BSNBritt

Thank you for your response! If I'm being hones then I have to admit that putting my 8 week old in daycare is just a deal breaker for me. I'm a lactation counselor and supplementing is pretty much out of the picture too. I think writing HR the lette...

So I am an RN, BSN who has basically only worked psych since graduating five years ago. I did one year of pseudo skilled nursing (pretty minor stuff, one vent, some G/J tubes, some end of life). I recently applied for a med-surg job PRN, not thinking...

Hello All, I right now I have 5 years of experience in inpatient psych and just recently took a job at a skilled/long term facility to beef up my nursing skills. I was afraid of being labeled as a psych nurse "with no real nursing skills". I am getti...

To be honest, I'm not really sure what my goals are now. I thought I wanted something more medically geared than psych but now that I'm doing it, I don't know that I like it. I feel horrible saying this but some of the things I do are just kinda of g...

Personally I've never had a provider tell me to place all three meds in different syringes. Where I was trained we always mix the two and leave the Benadryl in its own.

I've been there for only about a month but I applied for PRN and they sort of pressured me into taking 28 hours a week to help cover the floor. It's pretty bad . They have the worst staffing issues I've ever seen. In fact, I've seen direct care staff...

Hello, I've had the exact same fear, "Will I be stuck as a psych nurse for the rest of my life?". I started my inpatient psych job right out of school and kept it for going on four years. I have also applied for countless Med/surg jobs with not even ...

Hello all, I just accepted a job at a new psych facility, and so far it's pretty awful. Besides the nurses being completely rude and hostile to me all the time, there are some shady things going on with their seclusion and restraint practices. For o...

I'm an RN, BSN working at short-term locked facility in Colorado. Today I was taking a mandatory quiz on holds (yuck) that comes with an ajoining powerpoint. In the powerpoint, there was a page about who can legally put someone on a 72 hour involunta...

I only worked days, and used to be a morning person, but now I'm working nights full time. On my days off I typically sleep from about 0300 to about 1200. The biggest problem I've had with working nights, is feeling like I miss out on more during the...

This hasn't worked in my experience. I work in an acute stay psychiatric hospital with an adolescent, adult, and pediatric unit. I've tried offering patients that were escalating a time out, or a PO med, but it's never really panned out. Most of the ...

When I was a student, I had an elderly man with dementia. He pressed his call light, and when I came into the room he said, "Miss, all these phones are in my bed". He was referring to his telemetry monitor, call light, and TV control. I told him what...

I grew up with a girl named "anastarr" prounounced, On-a-star. Apparently her mother wen to a traveling carnival while pregnant, and saw the carni gypsy. The gypsy told her not to name her baby "Milliani" as she was planning. The mom said, well what...

Hi Everyone, I graduated this year with my BSN and started working full time in inpatient psych right away. Before I started working, I had heard the recommendation to get two years of med/surg experience. I applied for a couple places with no succes...

Thanks everyone for the advice! I am getting some MS skills working where I do. I did 7 blood draws in one shift once, ha ha. Lately we have been having a lot of more MS patients. . . in sorts. Things happening like seizures, EPS, A-fib, and cirrhosi...

This was a typo, and was meant to be "Past" "Pt. reports pasty abuse"

That happened to me a lot in school too. This probably isn't the best advice, but there's really no way to control what other people say/do. All you can do is be your best, and not reflect that attitudes of others. Keep your chin up, and remember how...

I've seen "change risperidone 1mg QHS to risperidone 1mg QHS" but my favorite was when an ANP wrote "advair and combivent"..................ummmm anything missing there???

Lots of nurses struggle with depression/anxiety, just like a lot of people do in general. I'm in psychiatric nursing right now, and I know that I've struggled a lot my whole life with anxiety. One way to think about your situation is relating it to a...

I'm a new Grad nurse in Colorado. The people from my class were hired where they had done their senior specialty. When they applied anywhere the people didn't know them, they weren't hired. I think that getting hired as a new grad is difficult anywhe...

I couldn't open the link, but here's what I think, I would include: MMSE Non-verbal Suicidal/homicidal/depressed/anxious? (if so, scale) Changes in medications? Medication compliance? Dressed appropriately for season? Affect (does it match what they'...

I just graduated from a BSN program on the Western Slope less than six months ago, and everyone person in my class of 30 found a job in/or close to their desired field already. :)