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  1. Can You Detain a Patient Just For Being Manic?

    Meerkat replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    Again, thanks for the truly insightful and wise thoughts. You are a smart bunch. I did bring this up in report and another nurse agreed with me but in a very noncommital (pardon the pun) way. She...

  2. Can You Detain a Patient Just For Being Manic?

    Meerkat replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    You could be right...but even if that's so, since when do we incarcerate people for not keeping a job? Millions of us would be locked up. I just feel this is a very slippery

  3. Just an Accident? Or Intentional Killing?

    Meerkat replied to Meerkat's topic in Psychiatric

    Thanks for the interesting answer. There was no hint of sexual abuse. Of course that doesn't mean anything...could still have happened. Family is intact. The drowning was attributed to horseplay....

  4. Just an Accident? Or Intentional Killing?

    Meerkat posted a topic in Psychiatric

    Let me say right up front that the incident that I am writing about is very upsetting and graphic, so read at your own risk. A girl about 10, was being treated on our unit for behaviour problems. She...

  5. The Kinder Gentler Psych Unit

    Meerkat posted a topic in Psychiatric

    Our dept is attempting some big changes that I think are great. One, we are part of a general hospital, not an exclusively psychiatric hospital, and the ER is going to have a seperate area just for...

  6. Health Bennies or Higher Pay?

    Meerkat posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi again, I'm wondering if any of you waive health benefits to getting more cash. I am thinking of doing this. Right now I still have health coverage with the military but that will end when my...

  7. Health Bennies or Higher Pay?

    Meerkat replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    By the way, does anyone know if there is a way to maintain my military coverage after the

  8. The Bullying Thread

    Meerkat replied to gwenith's topic in General Nursing

    Believe me, it's not just the patients. For the first time in my life, I understand why bullied kids have killed themselves when they cannot escape this cruelty. It is EXHAUSTING! Don't get me...

  9. Can You Detain a Patient Just For Being Manic?

    Meerkat replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    The thing is, when someone is involutary for a certain amount of time, a second opinion must be done. All our docs work together, and I SERIOUSLY doubt that a doc would go against his colleague's...

  10. Can You Detain a Patient Just For Being Manic?

    Meerkat replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    Great Idea~

  11. Can You Detain a Patient Just For Being Manic?

    Meerkat replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the kind compliments. My eyes welled up all over again, because I'm grateful for your words...if you missed my post in another thread, I spend too much time on our unit getting bullied...

  12. Can You Detain a Patient Just For Being Manic?

    Meerkat replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    I don't understand this 302 thing...what is it again

  13. Can You Detain a Patient Just For Being Manic?

    Meerkat replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the responses. Truly, he comes across pretty normal. Some rapid speech, occasionally grandiose, but all in all, he comes across as a person who is experiencing a hypomanic cycle, who knows...

  14. Nurse Mobbing/bullying

    Meerkat replied to LuciGirl's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Wow...I JUST walked in the door, and this was the first thread I noticed. Surprising because as I type I am still in tears. I was sent home tonight...not in a mean or disciplinary way, but because I...

  15. I Need Some Comfort Please

    Meerkat posted a topic in General Nursing

    My 14 month old got sick and I took her to the ER. To R/O pneumonia, they did CXR...lungs were good, but WOW! You could see a mile away on those films that she has significant deformities in her...

  16. Do You Get A Lunch or Dinner Break?

    Meerkat posted a topic in General Nursing

    I know that alot of nurses end up working through their lunch breaks. I certainly do, but isn't there a law or something saying you MUST take a break? I mean, an...

  17. Aspirating for blood when giving injections to infants?....Have the rules changed?

    Meerkat replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Patient Medications

    By the way, my unit is children's psych and when we give IM's we often, well, almost NEVER aspirate on the kids, even if they are as big as me (which seems to be alot of them!) The reason is because...

  18. I Need Some Comfort Please

    Meerkat replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    Thank yo for this WONDERFUL post! I really do feel lucky that the spinal prob was caught early. And do you know what? It was caught totally by accident! I guess I already mentioned that in the...

  19. I Need Some Comfort Please

    Meerkat replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    yes, thank you...

  20. Just an Accident? Or Intentional Killing?

    Meerkat replied to Meerkat's topic in Psychiatric

    Thanks for all the great and informative posts. I am sorry to say this, because we're all dissapointed, but the child has been discharged from our unit. She was 'stabilized', so they say. In 6...

  21. Just an Accident? Or Intentional Killing?

    Meerkat replied to Meerkat's topic in Psychiatric

    By the way, the brother's death was almost two years ago, the case has been

  22. Just an Accident? Or Intentional Killing?

    Meerkat replied to Meerkat's topic in Psychiatric

    Yes. It was said that the family was 'at a distance' from the pool and that they did not see what happened, but they insisted that she loved her brother and would never ever hurt him. Ruled as an...

  23. Do You Get A Lunch or Dinner Break?

    Meerkat replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    Bravo to you guys!!! Do other co workers balk at you for taking a break? Especially the ones who pull the I-didnt-get-abreak-so-why-should-you

  24. Do You Get A Lunch or Dinner Break?

    Meerkat replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    P.S. Do you get the cold shoulder if you ask management to pay you for the time you worked during

  25. Just an Accident? Or Intentional Killing?

    Meerkat replied to Meerkat's topic in Psychiatric

    I think you might have misunderstood my intention of this thread. It's not about judging the patient, it's about getting others' professional opinions from the psychiatric/clinical standpoint. When...