pleasantly mad

pleasantly mad

Acute mental health/ Eating disorders

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pleasantly mad specializes in Acute mental health/ Eating disorders.


I have worked in nursing for 8 years and find as time goes on I become more and more pleasantly mad.

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  1. Charting Bloopers

    On a psych ward I once read notes of a collegue stating; Patient challanged me to game of chess, I accepted and beat him. Patient stated this was first time he'd ever been beat. PLAN: encourage patient to play more chess as part of rehab. Couldn't st...
  2. Paperwork and Mental Health

    Over the past few years I have worked in every imaginable area of nursing as both a Student and as a Healthcare Assistant. The problem I find now, as an RMN in Mental Health, that my day to day life seems to be consumed by paperwork, never ending , e...
  3. First of all good on ya for having the initiative and ability to care about the patients' need. At the end of the day there are many in psychiatric who attribute 'no hope' to a patient, I dont like this and don't think I ever will. Although I have on...
  4. learning disabilities nursing or mental health? aaa

    First of all DON'T PANIC if you possess the qualities you have mentioned you will be great at the job and don't worry to much about the math you can improve, nursing is all about learning and improving your skills. I was originally in Adult Nursing b...
  5. You Know You're a Nurse When...

    when new doctors start your first thought is ‘great, now we have to train the new ones up’ you can tell the cause of diahorrea simply from the smell
  6. The Ramblings of a Nurse

    I found, when I started my training, that there were many in my class who cared nothing for the profession but rather were more concerned with getting their first bursary cheque. Needless to say these were the individuals who upon learning they had t...