Mental Health

[nursing4nena]

I wanted to get some advice regarding my following semester. I was assigned to a State Hospital for Mental Health and I'm feeling a little bit intimidated. Has anyone already been through this? Any suggestions? Our instructors told us not to be afraid, and that patients are afraid of us, but I have heard that some of the people in there have commited some serious crimes.

Nena.

[sdlb08]

We had to wear an alarm. I never had to use it personally. I only saw it used 2 times during my clinical, and both of those were incidents where the patients were fighting with each other. I always felt really safe during my clinical. In fact, the higher functioning patients were vert protective of the students because we always did so much for them. If someone said something inappropriate, many of the individuals would tell them they were out of line.