IdrilRN

And old as **** frail elderly resident in the nursing home I work in who was half dead the other night and has no family but the people who take care of her.

#justnursinghomethings. #weepy #justnursethings #beanursetheysayitwillbefuntheysay #veryrewarding When you hope the medication is enough. When you hope your touch is enough. When you hope your nursing skills are enough. When you kiss them on the forehead and say "I love you" When they reach out for your hand and say they love you too. When they tell you the pain has gone away. Then I know I've done enough. Then I know I can take a moment for myself

Polly policy. And I say that with great admiration. As she knows the policy book backwards and forwards so it is quite helpful! Me, I would be, saftey queen. Very rigid on my unit with issues regarding saftey of patients and staff. But alas we already have a safety king... I mean saftey officer who is worse then I.

Not going to sugar coat it but you are lucky not to be kicked out of the nursing program for doing a tube feeding with a nurses aid, or nurse like person. In other words not with your instructor. There are rules for a reason. We are dealing with human lives here. And yes we are all human and make mistakes, but what you've described are very simple things to follow. Perhaps being a nurse just isn't right for you.

Please please don't take things patients say about you personal. You will burn out very quickly. I've had patients rip the cuff off and storm off while calling me every name in the book and accusing me of breaking their arm because the cuff was too tight. Best of luck to you in your psych career.

Yes it is possible for RN's. I just got hired on perdiem. And will often be the only RN on besides the charge nurse.

Find out who the company is that provides medical care for the DOC. I just got hired on per diem at my local prison. It's not through the DOC it's through an out side company. Could be as easy as calling the prison, asking for medical and speak with someone and find out which company.

Oh yes. 6p-8p M-F and 2-4 and 6-8 on weekends. And even better if the pt is on any type of detox protocol. They get no visits unless it is "therapeutic" And even then requires an md order and supervision with the social worker. But a sad point to psyche, is some if not most of my unit gets no visitors. ?

I wear boring jeans and boring t shirts or shirt, and sneakers. But then again thats my "style" or lack of style, anyway I work on a forensics unit and as a nurse I would never wear a dress or a skirt. I get down and dirty (no pun intended) with these peeps sometimes and a skirt not appropriate. I would not wear any thing I really cares about. Why just today, my charge and I wore a patients cup of coffee. She ruined her expensive new blouse, me... Inexpensive Walmart shirt. The children's unit wear long sleeve shirts, the adolescent unit can wear shorts. I don't wear a button up shirt unless I have a tank top underneath. The dress code for your hospital can guide you a bit more. I know some of my coworkers would love to wear their sweatpants but that is just not allowed. Mostly we wear jeans or regular pants. But that's our hospital. Gratz and best of luck!!! Psych nursing is very rewarding.

I worked as an LPN on a psych unit. Now as an ADN, I work in a private psych hospital. Psych nursing is not at all slow paced, except maybe on night shift and that's only if everyone is sleeping.

It's for people who have commuted a crime and at some point are suspected of having or already have a diagnosis of a mental illness. They come to the suit usually psychotic (they've been off their meds) with in two weeks they have an eval by a forensic psychiatrist. Who will determine if they were mentally Ill at the time of their crime. (Competent or incompetent) They go to court with that information and either go back to the community, to jail or back to us for at least 90 days. It's managing a lot of psychosis and trying to get people to take their medications. We have very manic people as well. There is a lot more that happens but that's he gist of it.

Child, adolescent, LGBT, Detox, 2 adult units (regular) and one forensic. A uniformed service program, intensive outpatient program for adults, children and adolescents and residential programs for children and adolescents.

I agree that if they were well enough not to be checked on they are well enough to be home. I remember after a 5pm surgery, I was up all night going to the bathroom anyway, they didn't need to come and check me every hour. Getting rest in the hospital, that's the strangest thing I've ever heard. I wake people up for their meds because if they didn't need them, and that they are not in a hotel. But I will let them sleep and not ask if they are awake, when it is clear they are resting quietly with their eyes closed and are breathing. Now today at work, there were many crabby peeps. I think it was the extra day of this year, (peeps just didn't know what to do with themselves) and the new moon.

I worked at Central Vt hospital. I enjoyed it very much. We didn't have a union but our pay was decent and the benefits great. I enjoyed all the people I worked with, and all the people in the other depts. And when I was a patient three different times, I had a wonderful stay. I think there is a lot of the same "stuff" no matter where you go, but it is a nice place to work. Copley is a smaller hospital. I don't know too much about it, but I know a lot of the nurses like working there.

If I'm getting a shot, I only want one and only one shot, as long as it's appropriate. It's a needle getting stuck in my skin, of course it's going to hurt. Some years my flu shot hurts, some years it doesn't, depends on who I'm getting it from. I've had people covered in tattoo's whining about getting a shot or their blood drawn. Your patient sounded like a person who didn't like shots.