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That is egregious! This individual committed a crime against you. While the team may elect to continue to treat him, he should be precluded from coming to the office or approaching anyone who is not directly involved in his care. Your employer is not...

Really? It is what it is? Abstract knowledge is hardly worth anything if it is not correctly utilized. Nursing has presumably evolved from handmaiden to a profession in its own right. Nurses who abdicate their responsibilities by failing to augment t...

The fact is that both truck driving and nursing are potentially hazardous and require concentration and focus. If you read the research on napping and cognitive abilities, there are multiple peer reviewed studies that demonstrate improvement in criti...

Many people scoff at trauma informed care but having worked in psych since the 80s I believe it is the single most efficacious model for nursing, behavioral or medical. Trauma informed care essentially says that people are almost always trying to con...

"Way more harder?" The level of incoherence and the breadth of ignorance that I am witnessing leaves me speechless. No one who conducts themselves in this type of antagonistic, misinformed and brutally ignorant fashion is worthy of respect or compens...

As as I said, you're obviously not a nurse. You are hardly literate.

If your nursing skills are as adept as your writing abilities then you are correct. You don't deserve a professional salary if you can't spell or compose a coherent sentence. For those of us who actually learned how to correctly assess, monitor and d...

This scenario infuriates me. Law enforcement is not charged with the responsibility of determining a patient's psychological competence prior to arrest. That decision rests with a judge or jury after they have heard supporting testimony from experts....

Your economics class apparently didn't cover perception and marketing as well as the sociopolitical nuances of labor. You may perceive yourself as a barely literate handmaiden to the almighty healer, in which your paltry $30.00 an hour is a gift that...

An RN is the minimal level of licensure for a professional nurse. Adding your degree, unless it's a graduate degree, is superfluous and only useful when a hospital is trying to achieve magnet status or if you are in a management position. To my mind ...

Try searching baccalaureate PA programs and you can find them, although you are correct in stating that the trend is towards graduate preparation. The academy itself prefers a Masters degree but doesn't require it for licensure.The academic requireme...

Actually, all PA programs are not masters level. They are baccalaureates or masters depending on the school. Acceptance simply requires two years of college level study. Alternatively, all NP programs are graduate programs, either a masters or a doc...

Establishing rapport does not include creating an alliance by denigrating another member of the team. That's simply childish and unprofessional. At 3AM, unless the pt. is fully alert and asks, I would seek to make my intervention as quietly as possib...

Reading your post I can make three interpretations: (1) people who are oppressed often identify with the aggressor. (2) people who are not centered in themselves try to increase their self worth by devaluing others. (3) If you are struggling with you...

Nickfitz1969, I don't believe that the author was suggesting that medications are a panacea for psychotherapy and adjunct modalities. However I would suggest that you take a little time travel back to the days before phenothiazines were invented and ...

No it's not easy. You just don't know what you are doing. If you are correctly assessing your patients, planning and delivering their care, documenting properly, advocating for them and preventing crisis, then you are doing a good job and it's hard w...

Try Largo Medical. They will hire anyone. Grit your teeth and tolerate it for six months and you can transfer anywhere in the HCA system.

The "view point " expressed is shared by every professional group in healthcare for a host of reasons. It's unethical and more than a little ill advised to date a psychiatric patient. It's also exploitative. The writer who suggested that this consens...

If you are serious about training your staff look into Mandt. They are a lot better than CPI. Also, there is a woman in Chicago who has created a program called virtual tranquilizer. It focuses on using neurological approaches to deescalation with mi...

What amazes me about this thread is that a few weeks ago there was quite a hullabaloo raised when an article suggested that physician bullying was epidemic. Outraged nurses across the country wrote to chastise the author and revel in their own colleg...

Re Triksters response: Perhaps your problems have something to do with your written communication style, which is mysogonistic and condescending. If you were my subordinate, I would sanction you, regardless of whether or not you have a penis. Your ...

Suggesting I "grow up" because I would prefer not to be used inappropriately is just what I mean by lateral violence. Somehow I would bet you don't talk to physicians with that degree of condescension. Are you one of those nurses who eat their own? B...

Even doing a background check doesn't mean anything. Plenty of new nurses take six months to find a new job. I would never suggest you lie but new jobs often don't work out and if you aren't claiming experience, it's perfectly acceptable to just star...