Nickytoto

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1. dating someone with schizophrenia

   Nickytoto replied to dipsett08's topic in Psychiatric

   I definitely don't want to scare you, but the RNs who I have spoken to about schizophrenic patients have mentioned that it is often seems "progressive" and the person eventually needs full-time care because of medication side effects and the mental i...

2. What's it like working with people with eating disorders?

   Nickytoto posted a topic in Psychiatric

   Hiya, When I think about nursing in psych my mind goes back to an episode of RPA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Prince_Alfred_Hospital) where a third year trainee RN was working with teen girls with eating disorders. I immediately thought, "I co...

3. Is this really what psych nursing is like?

   Nickytoto posted a topic in Psychiatric

   I've just had two week of hospital clinical experience at a subacute mental health ward (shizophrenic, depressed, BAD, drug-induced psychosis patients etc). Prior to my experience, all the mental health education I had was a three hour tutorial class...

4. Activities for mental illness in a psychiatric institution

   Nickytoto replied to ritaPHIL's topic in Psychiatric

   I've just come out nursing in a subacute inpatient mental health ward (my clinical placement for two weeks). I'd suggest paper and pencils for free drawing (it's very interesting when patients draw their hallucinations) and you can guess their mood b...

5. best uni?

   Nickytoto replied to aussiemumj's topic in International

   I guess I only half agree with the above users. If they were cranky nurses who are resentful of you just because you're a student and they have to teach you, there is no way you can take that personally. It's not your fault. However if you didn't kno...

6. moving to sydney

   Nickytoto replied to emma28's topic in International

   I'm sorry to say but accomodation in Sydney in incredibly tough to find. We're talking about hundreds of people showing up to a 1/2 hour inspection at a dinky little flat... There are even tv features about the shortage. I'm not saying that you can'...

7. New nurse's daughter just diagnosed with Type 1

   Nickytoto replied to bandas's topic in Endocrine

   I created this blog for a uni project, but maybe you would find some practical use for it; perhaps forwarding it to family members, or something for parents of her friends to follow up on. http://kids-learn-about-type1diabetes.blogspot.com/ It was m...

8. Clinical = nightmare?

   Nickytoto posted a topic in General Students

   Clinical= nightmare? Warning: long, and probably a rant (I'm not too sure). Sorry if it has heaps of typos: I haven't spell checked. To get my context, I'm a second year nursing student doing a bachelor of nursing degree in Australia. I went into uni...

9. at what age did you start studying nursing?

   Nickytoto replied to cksl's topic in General Students

   I was 17. I bit young compared to my classmates-- most are 18 or 19. :)