LethaChristina

LethaChristina

psych nursing/certified Parish Nurse

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About LethaChristina

LethaChristina has 45 years experience and specializes in psych nursing/certified Parish Nurse.


solitary archdiocesan contemplative/poet/writer with forty year nursing career

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  1. For so many years I was highly-supportive of a universal healthcare with a single party payer... After 2 1/2 million dollars in care for myself... I have learned some incredibly difficult lessons: 1) having one's medical records, as well as all other...
  2. PSYCH NURSES-please help

    Believe me, the field is full of "wounded warriers" (most can not deal with the amount of abuse happening to them as nurses in this field when they don't "understand")... spread yourself out in your reading (as suggested); not only have Freud and (no...
  3. Psych nursing in Seattle area

    By the way, if a patient on a "voluntary" unit is declared detainable--they are transferred to one of the "involuntary" units--often quite a distance from the original hospital.
  4. Psych nursing in Seattle area

    There is a tendency in Seattle to isolate those who have been civilly-committed through the court system... while Northwest Medical Center's patients on both units are both voluntary (admitted through their own request) and involuntary... the ones wh...
  5. I want you to help me, but you will do it my way.....

    Oh, I'm sorry if I offended you--that was never intended. I do know that much of what is "presented" (even seeing on these threads the comments about "frequent fliers", and people with "insignificant" reasons for being in the ER) is simply that: "wh...
  6. Replacing Patient-Centered Nursing with Society-Centered Nursing

    No kidding! The "stigma" is complete and damning--even when a person is not sick at all! The old notion that one cannot heal from these things has gotten so out-of-control it is unreal. As long as society continues to "pigeonhole" people--this hap...
  7. Behavioral Unit anyone?

    The word "myth" is understood as to mean "made up" in this society... unaware of its real implications, in spite of Joseph Campbell. I said in the post clearly: words are very limited--and we, especially as communication nurses, need to be wary of be...
  8. Psych nursing in Seattle area

    There are also mental health units (a voluntary adult unit) at Swedish Cherry Hill... two gero-psych units at Northwest Medical Center in Shoreline (voluntary and involuntary) I'm pretty sure a unit at Steven's in Edmonds (I think involuntary) a unit...
  9. Would like to become a parish nurse

    Hi moogie, I want to thank you for the Star Trek quote--I love it!
  10. Discussing End of Life Issues Part 2 - Living to a Ripe Old Age

    I was listening to a long-time neighbor's story about her husband's dying process not long ago. Neither of them were even told the husband had aggressive and all-over cancer--not at all until after he had died; he was subjected to frequent paracente...
  11. The Nurse's Role in Providing Spiritual Care - Is It OK to Pray?

    Hi, Since I can't address hospital nursing at this point--not being there, I offer some reflections: Perhaps we forget the role of the nurse is "total assessment"; and includes the appropriate spiritual nursing diagnoses, too. So many are "fearful' d...
  12. Parish nursing IS "real" nursing---vent

    No kidding it's REAL nursing--politics and all! It takes the guts of Judas Maccabees to do--the reason our training is so tough! But that's what we LOVE, isn't it!
  13. Legal Nurse Consultant (LNC): FAQ

    hello, I wanted to comment on the "quote" on your blog--about the wounds and faults of the mind leaving scars... I want to refer you to the research on "neuroplasicity"... which basically says that we are NOT bound by past life experiences, brain ami...
  14. Harborview or Swedish?

    Hi, I've worked at Swedish and Harborview... and also been a patient in both facilities. I do not think Seattle is a very good place for healthcare generally...especially having worked/been a serious visitor in other parts of the country. The amoun...
  15. going into art therapy... need some help...

    Hi, I have education both in music therapy (and plain music) and art (visual)... I worked as a professional artist as well as psych nurse for several years. I have also worked in many different modalities and treatment facilities. The best place to...