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What makes psych nursing dangerous? Here is a list: understaffing ie how many licenses on the floor=RN or PT or LVN, poor training in policy=medication compliance, restraint physical and chemical chain of command, poor continued annual training, po...

I have worked as a psych RN for the Department of State Hospitals and CDCR State of CA for the past 8 years both inpatient and outpatient. I want to address what your fiance can do to take care of himself in this kind of situation. In my experience...

Greetings, I have been a state of CA corrections nurse in mental health for the past eight years. Here is what I can share about jailhouse nursing based on what I have seen from admissions to the State of CA from county jails and other nurses that h...

I work for the Department of State Hospitals. We are housed within one of the medical facilities for CDCR so I work around custody, but the boundaries are very defined because DSH and CDCR are two separate entities. I have had this problem when I w...

You are correct about the accreditation. In CA, they will not accept any of my work at Aspen, but I knew that going in. I'm an older RN so I am not looking to set the world on fire career-wise. It is a very important point to consider in your plan...

Greetings, I am a RN with the Department of State Hospitals, State of CA. Many years ago, this department transition from community psyche objectives to 99% patients found NGI and placed in one of the state hospitals. Coworkers and new grad nurses ...

Good luck!

I am currently enrolled in Aspen RN to MSN. I am planning to take the proctored exam necessary to move on to grad school portion. There are two formats for the exam: multiple choice or essay. I choose essay. Can anyone share any recommendations f...

Greetings, I do not have information to share about being waitlisted for this program. You wrote about being part time which alerted me and compelled me to comment. I started this program in my 3rd semester of nursing school. I had a BA and starte...

Greetings, I attended new employee orientation this week for the CA Department of State Hospitals. One of the topics was wound care. The educator/trainer that taught the course struggled with some of the verbiage (the word exudate). At one point, ...

Most nurses think in terms of "taking action", but in corrections nursing, the action you take is to make sure you are safe first before attending to the inmate involved. My action in this case would be be to assess the environment and pull my alarm...

I began RN school at 55 years. My age afforded advantages over my younger peers and opportunities to support them when needed. Considering there are more centenarians now than ever, and the numbers are growing, my advice would be to go after what y...

I know it can be unsettling to return to school after many years away. I am in the RN to MSN program at Aspen. Please know that the administration, leadership, and instructors really want you to succeed. I hope that hearing that makes you feel bet...

Congratulations! It sounds like you have a good idea of what your patient demographic is, and you made the choice to be there. Here is some unsolicited free advice from me: I would read through Lorry Schoenly's blogs for some quick education for s...

Thank you all so much for these sample nursing interview questions. I'm a new grad RN and I have an interview in two weeks and I'm a little nervous about interviewing in front of a panel. My experience is the panel is retired employees and they ar...

Greetings, I work in a forensic psych facility with mainly PC 1026 and PC 1370 patients. Occasionally we get a patient without mental illness but a personality disorder. Recently we received a 28 year old man that is classic Borderline Personality ...

search correctional nursing on this site. Lori Schoenly administrates this subject on this site. Also, my experience, as an RN, which would probably apply to you as well, is: s/s hypo and hyper glycemia, prisoner tells you he already had his insuli...

I am an RN at DSH and this is not the case where I work. The SPT's are definitely in charge of the unit and other psych techs but not the nurse. The nurse is the highest medical on the unit when the physician is not there....that is why the RN sign...

I understand how you feel. I hope you do get the job. Working for the state of CA pays very, very well. The benefit package is unsurpassed and the employee pays very little towards it. If you start with them when you are young, get your education...

Curious about the "no thanks on Stockton"....are you referring to the newly opened CDC/CDCR/DSH facility on Arch Road? How come?

"I HIGHLY recommend Sonoma State University's FNP program (CA). The core faculty and director are incredibly supportive and helpful and they work hard to create a nurturing environment (more along the lines of what nursing is supposed to be all ab...

OMG! I'm so glad I asked you about this! I cannot believe that you had to ask the lab to send your results! I will be calling them first thing in the morning. Also, regarding the PPD, I had one done in June that they accepted the paperwork on for...

Thanks for the info. I will do that. I was concerned that maybe the test results didn't even get to them. It was the place in Vallejo that is a part of Quest and I have had nothing but problems with them when using them for routine lab tests for m...

AmsPRN - I have a question for you. I took my physical and drug test exactly two weeks ago. I'm waiting to get a call to schedule my start date!! Can you tell me how long it was between your physical and when the recruiter called you to schedule y...