LadyLovelilocks

If you want to be an FA and enjoy your job, it seems to me you have to be an extreme Type A personality who LOVES working all the time, all day. The kind who is okay with limiting family time/hobbies/outside activities and prioritizes work because it...

The best book I read was this one: Review of Hemodialysis for Nurses by Judith Z. Kallenbach. It is not short. It WILL give you a big leg up for what's to come. You will be able to hit the floor on your first day and have a well-rounded basic concept...

Sorry to resurrect this but, man, I am interested in PD! Anyone else wanna share anything? Also, we may be getting a care management position at my clinic soon and I am kinda curious.

Hello, I have been wondering about PD and Care Management nursing at DaVita, as I'm not really sure what either one of these careers entirely entails (I have been doing clinic dialysis and often hear the SW encouraging pts to try PD, and I frequently...

Thanks for the details! :) it sounds fabulous. Do you have a set of "primary patients" that you work with like in HD where you're in charge of their monthly outcomes, monthly notes, med recs, teaching, etc.? Also anybody else out there with Peritonea...

Hello all, can you share your stories of doing telephone triage as an ambulatory clinic nurse? I would love to hear them :) What works for you, what didn't work, your most interesting call and how you handled it, etc. What have you learned from telep...

Hello all, I was wondering what kind of "brain sheets" you typically use in inpatient psych. I am considering making a brain sheet on Excel and was wondering if you have samples of your "brains" to share?

Hello all, this is my final thread of the day, I promise! Here it goes: how many of you are members of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association? If so, do you find the benefits to be worth the price of the membership? I checked into it and saw it ...

I find this discussion to be really informative and interesting. In school I was taught that most IM medications are not given via Z-track, only certain irritating ones (compazine was one). They did not recommend using the deltoid for any z-tracks be...

Hello all, I have an interview with a child/adolescent psychiatric unit and I am SO excited!!! I have reviewed my psych textbooks in detail, reviewed medications, therapeutic techniques, etc., and have practiced some common interview questions (why p...

Considering the cost of living in California, no, I would not take that. See if the Doctor would be willing to offer a higher salary- I have heard of nurses on allnurses who were offered salaries like this ($11/hr), and when they refused and named a ...

I got it!!! :yelclap::yelclap:

Also, you could try searching under your state at the following link for psychiatric hospitals in your area: Psychiatric Hospitals and Medical Centers

Still sitting on pins and needles ... time slows down when you're waiting.

All right, I should be hearing word any day now :heartbeat I am very excited!!!

Okay, it's been awhile since I did the old NCLEX questions, so let me give this a try for old time's sake: **1. The client is receiving albuterol (Proventil) for treatment of bronchospasm related to asthma. What is the initial nursing intervention a...

Thank you for sharing nursel56 and elprup!

Hello all, I'm just writing a note for all new grads to keep up the hope. I have had long months of no job offers for some time, but suddenly in the last few weeks the interviews keep coming and coming for the specialties I've applied for. It's like ...

I just got a callback asking for more info, so I am hopeful :)

When I did my recent interview for a psychiatric hospital my family gave me "the look," I suppose it is because mental illness is so poorly understood in our society. People with physical illnesses are respected, but people with mental illnesses are ...

Thank you so much everyone!!! I had the interview today and I think it went great!

Thank you for all of the advice! Just out of curiosity, in your psychiatric facility which drug reactions are typically treated "in house" and which are transferred to the ER or other emergency management facility? I would imagine it tends to depend ...

Hello all, I am a new grad and I have an interview coming up for a Neuro Rehab unit in a very busy urban hospital. I am wondering how a Neuro Rehab unit differs from a Neuroscience unit (in this hospital the two units are separated). What kind of nu...