Poll: What do you love about psych nursing?

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what do you love about psych nursing? what was your motivation for choosing psych nursing as a specialty? :monkeydance:

Specializes in Cardiac/Telemetry, Hospice, Home Health.
When I was on my psych rotation and studying hard (1 year ago) I kept feeling like I was missing something BIG in the learning process, and I've never been so frustrated... kind of like having to move the bun aside to find the meat hiding somewhere under the pickle. Kept looking in the books for the missing piece, and it just wasn't there. Then I attended a seminar at the facility at night, after all my classmates had gone home, and the speaker gave us a history lesson on being "the wounded healer". It actually brought tears to my eyes...finally, the burger. I am a psych nurse because I know that we're all, in one way or another, the walking wounded.

Thank you:p

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Specializes in Psych.
I love working with psych patients, especially those with "severe and persistant mental illness" because these people often have limited support in their homes and community and they need someone to love them. I love helping them move beyond sickness into wellness and helping them understand that with treatment, they can live a "normal" life. I enjoy learning from them.

Amen to that. And psych pt's are SOO interesting as people. Some of them have had to live through HE## and they are still surviving, despite all odds. Here's the well-kept secret: Hear a few life stories from a few psych pt.s (especially the severely and persistently mentally ill), and bingo-bongo, your own problems just don't seem so large. It is a blessing to be able to help these people find their own potential. God is good!

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