hiphopRN

hiphopRN

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  1. Patient Population?

    hiphopRN replied to smoup's topic in Psychiatric

    I work with adults (18+) of all diagnoses. However, our unit ends up getting a much higher percentage of psychotic and trauma patients than other diagnoses. When I first went into psych I wanted to be...

  2. No visiting hours?

    hiphopRN replied to NursesRmofun's topic in General Nursing

    Our psych hospital has extremely limited visiting hours. 7p-8p M-F, 2p-4p Sa-Su and holidays. In certain cases we allow additional visits outside of visiting hours, but only in special cases. We also...

  3. Charge Nurse Pay

    hiphopRN replied to JeffTheRN's topic in Nurse Management

    I get $1/hr since I'm a designated Charge, but when people fill in and in the year I did it before getting "promoted" I got

  4. Did You Go Into Nursing For One Specialty?

    hiphopRN replied to Satori77's topic in General Nursing

    When I started nursing school with my psych degree, I was obviously interested in heading that way. But I was also not naive to the job market. I applied to my current employer but did not get a call...

  5. Giving versus taking...lol

    hiphopRN replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    I've been told several times that I give pain-free injections...and I've had looooots of practice. And recently with doing blood draws at the clinic I've been volunteering at, I've been told they...

  6. Do you think your work place should support healthy eating?

    hiphopRN replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    We have our vending machines with chips, cookies, sodas and juice. I don't think I could do without them. We just got new kitchen staff which changed up our menu to more healthy options. I like having...

  7. What's your go to outfit after work?

    hiphopRN replied to nurse_jess's topic in General Nursing

    Recently I'm working 16 hour days multiple times a week, so after work I shower then go to sleep. On my "usual" days I either stay in my scrubs until bed, or change into sweatpants and a hoodie. With...

  8. Nursing Salary Survey 2014

    hiphopRN replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

    Geographic location: Baltimore, MD Area Pay rate: $26.05 base +$3 for evenings +$1 for Charge = $30.05/hr In which area / specialty do you work? Psychiatric What type of license do you have (RN or...

  9. To lock or not to lock the rooms

    hiphopRN replied to natalissa's topic in Psychiatric

    For us we can only lock doors if it was part of their treatment plan. The most common instances we use this for are med paneled patients that have been seen cheeking or spitting out medications. We...

  10. What's your Myers-Briggs personality type?

    hiphopRN replied to bekahinpink's topic in General Nursing

    Back in the day I was always an INFP, now I have slowly changed over to an ISFJ. ISFJ -

  11. B52 cocktail

    hiphopRN replied to zzyzx's topic in General Nursing

    We've done 10-2-50 before but not 10-4-50. That sounds

  12. What's in your pockets?

    hiphopRN replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

    If I have cargo pants on like I usually do then its: Right upper pocket: Unit Cell phone, at least 1 pen, unit keys Right lower pocket: More pens (I usually have between 2 and 4 with me all the time)...

  13. B52 cocktail

    hiphopRN replied to zzyzx's topic in General Nursing

    I do think Geodon is pretty effective, we usually do Geodon and Ativan though. We hate when the docs order Zyprexa IM most of the time because for the majority of our patients it doesn't ever phase...

  14. is it nurse's week?

    hiphopRN replied to NurseCard's topic in General Nursing

    So far we've never gotten gifts, but there are food events planned each day this week. They do a raffle as well so some people win things but the rest of us just get free food. Oh, and we usually get...

  15. padded isolation

    hiphopRN replied to 302prince's topic in Psychiatric

    My coworkers and I have talked about this recently and are requesting one for our new facility. If not for every unit at least for ours. We get the more aggressive patients, the self injurious...

  16. Important development

    hiphopRN replied to BeOne77's topic in Psychiatric

    Yes there are risks to all medications but like Mandychelle79 said once you see people that are driven to attempt suicide because of the voices or their deep depression you see that they meds can be...

  17. IM meds question

    hiphopRN replied to sassifras85's topic in Psychiatric

    Our facility recently went to this policy as well. When I first started we had standing PRN IMs to be given in emergency situations, but now we have to call during each emergency situation to get IMs....

  18. Are seclusion/isolation rooms considered a restraint?

    hiphopRN replied to babaloo's topic in Psychiatric

    This. We try to keep it empty in case we need it for an emergency, but since we have all double rooms, we frequently offer it for patients to use when they are getting overwhelmed by the activity in...

  19. What age did you complete your BSN or ASN?

    hiphopRN replied to mee9mee9's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    BS (psychology) 21 AS Nursing 24 And I will finish my BSN in Dec at 28 Then do my MSN hopefully before

  20. CCBC Anyone?

    hiphopRN replied to RN-4Ever's topic in Maryland Nursing

    I'm in the on ground RN program and am graduating in may. In our third semester we had some students join us from the LPN to RN program. I am not sure if they have an online option. But I do know that...

  21. What do you wish you were told on the first day?

    hiphopRN replied to AOx1's topic in General Students

    My view on it is that I do have to worry about it when its someone in my clinical group that consistently shows up late EVERY SINGLE CLINICAL and puts more work on us because of her lateness. Lateness...

  22. pct/nurse tech wages

    hiphopRN replied to k_r_ah's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    Just wanted to update my post since I've learned more about the job. I'll be getting to learn and do phlebotomy, EKGs, start IVs, along with the daily patient care and normal tech

  23. pct/nurse tech wages

    hiphopRN replied to k_r_ah's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    I just got hired in Baltimore as a Nursing Student/PCT at almost 14.75/hr. With only 1 year of my 2 year program finished. I guess it really depends on where you're

  24. What do you wish you were told on the first day?

    hiphopRN replied to AOx1's topic in General Students

    1. Go to a bookstore and look through the NCLEX books they have. Find one that works for you with its format and layout. Preferably one that has rationales for right and wrong answers so you can...

  25. Anyone Applied for Fall 2010 at CCBC

    hiphopRN replied to sunmist's topic in Maryland Nursing

    Just wanted to say a quick congrats to everyone that got in to CCBC!! I just finished my second semester in the Catonsville Day program. I hope you guys have fun with Fundamentals and don't get too...