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So those in corrections know we deal with fake chest pain, fake abdominal pain, fake seizures, fake everything all the time. My latest technique I just discovered is....making them wait while I monitor them. Sometimes I'm not sure if something is re...

I may see 5 people with chest pain in a day. Most are fake; for us we need a doctor on site to do an EKG; so at night, we just have to go by vitals, our assessment, age, IM's history, and bulls*** meter. If everything looks good, they are young, and ...

If I were you I would totally just study for a couple months, get all the help you can get with courses, study groups, tutoring, whatever you can do. I failed a semester in school (days before graduation), and it sucked but I repeated it the next y...

5 dollar gift card for Subway, paid for by our nursing supervisors

I stopped trying to convince them that its justified, it never goes anywhere. You just have to tolerate that they are upset with the system and you are the messenger. On a positive note, a lot of nurses I work with forget to have them fill out the pr...

yes its saltpeter. However, I seem to remember that some anti-depressants reduce sexual performance in men.

Psych patient with disheveled hair sprawled out in different directions, and a wide eyed kind of stare, "I haven't slept in seven years". She would say it every day, like a mantra. Of course she's observed sleeping every night.

Hopefully you can study and get that 92%. I flunked out of my last semester of my ADN. They let me go back the next year, and I finished and am now working. I met a lot of people who repeated courses and then finished. I would also say most nursin...

when I hear this, I sometimes think: 'correct....I'm not a female. thanks for clarifying publicly to the world for me.'

haha...they told us that too...I tried it for one day( maybe even for one patient?), and it felt so absurd, and then I realized that no one else is saying this.

I was just talking about this with the nurses at work; people were saying, don't get the insurance (unless you are rich), because lawyers can find out you have it and sue you personally instead of just the prison.

But everyone you work with is a con:chicken: (convict)

nurses eat their young

This is why I don't get my BSN; I suspect I will pay 15K and learn theories.

I used to do the same thing at my psych rn job (now I'm in corrections). It seems appropriate rather than...what you said, socializing in the nursing station, which is what generally happens. I guess nurses and doctors feel that they just do the me...

My first job, after graduating with my ADN, was technically an LPN position at a home health agency. The pay was LPN wage, but they hired RNs ( I assume they really needed people). The reason I did that was because it was hard to get a job, so I wan...

That's ridiculous. I'm pretty sure I would quit at such a place, or somehow make sure you get your break. Nurses tend be self-sacrificing people, but I need a break to give proper care. We have a clinic, and if we have emergencies, we have the abi...

That's ridiculous. I'm pretty sure I would quit at such a place, or somehow make sure you get your break. Nurses tend be self-sacrificing people, but I need a break to give proper care. We have a clinic, and if we have emergencies, we have the abi...

I've been working in corrections for 3 months now. My experience consists of about 2 years in psych, so you are better prepared than me. However, they knew this when they hired me, so I'm pretty much transparent if I don't know something, or I look...

Yea, work as a CNA while you are in nursing school or prior to. I did not do this and became an RN, ADN, but learning the basics was a bigger learning curve; the LPNs and paramedics in my class probably got way more out of the classes. In the medic...

I always do it, so as to invest in the relationship. I'm not sure if its totally expected.

I started nursing school at 32 as second career. I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.

The example of RN pay being higher was also travel nursing, which means you have to drive an hour to work to get that pay, and likely its a contract. Not ideal working hours for most.

I've been at psych nursing for 2 years. It seems to me the fact that you actually want to make sure you act appropriately is a great sign, because it means you are self-aware. Many people I've worked with seem to be superficial about patients. Like ...

So I'm on my third psych job, in 3 different states. My travel job in New York city was like you described; I had 7-10 patients, some were very gangsta-like, gamey, etc. I had so many patients that it was really hard to do more than give pills and ch...