New grad starting in substance abuse rehab center need help please

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Hey all, I am a new grad RN that just recently got hired for a substance abuse rehab center that deals with addiction recovery. I'm a little nervous and was wondering if anyone here can give any advice on how to deal with this type of nursing and what are my main duties, I also hear that these type of patients are very manipulative and aggressive, which makes me uneasy thinking about it because I'm a really nice, easy going person and I don't deal with people like that on a regular basis. I would also like to know the pro's and con's of this field. Thank you in advance.

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Out of interest I do read this forum from time to time as I do have a degree in pysch which may help one day if I get into this branch of nursing. I just wanted to say that on AllNurses they do have an Additions Nursing forum available. If you don't get an answer to your questions, you could repost there. It's near the top (if not the top) of the specialties forums list.

Very best of luck to you! :up:

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Out of interest I do read this forum from time to time as I do have a degree in pysch which may help one day if I get into this branch of nursing. I just wanted to say that on AllNurses they do have an Additions Nursing forum available. If you don't get an answer to your questions, you could repost there. It's near the top (if not the top) of the specialties forums list.

Very best of luck to you! :up:

thank you much, I will give that a try

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