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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 admissions and discharges at times and this adds to...

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 knowledgeable and compassionate psychiatric nurses. I...

Great post!! Thanks!

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 training/opportunities treat one another. An MD, ...