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I started 5 weeks ago and this is 100% how I feel about it. It's completely self taught, I would love to have their jobs..they don't do anything lol.

Umm..I couldn't have dreamed up a better job than what Humana has offered me as a care manager. I love the company and love my job. Of course there's metrics to meet, that's how anywhere is. It is a company after all, and a very successful one. I joi...

I had no idea you could even do this lol. Let us know how it's going!

I know I'm pretty late to this but I would be interested in finding out where some you all that hate working from home in CM are working. I work from home w/insurance and LOVE IT. I don't have kids but even if I did I would definitely have to arrange...

Intake at my facility was very different. We did screenings via the telephone and got patients from outlying facilities. We only went to the ER if there was a conflict of some kind between the psychiatrist and the ER staff. The patients had to "meet ...

I had to leave bedside psych nursing for the exact reasons you mentioned in your original post. I was having nightmares about knocking a patient out cold because they can just be such jerks. I DO still have all the empathy and caring in the world for...

I am on my feet literally for at least 10+ hours of the day on a step down unit. Sometimes the whole entire shift. It's so crazy because we have tons of post op patients who are out of the critical period but still very prone to rhythm changes, bleed...

Etsy has some absolutely adorable nurse things that you can get personalized. A friend of mine just graduated and I got her this really cute sticker for her car with her initials inside of a stethoscope. Highly recommend etsy for gift giving!

From my limited googling on this subject, step-down in any form does NOT count and they want you to have experience with invasive lines and swans. Stepdown, ER, PACU, none of those count. It has to be cut and dried ICU.

Location: Southwest Ohio Pay: $26/hr Area: Step down RN with 1 class left of BSN Years of experience: 8 Full time Shift diff is $4/hr for evenings/nights..no shift diff for weekends at all. This survey is really making me think I should have asked...

Forgive me for my username...I picked it out 10+ years ago when I was entering nursing school . Just giving my background...2 years med/surg, 6 years of psych, just now started on a cardiac step-down unit. Each unit has been it's own learning experie...

Thank you guys. :) She never called for my phone appt when she was supposed to btw I was quite annoyed. I have to wonder with the amount of schools offering NP now especially online (which is the way I like to do things) if they are all up to par or...

Thank you Brit! Very helpful! I have an appt today at 3 to speak with someone about the program close to me. :)

LOL I agree with you on that. I have done tons of youtube-ing with this new floor I'm on just trying to get the grasp of things. It's been immensely helpful!

No I am aware of this but the OP didn't specify NP, they just said psychiatric nursing. And I would NOT feel comfortable going to a PMHNP that didn't have extensive experience first since they are able to do meds, etc. It's just my opinion of course,...

How can the two even compare?? Maybe I'm naive on the psychologist arena, but psych nursing is SO much different than having an office and listening to someone for an hour per day. As a nurse, you are spending hours and hours with your group of patie...

It's nice most of you have that time to spend with patients! Before JACHO got so documentation-heavy I used to spend a ton of time with the patients. We would talk, color, watch ball games, etc on TV. Now between all the documentation, drug users ask...

We use it as our first line emergency IM. We usually mix with ativan as well. When mixed it does the job quick and well, but people are a bit too snowed, so unless someone is REALLY agitated I just give the geodon. To help with the mixing issue, we w...

So frustrated. I do really well in all of my classes through this program and now have an 88 in this one. With the submission of this paper I'm afraid I'm not going to pass. This paper was so unfair and ridiculously confusing. I am usually one to pi...

I am so disappointed. I have done psych for the past 6 years and did 2 years of med/surg prior to. I did days, then nights for med/surg, and have done days for psych. We underwent a change in management about 3 years ago and it's been crazy ever sin...

I would say 3/4. There are a few lazy ones but for the most part our PCT's work SOOOOOO hard and are so under-appreciated.

Yeesh. I am so sad to see that so many others have similar or even worse circumstances. Congrats to the woman above who got a new job after the horrid clinic job! SBAR for bathroom breaks?!?! You have GOT to be kidding me!!! sugarcoma - Coulda writ...

Oh honey, I am right there with you and it is a helpless, awful feeling. We are not quite as gung ho on the ECT treatments as your facility seems to be, but I see people being diagnosed with disorders just after minutes spent with the psychiatrists a...

This is going to sound really silly as I've had CPR classes twice now! But I honest to goodness would freak out if one of my patients coded one day. I'm a PCA and I *know* it is bound to happen sometime and possibly during clinicals as well. I just w...

Just wondering. I'm 25, been a nurse for almost 6 years now. I am in the process of getting into a RN-BSN program right now that should take around 2 years maybe? I did med/surg for two years and have done psychiatric for the past almost 4 years. I l...