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  1. Truama Informed Care is a pipe dream in acute psych -Change my mind

    puravidaLV posted a topic in Psychiatric

    Rant post: Its not a new concept but its becoming more injected into mental health care setting, but when the phd's get into the mix there is an unrealistic expectation from nursing staff and MHT...

  2. Anxiety rated on a 0-10 scale is what test?

    puravidaLV posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work for the federal government and I asked a stupid question. We measure our patients anxiety level and ask them to rate it on a zero to ten scale. One patient stated that he could understand what...

  3. Have you ever been attracted to a patient?

    puravidaLV replied to LilaDavis's topic in Psychiatric

    Yes I've been attracted to their fist, their spit, and most above all else endless proposals of how i can eat what rhymes with

  4. Secure cases for CPAP machines?

    puravidaLV replied to getterupp's topic in Psychiatric

    More than likely your internal engineering department can build the same cabinets that are used in these cases. For the most part its a night stand with a small hole for the mask hose to go through....

  5. Is 2 years Psych Experience enough to Travel?

    puravidaLV replied to learning247's topic in Travel

    yea you could basically travel on 6 months. Certified (deleted my lol) its like a Phd in nursing you're not going to get paid for it, but if it makes you feel better ...yay? if you travel do some...

  6. forcing baths on dementia patients?

    puravidaLV replied to PDXnursing's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    This is an old topic but someone reads this and thinks on a psych unit you can force a patient to take a shower you need to look at not only operating procedures, legal status of patient (hold or...

  7. Everyone is in NP school !

    puravidaLV replied to Atl-Murse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    VA pay doesnt equate to work. You could have 3 psychiatrist on an inpatient unit hosting six patients and all three are getting 215k/each. So in economic view the VA doctor is getting more than the...

  8. Violence in Nursing

    puravidaLV replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Aggressive dementia patient attacks you...ten minutes later no memory. Can't press charges, cant put hands on, and get nothing from management. So a) fight back with the probability of getting sued b)...

  9. ATI PLAN Let me save you the time and $

    puravidaLV posted a topic in General Students

    [color=#923397]i was told to fork out 400+ for this, yet i'm not going to because there are so many used copies of this on amazon starting around .67 cents...... so here are all the isbn numbers...

  10. Working with a felony

    puravidaLV replied to kandikissesrn's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Well if it wasn't for "contract nurses" (troubled nursing) most psych facilities wouldn't have nurses working the floors. I worked with one person who headed the state program for the nurses c/...

  11. Manager interrupting

    puravidaLV replied to lifeisgood516's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes you pick your battles. I have had experiences with a manager on a psychiatric unit that would come in and micro-manage within 5 minutes of...

  12. Do you have a free charge nurse on your unit?

    puravidaLV replied to EllaBella1's topic in General Nursing

    I am free of charge....I do charge for free basically. I don't get paid to do it. I have 7 patients. I haven't figured out how to piss off management enough yet to stop getting the

  13. Ditching NP school for MD?

    puravidaLV replied to ICURNPA92's topic in General Nursing

    Well nothing like going back to school and redoing Calculus, Organic chem, physics, studying for the MCAT, doing eight more years of school and residency followed by crippling student loans. Both...

  14. If you could redo it....would you choose nursing?

    puravidaLV replied to ICURNPA92's topic in General Nursing

    Yep, wouldn't have waited till my thirties thought. I think of all the cool JDM race parts, club nights, places i could have done 13 week contracts in/at/around, that 250cc ninja would have been a...

  15. NP Salary vs. RN salary

    puravidaLV replied to Health-Nut's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    If your working psych the likelihood of you getting a raise is near zero to none in the private sector. Most are stuck on the west (US) around 30-35$/hr which comes out to be 70k/yr for inpatient and...

  16. Error on official HESI Practice Question?

    puravidaLV replied to Aedyl's topic in HESI Entrance, Exit Exam

    Welcome to HESI/ATI you catch the mistakes and they never fix them. I'm fairly certain there are still errors in the ATI books stating smoking is a healthy option for pregnant

  17. Responding to annoying co-worker who asks you to work for them every week?

    puravidaLV replied to NurseUnforgetable's topic in General Nursing

    ...but why? ...b/c your annoying... huh...but in the past you did it. [Arnold voice] welcome to the future [/Arnold voice and dawn on sunglasses] directed by Michael

  18. Have you ever been mistaken for a doctor?

    puravidaLV replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Men in Nursing

    no but I mistake doctors for

  19. PMHNP admissions

    puravidaLV replied to KG7396's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Are you a new nurse? because this is reading like "I just graduated how hard is the nclex?". Most the programs have gpa requirements, some require the GRE, some don't, and some do masters while others...

  20. Psych NP - USA, UND, EKU ?

    puravidaLV replied to marigoldey's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    post your questions b/c some others might have the same questions. EKU student (took a break d/t family and a move, but back

  21. My transfer nurse advisor says I won't make it !

    puravidaLV replied to chichimel's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Here is the reality: people that run nursing schools are the least supportive people in the know. Here is the other reality: People who teach nursing school you're going to find a few that will want...

  22. Hospital NPs & Lounge Access

    puravidaLV replied to wyld~heart's topic in Advanced Practice

    Don't be all pissed off your not getting free bagels and missing out on crape Tuesdays. Even before I finished school I knew the code to the lounge. Just blow some baby powder on the push pins and you...

  23. Help: I failed out of nursing school

    puravidaLV replied to Maria3248's topic in General Students

    Hi, gonna be that person. Your story doesn't add up. 1-4 options basically don't make sense. Why can't you get back in? There isn't a single school I've ever looked at that basically says "one fail...

  24. Switching to night shift... A good choice?

    puravidaLV replied to jss1985's topic in General Nursing

    In the same boat. I've been working acute psych now for six years and nights for almost a year. Nights are quite, yet I swear I have run out of things to research on google, videos to watch on...

  25. Someones project doesn't add up.

    puravidaLV posted a topic in Nursing Professionalism

    So, on my break I took a minute to read something that a fellow RN had done in a presentation which had glitter and was thumb tacked up on the wall for everyone to view over the last year or so........