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substance abusers with personality disorders are by far the worst forme. Can't stand those guys. Nothing but grief all day. I'll take an aggressive psychotic over a manipulating addict any day.

I appreciate any male staff around, nurse or nurse assistant, depending on the type of patient is involved. I don't depend on a male staff member to deal with patients directly if I'm the first one to respond. I'm fine to redirecting or deescalate a ...

Maybe because I'm on a psych facility, to me shifts are meaningful....evenings and nights are WAY less stressful than days. You mentioned "night". Do you work night shift? If you're a night shift person, then move to day or evening. (or day if you're...

Oops. The last response was in reply to Elkpark

I'll admit: I have a hard time being cool with the personality folks and substance abusers (the etoh's, however, haven't been bad at all). I hate how dramatic they can be. I hate how manipulative they try to be....I hate even more when I see staff be...

I'm not so sure I entirely agree. Maybe its because of the type of facilities I've worked at. I've never worked at a private facility before... The types of units I've worked at were rampant with malingerers. The way I see it, personality types have ...

I love having a unit secretary. I used to work evening shift at my previous job so there was no need for a secretary. But now I work day shift at a new job. Last Friday, we had so many call-outs campus-wide, including our unit secretary. I'm still p...

One day during a peds rotation, I was taking care of a little boy, around 6 or 7 yo. I can't remember what he was admitted for, but he was soon to be discharged. So, towards the end of my clinical day, I asked him and his parents if there was anythin...

Probably a recurring question on here............but........... Is this still generally true? Have any of you seasoned nurses treated new nurses badly? I heard about this often, but I, nor other nurses I know who have graduated within the past 5 yea...

Do you really believe that every single person washes his/her hands after a sneeze or cough? Do you really believe every health care worker washes their hands after contact, period? Not everyone does the Elmo elbow block. Many people still block thei...

Because the incentive spirometer is an exercise and they are being told to do it. Funny how the mind (and personality) works.

I kind of figured this topic has been worked to death....but, hey, you never know what others have to contribute.....hence the "disclaimer" up top

Oh, not me....I am a "new" nurse. My kids' school nurse is the one who worked at my current facility 15 years ago. Sorry for the ambiguity :)

Fair enough. However, my patients don't know how I interact with people outside of the unit, so, as far as they know, I fist bump everyone. It does fit my personality and they're all very receptive towards it. But when I see one too many patients eng...

"You're the nurse. You're the one who is supposed to deal with the crap I'm not hired to deal with. I teach. You deal with the yucky physical stuff.............and if I don't send this kid to you, I'll be held liable in a sue happy society". ---since...

"When it looks like things are not going your way. When it looks like everything is working against you. When it feels like the end of the world." Wow. I feel "blah" at times..........but never ever close to this kind of "blah". This is beyond "bl...

I thought nursing school was extremely hard compared to the science prereqs. However, someone above said that she felt the prereqs were harder than nursing program. The prereqs are, I feel, 100% memorization, while nursing program requires a high per...

I think more men...big men... are needed in psych. Some patients respond.....and get right the hell up quickly, a lot better with that male presence.

It's not really a warped sense of normal. Normalcy is also adaptation......and nurses, especially, psych nurses, in a sense, are a part of that abnormal "culture". Med nurses, I do feel for you. You have to deal with physical deficiencies along with...

Holy crap. I really admire medical nurses. I'm not demeaning psych at all by any means......... but medical nursing. Much love and respect to you all.

I don't have my BSN....but I'm not offended by it because I realize it's a marketing ploy. They are business who hired another business to recruit students for the sake of capitalism. It's a manipulative tactic, and, evidently, it gets many nurses c...

I'm used to documenting patients as "clients" (although verbally I'll sometimes refer to them as patients or clients) from my previous place of employment. At my new place when I document, I am having a hard time breaking the habit and always having ...

"Or is it just going to come with training/experience?" Advice that 25 year psych nurse gave me: build a rapport with each patient from day one ...or within a few days of admission....and during each shift you work, meet with 2 or 3 patients a day ...

Doesn't/hasn't affected my life outside of work.............. However, I do often find myself "diagnosing" guests on a particular TV talk show -- that is a constant train wreck I can't avoid watching late at night on youtube---- with mental or perso...

Psych nursing requires some serious interpersonal skills. However, unlike medical nursing, it is easy for psych nurses employed on a psych floor to "avoid" patients. But in order to be a true psych nurse, one has to make that choice to be interactive...