Rionoir ADN, RN

That's definitely not a typical psych environment. And honestly, as a PMHNP I feel like you're much more likely to be dealing with depressed housewives than criminally insane individuals. The docs get the fun ones. 🤣

As someone who worked at a county facility where our seclusion room was occupied pretty much daily, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Sounds like it was more than justified.

While there are certainly many good people working in LTC, they are rather known for having many not-so-good employees. You're going to burn yourself out pretty quick if you want to go to war with every single one of them.

Magnet hospitals say you need to have one within X period of time if you are a new grad, but as long as you change jobs within the first couple years of being a nurse - then once you pass that two year threshold you aren't required to get a BSN any l...

After reading a couple of these threads I'm glad I decided to come back to work at a large psych facility before getting into this. I was told they only offer preceptorships here to employees. Sounds like the biggest issue for most people is th...

There's definitely a difference between LPN and BSN, but ADN (RN) programs have a huge focus on critical thinking just as a BSN program would. I took all but two courses in a RN to BSN program and it was literally just all writing papers and nursing ...

Didn't want to start a new thread, but how's this program going for everyone? I'm supposed to be starting next month and am very excited. I work at a large psych facility and have a lot of contacts so I'm not super worried about clinical placement fo...

I've been hearing this for years but it's never going to happen - only academics think that BSNs are more prepared to be nurses. The reality is that RN to BSN is a silly degree that shouldn't be required unless one wants to jump through the hoops to ...

I had two courses left with WGU to complete my RN-BSN but took a couple of years off to do travel nursing during the pandemic. I am in the process of re-enrolling to complete my degree and just got notification that the RN-BSN program I was in was "p...

I do have to redo five courses which is whatever, I'm mainly just trying to figure out if they take longer now or exactly what changes were made. I don't know what to tell my NP Program, so far I'm just planning on powering through and hoping to be d...

Sorry if I didn't scroll through far enough to find another thread, but what is everyone's thought on how long these ridiculous contract rates are going to last? I couldn't resist taking a local travel gig after seeing the rates and being told "as mu...

I spoke with a recruiter at a large hospital near me yesterday about externship positions, and when she asked what my ultimate dream job was I said I wanted to work in ICU, preferably doing cardiac care. After speaking for a while (the recruiter is ...

Where I am, you can test for your LPN after your first year of an ADN program (based on two-year program). So ADN takes all the same curriculum plus another year of more advanced classes and clinicals.

Multiple incomes, inheritances, gifts from family, ability to budget and save, living outside of their means, working overtime instead of complaining, the list goes on and on.

The more I read this forum, the more I wonder why the heck anyone lives and works in California.

I'm sure the state has all of that available online? Cheers to psych though - I just took a county job and it sounds like a s*** show and I can't wait. lmao

Yea, next time the entire unit is abandoned tell them to find another sucker that actually cares about the patients at the facility to come in. Just wow... people on this board are like wahhhh I don't make enough money and in the next breath wahhhhh ...

You called in sick on the day of because something might happen? I would have given you *** too. LOL

I started in August and have finished 24/43 units in 3 months working at a pretty lazy pace considering I haven't taken a day off in 6 weeks with all the bonuses and overtime places are offering lately. ? I work 8-hour days though in psych and have a...

You might want to see how much of that you can carry over to avoid losing some of it. Some places will pay you out and others it'll just be gone.

I work PRN at an inpatient hospice facility. I would never be a case manager (which I'm assuming is what you're talking about since you would have on-call days). If you like hospice but want to do your shifts and go home, maybe see if there is an inp...

Wear short sleeves - I dare them to ask you about it. LOL Ain't none of their dang business.

Jeez at least half the non-clinical staff that work in the building I'm in right now have been residents in the same building... and they are on just such another level of ability than people who have no personal experience with what they are helping...

I deal with this all the time and it can be very frustrating. I work in both inpatient and residential settings with residents who have frequent pseudo seizures or who just plain want to be sent to the hospital. The most important thing to remember i...

Good ADN programs are frequently more rigorous than BSN programs. My recommendation is to figure out why you failed out of school in the first place and correct that problem before throwing away more money. To answer your question, if you don't ...