Ugly Comments From A Nurse Friend

DDRN4me · Oct 21, 2008

no one really understands what it takes to do psych nursing unless they try it; you have to be both a medical nurse and know the psychiatric disease process. Your patients are still human beings who get sick both physically and mentally. It is just , if not more challenging than med surg in my ho.

Jules A, MSN · Oct 21, 2008

I could give a rip what people say but fwiw my new grad rate was $15 an hour higher than any of my classmates who did the med surg thing and in fact I made as a LPN what they started out as a RN. :)

felixfelix · Oct 21, 2008

vent away. sounds like she needs to find somewhere to vent, too!

SoxfanRN · Oct 21, 2008

It's a good thing she doesn't do it then. We all have our callings. I have yet to find a field in nursing that is any less or more important than the others.

inthesky · Oct 21, 2008

People seem to have difficulty understanding that different does not mean better or worse :banghead: I've found that the money is equivalent and the fundamental principals of nursing are present in any field!

Vito Andolini · Oct 24, 2008

Your friend sounds uninformed and inexperienced in Psych. Maybe she should go to work with you sometime after you return to Psych and see what it's really like.

It sounds like that's where your heart is, so please return to it. And never mind what somebody else thinks of it. Just be you, be true to yourself.

God bless ya and be safe. :heartbeat:up:

Aviationurse · Oct 24, 2008

vito andolini, thanks for the chuckle :chuckle:chuckle:chuckle maybe she will ran fast when she works with me in the forensic unit....i hope i get the va job in pscyh unit ....anybody worked at va hines or jesse brown va hosp ?

aloevera · Nov 6, 2008

since you are a psych nurse you already know that she if full of bull....so don't let it bother you.....

from another lazy psych nurse who didn't get a lunch or a pee break again today.....

core34 · Nov 7, 2008

lazy my ass. LAZY is being able to push IV haldol when a patient acts up at the drop of dime on a medicine floor when they already have a line in. MINUS ALL THE PAPERWORK. i'd love to hear someone call me lazy after 4-pointing or chemically restraining someone who is 4x my size and following up w/buttloads of paperwork b/c of it.

Aviationurse · Nov 7, 2008

how about no pee, no lunch break because as soon as i walk in ( recently agency psych nurse)....do paper and computer charting, meds, restraint team, body and belonging search , be a human shield to scared pscyhiatrist and medical residents while they do rounds etc while the whole milieu are fighting and beating up the crap of one another....

during my years in pscyh had the ff injuries:argue:

1. facial ring worm from peds psych :scrying:

2. hematoma on face and black eye after being beaten up in the sex offender forensic unit

3.another hematoma on face recently after being punched by violent patient x2 incidents in diff facilities

4. needle stick injury on a patient(thank god patient had no hiv) ....had to had blood draw x6 mos.almost a few of staff in unit on hiv meds bec of needle stick injuries...

the list goes on and on.....the er nurses on triage (BIG AND HEAVY SET male nurse) told me himself ..."girl..i can never worked in psych...i dont know how you do it....if i was in the unit....i would end up being fired the next day because i would tie all of them ******** down...

some of the other nurses who got beaten up or have needle stick from patients ..dont even want to go to er bec we have no staff ..and dont want to be delayed with our work... :nurse:

Whispera, MSN, RN · Nov 9, 2008

Lots of medical nurses think psych nursing isn't "real nursing," but if they worked it they'd know better. I've also heard it's where old nurses go when they aren't healthy enough to do "real" nursing. I think you just have to let it roll off your back because you know what the truth is!