JustKeepDriving

JustKeepDriving

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  1. Is Psych Nursing Easy?

    JustKeepDriving replied to resilientnurse's topic in Psychiatric

    And the point of bumping a thread from 2010 to make sweeping generalizations about a specialty you do not work in

  2. What was your path to NP?

    JustKeepDriving replied to MomAndSonInMD's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I did my first BA in Psychology and volunteered as a house supervisor at a homeless shelter and did internship hours at a hospital that involved shadowing and direct patient care work. Because I'm...

  3. Why preceptors don't precept

    JustKeepDriving replied to sauce's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    This is my perspective as a PMHNP student: I really dislike that there is no standard in NP education. These are just the differences I've seen both in my time working as an RN and as an NP student....

  4. Milieu Disruptive Behavior

    JustKeepDriving replied to arbasham3363's topic in Psychiatric

    Interesting, I actually didn't know that most were not forensic based. My state has a very small amount of civil patients - and almost all of them were forensic's patients prior to becoming civil...

  5. Milieu Disruptive Behavior

    JustKeepDriving replied to arbasham3363's topic in Psychiatric

    This is the hard part about working in state hospitals. In any other type of psychiatric setting we could very much press charges and even get patient's administratively discharged if they posed too...

  6. Psych NP programs - EKU or UAB?

    JustKeepDriving replied to candysharee's topic in Psychiatric

    My advice as a Psychiatric RN & PMHNP student and someone involved in NP clinical program planning is: Get experience working as a Psych RN before applying to NP school. It's meant to build off...

  7. How do you explain the DNP?

    JustKeepDriving replied to FreudianSlip's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I get the point that you're trying to make - but honestly APRN's are not going to replace doctors in any capacity. I'm sure that there will be some areas that will be more saturated with NP's due to...

  8. Direct Entry MSN Program Opinion

    JustKeepDriving replied to med_life_for_me's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    The thing that I just don't understand is - if you have an undergraduate degree and healthcare experience outside of nursing - why one wouldn't go the PA route vs. the NP. This opinion might be...

  9. ECT

    JustKeepDriving replied to edie1's topic in Psychiatric

    This might come off as a semi rant, but here it goes: Psychiatry and the mental health field are seriously misjudged by many people. I understand that it has a shady past - but you have to realize...

  10. Glut of NPs in coming years?

    JustKeepDriving replied to Jules A's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I have to agree with you. I go to a regular "brick and mortar" campus and I'm shocked every day at some of the people who are in my program. I don't even know if "online" vs. "campus" really makes...

  11. Innovative Mental Health Care

    JustKeepDriving replied to mt569112's topic in Psychiatric

    I really love the treatment mall model for mental health. The hospital is far from perfect - but I don't believe you can ever find one that is. I just feel that mine is really trying to focus on...

  12. Realized floor nursing isn't for me, anything else i can do with a bsn?

    JustKeepDriving replied to enchantedlife's topic in General Students

    Nursing takes all kinds of personalities. Not all of us are bubbly extroverts with unlimited optimism and empathy. Also, not everyone is made to work in a hospital. I'm working in one now because it...

  13. New grads in specialties without the basics

    JustKeepDriving replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    What exactly is a ‘general' nursing job? Aren't they all specialties? I mean I've known med-surg nurses that would crash and burn if they ended up in the ICU, and I've known ICU nurses that...

  14. FNP in a psychiatric office?

    JustKeepDriving replied to bethymaester's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    There is an FNP that was recently hired onto one of the inpatient psych units where I work (never worked psych before, I think she came from a primary care clinic). She was originally hired to help...

  15. Becoming a nurse is no longer an option for me?

    JustKeepDriving replied to KAThftf's topic in General Students

    I feel badly for OP. I would not want to be 17 in the year 2015. I feel like the world is a much harder place to "make it" in than it was when *I* was 17/just graduating high school (a little over 10...

  16. Innovative Mental Health Care

    JustKeepDriving replied to mt569112's topic in Psychiatric

    Yes! My home institution (I say home because no matter how many detours I make in life... acute care, other areas of nursing, graduate school) I always somehow come back there (and even when I'm...

  17. Manipulative Behavior - How to Deal

    JustKeepDriving replied to celery_juice's topic in Psychiatric

    I've been in a similar situation - just not with ETOH withdrawal. I'm not comfortable enough with that to be able to say when a patient needs a PRN or not. However, in my situation it was with a drug...

  18. "Just a Psych Nurse"

    JustKeepDriving posted a topic in Psychiatric

    There are so many negative stereotypes of Psych Nurses. I remember when my first day after taking an OR job (after I had been working in psych... I just wanted to try out a different area of nursing)...

  19. How to prepare for first hospital job in inpatient psych unit?

    JustKeepDriving replied to Puertoriiquena's topic in Psychiatric

    Just substitute Abstemiously for Copiously, and Wine for Craft Beer then you've mastered my coping skill! I mean if the "Check Liver" light hasn't come on yet.. you're good

  20. WELL, WOULD YOU???

    JustKeepDriving replied to nurse2211's topic in General Nursing

    Heh... I'm pretty sure 90% of my unit would do it... even without a good cause. Then again I come from a place where there is an annual naked bike ride through the city every year and I know a lot of...

  21. How do you leave it at work?

    JustKeepDriving replied to Newbie_RN17's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Can drinking like a pirate, smoking like a fiend and shotgunning energy drinks like it's going out of style be the answer? I'm rather proficient at all three of these things. It gets rid of my stress,...

  22. Sexism in nursing

    JustKeepDriving replied to RNGuy12's topic in Men in Nursing

    I feel so lucky to work the places I have worked. I'm part of a team and realize that knowing your team members strengths and weaknesses, and knowing when to ask for help is paramount to good patient...

  23. What is it really like to be a psychiatric nurse?

    JustKeepDriving replied to gracecov's topic in Psychiatric

    I'm a psychiatric mental health registered nurse and I've spent the majority of my career in forensic psychiatry. My undergrad was in Psychology and Social Behavior with my research concentration in...

  24. Milieu Disruptive Behavior

    JustKeepDriving replied to arbasham3363's topic in Psychiatric

    We had regular treatment plans that were the same. The treatment team and a nurse would sit with the patient and come up with Problem, goal and intervention. Generally the goal was to transfer to a...

  25. How to deal with stereotypes and vicious people

    JustKeepDriving replied to rnhopeful2014's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I work in a male dominated area of nursing, a majority of my colleagues are former military, corrections and law enforcement. Their nationalities range from Chicano to Asian American. I've worked with...