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I'm trying to decide between Acute Treatment, Extended Treatment, Children and Youth, and Forensic Treatment Program. Most likely would be a night position. Which one of these would be less likely to have violent patients? I've never worked psych ...

why do you want to go to school in the south? I would recommend Florida for the babes

American Disability act-no employer should discriminate based on race, sex, religion, or disability. If a nurse has a mental disability, doing a good job and professionally. I would not have a problem with them. An employer would get in trouble fo...

I'm half Filipino so I can relate. Well, I went to school in Memphis, TN. I've been a nurse for 2.5 years all in the south, I get asked constantly "where are you from?" I actually had one patient bad mouthed Mexicans the entire time I had him. He...

the nursing shortage seems to be LOCATION dependent! I've been looking for two weeks for a full time job and I find are ER and ICU jobs. which I don't want! The want ads in the sunday paper was less than a page. how depressing!

could be a troll posting. maybe a psych patient. who knows if it's true.

looks like it's 50/50 on letting the pt sleep and turning them at night

maybe camille read about it??? http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,399626,00.html story only 5 days old.

looks like it's a 50/50 on to turn pts at night while they are sleeping

yes, violence could occur anywhere. Just trying to prevent my ear from being bit off or my nose broke.

yeah, buy the VA puts you only in ICUs in my area of TN. don't they take two months to do a background check? due to terrorism concerns? since they are federal govt and your taking care of military vets

I have been a nurse for 2.5 years. I got fired yesterday from my first and only nursing job in a hospital setting. I know I'm going to need to brush up on my resume. Also, can anyone advise me what direction to go in? I'm a male nurse. I can't d...

When I did my psych clinical in nursing school, I talked to a girl with some dependent personality disorder who became suicidal when her ex boyfriend from two years ago got married. she talked her head off to me. her roommate told me later that she...

white scrubs, I don't like. usually, you can see the ladies undergarments with the white scrubs. It can be good or bad.

There's one thing that bothered me about certain preceptors. What I have seen, they are helpful when you are orienting. But when your on your own, if you have questions, some were irritated about being asked questions. I have seen it first hand, t...

I always dilute with NS everytime. IV or PICC, just as a habit, plus for safety. gets you in a routine. You don't want to accidentally forget not to dilute for an IV if your swamped.

that's the thing. you can't work nights unless you try to keep a consistent sleep schedule. on your days off, try to stay awake until 2-3am, so you can sleep until noon. if you don't, you maybe in trouble. There have been many times, I was so sle...

I threaten to call security. :chuckle

I worked night shift for 2.5years. You will hear from dayshift that nights are easy. so they duitifully leave unfinished stuff for you to complete when you come in. gotta love it In termns of your homelife, It will be hectic. My wife is in school...

They were instituting this before I left. your supposed to ask if the patient is in pain, if they need help going to the bathroom, and something else that I can't remember. They were starting bedside reporting too. You know how many patients I get...

I have run into that alot. the patient assignments were not fair. I would get more assigned than alot of the experienced people even when I was a brand new nurse. I thought it was more confidence in me, but with my blinders off, now I think otherw...

I need 15 posts to receive PMs? I need to start posting!

"I'm confused. How did you have anything else attached to the blood tubing? From what you wrote, it sounds like you were infusing blood via IV pump through a peripheral IV line, right? And you did not disconnect the D5 that was infusing into the peri...

It's been a week since the incident, I was told by management the patient is fine. I turned off the d5 probably 2-3 minutes within starting IV pump transfusion. When I checked the line, the normal saline was still running! Blood didn't even reach...

At shift change, blood transfusion was ordered. I hung the first unit. however, I didn't realize I left the iv fluids going until a few minutes later, which I came back and turned them off. None of the blood didn't even reach her yet, it was Norma...