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Hello! I just got my acceptance letter for the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program at Drexel University and I was wondering if there is anyone else on here who is planning on starting this program in the fall? Just trying to find some future classmates! Also if any current students have any advice that would be awesome! Thanks!

I just graduated with my BSN and passed my NCLEX. I am starting my orientation on the psychiatric unit where I am working and I am so nervous I am going to do something wrong and end up setting back a patients progress. I'm also worried the tight knit team won't like me. I love psychiatric nursing and it is something I am passionate about, but I'm worried I won't be good at it outside of the nursing school clinical environment. Any advice from seasoned psych nurses about pet peeves you have for new nurses or what you expect from them? I'm so nervous. Thanks in advance!

I need to write a professional paper on any of the following topics: (Pulmonary embolism, acute lung injury, cardiac rhythm disorders, disorders of myocardial perfusion, inflammatory diseases, valvular heart disease, trauma, shock, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, acute hepatic failure, AIDS, Burns, organ donation/transplantation, pancreatic and gallbladder problems, UTI, glomerulonephritis, renal failure, acute kidney injury, or problems of the endocrine glands). Our professor just told us to go on nursing databases (PubMed, Cinahl) and type in these general terms and pick a topic with a lot of nursing research on it. I have spent hours searching websites for common topics, but they all seem different. The example topic we were given was "quality of life after MI in women". I was just wondering if anyone had read any interesting research on any of these topics? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Hi! I am a senior in nursing school and currently enrolled in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing. We have to write an evidence-based practice paper emphasizing best practices pertinent to a mental health nursing topic so since I have no experience in psychiatric nursing and don't really know what kind of problems psychiatric nurses face, I thought I would ask on here. What kind of mental health clinical nursing issues do you guys think are most pertinent in psychiatric nursing practice right now? The example my professor gave was "caring for a client who is in seclusion". Thanks for your input!

Hello! I am a sophomore nursing student and I really found myself struggling to pass throughout my entire first year. I was a straight A student in high school so going from that to barely scraping by was difficult. Anyway, this upcoming semester I will be taking Pathophysiology and Microbiology and I was just wondering if anyone had any good study tips? I really want to do well this year, not just pass. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!