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I am glad this was posted. I have been working inpatient adult psych and working in a mental health unit in a jail environment. I have an interview for an 8-bed Psych ED position in a community hospital (looking for a change). Always 2 nurses on staff, so no more than 4 pts. each I am assuming. I am looking forward to it.

Wow! I’m sorry that this happened to you. When assaults like this happen in psych, I’ve always heard “it’s okay, it comes with the territory”. But in reality, I come to work to care for my patients and do my job, not be cut, punched, spit on, etc. If your anxiety gets extremely high in these types of environment, it may not be the best for your health. Your safety comes first. If you feel safer and able to do the best you can for your patients without that anxious feeling in LTC, I would go for it!

Ehh.. it depends. I've been assaulted more in LTC. I've actually never been assaulted working psych.

One of my jobs is in Geri-Psych, I am not sure if I would consider that med psych but there is a lot of medical components to it because of their age.

Good evening nurses! For the past couple of months, I have been working in a psychiatric unit in a correctional facility with a max census of 32 for incarcerated males with acute/chronic mental health issues, most awaiting trial and seeing if they will be deemed NCR and if they are, they are housed here while waiting for a bed at the state hospital. Many of our patients are admitted here as well because they stated that they were suicidal in general population or some is just admitted here for "bizarre behavior" (psychotic decompensation). The unit is ran similar to how it would be run in a hospital, frequent rounding, medication administration, patient education, running groups, mental health assessments. Administration constantly states that this is the "forensic mental health field" and that it is very rewarding (which I agree with). I just wanted to ask if anyone has ever heard of forensic mental health nursing and if what I am doing as an RN in this facility would really be called "forensic mental health nursing". Thank you!

I just bought the Mometrix flash cards, I am going to use that to study. I am seeing it is helping out a few of you.

I definitely prefer 12s. The position I am currently in only offers 8 hour shifts.. I can't see myself working 5 days a week so I had to make a schedule where I am working 2 16 hour shifts a week. I can't do the 5 days a week thing.

I've been working inpatient psych for the past year and worked a few months in corrections. I just accepted a forensic mental health nurse position in a correctional facility. I am looking forward to working with the mental health population in the correctional system.

Hey Psych Nurses I am currently working as a psych nurse is an acute adult unit mainly specializing in schizophrenia/psychosis disorders. I am going to soon be making the switch into an acute adolescent unit. Any adolescent psych nurses here? Any word of advice? I shadowed for a few hours in the evening/night (I'll be working night shift). I'm not going to lie, I'm a little nervous working with this population because I've never worked with patients under 18. Any advice working with this age group (13-17)?

The facility that I am at is not that different from med/surg actually. I work a lot with IVs, wound care, foleys, trachs/suctioning, etc.. I love what I do and I love the non-hospital environment.

Psych previously, now in corrections and have no plan on leaving anytime soon!

Corrections. A lot of jails and prisons hire nurses with an ADN. You might like it.

I'm in acute adult psych. I do wound care, but they're usually simple dressings. I deal with incontinent patients often, have to assist patients with ambulation (or a sitter/tech), check I/O's, trach care, ostomy care. I actually like it though.

Hey, I'm so late. I've been working in the field for a few months now. I would like to get the book Verbally Judo, but when I looked it up, I found two. Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasiam and Verbal Judo: Redirecting Behavior with Words. Which one is it? Thanks!