wolf9653

Hi, I have mental health, dual dx, rehab and detox experience. We have a very challenging, and sometimes dangerous setting. There have been cases of stalking and assaults of nurses. Our patients can be amongst the most manipulative. One speck of personal information passed amongst the patients can be added to until too much as is known. Like I had one ask if the jeep was my car. He was fishing in the dark, trying to find out which car is mine. Some of them are or are affiliated with gang members. Bottom line, give no personal information whatsoever. Most likely your facility prohibits this type of conduct. And it is important to have firm boundaries. If I coincidently saw a patient in an outside setting, I would keep it short and professional. If I believed they had too much to drink I would discuss with the bartender, the responsibility here is with the server. He/she should call a cab. I doubt the facility would release the information under HIPPA laws. I cannot comment on a social worker or peer support person. If I were attending a support group, I would also minimize my contact with the person, respect their anonymity, and hope they respected mine.

All classes taught in nursing school are an introduction level, not an expert level. Including general practice. So, its safe to say to them 'nursing, like medicine, has become, by need for intensive study and knowledge, a field of specialty. If, for example, you go to a pediatric cardiologist about your neurological issue, the pediatric cardiologist won't even see you. Also, I think you misunderstand what nurses do.' Also, if you feel like you would like to be knowledgeable in another area, there's nothing to stop you from reading. Bear in mind, I think proficiency is obtained by a combination of both knowledge and experience.

know restraint policies, and involuntary med policies, oft the state, criteria and when to use. what interventions should be tried. Under what circumstances/ Know how to redirect, reality orient, how to deal with hallucinating and aggressive patients, how to de escalate.

Sometimes, sometimes not. But some self reflection usually doesn't hurt.

true the older brain is different than a younger one. science actually points the the older brain being more effective, in that younger brains can 'learn ' information, but older ones 'crystalize' it, which makes it more applyable instead of regergitatable.

Because physicians bring in the money. money talks.

Myself, and I may be chicken little, would be cautious about a lawsuit. anyone can google these days. and if one's name were associated with a lawsuit, I'd expect a potential employer to shy away from them. so basically, unless I expect a payout equal to the wages I'd loose by never finding work again, I wouldn't file.

from your resume they shouldn't be able to tell your age since you are a recent grad they could just as well assume you are 19yr old. Age is funny. I've had a few dons tell me they don't like millennials since they have a (perceived) inferior work ethic.

I would document that I was advised by the MD that he administered x mm of x drug im x site.

Other way around. a nurses stethoscope is like a doctors b/p cuff

I have a few reasons. sometimes I need the extra pockets. Sometimes the environment is such that I choose not to show the tattoos on my arms.

Personally, I think if he is handsome, well kept, with nice musculature, charming, funny, confident, empathetic, financially secure, He's going to be attractive even if he wore a potato sack.

Amazing what an education can do to a guy.

If I were called a "murse," at best I'd walk away. Catch me with that on a bad day, and my diplomacy will go out the window. My license says "Nurse" on it

I could be twisted, but I considor the 3 month probationary period a 2 way street. They can say it isn't working out and so can you. I'd think the dialysis co would accept that being you had 1.5 yr with them before, I don't think they'd think you were a flip flop. but that's just me.