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We split pills because our pharmacy is too cheap to get meds in the right dose - ergo, we touch the pill. I have taken to using gloves because the hand sanitizer has irritated my skin to a point of eczema rash at the base of a few fingers & my h...

The work arena does not get better, however, you will get better at what you do & that will make you more able to handle your workload. Overwhelmed is an understatement for how any new psych nurse feels. I was in mortal shock & dismay for a...

4 nurses 2 techs for 21 patients would be a dream. We have 2-3 nurse, 1-2 techs (someone called in?) 5+ Discharge 5+admits. Welcome to Psych.

I have been working the acute psych floor for 4 years now & still keep my mouth shut & eyes wide open when another nurse is being what I may consider overly snappy, loud, yelling or mean. I stop & watch the effect it has on the patient &...

I remember my clinicals - I was assigned to 1 nurse who glared at me every time I offered to help make a bed, empty something. I spent 10 hrs with my mouth shut & watched, taking all the notes I could because I'd be writing care plans on those p...

Em31200 ---- Everyone has something. Doesn't matter who you are, how much money you have, don't have, where you work or are jobless, homeless. Rich or poor, boss or worker bee --- Everyone has something. And those that tell you they don't --- are ...

That's an outright brawl you're describing!!! I am one who doesn't talk back to Dr. orders, but I'd be screaming at my Dr. for an IM B-52 or Geodon --- SOMETHING to slow that one down!!! If nothing else, someone - ANYONE - should be dressing that Dr...

Every nurse - new or old - makes mistakes. Every nurse - new or old - wonders if they are not needing a change, new job - different venue. Every nurse - new or old - comes up against stuff that is new, scary & difficult. Every nurse - new or o...

A lot of my patients are looking at jail time or are from jail, after they abused those children, women, others - & then made suicide attempt (real or half hearted). The ones you all have worked so hard for, pulled back from the brink of death, ...

I've learned that being able to assist someone with their emesis, clean them up & go back to nurse station starving is an actual "asset" on the Psych Unit. So is being able to perform wound care on nasty & scary wounds, clean out bedside com...

LPC2RN Your quote "am repeatedly shouting for help only to see one or maybe two of the techs open the door, watching the patient attempting to rip my face off, only to see them close the door" make my head spin!!!! My first thought - Oh helllll to t...

Just curious if other psych nurses experience changes in their attitudes? I went from new nurse naïve & over caring to worn out but still dreading conflict to working hard running toward the sharp / loud sounds (1st one up & going) & now...

ni_garrett - Get your BSN ---- Can't go into Administration without it & it will only broaden your possibilities!!! If you are feeling like this is what you need to do then you are being called --- no matter what age --- you will never go wrong...

Older New Nurses --- stand tall, put that chin out, square those shoulders & remember --- We have stuff that those young nurses don't have & that is Life Experience. We will stay our ground, keep our job. We don't call in unless we REALLY a...

usnretired1997,RN --- I am looking forward to getting BS so I can do Med Review / Utilization Review for Insurance companies. You can also look at health dept., other type of nursing --- Psych is interesting! Wound Care - Home Health. Agencies as ...

Work a psych unit - BSC - Bat S Crazy; Circle with a Dot = Borderline/attention seeking; Special = Diva; M.R.ish - high functioning or not! Active family = Calls screaming & demanding this & that for the pt. I am sometimes heard whispering "L...

I was 48 when I started Nursing School, 51 when I passed NCLEX & got my job on a psych unit (I always say age plays well there!) The only problem I have is the 23yr old nurse with 6 months more experience than me pissed off because everyone thin...

Our ratio varies as staffed -- a lot of call ins = short staff 1:11 with 1 tech --- we do our own discharges & admits, which makes our acute care unit a machine rather than a therapeutic venue when we discharge 6 & admit 8, move patients arou...

When I have to do a turn on a 1:1 with pt. I am flat, matter of fact, quiet & do not interact much. If the pt. wants to know why I have to be there, chances are they already know, so I reiterate exactly why I am there. If there was no behavior ...

All patients can be potentially violent. Please remember this & let your actions reflect this. I work on a unit where it is very relaxed, very homey, but not for one moment do any of us take for granted a moments peace. The scary & obvious...

I work for an acute care psych facility. The nurses & techs are becomming more hostile to each other by snapping at each other, making rude comments, refusing to help each other. All of this is in front of patients. There is complaining to man...

I fell into Psych nurse as my first job -(after swearing I'd never work psych during clinicals) --- still doing it. I was raised in SF Bay area -- my floor felt like a bus stop - nothing I hadn't really met from 11yrs on up...... Kind of filled in ...

Still use alot of the advise, wisdom & warnings of my teachers ---- "Every nurse must decide what they are ok with & we try to teach good ethics --- so ask yourself, Is it ethical? Is it Legal? Is it worth your License? -- you may come to a ...

My psych unit is low budgeted - we have a hard time getting supplies. One of our best techs went to nursing school & ended up CNA on medsurge in her 2nd semester. She said the first time she went to their supply room she heard angels singing &a...

Junebug903 -- On my Acute Care Behavioral Health Unit, our restraints require 1:1 sitter with a 15min. check sheet - if the pt. becomes calm & not fighting nurse must get them out ASAP --- it is about 1-2 hrs worth of paperwork & charting af...