I am a new psych RN and I keep looking for a book I can buy to help me with my psych RN skills a sort of, "How To Psych Nurse For Dummies." But I am starting to believe there is no such book. Or is...
NMorrisRN replied to LPC2RN's topic in Psychiatric
You are completely valid in your feelings! In my opinion those techs need to be fired! I don't care how little or long they've worked there. #1. As a tech on the unit you are trained to take down a...
NMorrisRN replied to PG2018's topic in Psychiatric
Geesshhhhh! PsychGuy, APRN, NP I am sorry. I'm sorry that from what I've read you seem to be getting attacked when what you truly wanted was advice. I am new to psych nursing (not new to nursing) and...
NMorrisRN replied to NMorrisRN's topic in Psychiatric
I did but it was very much a watch kind of deal, and what I saw wasn't much. The RNs were buried in paperwork and the techs ran the floor. I spent my clinicals with the techs who just policed the...
NMorrisRN replied to Scarlettz's topic in Psychiatric
I may be an exception because I work in military medicine but yes we do. If a patient on our inpatient mental health unit has a code blue we are expected to start the IV etc as we wait for code team...
NMorrisRN replied to motor_mouth's topic in Psychiatric
In my hospital we work 12 hour swing shifts. Two days of 12 hour shifts one week and five days of 12 hour shifts the next. I dread the five day work weeks - it's almost inhuman to make someone work...
NMorrisRN replied to Ndy-RN's topic in Psychiatric
I agree - this is awesome. I actually saved it to my computer - thank you! We use a generated unit report for our reporting. It has the following information. Pt name Age Admission date Dx Track (we...