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  1. Please don't get the wrong impression

    gzussu posted a topic in General Students

    In nursing school, I remember being appalled by the way staff treated patients on a psych unit. I remember when I got my first job on a psych unit, I was appalled by the way staff spoke to patients. I...

  2. Help? I regret this career choice?

    gzussu replied to katie6126's topic in General Students

    You're going to be a nurse. Not a nun. Many young nurses live it up and enjoy their night life to the fullest. Their social life isn't affected in any way. It's not that

  3. Displaying credentials

    gzussu replied to jetMA96's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I'm soon to start the RN-MSN informatics program. No BS. No pun intended (joke ya'll. No harm or offense intended). Yeah, its online. Is this order misplacement of credentials so bothersome that you...

  4. Is it normal to feel like you suck?

    gzussu replied to tiny_nurse's topic in General Students

    When I was in school, I always felt this way. I felt I was terrible in clinicals. I always got tongue-tied and would freeze up when my clinical instructor asked me a question. I felt like I always...

  5. January 2015 Top 8 Captions - Help Select $100 Winner

    gzussu replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    My entry would have been.. "You looking in here doesn't help me. Get your ahole in here and help

  6. When did it become OK to treat your nurse like poo?

    gzussu replied to paramed1's topic in Emergency

    Psych nurse here. I have a borderline patient who has been with us for about a year but has used our services frequently previously. A sitcom could be based on her. Very demanding. She has gotten...

  7. Homeless working the system, multiple admissions

    gzussu replied to adnrnstudent's topic in Psychiatric

    "What sort of entitlement? The sense of entitlement that health care should be a basic right as opposed to something a person only can get if they have the right health coverage?" Lol. Sorry. That is...

  8. Advice from psych nurses

    gzussu replied to FlyOR's topic in Psychiatric

    The way I see it.....at work I need to apply nursing care unconditionally. Even if a cluster B is driving me to wanna strangle them....I still gotta do my job as a nurse.... However when it comes to...

  9. Homeless working the system, multiple admissions

    gzussu replied to adnrnstudent's topic in Psychiatric

    By the way, I work with a certain type of population that for some reason believes they are so special...I've worked in a prison with bona fide criminals who weren't as bad as the people I serve now....

  10. Homeless working the system, multiple admissions

    gzussu replied to adnrnstudent's topic in Psychiatric

    I'm so sick of the homeless that come in with this outrageous sense of entitlement. I mean ffs, you were out on the streets hungry and laying on concrete but you wanna come here a gripe about every...

  11. Inpatient Psych - Ever call the police on a patient?

    gzussu replied to imapsychrn's topic in Psychiatric

    I'm bringing it back

  12. Inpatient Psych - Ever call the police on a patient?

    gzussu replied to imapsychrn's topic in Psychiatric

    We have our own police unit on campus. We call them for simple walk throughs if the malingerers start acting up or seem to be scheming. We call them if we need to give an IM whether it's a dec shot...

  13. NICU new grad

    gzussu replied to NICU Guy's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Sorry.....or

  14. NICU new grad

    gzussu replied to NICU Guy's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Because the universe finally said, "OK, she is good to go."

  15. Are all nurses perpetually exhausted?

    gzussu replied to yellow_crayon's topic in Health, Stress Management

    ALL jobs are exhausting. Working people from all professions, whether they are nurses, cashiers, doctors, servers, physical therapists, construction workers/home improvement people, telemarketers,...

  16. Burnout or just Cranky?

    gzussu replied to NurseOnAMotorcycle's topic in Health, Stress Management

    "For instance when I told my husband that I was having, say, Tuesdays as MY day, he went immediately into Worst-Case-Scenario mode: the dishes would be undone, the laundry pile up, etc., etc, etc....

  17. mental health assesments who performs them?

    gzussu replied to fiba's topic in Psychiatric

    Our poor patients.......I always warn them when doing their admission interview that they will be asked the same questions three more times (psychiatrist, medical provider, then treatment team as a...

  18. Do psych nurses really just hand out medication?

    gzussu replied to Trinklee's topic in Psychiatric

    Psych nursing is easy and chill....until those moments when all hell breaks loose.....and those moments are precarious because there is no algorithm to follow. There is no one size fits all resolution...

  19. Dating a former patient

    gzussu replied to thepsychtech's topic in Psychiatric

    Of course. I understand that. But he connected with someone who was, at least, acutely ill . He didn't say he knew her while she was well. He implied he clicked with her while she was unstable. Big...

  20. Career Frustrated

    gzussu replied to Solcita's topic in Psychiatric

    Technically, you can't say "my fellow psychologists" because youre not a psychologist. A psychologist is a psyD. (RNs don't really appreciate cna's or medical assistants identifying themselves as...

  21. Got turned down, keep applying?

    gzussu replied to justdoiting's topic in Psychiatric

    Keep applying with that hospital but you should also apply elsewhere. Don't stagnate yourself jobwise. Even if you have to apply to work for the state (not knocking it. That's where I started it),...

  22. sustenna IM for schizophrenia can we massage the site?

    gzussu replied to nurseEsteve's topic in Psychiatric

    Invega is reserved for our extremely psychotic/uncooperative/potentially combative patients. That stuff is expensive. And from our tax dollars where I work. Massage the site? As the once great...

  23. Is 18 patients "the new normal"?

    gzussu replied to SunnyRose's topic in Psychiatric

    That should NEVER be acceptable. 18 to 1 in acute? Sorry, children in psych are always acute. Even normal functioning children are acute in their own way. Hell, day cares can't function if the ratio...

  24. Your patients thoughts on YOU

    gzussu replied to iscreambiebah's topic in Psychiatric

    Oh. You speak for all patients then. I apologize. I'll have to

  25. Do you have a blood glucose meter in your office?

    gzussu replied to ohiobobcat's topic in School

    I don't think that fingerstick should be considered invasive. Yeah, it draws blood but its not as if we are cutting anything completely open. Insulin dependent people stick themselves all the time. I...