PatMinotaur

I just buy thrift store clothes en masse. Big, shapeless, baggy, and non bits-displaying would be my favorite look. Good running shoes would be advisable. OH and layers! Wear layers!

Thanks everyone :) The market where I live has been tight for a couple of years now. I knew I had to give my best every day I brought my butt to work. I told my mom it was like being on a two year interview with random physical attacks. It paid off. I have to thank you all helping me when I stalked the psych specialty board a couple years back. Everyone encouraged students wanting to get a job to try on the role of the tech first. I'm glad I did. I can't imagine not having the experience of aggressive clients and physical management prior to my first day as a nurse. I'm ninja quick with those skills now ;-) ... and anyhow it's not like they will stop swinging just because my name tag says RN on it. If any student stalkers are reading this thread, get your butt in the hospital for a psych tech position. Do it! You don't know what the market will be like even a year from now.

Hello all! I have just graduated from school and was hired by my current employer. It is a psychiatric hospital that works with all age groups and different levels of acuity. I have worked as a tech for two years to see how well I could take (or block) a punch and if I could handle the intense emotional up and downs of the specialty. I will be in the highest acuity locked adult unit. I worked there as a tech though and I know exactly what I will be getting into. So far so good. :) I am actually wanting reading materials while I am studying for my boards that are specific to psych that are not in the textbook format. Anything and everything that you think would be helpful and make S-M-R-T, feel free to point me in that direction. I am super excited to start but I want extra weapons in my orificenal.