MHN

MHN

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About MHN

I am an R.N.and Midwife and have just completed my post-graduate diploma in Community Mental health I am starting my Masters in Clinical Nursing with a Major in Mental Health

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  1. New Guy here, I'm considering nursing as a profession

    Hi Nathan ,If you are not sure that you will like nursing take the shorter course and see i,m in Australia so I'm not sure of the difference between lPN ect .by starting at the bottom so to speak you will learn all the basic stuff that forms the pla...
  2. OB Clinicals

    Carolynd ,In the eaerly 70's I had limited experience in my general nurse training in gyny wards because i was a nurse who happened to be a male,however by the time I had finished the veils had been lifted i trained and a pupil midwife and completed...
  3. Electric Shock Therapy

    Finness ,The senior psychiatrists told us the staff at the acute unit that this would probably be the one true case of Mania we would see in our careers.
  4. Electric Shock Therapy

    sarah ,the patient i saw was not reacting to any of the usual drugs here in fact diazepam caused the complete opposite effect. ect was the only choice left to the psychiatrist to use. btw the patient survived and even expressed that she would have ec...
  5. Electric Shock Therapy

    I've seen ECT used with several disorders sucessfully,Mania, depression,and psychotic depression
  6. Hi everyone ,Im looking for a tool that is used to determine staffing levels in acute psychiatry inpatient units by way of an acuity measurement instrument i don't know if there is such a thing in psychiatry i know there is this type of tool in gener...
  7. I need your help with my job application

    georgia girl,Maybe you could say you are looking for new challenges and by working with juveniles you'll be able to put something positive back to society.
  8. Pay increase !

    my understanding is they have sold a good number of their hospitals in cluding the national capital in canberra
  9. Shane Warne

    send him to coventry
  10. parking

    We are lucky parking is free either in open or under cover multi story parking (if you are early or lucky enough) security patrols area it pretty well lit they also have distress alarms in the carpark to call security if they are needed urgently
  11. Pay increase !

    Too late for mayne health though isnt it.they sold up maybe they left a legacy for those who bought it
  12. do any of the psych units you work in allow patients to keep their mobile phones or does the unit have a policy that requires all phones to be handed over on admission and returned on discharge. thanks in anticipation MHN
  13. Aussie-isms

    Kavi "bugger Me" definately doesent refer to acts which some would label as indecent or illegal. MHN
  14. Aussie-isms

    commentary on flatus volume/amount "a bit more choke and that would've started"
  15. Aussie-isms

    describing the strength of a wind as being to"blow a dog of its chain"