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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 where I don't do anything!)

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 break :angryfire

No, this is by no means new. I'm a perfectionist who bores others to death with my petty annoyances, such as men getting their prostrate glands examined.

once again, it's "couldn't care less". :angryfire didn't most of us go to college and have to take english 101?

Another Trib reader! I agree wholeheartedly.

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 psychiatry.)

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" (?) book entitled Final Exit for people who wish ...

Then there are those who think schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder are one and the same :angryfire That really frosts me :angryfire :angryfire

How about admissions that come at shift change that the preceding shift knew about and didn't do JACK! :angryfire

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 sense whatsoever, and some of us posed the question: ...

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 speaking on the tape, ridiculing the patients who were be...

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, several of them talked about getting out of hospital...

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 been a financial disaster almost from day 1, but it ...

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 "problem areas" (Gary, Indianapolis); there aren't...

Excellent advice! However, aspirin and Advil are not the same. Aspirin is, well, aspirin. Advil is ibuprofen

Amen to that!

I'm a recovering addict too, but I never heard of TPAPN. Someone please enlighten me.

I do too, and thanks for your post!

Amen and thank you!!

Since I work on a locked psych unit, the students all appear to be scared out of their wits! Even after they've been coming to us for over 6 weeks, some of them still seem terrified. How they perceive us, however, proved very useful. We have several...

I just gratefully celebrated 6 years clean and sober yesterday, and it's reassuring to me to know that there are others out there who know: what it used to be like, what happened, and what it's like now. Keep coming back!

As it's been said in this thread and countless others: nobody chooses to be an addict, anymore than they would elect to have diabetes, schizophrenia or cystic fibrosis. I've been clean and sober for 6 years; it hasn't always been easy, believe me, an...

A few thoughts: The other day, I met a member of my RN graduating class and we talked about this very thing (mind you, this was back in the day of glass I.V. bottles, all white uniforms, etc.: 1982 ). Neither of us could recall any mention made of n...

Zip, zero, zilch and nada, for starters. :angryfire

Our hospital has Press Ganey also. We have to wear these stupid "Strive For Five" attachments on our I.D. badges. And it's really a load of laughs trying to explain that to some of the patients :angryfire