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    Working with BPD and IED pt.'s, any tips??

    wish_me_luck replied to New Angel's topic in Psychiatric

    I will be brutally honest--having BPD, I went through and did NCLEX style questions about BPD and what they tell nursing students/nurses in nursing school on how to deal with a person with BPD is...
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    Working with colleagues diagnosed with mental illness

    wish_me_luck replied to resilientnurse's topic in Psychiatric

    While I understand mental illness can cause havoc, I am slightly offended that this is even a thread. Like a previous poster said, most everyone has, they may not know it though. This is like us...
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    What Is The Deal With All The Highly Educated & Professionals Becoming RNs?

    wish_me_luck replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Prof, I clarified that I am speaking about the people who had past professional careers that go back to school for nursing and say "I am doing what I really wanted to do to begin with." Not the stay...
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    What Is The Deal With All The Highly Educated & Professionals Becoming RNs?

    wish_me_luck replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    "It is NOT a failure to "get it right the first time" ... and if you think it is ... then I say to you to be prepared to have "gotten it wrong" when you find your career, intellectual or social...
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    What Is The Deal With All The Highly Educated & Professionals Becoming RNs?

    wish_me_luck replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    I would want to see some "action" behind the beauty pageant answer of "I want to help people". Fact is that most professions do help people. You have to define how you want to "help" people. I...
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    What Is The Deal With All The Highly Educated & Professionals Becoming RNs?

    wish_me_luck replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Boston, why it matters. To be honest, when on the job, it doesn't matter. When interviewing....someone talking about their childhood dream of being a nurse and they are a second career person compared...
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    What Is The Deal With All The Highly Educated & Professionals Becoming RNs?

    wish_me_luck replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    PM, do you ever ask why nursing? If you do, what do they
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    What Is The Deal With All The Highly Educated & Professionals Becoming RNs?

    wish_me_luck replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed, Weeping. I have a great deal of respect for LPNs, as well. I have actually only come across one circumstance that a person with an ADN (prior this person was an LPN) felt anger and hostility...
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    What Is The Deal With All The Highly Educated & Professionals Becoming RNs?

    wish_me_luck replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Nurse_Diane, that's not what I am referring to. What I am talking about are the people that had a career, a career, in a different field such as business manager or lawyer or whatever....something...
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    What Is The Deal With All The Highly Educated & Professionals Becoming RNs?

    wish_me_luck replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, I got it with the tech stuff. Sorry. I have a very honest, not trying to ruffle feathers, question. All the older, second career nursing students, if this was your dream job as a child, why did...
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    Want to leave boston for a warmer climate need your input!

    wish_me_luck replied to ICUrn137's topic in Nursing Career

    I only know about TN. TN does not have a state tax, but the tax on items is 9.5%. Do not know about west TN, but northeast TN has Wellmont and Mountain States. Pay rate for new grads is $18 base and...
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    What Is The Deal With All The Highly Educated & Professionals Becoming RNs?

    wish_me_luck replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I personally know a lot of people who are older than me (not old but older) and they are like weeping said--pitch a fit with anything electronic. Both healthcare people and not. My point with my...
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    What Is The Deal With All The Highly Educated & Professionals Becoming RNs?

    wish_me_luck replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    I also worked with older nurses as a tech. Most were unhappy people. I get tired of the younger generation=lazy mentality. Older age does not always mean wiser, either. Nursing is a very specific...
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    What Is The Deal With All The Highly Educated & Professionals Becoming RNs?

    wish_me_luck replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    ....and that is? A lot of times they already have a notion how thing should be done because that is how they did it at their previous job...new people to the workforce have very few notions on how to...
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    What Is The Deal With All The Highly Educated & Professionals Becoming RNs?

    wish_me_luck replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Ricksy, your comment rubs me the wrong way. I am in my mid 20s and nursing is my first degree. I switched my major 3 times and the third was nursing. I had thoughts of nursing before the third switch...
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    RN-BSN with Psychology minor

    wish_me_luck replied to cheezyguy's topic in Nursing Career

    Psychology majors and minors know very little about mental illness. A minor would not be enough to even scratch the surface. Psychology actually focuses on thought processes and such, not so much...
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    DMU for those who want to be a Psych Nurse

    wish_me_luck replied to BeOne77's topic in Psychiatric

    Try the search bar at the top and type DMU. There are threads and also, try the Nurses/Recovery forum. You may find a better response as this section is actually for people who are working psych. So,...
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    DMU for those who want to be a Psych Nurse

    wish_me_luck replied to BeOne77's topic in Psychiatric

    BeOne, I know you are looking for support here. Maybe a better question is this---what exactly are you expecting from us? What kind of support are you looking for? What bothers you about the DMU? One...
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    DMU for those who want to be a Psych Nurse

    wish_me_luck replied to BeOne77's topic in Psychiatric

    It depends on the state. Some flat ask about any mental illness within the past five years, others are vague, and some do not ask at all. I made a thread in the disability section on states and how...
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    Brand new RN, 2 weeks into job, made charge nurse....difficult staff!!!!

    wish_me_luck replied to KristinaDuBois's topic in Nurse Management

    It is the experience vs degree/license thing. I would flat tell him he is more than welcome to go for his ADN or BSN. I like LPNs, I know some awesome LPNs, but they have to realize any person with an...
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    DMU for those who want to be a Psych Nurse

    wish_me_luck replied to BeOne77's topic in Psychiatric

    No, ad, I do not think it was solely on a restraining order, I think the hospitalizations had to do with it. I did not have a restraining order against me, but I am in HPMP. I, however, have been in...
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    DMU for those who want to be a Psych Nurse

    wish_me_luck replied to BeOne77's topic in Psychiatric

    BeOne, I know. But, neither you or I can change the situation. Fighting Boards who giveth and can taketh away licenses will not help. The more I got involved in other things, especially mental health...
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    DMU for those who want to be a Psych Nurse

    wish_me_luck replied to BeOne77's topic in Psychiatric

    BeOne, I do the same thing as you for the same reason. While it sucks, you do have to make peace with it or it will be a long five years. I do not think the monitoring programs cost 20,000...
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    DMU for those who want to be a Psych Nurse

    wish_me_luck replied to BeOne77's topic in Psychiatric

    OP, I think your best bet for this is to just suck it up, own up to your mistakes, take a refresher course, look for jobs when you are allowed, and move on with
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    DMU for those who want to be a Psych Nurse

    wish_me_luck replied to BeOne77's topic in Psychiatric

    OP, find your local NAMI affiliate and get involved. They have support groups,