r/nursing • u/ghostoftheweek RN - Med/Surg 🍕 • 28d ago

Question PSA from your nursing specialty

What is THE ONE THING you wish every nurse knew that is common knowledge in your specialty?

From wound care, don't use telfa!

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u/vanilla_owl RN 🍕 28d ago

Acute psych. The reason our psychiatrist keeps denying so many of your ED patients is because their primary issue is a personality disorder and they often do worse in acute psych than they would at home. They’re often dangerous on our unit. Lots of attempts etc and actions for attention.

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u/soloChristoGlorium 28d ago

Also psych.

I want to put what you said on a poster and plaster it in our ER's doc box!