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on our ward we never mention a former patient's full name because that means they will be re-admitted again---psych is a revolving door:eek:

i am a new nurse working on a psychiatric intensive care unit. i loved psych during my clinical rotation as a student nurse and i worked as a mental health worker till graduation. although i was discouraged to go into psych straight from school i k...

i graduated with my BSN at 26 and didn't go into nursing until 8 months after i graduated---so glad i took time off

thanks for being the only one who replied to me. maybe i'm just freaking out. i graduated from nursing school wanting to help everyone and i suppose i was just frustrated at the fact that some psych patients just do not want to be helped.

if you are going into nursing because of the salary--then you got a lot of thinking to do. in order to work as a nurse you have to be committed to the profession--faults and all. i knew several girls in my class that dropped out because they were o...