maureeno

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1. Birth Control Patch Warning

   maureeno replied to maureeno's topic in Ob/Gyn

   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...

2. Birth Control Patch Warning

   maureeno posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   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...

3. California Nurses Inform the Public and WIN !!!!

   maureeno posted a topic in Activism

   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 ...

4. Lexapro

   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...

5. Lexapro

   maureeno replied to jaimealmostRN's topic in Psychiatric

   if anti-depressants are over used? why cognitive-behavioral therapy is not first choice for treatment? if perhaps our lifestyles are making us sick?

6. Need advice in dealing with a "contrary" Psychiatrist

   maureeno replied to Nikilea's topic in Psychiatric

   we call the attending doctor informing of the discharge meds which are usually continued at least until the client sees our doctor

7. Very stressed .. need answer

   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...

8. any tips? applying for a position on an addictions unit

   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 ...

9. any tips? applying for a position on an addictions unit

   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...

10. ba in psych considering a career in psych nursing

    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...

11. 15 minute checks...worth using??

    maureeno replied to Meraki's topic in Psychiatric

    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...

12. gero-psych...nothing but a nightmare!

    maureeno replied to MisPlacedTexan's topic in Psychiatric

    this is an area of healthcare where we spend too many of our resources on medications and too little on staffing

13. question about auditory hallucinations...

    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...

14. Her body burned by drug, not fire

    maureeno replied to nursebedlam's topic in Burn

    thank you for this and for the links lamictal is being used for a mood stabilizer and I am on the lookout for this rash I hope never to see

15. Tired of the grocery strike, back to Albertson's

    maureeno replied to Sheri257's topic in Activism

    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...