I have a psychotic disorder. I am in a BSN program. I managed to pass my first semester of an accelerated program with 4 Bs and a C. Yet I wonder if it is responsible of me to become a nurse given my history of psychoses. I consider giving up on this...
SaltyFish513 replied to SaltyFish513's topic in General Students
I mean I admitted to my professor in mental health my condition, and his advice was for me to keep going. He said what mattered was a nurses heart. I am quite stable in terms of positive symptoms. In terms of negatives symptoms that is another matter...
I have a psychotic disorder of some kind. Currently in remission. Initially I feared it would put paid to my dreams of becoming a nurse. Yet here I am graduating in spring 2021 if I pass. Its under control, and I have to say this first semester of nu...
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My nurse hero topic is why I decided to become a nurse in the first place if I ever make it. A resident doctor missed an 11cm mrsa infection in my left lung. A nurse practioner caught it by ordering an x-ray. I would be dead without her intervention...
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The mental health of nursing school stress is very real. At several times I have had to take a break for my mental health. Yet it appears like I will pass my first semester with 4 Bs. I will take it as it has been very stressfull
So I was a user named gavin513 then salty fish. I have Bipolar schizoeffective and I just got accepted to nursing school. My mental illness is the biggest bane of my life. I suppose apologies are In order because I was a bit of a dick due to my menta...
SaltyFish513 replied to SaltyFish513's topic in Rock
No problem oh I recognize Whith our treatment I am dead in the water. As I said in remission I was a straight a student in an episode its f I think I can expect similar in nursing school and god willing on the job I intend to stay in treatment for li...
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Well thank you all I have had 3 diagnoses depression with psychotic tendencies bipolar schizo effective and schizophrenia. The one thing apparent is I have a hallucinatory disorder which frequently causes me to act like a but Fortunately for me and a...