aahh current events where I learned how to type and use the internet here is a link for those who do not go to current events http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/247942_patch11.html two big problems with this announcement: 1. womens' lives have be...
Ortho McNeil maker of Ortho Evra has finally warned the public it's patch exposes women to 60% more estrogen and greater risks than a typical BC pill I say finally because we have known since August the patch is more risky than the pill causing th...
Nurses led the way against Schwarzenegger's initiatives they rallied teachers, social workers, firefighters and students they showed the voters the governor's initiatives would not solve California's money problems they kicked gluteus maximus hooray ...
maureeno replied to jaimealmostRN's topic in Psychiatric
it is macropsychiatry which interests me most now human experience has always included conditions of pain, depression,stress but today we look to diagnosis only the suffering individual as sick we overstate and oversimplify our knowledge of brain che...
maureeno replied to jrring1019's topic in Psychiatric
MSPB is a psychiatric problem >>Why would anyone do such a thing? That question haunts everyone who encounters MSBP, since few other behaviors so sharply challenge our concept of what "motherhood" is supposed to be all about. Typically, it seem...
maureeno replied to edeverges's topic in Psychiatric
I work in a small mental health center the program started in 1975 with a 15 bed house and has grown to 80 clients most clients started by coming out of the state hospital progressing from the boarding house to apartments or houses mainly owned or ...
maureeno replied to edeverges's topic in Psychiatric
after many years working inpatient involuntary psych I applied for and obtained a new job last year [next week is my one year anniversary!] I made a mental inventory of my abilities, strengths and goals, finding to my delight some areas of former wea...
maureeno replied to Nessd429's topic in Psychiatric
I had a BS in psychology and was working at a community mental health center as a Vista volunteer when I realized I liked the nurses' style [this was back during Nixon times] so off to nursing school I went bodies and fluids make nursing more real to...
we assigned times for each staff to cover checking on all patients while staying out in the hall most of that 1.5-2 hour period. documentation was done realtime at the site walking the hallway on a night shift I could sometimes feel the friendly 'g...
maureeno replied to MQ Edna's topic in Psychiatric
>> According to Barbara Haskins, M.D.--an expert in the field of deafness and psychiatric disorders--"Deaf patients can hear voices, even if they have been deaf from birth and have never heard sound...there is ongoing debate about the neural me...
we need to figure out if there is any type of social pact in this country right today nearby a hotel is housing foreign nurses cramming to take the nsg board what wages/benefits/conditions will these workers accept? if we want decent jobs left for ou...