As psychiatric nurses we are trained to deal with violent, disruptive etc. behaviours and we can have an understanding and empathy as to why a person may show such behaviours. Sometimes with the job we can be in the aim of fire and become injured etc. I am due to start on a new very challenging behavioural ward, dementia, huntington's, korsakoff's, suicidal and homicidal. I will be working with people who have failed and been turned away from other placements due to their behaviours. Personally I am looking forward to the challenge and have just completed an induction week which included TMV.
I personally feel I cannot tell my family about the ward I am working on. As none of them are nurses or work in health care they don't have the same perception as I do. I don't want them to worry or feel I shouldn't be working there. I have told my boyfriend about a few things that have happened in the past one where I had to go to A&E and he doesn't take it well, I don't tell my mother at all. Nothing serious has ever happened to me.
What do you guys think? Do you share stories? How do others react?
