NurseDaddy2006

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...

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...

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...

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...

Thanks for the replies. Sometimes I find writing about how I got here helps me figure out where I am at the moment.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Hi all, I'm an RN since 2007, and I worked six months or so on a med surg unit, then transferred to psych where I worked 13 months. I enjoyed working with the population, there was an issue with staff that made it tough. So I left to go work for an o...

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 ...

Hello there fellas... Been away from allnurses for a while. I'm a psych nurse now, and for the most part I like my job. I'm told that I'm good at it, by some peers, and bosses, and most importantly, my patients. So I've been doing well, and have not ...

Well, it's been a while since this all went down. Here's how it played out. The coworker was spoken to, and there's no talk of whether she denied it. They actually let the schedule play out as planned and we worked together a couple of times. She tre...

I did a two-month stint at a nursing home. I liked my residents (patient was not the term used). I felt like all I could do for them all day was dispense meds. There was no time to give them what many really wanted... someone to talk to. Time flying ...

As you go through the rotations in school, you hear that one area might appeal to you, and you might say "this is for me". I enjoyed the psych rotation. That was where I felt I did the most for people, and told the nurse manager on that unit I'd look...

I had some pretty anxious posts up here in the last panic ridden hours. I scoured this board for clues as to when I'd know, how I might have done. I got all bent out of shape, and my head still hurts. So I logged on to Pearson Vue at 2:14PM. My resul...

Last year when I took my NCLEX PN on Friday October 13 the results were up by Sunday, if I remember correctly. I know they'd told me last year it'd take two business days, but it did go up over the weekend. Which is why in order not to inconvenience...

I took my NCLEX RN on Saturday. The 13th. Now I find myself sitting here hitting refresh on the PearsonVue site, hoping it'll pop back up with something other than "Your exam results are not available at this time." Last year I took my NCLEX PN, on F...

Just sat down and read through all of these posts. Yup, all 25 pages worth. That's because I took the NCLEX-RN today and thought that I failed. I called a buddy of mine who just took it a few weeks ago, and he said he felt the same way. My head pound...

Been celebrating a lot. My liver protests but I tell it to be quiet. Got the call this morning with an official job offer. Took the job. Will need to turn down the job offer that came in yesterday, or consider it in a per diem situation. Waiting on m...