Timbal

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1. Nursing Student Afraid I Have Mental Illness

   Timbal replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   A person with schizophrenia does not realize the delusion. They believe it to be very real. Do you work in mental health? If you do, you know what I am saying. If you do not, then how many people do you know that are fearful of their very lives e...

2. Nursing Student Afraid I Have Mental Illness

   Timbal replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   This sounds more like psychiatric hypochondria. You are mentioning 4 different diagnoses here. 1: Confirmed ADHA that you have been treated for in the past. 2: Borderline Personality Disorder: includes mood instability which can cause unstable relat...

3. Got a nurse aide fired... did I do the right thing?

   Timbal replied to Live.Love.Nurse.♡'s topic in General Nursing

   You did the right thing, and I agree with the others. You did not fire her, her actions got her fired. I had this happen to me, as well, working with an RN who kept falling asleep on the job. I didn't work every shift with her, but over the course...

4. Violence in Nursing

   Timbal replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   Unfortunately violence is all too common for nurses. I have worked with mental health patients who can be very violent, at multiple facilities. The workers have always been told to run away or call for help if a patient becomes violent and attacks...

5. Inappropriate CNA behavior?

   Timbal replied to matcha-cat's topic in General Nursing

   You did good! I'm loosing my patients with the other posters stating you should essentially ignore the situation. I feel like you are going to be a caring, good provider. It is not easy to go in on day one and have to deal with this kind of situat...

6. Inappropriate CNA behavior?

   Timbal replied to matcha-cat's topic in General Nursing

7. Inappropriate CNA behavior?

   Timbal replied to matcha-cat's topic in General Nursing

   There is no "tip-toeing" (as someone stated) around verbal/elder abuse here. Laughing at the inabilities of others, verbally insulting and derogatory comments equals abusive, bullying behavior. I think you and I both agree this is a reportable offen...

8. If you could redo it....would you choose nursing?

   Timbal replied to ICURNPA92's topic in General Nursing

   Yes. I only wish I had started sooner. I decided to become a nurse at age 30, after my daughter (age 2) spent 2 weeks in PICU. I've loved it. I spend 6 months as a CNA, then 13 years as an LPN, now 7 years an RN!

9. Dating a former patient

   Timbal replied to sarahg88's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, many red flags, as others have commented. I have worked in mental health for over 13 years, and yes, I know mental health diagnoses are diseases. The problem is that these diseases have a high rate of reoccurrence. Hearing your story just mak...

10. end of year sending meds home

    Timbal replied to Apples&Oranges's topic in School

    As a mom, I expect medication to be returned to me at the end of the school year. My daughters' medication is $10. per pill and I would raise a big fuss if my money was just thrown into the trash. As a nurse, I only take 5 pills to the school, to be...

11. Would you call an ambulance?

    Timbal replied to halohg's topic in School

    No. As others have stated, there was no indication that it was needed. A call to the parent/s would be the first step, to see if they had sent the medication with the child. An ambulance is called only for a medical emergency, which this was NOT. ...