NurseDaddy2006

NurseDaddy2006

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  1. How do you deal??

    I too know what you mean. I've worked on a unit with some nurses that seemed to have forgotten why they got into the line of work they are in. Hello? I get that you've been at it a long time. I get that you've got kids in college and you don't like w...
  2. Why I'm a psych nurse, or I why I couldn't be any other kind.

    It's a long story, but suffice it to say that my instructors felt I'd stepped outside the boundaries of my role as a student nurse, after the nurses on the unit told them about the conversation I'd had with the patient. I thought I was helping, given...
  3. Why I'm a psych nurse, or I why I couldn't be any other kind.

    Thanks for the replies. Sometimes I find writing about how I got here helps me figure out where I am at the moment.
  4. It's been a long road to get here. Last night I had a dream that I was bad at my job and was being replaced, passed over for promotion, and then locked down by the powers that be on a subway platform with an environmental toxin that induced craziness...
  5. psych HH with no psych experience

    That's the nail being hit squarely on the head. It takes a certain kind of nurse to work psych. It takes an understanding of the conditions, symptoms, behaviors, and an ability to look beyond what you're hearing from the patient and do an assessment...
  6. Any happy psych nurses?

    I'm a happy psych nurse, most of the time. When I worked on an inpatient psych unit, I was happiest when I had the chance to spend time talking with my patients. I could do without the politics of the unit. Now I work for an organization that provide...
  7. He's a nurse, let's get him to do the IMs

    So tomorrow makes 2 weeks since I gave the IM. Nobody has said anything about it to me since. Then this morning, the clinic director sends me a reminder email saying the patient is due for her IM tomorrow. Nobody ever told me this would be an ongoing...
  8. Violence in Psychiatric Nursing

    And another thing, sparked by something I heard about the other day. We hope we're alert. But after numerous shifts, sometimes we're not. We don't always keep on our toes, but we hope that the unit as a whole is run well. This way there's adequate st...
  9. Violence in Psychiatric Nursing

    One of the things to remember about nursing in general, is that the nurse gets report. One would hope that when shift change happens, anything that occurs with a patient or information on new patients is shared with the incoming shift. It is then tha...
  10. He's a nurse, let's get him to do the IMs

    So I came in this chilly monday morning to find an email from the senior VP to the clinic director, with a CC to me and my team leader saying "we've verified that our nurses are covered with malpractice insurance so I'd like Eric to go to the Bronx, ...
  11. What is psych nursing like exactly?

    Let's see... I've done psych nursing two different ways now. I spent maybe six months working on a renal unit/med surge environment after graduation, and it wasn't for me. I wanted to be a psych nurse and got the opportunity to transfer to a large ho...
  12. He's a nurse, let's get him to do the IMs

    Hi, Thanks to those that replied. An update on the situation: I called a nurse consultant that used to work with us here, and she agreed that what was being proposed (stepping outside my oversight position and injecting people) was unrealistic, ineff...
  13. He's a nurse, let's get him to do the IMs

    I'm working for an organization that provides residential and clinical services to the mentally ill. I'm the RN on a clinical resource team. We provide educational interventions and support for consumers and program staff when incidents occur, and in...
  14. I'm working for an organization that provides residential and clinical services to the mentally ill. I'm the RN on a clinical resource team. We provide educational interventions and support for consumers and staff when incidents occur, and intervene ...
  15. Hope: Losing a Child

    MY wife and I went through ten years of infertility struggles. All sorts of failed treatments. We started to conceive, and then misscarry all of four pregnancies at 6 weeks. We flew to Chicago to see a doctor that had appeared on Oprah. We tried his ...