Felixa

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1. Lidocaine abuse?

   Felixa replied to nursetaminator's topic in General Nursing

   Hi, apparently it's commonly cut with cocaine - maybe your man was selling it? I can't check at the moment,(I'm on a train) but from memory it has a similar melting point to cocaine, so it can be used...

2. Attacking a Doctor Makes News; Attacking a Nurse is Business As Usual

   Felixa replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   As I live in the UK, the stats that come up first are for the UK, so apologies if they are not directly relevant to the US. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/525509.stm - this article cites 1 in 10...

3. Attacking a Doctor Makes News; Attacking a Nurse is Business As Usual

   Felixa replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I've noticed in mental health that the higher the status of the assaulted person, the more drastic the consequences. It's not unusual to hear something like 'well after the two assaults on the ward we...

4. RNs- Mostly first born? Alcoholic fathers?

   Felixa replied to Hellllllo Nurse's topic in General Nursing

   As llg says, this poll (and most polls on here) are likely to have a self-selecting sample. However it's also interesting to note that of those people with alcoholic dads, their mums often suffer/ed...

5. uniforms in psychiatry

   Felixa replied to debinius's topic in Psychiatric

   My employer is also wanting to introduce trousers and polo shirts or button-up shirts as a uniform, across all the hospitals in my region. I work in an adult forensic unit, and I think it will only...

6. Banning smoking for psychiatric patients

   Felixa replied to Bjo's topic in Psychiatric

   Just a little update from my Trust's smoking ban. My unit went 'smoke-free' in August. In practice it has not been particularly smoke-free. The smoke room has been locked off, but patients are...

7. Forensic Psykaitry

   Felixa replied to extrakul's topic in Psychiatric

   I work in a medium secure unit in the UK. Our patients may have commited violence, murder, sexual crimes or arson, or some combination. Most of the patients I work with have schizophrenia or bipolar,...

8. Banning smoking for psychiatric patients

   Felixa replied to Bjo's topic in Psychiatric

   Hiya Bjo, Just wondering how your smoke-free hospital was going? I also work on a Forensic unit (in the UK), and the management have just announced that they want to ban smoking on hospital property...

9. Would you marry your prison pen pal?

   Felixa replied to Blackcat99's topic in Correctional

   A lot of people posting here seem to take the view that once a criminal, always a criminal. Some people are career criminals, others fall into crime again because it seems so much easier, but others...

10. Evil People

    Felixa replied to Happy-ER-RN's topic in Emergency

    The relatives are always more evil than that patients, even on psychiatric wards. In my experience, the more trivial the problem, the worse the behaviour. I was doing a student nurse placement on a...

11. Why are so many of us over weight?

    Felixa replied to sarahhoughton's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like an interesting research topic. I got sidetracked looking up references, but I better go and research my own assignments now! I found a survey noting the professions with the most obesity,...

12. Why are so many of us over weight?

    Felixa replied to sarahhoughton's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked in mental health for a while, first as admin and then as a nursing assistant and now as a student. I have also noticed that there seem to be a disproportionate number of nurses who...