion, the person in charge should be a psych professional with nursing there to support medical needs and administer medications. The same goes for management, the whole thing is run by nurses all the way up to the CEO. Sure there are plenty of Psychiatrists coming and going, stopping on the unit briefly to write orders and going to team meetings, but they are usually contracted out and only making decisions on individual patients. The amount of knowledge about crowd control, enforcing rules, and making quick decisions on what patients should and should not be allowed to do go way beyond what nurses are trained to do.

All the NICU nurses I have met are in Hufflepuff. You may want to have a talk with the sorting hat. I heard that corrections nursing is a good way to get into psych. I'll be investigating that route as I have just accepted my first job at a prison. Wasn't my first pick, but the only job offer I have had since I graduated last year.

I wonder if this might be a statistical anomaly. According to what I've heard, over 90% of the people from my school who take the NCLEX pass their first time. If the vue computers give the good poppup over 90% of the time, regardless to the persons score, won't there appear to be a correlation? Wouldn't be better to track those who failed rather than those who passed? Was there anyone who got the good poppup and still failed? I just took the NCLEX today and got the "old" good poppup rather than the "new" one. I'm not sure what that means. I got cut right at 75 and I know I got the last question wrong.