UPH hospital in Tucson

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Specializes in Psych, Vascular/MedSurg.

Has anyone worked Psych at this facility and how was it. Also, where is a good area to live in Tucson, I have grown children so schools are not as important, safety is.

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I did work psych there for a short while. The staff was overall friendly and helpful. However, we were chronically short of staff, and consequently overworked.

As well, they had instituted a very liberal hands off policy toward violent patients. We were "educated" on how to use the least amount of force necessary to, for example, extricate someone trying to choke the life out of you or someone else, LOL! Not very effective in my opinion.

The patients would come up to the fishbowl and bang on the windows if they didn't get their Ativan at the very earliest time allowed PRN. Overall, really a demoralizing place to work. While I was there, it was staffed with primarily travel nurses. Oldest nurse there made it 2 years, and she was a ROCK!

I'm not, so I moved on :monkeydance:!

Hope this helps a bit, want to know something more specific, let me know....

Mark :smilecoffeecup:

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i grew up in tucson on the east side. i remember that, the north side/foothills, and oro valley area are all pretty nice.

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I live on the west side and love it. I would agree Northside & foothills are also good. Alot of my friends live around River and love it.

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Specializes in behavioral health.

ahh Kino psych =P. I've never actually been there (so my opinion is extremely hearsay), but it is somewhat notorious. I think there are as many as 5 different units. There is a huge new psych emergency center being built there as well. Kino has a contract with the state for petitioned patients; thus is the highest acuity unit in the city. Where I work, sometimes we just send patients there on the possibility of violence potential (yes..a bit wimpy =P). From my experience, some of the patients who were in restraints in the ED, were some of the nicest patients after the initial petitioning shock process/meth/coc/off meds psychosis wore off =P. and the banging on the window for PRN ativan is part of psych anywhere

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