|
Post by psyched on Feb 15, 2010 15:56:07 GMT -5
If you want to work in my crazy psych hospital, send me a private message! I'm trying to get a strong frum presence here!
|
|
|
Doula
Feb 3, 2010 19:48:41 GMT -5
Post by psyched on Feb 3, 2010 19:48:41 GMT -5
Update here. I'm a practicing doula now (doing a little dance) and I was told by my rabbi that I may take a cab to a birth on shabbos and may return in the same manner EVEN for a non jewish client.
|
|
|
Post by psyched on Jan 30, 2010 23:03:47 GMT -5
I think I remember someone telling me that she used the lake as a mikvah when she was in camp. Just noticed this. Wanted to post that this is not so cut and dry. A rav must be consulted.
|
|
|
Post by psyched on Jan 19, 2010 23:02:51 GMT -5
Thank you, Thank you! You poor thing, I'm so sorry you had to go through that. This is exactly what I go through all the time. Down to the recent panic attacks. (it feels like you can't take a full breath, and you're always gasping for air, right?) Wow- it must be a psych thing. I keep posting things around here about feeling totally disalllusioned by nursing bec e/o is only out to save their own backside, and nobody cares about you at all. See my pm - maybe come work with me and we can help each other out!
|
|
|
Post by psyched on Jan 13, 2010 23:50:24 GMT -5
I'm cracking up at the idea of someone thinking you're a cook!
|
|
|
Post by psyched on Jan 4, 2010 11:18:36 GMT -5
Wow. I'm thrilled to find another frum nuse working in psych! I work in a locked psych unit. My patients are mostly minority ethnicities, gang members, drug users. Needless to say, I don't over empathize with them as I spend most of my time trying to gain some level of understanding of them. However, we have another unit that deals with a lot of ptsd, the patients are of more similar ethnicities to myself, and sometimes there I have a hard time as I find that I do overempathize as you describe. It's very painful and sometimes I feel like I need to be admitted myself. I try to make boundaries but it's difficult as the very essence of our job is empathy and care. Where do you work? I'd love to speak with you more!
|
|
|
Post by psyched on Dec 16, 2009 12:37:22 GMT -5
Thanks for the inquiry. I'm not going to accept the offer. I guess all these things have made me appreciate the good things that my current position DOES offer: Excellent hours, and close proximity to my home. I think for the time being I'm going to work on just doing an excellent job at work and then forgetting about it when I'm off hours= and I've been enjoying my doula work so very much! (BIG HUGE SMILE) I really feel like I found my calling. Shame that it was only after all that nsg school... (Jk)
|
|
|
Post by psyched on Dec 16, 2009 12:34:30 GMT -5
You can try volunteering... Here's another vote for breastfeeding counseling~! I'm actually also looking for something like this in my area, as a component of my doula certification.
|
|
|
Post by psyched on Nov 17, 2009 11:41:19 GMT -5
Some of you already know about my job dilemmas,... I'm so torn. This has been on my mind for days. Some background: I work in a psych facility as a RN. I don't love it at all. It's very low class teens, I have to listen to horrible vulgarity all day. Fights break out, it's dangerous at times, and be'h if I become pg in the future, this would be a dangerous job to do. I am currently obtaining my DONA doula certification. I feel like I've found my calling. I absolutely love supporting Jewish women in labor, and get so much out of it. I've been taking some births on slowly, and am able to do it because I only work 3 days/week at my current job. A position came up for me a while ago in a more jewish setting, also psych. It would have been 3 12 hour shifts/week, and was about 45 min away. I decided against it, as I wouldn't see my children for several days at a time. Now a new job has come up- desk job for RNs. 5 days a week, 8 hour days. 35 min commute. I will see my children for one hour in the morning, and about 1 1/2 hours in the afternoon. The idea of this makes me so sad. I'm also afraid I'll be completely stressed out, and have no time to do what I have to do around the house. ALSO, I prob won't be able to really persu the doula work, as I'll be working 5 days/week. It's hard to find positions these days, I'm lucky that these 2 have come up. I feel guilty letting them go, as I feel I "can't be too picky" But is it the right thing to do if I'll hardly be with my children, and I won't be able to do what I REALLY love anymore? (the labor coaching) Financially, we're juggling but okay right now. With the extra money a full time position will bring, we'll be better off. BUT maybe if I do some extra labor coaching each month, that extra income can pull us through as well. Sorry so long. Does anyone have any insight?
|
|
|
Post by psyched on Nov 16, 2009 20:06:21 GMT -5
Thanks for your replies. i'm doing a bit better now. I basically walked onto the unit in the morning and they were calling the code. B'h I had never met him before- I think that would have been so much harder for me. for a positive point, I think that now that I've witnessed this once, I think that (G-d forbid) next time will be easier. This time I couldn't get passed the "oh my goodness, his face is blue" Thanks for your support.
|
|
|
Post by psyched on Nov 10, 2009 22:43:51 GMT -5
It was a horrible, accidental death. We think he choked in his sleep. Don't want too post too many details- but he was young. very young. I came onto the unit this morning, they were calling the code. i was shaking all over. I've never actually seen anyone so... blue like that. It's so horrible. How do you handle it?
|
|
|
Post by psyched on Nov 5, 2009 18:41:04 GMT -5
If I find a swap, it's no prob, we just fill out a form, give it to the scheduler, and zeh hu. If not, the scheduler can often rearrange for me. If it'ssomething I ABSOLUtELy need off for like yom tov, I submit for time off and offer to work different days instead
|
|
|
Post by psyched on Oct 22, 2009 11:48:07 GMT -5
wow, achot, thanks for all that! Maybe we should rethink coming to israel.Can I work for you? jk i was under the impression that nsg in israel is a $7/hr job. oops. look for us on the next nefesh b'nefesh aliyah! (halevai)
|
|
|
Post by psyched on Sept 23, 2009 10:13:36 GMT -5
Rivka, I hear you, you are right. If a nurse would make a mistake on me as the patient, I would be royally annoyed. What I don't like is that the hospital can be so understaffed, there have been times that I've been charging the unit and doing medication which is really a job for two nurses and I messed up big time on someone's meds bec I'm trying to do everything. At the time I reported it and we worked it out but I was thinking WHAT DO YOU EXPECT TO HAPPEN? If they would have fired me for that- who's fault is it? I feel like they leave us in horrible situations and then get upset when things happen.
|
|
|
Post by psyched on Sept 16, 2009 20:01:34 GMT -5
I politely disagree, Rivka. A teacher who makes a mistake grading a test doesn't get fired. A hairdresser who makes a mistake styling someone's hair- doesn't get fired. There's something very backstabbing about the nursing profession, I'm growing to resent it as well. Everyone's suspicious all the time. It's so so frustrating.
|
|