Psych-n-Stuff replied to pennie4n6's topic in Psychiatric
16 bed locked acute unit. Ratio is 5 patients per nurse, minimum 3 nurses per shift. There is also an intermediate unit, which is reserved for substance abuse detox, for the most part. Have a lot of...
Psych-n-Stuff replied to b52RN's topic in Psychiatric
There is no area of nursing where you won't find patients with the same game, different setting. Psych patients, who truly need assistance, may not be the majority, but they need the assistance of...
Psych-n-Stuff replied to Jkaiservi's topic in Nurses Rock
From my understanding and experience in the nursing field, civility and lack thereof is not about levels of training, I believe that it has more to do with the ways that humans with varying degrees of...