StuPer

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1. At what point does patient autonomy and self determination end?

   StuPer replied to hairtocare's topic in Psychiatric

   I think I would be right in assuming that the law in regard to when a person is sufficently unwell that it is appropriate to enforce treatment/hospitalisation changes depending on your state or country. They mostly follow the principle of harm to sel...

2. Clinical Supervision

   StuPer replied to maxthecat's topic in Psychiatric

   Clinical Supervision is a valuable tool in maintaining your sanity and keeping perspective in a psych role. It is not part of the management structure and certainly nothing said in a clinical supervision session should ever leave the room. It is supp...

3. Abilify

   StuPer replied to Orca's topic in Psychiatric

   I too have a poor opinion of Abilify, not least of which was the test trial data submitted to the FDA which showed it destroyed the cornea of albino rabbits, the company was ordered to do post approval testing to look at any implications for humans, ...

4. Psychiatric Nursing Differences?!

   StuPer replied to medsurgrnco's topic in Psychiatric

   Apart from the ongoing issues which rotate primarily around medication side-effects, most psych facilities only complete a physical assessment of a client on admission, and that is to rule out a physical cause/contributor to the actual psych presenta...

5. 3 hot's and a cot

   StuPer replied to Billikin's topic in Psychiatric

   Having read the posts in this thread there are 2 distinct points being made 1) the frustration at people, while having no treatable mental illness are using mental health facilities to avoid an uncomfortable life, or criminal conviction, and 2) that ...

6. Mental Health Acute Wards

   StuPer replied to wnoise's topic in Psychiatric

   this is an absolutely brilliant point, i had forgotten to mention in my response, without diggin up the research i think i'm accurate in saying both lithium and clozapine metabolism is affected by nicotine levels. if we initiate a therapy based on un...

7. Losing your skills in psych?

   StuPer replied to Jedi of Zen's topic in Psychiatric

   Over the years on this forum I have seen repeated stories from students saying their lecturers have advised them to do med/surg for a year or two before going into psych. Invariably the reasoning offered is losing of skills, being unemployable if the...

8. disallusioned with nursing! psych new grad

   StuPer replied to inthesky's topic in Psychiatric

   Sorry for the delay in answering, I dont check these forums as often as I used too, and I've been crook for a few days. Anyway, as for money, well its a tough one to answer as a simple monetary figure doesnt really give perspective. On top of that I...

9. disallusioned with nursing! psych new grad

   StuPer replied to inthesky's topic in Psychiatric

   not good

10. Mental Health Acute Wards

    StuPer replied to wnoise's topic in Psychiatric

    I'm afraid I have some experience of this as we recently enforced a no-smoking policy across the area in all health care facilities. Now don't get me wrong I understand the reasoning behind non-smoking policies, both for the health of staff and that...

11. personality disorders?

    StuPer replied to cherilee's topic in Psychiatric

    Hello Cherilee, RN2begin ofers excellent advice and in order to get a good insight into BPD the DBT books are gold. Just some words of caution though, people surrering with BPD can be very very needy and will happily soak up any sympathy and 'unders...

12. disallusioned with nursing! psych new grad

    StuPer replied to inthesky's topic in Psychiatric

    Hey Guys, I have to say I'm truely amazed at the level of staff/patient ratios you guys in the States will put up with. There is no way on god's green earth that either the staff or the public would put up with that kind of care here in Australia, e...

13. What do you say? What do you NOT say? Mentally ill patients on a non-psyc unit...

    StuPer replied to kristenncrn's topic in Psychiatric

    Hey Guys, I work in the ED, or ER as you guys seem to call it, and usually have to deal with crisis scenarios, so communication is a big key. Generally I find, while yes it is important as to the content of what you say to a younger person, the way ...

14. New RN and stressed out!

    StuPer replied to alambert603's topic in Psychiatric

    Hey guys, This is an issue every where it seems, and there is no easy answer, however admiting terminally ill people to a psych ward because they are depressed is just in one word a 'dump'. Good god have they not heard of palliative care, that is th...

15. Psychiatry in UK

    StuPer replied to Thanet's topic in Psychiatric

    Thanet, Sorry for the late response, but I trawl these threads a little too infrequently. Could you highlight the changes please, there has just been a review of the MHA here in NSW, wonder if the new Act will be as similar to the UK one as the old ...