Joy4021

I work at a hospital with 7 psych units consisting of 130 beds. My unit consists of intermediate care and psych intensive care patients. We seem to get the same patients over and over. We will hold them for 3-4 months to send them to the state hospital where they will stay a few days before being released. Then within days many are readmitted and then the cycle repeats. Even ones that aren't committed, many come right back in. Many of these patients will freely admit that they lied about being suicidal to get admitted. I feel like I,as a nurse, do nothing but house homeless people and people hiding from the law. I don't understand how the doctors get away with rarely "fixing" anyone and can only imagine how much it costs the state paying these psychiatrists and this hospital for what is essentially a bed and breakfast. I feel like everything here is shady and corrupt.

Does anyone else need to change their plan of study? I'm stressing out about it. I already took advanced patho & advanced leadership and hope to start with pharm & evidence based practice .

I was accepted into the psych np program too. I live in Hoover, AL.

I got mine today. My orientation is June 2 and June 3. I'm already feeling overwhelmed by all these due dates.

Wimberly2014 I live in hoover and my apartment complex is horrible with mail too lol

Nursingnerd1 Please remain hopeful. They may still be working on it. Those of us who found out today just got lucky.

Thank you Davey. Your reply was very helpful.

I have been a psych nurse for over a year. I work on a unit with chronically ill patients and pts who are both mentally ill and MR. Tonight one of my mentally ill MR patients assaulted me He became upset that I was talking to another patient and ran at me with all his force to push me down. I was slammed into a chair and bruised my abdomen. I'm okay physically aside from being very sore and bruised but mentally I'm a mess. My techs were awesome and immediately intervened when I was assaulted. They were very apologetic and shocked saying they didn't see this coming. Some of my coworkers were very supportive but one laughed and said they thought it was funny and cute saying Awe that patient must have been jealous!” I feel very jumpy now and I'm scared to face that patient. He used all his force to push me and I see nothing funny or cute about it My question is: for anyone who has been assaulted by a patient, how did you get over it?