Kay28

Kay28 has 15 years experience and specializes in Psychiatric nursing.

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1. Age vs Years Nursing

   Kay28 replied to Erika Patterson's topic in General Nursing

   Age 29 10 years experience as an RN And just graduated with my

2. How to prepare for first hospital job in inpatient psych unit?

   Kay28 replied to Puertoriiquena's topic in Psychiatric

   Make sure you are familiar with the medications used in an emergency situation on an inpatient psych unit. We use a lot of haldol, Benadryl, Ativan, and Thorazine (either IM or PO) in emergencies....

3. What are the top 5 medications YOU administer daily?

   Kay28 replied to northmississippi's topic in Patient Medications

   Inpatient psych: zyprexa, depakote, lithium, trazodone,

4. Having to count Risperidone

   Kay28 replied to NurseJamie8's topic in Patient Medications

   We use a pyxis machine at my hospital and sometimes it wants you to count random meds. For some reason the other night it wanted me to do count every time I took out cogentin. No clue why

5. Full Moon

   Kay28 replied to bas22's topic in General Nursing

   So it wasn't just my

6. Can a CNA work in psych?

   Kay28 replied to Actias luna's topic in Psychiatric

   On my inpatient psych unit we hire both CNAs and mental health workers. Most of the MHWs have a bachelors degree but their job is very similar. They run therapy groups, assist with vitals/adls, and...

7. Help! What does Q2P & Q4P mean?

   Kay28 replied to rose2012's topic in General Students

   Maybe "every two hours prn" for

8. 8-vs-12 hour shifts?

   Kay28 replied to justDebi's topic in Nurse Management

   8s in

9. Which diagnosis?

   Kay28 replied to nursegreene's topic in Psychiatric

   Personality disorder patients seem to cause the most chaos on our

10. Have you ever had a patient smoke in the room?

    Kay28 replied to pixie6089's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Its pretty common on my unit to catch someone smoking in their room/bathroom/shower even when informed that this is against unit rules and is a fire hazard. When this occurs we have to obtain an order...

11. POLL: nurse-to-patient ratio

    Kay28 replied to j0yegan's topic in General Nursing

    I work on a locked inpatient psychiatric unit. We can have anywhere from 1:5 to 1:8 on my 3-11 shift. We have to do all of our own admissions, vital signs, and personal care as

12. You know you are going to have an interesting day when you get report that . . .

    Kay28 replied to anon456's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I should have known to just turn around and go home the other day when I realized I had come into work with my scrub pants on backwards. It was truly the shift from

13. Nursing Nightmares

    Kay28 replied to 0.adamantite's topic in General Nursing

    I picked up an overnight shift last night and had the most vivid dreams when I finally went to bed. It mostly consisted of a patient chasing behind me while I was driving my car around the city. I...

14. Exit Strategies For Nurses Who Deal With Overly Talkative Patients

    Kay28 replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I work inpatient psych and some of my manic patients can be so hyper verbal and tangential you wouldn't believe it! Thankfully my coworkers are pretty good about rescuing each other from these...

15. Counting ALL home meds on admission

    Kay28 replied to sistrmoon's topic in Patient Medications

    All home meds at my hospital get sent to be stored in the pharmacy. We only count the narcotics, then just have to list the names of the others. After discharge pts pick up the meds from