I've been a psych nurse for 20 years, and it's about as real as anything can get. (I also work midnights only, so sometimes I've been "double zapped" for not being a real nurse and working a shift...
Thank you very much! I have nothing against men getting their prostate glands checked. However, I've never in all my years heard of a prostrate gland. Yes, I was being sarcastic (duh!). Give me a...
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On his best day! If he knows so much about the history of psychiatry, as he claimed during the audacious interview, ask him who is Benjamin Rush? :chuckle (He's considered the father of modern...
I've had people in general ask me what drugs are "good" for a quick suicide, such as those with very ill loved ones, but nobody has asked me to help them. The Hemlock Society has published a "helpful"...
Amen!! I graduated in 1982, back in the day when they were referred to as "patients". When my newer-to-nursing coworkers started that "client" drivel, I was honked big time. :angryfire It makes no...
There's no excuse for that kind of behavior. It got so bad at my unit that the students wrote a memo to our clinical manager re: staff talking during taped report, staff ridiculing whoever was...
Some of my former coworkers had been at the 2 Charter hospitals in the area and they got the ax big time Some of them waited years to get whatever wages were do them. After this latest rude event,...
I live in a small town/rural area of Northwest Indiana and we weren't unionized. Some of us wanted to investigate it further, but we were told: Catholic hospitals don't unionize; unions were only for...
I worked at a satellite facility comprised of 2 psych units: child & adolescent and adult. On 3/3/05, our main hospital abruptly and with less than 2 days warning, closed the kids' unit. It had...