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Psychiatric Comptetancies

By Dallas Prockl posted 07-30-2020 06:47 PM

  
Hey everyone. I'm wanting to see if anyone has any experience with implementing psychiatric nursing competencies for an inpatient adult unit. My unit has hired a few nurses, recently, that identified a general sense of uncertainty when performing psychiatric assessments. To help support them, along with keeping the rest of our nursing staff to best practice, I'm wanting to implement some competencies specific to psychiatric nursing; however, I'm not really sure where to start. Would anyone have suggestions, or experience with this type question? Thanks!
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08-13-2020 02:18 PM

At my place of work, included into our specific psychiatric nurse residency, we run various mock simulations in which a nurse pretends to be a behavioral health patient, (depressed, paranoid, hallucinating, non verbal etc.) and the other nurses assess, and intervene. 

-Frederick