insatiable

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1. Patient Life Stories

   insatiable replied to SweetLemon's topic in Psychiatric

   The Minds of Billy Milligan written by Daniel Keyes is a pretty good one about Multiple Personality Disorder. Its a true story and Keyes developed the book from interviews with Billy, state hospitals, law enforcement, etc. Billy Milligan was arrested...

2. Teaching psych, what is most important/valuable?

   insatiable replied to ruralnurs's topic in Psychiatric

   During my counseling graduate program when we were learning about disorders we did a project that was a combination of what the OP suggested and MissGwen suggested...it was very educational. This is how we did it: In groups of three or four we were e...

3. How a nurse feels about reporting child abuse

   insatiable replied to crzynrsn08's topic in General Nursing

   I saw a thread on here relating to child abuse so I thought Id give some information on the process of reporting child abuse. -As mandated reporters we are required by law to report suspicions of child abuse or neglect on any child under the age of ...

4. Any therapists or social workers turned nurses?

   insatiable posted a topic in NP

   i have my masters degree in counseling and am contemplating going back to school for nursing with the next couple years, with the hope of eventually becoming a np. i was just curious to see if anyone else out there has made a career switch from a cou...

5. Automatic Thoughts

   insatiable replied to micstn's topic in General Nursing

   Overgeneralizations are usually broad negative statements (well they can be positive too, but generally are negative because overgeneralizations tend to play into stereotypes that people have about others based on their experiences). For example, may...

6. Really stuck.....

   insatiable replied to yuyu75's topic in Psychiatric

   I think it just depends on what kind of lifestyle you hope to have outside of work and what your expectations are as far as what you hope to be doing every day at work. For example, if youre more interested in talking with people about problems maybe...

7. Cnfused About Nursing Schools And Funding. Can Someone Help??

   insatiable replied to BEAUTY1982's topic in General Nursing

   No worker left behind? Im not real familiar...have you recently been laid off a job and recieving unemployment? I know here in Ohio anyone recieving unemployment benefits can go to thier local Community Action agency and they have programs for displ...

8. ER "One Stop"

   insatiable posted a topic in Emergency

   Heres a link to an interesting article I read the other day...just thought Id share :). Its about why people come to the ER for unecessary reasons. http://www.slate.com/id/2199645

9. Is this really what psych nursing is like?

   insatiable replied to Nickytoto's topic in Psychiatric

   I also feel that a mental health worker with the proper training would be perfectly capable of doing therapy etc with patients/clients just as well if not better than nurses. However, with that said, I saw on some of the posts that some of these ment...

10. how to communicate to patient with hallucination/delusion?

    insatiable replied to Ms.RN's topic in Psychiatric

    i guess my question to you is is this an elderly patient with dementia etc? or are you working on a psych floor with people with schizophrenia etc?...id help me in my explanation :).

11. racing thoughts?

    insatiable replied to ulmaulma's topic in Psychiatric

    What you seem to be describing is a person that is in a manic state, which occurs in people that have bipolar disorder (there are also different types of bipolar). However, with that said, it could also be related to a number of other things.

12. Hallucinogen Persisting Perceptual Disorder

    insatiable replied to HonestRN's topic in Psychiatric

    Im confused about what you are asking?? Treated a patient diagnosed with what?

13. Malingering

    insatiable replied to RN.38SPCL's topic in Psychiatric

    Also keep in mind that there are mental illnesses that can appear to patients/clients malingering but are in fact mental illness. For example, many of the Somaform Disorders (hypochondriasis, conversion disorder, somatization disorder, pain disorder,...

14. M.Ed to psych NP??

    insatiable posted a topic in NP

    First background info: -BS in Psychology (3.1 GPA) -M.Ed in Community and Rehabilitation Counseling (3.7 GPA) -Worked in residential facilty while in grad school for girls age 12-17 with emotional and behavioral problems. -Currently doing homebased f...

15. M.Ed to Psych NP ??

    insatiable posted a topic in Psychiatric

    First background info: -BS in Psychology (3.1 GPA) -M.Ed in Community and Rehabilitation Counseling (3.7 GPA) -Worked in residential facilty while in grad school for girls age 12-17 with emotional and behavioral problems. -Currently doing homebased f...