audreysmagic RN

Psych, Peds, Education, Infection Control

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    School Shootings

    audreysmagic replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    As a psych nurse, I get really jaded about how no one wants to pay attention to or fund mental health care until things like this
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    Magnet behind nurses station?

    audreysmagic replied to Pharmahaulic's topic in General Nursing

    My first thought was the magnetic locks that are everywhere in my facility - but we're behavioral health. :) I'm hoping the prof meant the pacemaker magnet, or maybe one used for VNS in seizures...
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    Essential Oil Overkill

    audreysmagic replied to Kayauhs's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, agreed - I encourage anyone who uses them at home to make sure they know which oils are and aren't safe to use around their pets. There are a couple smells I adore but don't use in any diffusers...
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    Essential Oil Overkill

    audreysmagic replied to Kayauhs's topic in General Nursing

    I'm in the "the health benefits are probably woo" club, though some aromatherapy seems to have calming effects on some people. I keep them around solely because I enjoy the smell and my asthma is...
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    Evidence Base Research Shows...

    audreysmagic replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    Evidence-based research shows that an awful lot of nurses, audreysmagic included, cringe at the redundancy of "evidence-based research." Evidence-based research also shows that healthcare loves...
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    School Shootings

    audreysmagic replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    Sadly, no. Had another one this week we had to fight with the parents to get them to let us admit. "Just exaggerating." People always think it can't happen to them until it
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    School Shootings

    audreysmagic replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    I wonder, too, how "everyone knew and said nothing," but then I think of the couple of kids I've seen in my adolescent psych unit that have clearly stated they want to shoot their school up, and the...
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    School Shootings

    audreysmagic replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    There are also reports that kids who have survived school shootings were using twitter to interact with kids who were in the building and give advice for survival. Technology has downsides and...
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    School Shootings

    audreysmagic replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    I was once a "patient" in an mass shooting drill for EMS...Green triage, so traumatized but not physically hurt...I was hiding under a desk in the office, armed with my stapler and refusing to stop...
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    And we were having such a nice day, too...

    audreysmagic posted a topic in General Nursing

    The curse has not set in, but it is upon us. In the nursing office (which is really a suite of offices that are not all nurses, but we get to keep the cool name ), our director of marketing just...
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    School Shootings

    audreysmagic replied to Farawyn's topic in School

    I'm so sad that this thread has a reason to exist at all, much less to keep going. Sending love to you all who are still out there in the trenches. Every time I hear of a tragedy like this at a...
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    Suicide attempt while at school

    audreysmagic replied to Cas1in72's topic in School

    Yes, critical incident debriefings are so crucial in these cases. I hope your school does one. You'd be amazed how many people who weren't directly involved might also be shook up by
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    Suicide attempt while at school

    audreysmagic replied to Cas1in72's topic in School

    Also a psych nurse (and former school nurse!) chiming in - it's people like you who keep them alive to get to us that fight a good part of the battle in these situations. You did amazing, and that...
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    I'm worried...

    audreysmagic replied to ohiobobcat's topic in School

    That's a fantastic improvement! I'm so glad to see the update. How scary, though - so glad that kid had you
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    I'm worried...

    audreysmagic replied to ohiobobcat's topic in School

    Oh, no - that's so awful. Sending healing and love your way, for all
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    Quick: need a code word

    audreysmagic replied to scuba nurse's topic in School

    Funny story - when I was still in the schools, I got an emergency call for Epi-Pen use. Used it, girl responded well and quickly, and while 911 was enroute, I asked her what she was allergic to and...
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    Quick: need a code word

    audreysmagic replied to scuba nurse's topic in School

    We used to joke when I worked in a peds office that if a kid had crazy parents, we'd put a stamp of a peanut on the chart...and if they asked, it was "oh, it's because we just love your little...
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    Was I wrong?

    audreysmagic replied to Munch's topic in General Nursing

    To me, it sounds like a patient in real pain was properly treated. If she were an addict, she still deserves to have her pain properly treated. The other nurse's reaction sounds a lot like the...
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    NP or Physician for men?

    audreysmagic replied to ImTheCuteBoyNursesLove's topic in Men in Nursing

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    Nursing Shortage!! It's real and it bites (new grads, can't find a job? Read this post!)

    audreysmagic replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    I feel you, klone. I don't have the exact same struggle - my hospital is in an area flooded with nurses. But my hospital is a small, freestanding behavioral health facility. We can't afford to pay...
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    And we were having such a nice day, too...

    audreysmagic replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    That's just plain true, in my experience...and if payday weekend has less-than-stellar weather, you're really in for a bad
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    And we were having such a nice day, too...

    audreysmagic replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    I'm going to be driving the struggle bus this weekend, covering RN Supervisor for the adolescent psych building, so...I feel ya. May the odds be ever in your
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    And we were having such a nice day, too...

    audreysmagic replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    My work here is
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    And we were having such a nice day, too...

    audreysmagic replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    This is 100% true and I've been guilty of thinking up patients. Particularly the more colorful
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    Lost my husband on Holiday Break

    audreysmagic replied to guest83140's topic in School

    I'm so sorry for your