GeminiNurse29

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  1. Potential Prospects as PMHNP

    GeminiNurse29 replied to benson1994's topic in Psychiatric

    I agree about the experience. Nursing is one of those fields that education doesn't beat having seen, touched, or experienced something. Education enhances it. Like the poster above said, it's one...

  2. Job Stagnation: How to recognize and what to do about it!

    GeminiNurse29 replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing

    Needed to read this.

  3. Personal Address Disclosed to the public? what does this mean?

    GeminiNurse29 replied to Kate.Med/Surg RN's topic in General Nursing

    Agree. My facility had a guy who escaped a few years ago. He wasn't found for months. He was arrogant and manipulative and smart enough to pass all the shrink evals and earn his way to minimum...

  4. Personal Address Disclosed to the public? what does this mean?

    GeminiNurse29 replied to Kate.Med/Surg RN's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely agree. I work in forensic psych and these patients *are* a danger, thus why they are where they are. It takes a lot of time and work to get someone deemed ready for release into the...

  5. New Psychiatric Support Technician..HELP!

    GeminiNurse29 replied to kingvonnBSN2017's topic in Psychiatric

    Have they given you a self defense or physical intervention class yet? Taught you go hands on in case you need to? Does your unit do seclusions and or restraints? Unfortunately, aggression from psych...

  6. Geriatric Psychiatry

    GeminiNurse29 replied to kingvonnBSN2017's topic in Psychiatric

    Have you worked on a Geri psych unit before or shadowed? Have you worked with geriatrics for that matter? Im a float and spend about 50% of my time on the Geri psych ward. The good is that it's very...

  7. Please Don't Judge Patients

    GeminiNurse29 replied to NurseLife88's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I try not to. But in my work setting, forensic psych, I judge. Hard not to when you read the chart and find out what crime they committed and yet they get full access to better medical care (including...

  8. Night shift alterative hours poll

    GeminiNurse29 replied to Wolf at the Door's topic in General Nursing

    I think that would work if your (hypothetical) kids were older. Right now, I've got a toddler and an infant (10.5 months). I'm fortunate I have family that helps watch them from when my husband leaves...

  9. Night shift alterative hours poll

    GeminiNurse29 replied to Wolf at the Door's topic in General Nursing

    I work 11p-730am. Hate it. Wish it was at least 10-6:30 so I'd get home in that overlap between when my husband leaves for

  10. Hospice to Psych, think I'll be a good fit?

    GeminiNurse29 replied to DaydreamerRN's topic in Psychiatric

    I float a lot to the Geri psych unit, probably there 50% of the time. I work nocs. It's very busy regardless of day or night. My work setting is inpatient psych and mostly forensics. About 90% of the...

  11. Shadowing and/or Volunteering for Direct Entry PMHNP Programs

    GeminiNurse29 replied to MGMargolis's topic in Psychiatric

    Mental health can be so different. During my mental health clinical, we were on a voluntary psych ward where majority of the patients were depressed/suicidal or had suicidal ideation. Some had other...

  12. New Psychiatric Support Technician..HELP!

    GeminiNurse29 replied to kingvonnBSN2017's topic in Psychiatric

    Did you get an orientation? What kind if psych do you work in? I'm in forensic psych and nurses and techs get 12 weeks. Besides time on units, we are in classes learning to deal with issues like what...

  13. Psychiatric nursing

    GeminiNurse29 replied to Terra_RN's topic in Psychiatric

    I work in a mainly forensic psych hospital. This means the patients either committed murder or assault or some other horrible crime (like sex offender against children) to get there. The experience...

  14. No cart concept

    GeminiNurse29 replied to harlee89's topic in General Nursing

    In my experience, suggest someone from admin shadow one of you during a med pass or something. All too often higher ups like to come up with these great ideas without a clue how they actually work in...

  15. Yet another psychology graduate seeking advice!

    GeminiNurse29 replied to LilaDavis's topic in Psychiatric

    It'a a state run facility so it's 99.9% paper charting. And diagnoses run from bipolar to basically psychopath. We also have a lot of notorious patients who've been on the news. It can be very...

  16. When does staff rights start

    GeminiNurse29 replied to Sniper06's topic in Psychiatric

    Similar here. I work with mainly forensics patients and the most they can do with an assault is board the guy, seclude him, and send him to the highest security unit (basically even more than jail)....

  17. Yet another psychology graduate seeking advice!

    GeminiNurse29 replied to LilaDavis's topic in Psychiatric

    I work an inpatient psych setting with majority forensics patients. I also float to the geriatric psych unit which is civil. Let me give you my perspective and maybe it'll help. We have clinical...

  18. Forensic nurse versus psychiatric nurse

    GeminiNurse29 replied to AspiringRN-MSN's topic in Forensic

    I currently work at a facility that deals with majority forensics patients. And they're all there because they are either being treated to competency or they have a mental health diagnosis (or...

  19. psych is so hard to break into...

    GeminiNurse29 replied to heynow1313's topic in Psychiatric

    I'm not from the area, but I'd say check out the government positions. Where I am, our state run mental health facilities are constantly hiring. Like new nurses and techs every month. Turnover is high...

  20. Forensic Nurses Week: A Celebratory Event

    GeminiNurse29 replied to sirI's topic in Forensic

    Thank you for the post. I have only been briefly working at a state run psych hospital with mainly forensics patients. It has been really interesting though and I've learned a lot in only such a short...

  21. Pregnancy during RN program

    GeminiNurse29 replied to Rosiitaa89's topic in General Students

    I had a baby halfway through nursing school. In fact, I found out I was expecting shortly after I started. I did my first clinical rotation with the first group of our cohort so I wouldn't be in...

  22. Average pay for experienced med-Surg but new to HH nurse

    GeminiNurse29 replied to lowayu's topic in Home Health

    That seems low IMO for SoCal. I did HH for the past year, only visits, no SOC. $37 a visit, no mileage. And I'm in the

  23. Pros and cons of psych nursing?

    GeminiNurse29 replied to AngelusLapsus's topic in Psychiatric

    I just finished my first month of psych nursing orientation at one of the state run facilities. We get mostly forensics patients with one civil unit. The higher security units tend to house the more...

  24. Burnt out and need advice

    GeminiNurse29 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Please move to the appropriate forum if necessary. So I'm a long time lurker and 2nd time poster. I graduated in the spring and took a job at the end of July working in a memory card unit. Truth is,...

  25. hard to get first job with no experience beyond nursing school?

    GeminiNurse29 replied to FarrarSanchez's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I'm a longtime lurker, first time poster. I graduated this spring 2015 from a private school program. I wasn't a CNA but had worked briefly as a PCA (personal care attendant) and also worked with...