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  1. Psych Travel Nurses

    teece3 replied to Psychonurse34's topic in Psychiatric

    I just accepted a position in North Carolina with a travel agency. I start in early January. I've been a psych nurse for 18 years and can't imagine doing anything else. I took a HUGE pay cut when...

  2. working three 12's

    teece3 replied to jacey's topic in Psychiatric

    In my experience with child and adolescent psych units (I worked one for about 6 years), 7pm to about 10pm will be very busy getting evening meds doled out and getting the kids settled down to sleep....

  3. Advice for first travel assignment?

    teece3 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Travel

    Thanks for the advice. I'm also starting my first travel job next month. I'm looking forward to it but it's a little scary. I love to travel and I figure I've tolerated my last "real" job for 13...

  4. BuSpar, Xanax, or other Alternatives For Anxiety?

    teece3 replied to RN-PA's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with much of the what has been written previously. I would avoid benzos at all costs not only because they are addictive but because they can "impair" you. And no one needs to worry about...

  5. Care Plan Hell

    teece3 replied to kimtab's topic in General Students

    Wow! I've been out of school for 18 years and write care plans every time I complete an admission and then have to evaluate them to see if the patient is progressing. It's been this way as long as...

  6. Sent home from Clinical

    teece3 replied to JuicyJem's topic in General Nursing

    Another thing...you said it was a clinical...isn't there a staff nurse on the floor also assigned to care for the same patients? That's how we did it when I was in school and that's how we do it now....

  7. What field of nursing would you NEVER consider working?

    teece3 replied to PMHNP10's topic in General Nursing

    If you had asked me this 20 years ago when I finished nursing school I would have said PSYCH! I hated every minute of my clinicals and it seemed like no one ever got better--of course I was only...

  8. Psychiatric Patients in ER

    teece3 replied to Dolphin777's topic in Emergency

    The involuntary measures the mentally ill homeless have had to endure come more from the de-institutionalization mandated by the federal government that occurred in the 1960's and 1970's. These...

  9. Psychiatric Patients in ER

    teece3 replied to Dolphin777's topic in Emergency

    Sometimes alternatives aren't used. At the hospital where I work, after a particularly difficult and aggressive "psych" (and I use the term loosely here) patient was admitted to a M/S unit, the next...

  10. Ever feel like a hotel porter ?

    teece3 replied to chad75's topic in Psychiatric

    I've been a psych nurse for a long time and that's been one of my biggest gripes. I don't have any trouble with treating people well but a little discomfort (not torture or anything quite that...

  11. Nurses Storyline on "ER"??

    teece3 replied to -jt's topic in General Nursing

    I was stunned to see something like that on ER. I agree there have been some "over the top" episodes but this took the cake. I've been a nurse for a fair amount of time and have experience working...