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I'm all for gender equality and breaking down barriers. I hope we make progress in our generation towards changing attitudes towards "irregular" breaking of gender roles. Maybe when my grandchildren give birth, their nurses will be male and they'll t...

I'm looking to buy one of these books (my bank account def can't handle both). Any recommendation between the two? They both look great so I can't decide.

I posted this months ago and never got a reply. Coincidentally, the day you replied was the same day I was finally offered and accepted a position at my dream NICU. I appreciate your response though!

Hi, all. So I'm a new grad. I tried getting a NICU position, with no luck. So I settled (hate using that word, cause I still am very grateful to be where I am) for a position on L&D. I like it a lot so far, however NICU is my #1 goal. It's no dou...

So some background, I'm a nursing student. Two semesters into a 16 mo program. I also work in an unskilled facility for adults with ID. That's where this situation took place. There are no nurses, only training we all have is First Aid and CPR. A cli...

Thank you. Like I said, my other coworkers are only CPR/FA trained and I remember when I started school I used to have trouble finding pulses so I don't blame them for possibly not being able to find it. Honestly, that was where I was kicking myself ...

The whole AMA is a situation I've been wondering about lately. I'm a student nurse and we had a pt trying to leave AMA. She was very agitated. I don't know anything about her medical situation since she was not my patient, but I know they didn't want...

Basically, without going into too much detail, I recently found out a person I had worked with who decided to stop using our services also stopped receiving inpatient treatment from the local psych hospital and was moved to a state hospital. I tried ...

Thank you for the direct answers. This is the type of information I was looking for-- not a condescending run around, because like I said I don't know much. It would make sense that she would be considered "treatment-resistant." More sense than it be...

No privileged information, no. But plenty of background. If you're really curious why I am confident that wouldn't be an issue you can PM me. I don't want to put too much information on here.

Thank you for your response. She definitely has all my best wishes.. As for financial, I'm not sure that would be the case for her situation. I guess maybe I shouldn't have put care in the title. I was more curious about the population. As in, what d...

I'm in school now for my RN. I'm incredibly drawn to psych. I've worked in direct care with a lot of very interesting behaviors and I honestly love it and feel like it's where I belong. But I'm trying to keep an open mind because I know a lot of peop...

I guess my feeling is that I've worked with a lot of interesting psych cases already. I know I love it, but I want to explore other specialities before settling right into psych. I'm looking for something more med based, but still with all the excite...

I'm filling out my questionnaire for my physical and there is a box to check for sleep disorders. I've never been fully diagnosed with one, but I did go to a sleep doc and she suspected that I have either narcolepsy or hypersomnia. I scheduled the sl...

That's good to know! I've asked people if I snore and they've all said not that they've noticed. I have a fitness tracker and it shows that I get poor sleep (which is normal for people with narcolepsy). Like I said, I have a family history and have e...

This happened to me when I was working as a residential supports assistant. I had just switched to casual to go back to school full time (for nursing, of course). I was even more at fault than you because I had actually scheduled the shift myself, bu...

I just started my pre-req's for nursing. I was going for bio a few years back but wasn't into it because I didn't know where I wanted to take it, and therefore had no motivation to do well. My gpa really suffered so if I'm going to succeed in nursing...

Hi all I'm in the very beginning of my (hopefully) long nursing journey. I've spent a lot of time thinking about my interests and I'm thinking that two of them may be conflicting so I need some advice. I know I love pysch. I work with people with ID ...

I actually work in residential care with ID. They have A LOT of behavioral issues. I like the chaos and I'm excited to deal with more of it. But I go with them to their psych appointments and that kind of job is eventually where I can see myself sett...

My plan is to do my time as a psych nurse, deal with the grit for awhile, maybe take a few bites and punches to the face. Then become a PMHNP and get the good hours and a comfy chair to sit in while I talk to people about med management.

That's actually perfect! Thank you for that. I think I definitely want to get both cause as much as I want to use nursing to travel the world, my passion is still mental health.