Quilter0225

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  1. Advise please

    My corporate/standard nursing orientation was about 3 weeks long. My psych nursing orientation was about 6 weeks long, including a week of classroom time. I felt fine, ready to be on my own, at the...
  2. Cogentin buzz?

    I didn't think about someone getting off on the needle stick! The other possibility that I thought of is that this patient is very borderline, so maybe this fits in with her "identity" as a mental...
  3. Cogentin buzz?

    Has anyone ever heard of pts getting a buzz from IM Cogentin? I have a pt who insists that PO cogentin doesn't work, only IM. Her only complaint is eye rolling, and that seems to come and go,...
  4. Important Lessons my Patients have Taught me...

    I work in adolescent psych. If you are a borderline (and many of these young ladies are), be sure to have a borderline mother so you can set up a constant cycle of phone calls (2 allowed per shift)...
  5. Advise please

    I am a new grad 3 weeks out of orientation on an adolescent psych unit. I love my job! We usually staff 2 nurses and 3 MHS's for 12 pts. The charge nurse makes pt assignments, goes to rounds, takes...
  6. Report sheet

    We use a set of blurbs. Besides charting on your assigned patients, you also do a blurb on the shift report (a Word document). Under each pt's name there is a spot for a blurb and the Overt...
  7. Patient Life Stories

    I just finished When Rabbit Howls written by some of the 92 multiple personalities of Truddi Chase (as a collaborative effort!) Not a very common disorder, but fascinating reading. For some eloquent...
  8. Just an update: I now work in adolescent psych and I love it. The staff is really a team. I actually get to interact with patients- in fact it's my job to interact! I just finished orientation...
  9. Patient Life Stories

    Her name is Kay Redfield Jameson. I have two of her books: An Unquiet Mind (about her personal experience of Bipolar I) and Night Falls Fast (about suicide). I have read the first one a couple...
  10. I am new to adolescent psych, but it sounds like you did everything you could to prevent this happening. Do you have free counselling (usually up to 5 sessions) from Employee Services? We recently...
  11. Drawing blood and shakey hands!!!

    I have fine hand tremor bc of a med I take. It's a pain in the butt, but I have learned to work with it. Cutting out caffeine helps a lot. I haven't totally eliminated it bc then I would have to...
  12. New grad got "let go"

    Something very similar happened to me a couple of months ago. I was given the option to resign rather than be fired. Management did not go through normal procedures of written reprimands, etc. I...
  13. Pros vs. Cons: Starting Career in Psych?

    I need to try psych--did and have been in it since pretty much. First inpatient where I used my medical skill a lot-- and now in Psych ER, which I like, it's a different kind of exhausting then...
  14. Psychiatric-Mental Health Certification

    At what point in your career do you all suggest taking this test? Is it best to take it with a few years experience under your belt, or is this something I should be studying right away to bring...
  15. I think the previous poster hit the nail on the head. Who gets to decide? What invests someone with the authority to make that decision? Do you go with a committee of experts in mental health? How...