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Thanks again for the TMAP link. I shared your comments and the site with my preceptor and she agrees with them so I my confidence is restored and I have something to use as a basic start. What I am looking for now is some way of knowing how they stac...

I am a psych nurse practitioner coming to the end of my training. I have been a nurse for decades but not in psych so I am finding myself feeling rather lost in this new field. Specifically the medications. I am spending a lot of time studying them b...

Thank for your reply! We had some TMAP algorithms given to us at school and I dug them up. Thanks for the great websit with them all! However while I was searching on line for them I came upon this website Bush To Impose Psychiatric Drug Regime - Hea...

Reading the posts related to a master's degree from another field and transitioning into nursing, I feel I am in the same boat, in some way. I have been a med-surg/critical care/long term care nurse for decades and have a Master's in Nursing Ed. Now ...

Oh! Lordy! I have some traits of my mother! I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. I have to look into this a bit more! Sonya:idea:

I just saw your messages about these formulas and I am currently considering going to a chiropractor who also uses these formulas. I was wondering how it was turning out with you. Chiropractors very frequently are able to practice with many other typ...

I recently had anesthesia and I think what it does is strip off your aura because all noises and events around me just made me grip my head and ears and want to scream.:trout: It also felt like I was surrounded clumps of white wooliness. After a whi...

Thank you for this info. I just can't find any other stuff about it. I think you may be right. It's been three days and I still feel woolly at times. Can you give me any resources. Thank you Sonya

This is my issue too. I am wondering if it is different in psych, which is where I am. I have had decades of experience in med-surg, critical care etc and I have always been focused on the emotional aspects of wherever I was. Now I am in a NP/Psych p...

I am just reading this almost a year later and wondering what happened to you over the year. But I wanted to say that there is a lot of mental health aspects to all types of "medical nursing". I have worked med surg, ICU, CCU,ER and teaching and alwa...

I think all the ideas are good. I personally cannot do them in any other way that straight from the front of the MAR book to the back. Sometimes I go backwards so I hit the farthest away ones first. Sometimes that fools the phone calls that always ha...

I do know this feeling and I think mine started when my husband died 4 years ago. Every day I opened my eyes and the world was still wrong. And now that I am 60 thoughts of retirement and "What's the use of starting something new" keep popping in fro...

I am in somewhat of the same boat. I am 60 and having completed my MS in Education/Med Surg 10 years ago I am now doing a post graduate track in psych. I am not going to be a NP but a clinical nurse specialist. I have had very little experience in ps...

Yes, I don't mean to be flippant but I think it is a truth that many, many people who go into helping professions are unconsciously seeking help for themselves. I was a bit surprised that you were worried that a psych history would be a problem. And ...

Can anyone tell me about some good web sites for psych students? Right now I am wallowing through the theorists and would love to find some good explanations and comparisons that I could just pop into my notes. Sonya

I am glad you mentioned this. Although I am studying psych nursing I work in a late stage Alzheimer's unit and I can see quite clearly looking just at the behavior's documentation a definite spike in incidents when certain nurses are working there. T...

Pain In Ass staff FYI.... Sonya

Thank you for this. I also will be starting practicums next year so I will print and keep your words. At the moment I work with late stage Alzheimer residents and I feel that this has given me some valuable experience as far as being aware of what is...

I live very close to this college and it is very scenic. There have been some pretty bad staff turn over's over the last few years in the nursing department but now it is much more stable I hear. My daughter just started this term and she is very ple...

Thank you for the input. I started school yesterday and so far it seems that I will get what I need. I am going to also take the one credit psychopharmacology course offered in the NP program. I don't particularly want to prescribe meds but if I get ...

I am just about to begin a program leading to a psych CNS. I already have a MS in Nursing Education and I did do 2 courses in the psych track before I packed it in. So it will be 15 more credits. I am not a psych nurse at all, I have worked med-surg,...

I have to say, from my own personal experience: please don't teach. I have had professors in nursing school that came from situations not unlike yours, and they didn't last. The pressure of nursing is at least doubled when you have six to ten unexper...

I work in a nursing home with a locked ward for the Alzheimer residents and generally demented and some psych patients who are above middle aged. When we can't cope with the violence or other horrible behavior [and believe me, we can deal with a lot!...

I think it is an endless problem with no real solution, although I thought having another nurse check them over is a good idea. But then who has the time? I think the environment make a great difference. As long as residents, staff and family feel fr...

Wow! what a lot of responses. It warms my heart that I am not the oldest nurse on the planet. I am 60 and work in a nursing home. Lots of old nurses there. And those that aren't old have bad backs, cricked necks, bad knees, allergies and are all on p...