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Where i work it really depends on the unit. On the inpatient floors most cases we would go ahead and give the Po unless we have a reason to suspect it is a ploy on the patients part. In the crisis unit once we go hands on 9 times out of 10 the patien...

Until about 3 years ago we had a 65 to 70 percent release rate of voluntary's who give the 72 hr notice and they did have to sign a 2nd ama form. Then we had a patient released on an ama within 24 hrs of the 72 hr notice who killed himself and his wi...

It can be violent at times. Intake can be a bit more violent due to not knowing the patients as much as say a floor nurse knows their patients so it is harder for us to avoid triggers etc. That being said we probably restrain 1 to 2 times a shift dep...

I work intake now i work in a dedicated psych facility which makes it easier in some ways. Less concerns about having patients pushed on you prior to being medically safe due to shortness of beds or staff in the er. It can be interesting at times lik...

we use the posey ones in the op as 4 point restraints those are they only type of 4 point restraints we have we use to use those as soft restraints and leathers as hard restraints however we stopped using the leathers a few months ago although they a...

i can picture a little sign next to it please ring bell once for im haldol ring twice for seclusion lol haha. relax people i am joking

psychosis patients and the invol holds tend to be the most problems for us.

tell him its a male one bend over haha

where i work pt we have 3 er's adult physch and peds we never ever put adults in the peds er however we use adult er beds for non violent physch patients when we really need to and have on occasion used a spare physch er bed for a non acute er patien...

Hi there in the past week i have had 3 incidents of weird patient demands. first was on a overnight shift in the crisis intake unit i had a female patient ask me for a enema i had asked why and her response was during the last few weeks all the stres...

the first has a history of admits and gets sexually aroused by enemas we offered oral laxatives and we got a refusal and our charge nurse on the inpatient unit has a habit of accepting crisis admins before we discharge for the day sometimes

lol wow

i work the occasional medsurg or er shift at the hospital i work at usually 3 or 4 shifts a month

Well said.

being from philly area mind if i ask where you worked?

I dated a tech from another hospital for about 8 months. Watching me and him fight was a real treat let me tell ya haha.

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so what did you dress as mandy?

welcome to the dark side we have cookies :) no really welcome and good luck.

we do not use dilution when we give it where i work. our docs use geodon a lot too so it is two injections

i love working physch been doing it about a year. i don't know if i could ever go back to any other nursing

littmans are worth every penny you can find some good deals on ebay for them or try allhearts.com I believe it is it is a nursing uniform supply

all booked and looking forward to it.

wow im lucky I work in a crisis intake we have 1rn and two lpn's and usually 3 to 4 techs per shift with an average of 6 to 8 patients per shift

hi this was sent to me by a friend. I do not know how she got it or if it is a true expernice just want peoples opinions after reading it what do you think etc. My mental hospital experience. I had been feeling down lately and very depressed I decide...