My name is Amy and I am new here. I graduated nursing school last year. Before graduating I wasn't sure what area of nursing to go into. I have a real passion for psych. I have an AD in criminal justice because I wanted to work with juveniles which never panned out for me. I also liked critical care. My psych instructor was real encouraging saying she thought I had the ability to be good at psych nursing. She also said if that is what I wanted to do then go straight for it, skip that year of med-surg. Well being that I wasn't sure, I ended up in med-surg. After almost a year, I feel like I am getting burned out. I really struggle with the fact that because of the patient ratios and general job duties I can't provide the care I want to give or would even want my family to recieve. It honestly makes me ill. I am thinking more and more of heading into psych. But I don't feel I am really aware of what all goes into psych nursing. For my psych rotation we concentrated on the "communication" aspect of everything. We didn't pass meds, etc. I am just concerned that I am blind to what it is really all about. I know my passion isn't med-surg. If anyone could give me a run down of their resposibilities and how their day goes it would be greatly appreciated.
That's how these nurses appeared to me. The nurses couldnt give us any sort of medication, not even tylenol. I'm trying to remember what they were, this has been about 3 years now. I think that theor tags said behavior specialist. I know that there was one nurse hat did the medications and if we needed any medical attention she would do it. This was on the pediatric floor of psyc. I didn't mean to offend anyone with my comments, I have no idea what their actual role was. One of them even stated that they were like a baby sitter..
If their name tags said behavior specialist and they could not give meds or medical treatment, they probably weren't nurses. Maybe glorified(specially oriented) nurse aids.
kadokin, ASN, RN
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If their name tags said behavior specialist and they could not give meds or medical treatment, they probably weren't nurses. Maybe glorified(specially oriented) nurse aids.