Mandychelle79 ASN, RN

Ive driven to work, making tracks, snow to door handles of the subaru I was driving. Three closed roads and 2 hours late ( and I left 1.5 hours earlier than I normally do, and kept them updated on the progress on the way there). On the way I got ou...

ummm Im not sure what we use. We all take care of all the patients. We have a charge nurse and a medication nurse, but if a patient requests a medication and the med nurse isnt available the charge nurse will give it. Any patient can approach any ...

We got a letter and a staff dinner... that I was downstaffed the day of and didnt get to enjoy.

Look up urine drug screens... there is none that show what drug from the drug family you are positive for ( AKA... All Benzos will trigger as a benzo, not klonopin, ativan, xanax, all opiates will show opiate Heroin, Vicodin etc, )

After my horrible experience with it after having my son, I would have trouble giving it.

Even though my mom is a nurse I can tell her some stories that make her gasp. My husband and my friends husband refuse to eat at the table with us.

Heck, the patients think half the staff needs help as much as they do. When they say it to me ( and I do have some underlying issues) I just say... see what effective coping skills can do to help.

But cant adult psych feel like being a mom to 24 bad children too. Especially when you the unit is mostly in their late teens to mid 20's. Throw in d&a and they are stagnated at the time they started so they may be 30 but functioning like a 15 ...

The only pediatric psych emergencies I handle are my daughters :) But sounds like an interesting position. I am TRYING very very very very hard to get a psych nurse in our ER to handle the patients that are coming in, so potentially if they ever ap...

A little late to the party but We get those type of admissions too. We actually have a name for them when we call the doctor regarding the admission (One hospital seems to "cherry pick" admissions and we are the dumping ground). We just say its a &...

I have no problem with visible tattoos. Where I work as long as the tattoo is "tasteful" it is up to the manager if they can be visible or not. My coworker recently got a forearm tattoo and it is visible during the shift and she gets many positive ...

Im an INFP- so pretty close. Love psych.

My patients ( specifically the ones who are there frequently) are very comfortable telling me what they think of me. Some ask me how in the heck I have the keys when I am as crazy as they are Some tell me I am one of the ones who treat them like they...

Our rooms are open at all times unless the patient has a personalized behavior plan in place. The behavior plan is usually to deal with people who are malingering.

My son used to sleep on the bus all the time. To school only. Turns out he is phase shifted like his parents ( natural sleep times not in line with school times no matter how early we put him to bed he could not fall asleep till 3 am) and we ended ...

Our main psychiatrist has my back all the time. I send him an unit update on what is going on the weekends he is not on call and he puts orders in from home when the covering drs are not listening to us. Actually most of the docs I work with are ve...

The medical beds on our unit are the hand cranked variety

With my commute the unit already knows that I will only pick up 4 extra hours on days that I am already working. If they are calling me for a whole shift ( pet peeve, dont call me on Monday to work next Sunday, if there are only three scheduled inst...

I am sorry, I did not mean to offend. I know many patients who cannot work because of their mental health issue and do not feel that they are VSS. But there are those who play the system and want to have a dx so they dont have to work. This patien...

I have lots of special snowflakes... I work psych. My favorite though was when I was doing a one to one with a patient who was pouring it on. Trying to get ssdi because of their ADHD. Going on and on about how I had no clue what hell they go thro...

I have no problem saying no. I usually just say, I will check the schedule when I get there and see what I can do to help. If the staff working are ones that will come in and help me when I am working short, I have no problem helping out. If it is...

Zombie hunting... Best stress relief I have found. AKA- house of the Dead 2 on the wii. There have been times where my negative coping skills creep in, which in turn makes me realize how hard it can be for the patients to utilize the skills. Ther...

Last night one of our frequent flyers said to me.... Mandy, youre touble... I said noooo ( in a sarcastic type of way, I am the trouble maker on the unit), he said, youre right, you are evil. To which I responded " Am I the root of all evil?" joking ...

My favorite part of my job is when a patient is talking to me, looks at me and says, I have never told anyone that before, and by finally trusting someone with the secret they have been holding onto for so long, they can finally begin to heal. My o...

Honestly I did not agree to anything that I did not know going into the job. I knew I was going to have to work weekends, I knew I was going to have to work 3-11/11-7, I knew I was going to have to work holidays. It always amazes me that people wor...