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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 know of a few classmates who refused to go into p...

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 bad.

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 compare it to fingernails on a chalkboard? Geez. ...

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 goof up if my instructor was watching me from behind....

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

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 many staff members in trouble because we try to set l...

"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 waaaaaay off base from what I am speaking of. Heal...

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 my personal life I am allowed to dislike and ignore...

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. If you're homeless with a crack addiction, i find...

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 little thing? And on top of that verbally abuse the ...

I'm bringing it back !

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 or prn to a normally uncooperative patient who alwa...

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

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

"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. But the world is not going to hell in a handbasket...

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 whole)....then randomly by whoever is in charge for ...

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 /de escalation......unless a take down is warrant...

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 difference.

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 nurses so I can understand if a psychologist will not...

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), it'll still give you experience and a pay check in th...

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 Sweet Brown said, "I ain't got time for that!" We're g...

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 exceeds beyond a 6 to 1. No. They're just trying t...

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

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 think its a bit extreme to consider a fingerstick...