macfar28

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  1. Shady S/R practices. . .

    macfar28 replied to BSNBritt's topic in Psychiatric

    Have you considered reporting the hospital/agency to an outside authority? Investigate whether you can make an anonymous complaint to Joint Commission or DFS. They need to know and you need to protect...

  2. Future of PSI, Inc and UHS?

    macfar28 replied to rayfocker's topic in Psychiatric

    to clarify..my post was in response and agreement with misssarahRN. I will also add I went to work for a UHS hospital for 6 hours..long enough to see it was not a place of safe care. They have since...

  3. Future of PSI, Inc and UHS?

    macfar28 replied to rayfocker's topic in Psychiatric

    I'm seeing the exact same things here in the southeast and we are not owned by anyone but our so called "non-profit, community" hospital. It's all about money at any cost. Be fiscally responsible of...

  4. best practice in safe staffing for acute care psych unit

    macfar28 replied to Robin Walker's topic in Psychiatric

    How wonderful you are asking! I wish my directors would do the same but unfortunately our finance department sets the ratios. I know hospitals have to be fiscally responsible but it seems safety is...

  5. New Grad RN Going Into Psych

    macfar28 replied to AngeloRN's topic in Psychiatric

    I completely agree with elkpark. I am suspicious of any facility that provides such little orientation for any nurse joining its organization, especially a new

  6. *wanting to slap the hospital admins*

    macfar28 replied to hazyblue's topic in General Nursing

    Yes I am in a psych hospital which appears to be part of the problem. While most EDs can restrain and inject, our culture is no hands on patients and no injections or forced meds. In many cases, I...

  7. Should I stay or should I go?

    macfar28 replied to Miller86's topic in General Nursing

    Uh, I would run, not walk, away from that situation...yes, I know you need employment but more importantly, you need a functioning nursing license that I'm sure you worked hard to achieve. When I was...

  8. *wanting to slap the hospital admins*

    macfar28 replied to hazyblue's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, I understand much if not all of what you are describing. I'm guessing you wrote this in a hurry with the venting aspect in mind. My team and I have the exact same problems. We do clean...