nina539 replied to beccajean's topic in Psychiatric
That makes me really sad to hear. In the last year we had a psych nurse, a psych tech and a med-surge nurse (responding to a mistakenly called code) all assaulted by the same violent pt. 2 concussions...
nina539 replied to NCindasun21's topic in Psychiatric
I have to agree that mood is what the pt says it is. I have found in my experience that it can be helpful to chart something like "[patient name] reports they are feeling ........
nina539 replied to behensley's topic in Psychiatric
I work inpt psych and our dress code is just scrubs or scrub pants and t-shirts, no specific color. Most of the older nurses tend to stick with very traditional scrubs while some of us newer nurses...
I am an LPN on an acute psychiatric unit. My nurse manager has given me and my fellow LPNs the task of coming up with ideas for educational/informational sessions with our patients. I was hoping maybe...