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Ortho McNeil maker of Ortho Evra has finally warned the public it's patch exposes women to 60% more estrogen and greater risks than a typical BC pill I say finally because we have known since August the patch is more risky than the pill causing th...

Nurses led the way against Schwarzenegger's initiatives they rallied teachers, social workers, firefighters and students they showed the voters the governor's initiatives would not solve California's money problems they kicked gluteus maximus hooray ...

aahh current events where I learned how to type and use the internet here is a link for those who do not go to current events http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/247942_patch11.html two big problems with this announcement: 1. womens' lives have be...

it is macropsychiatry which interests me most now human experience has always included conditions of pain, depression,stress but today we look to diagnosis only the suffering individual as sick we overstate and oversimplify our knowledge of brain che...

if anti-depressants are over used? why cognitive-behavioral therapy is not first choice for treatment? if perhaps our lifestyles are making us sick?

we call the attending doctor informing of the discharge meds which are usually continued at least until the client sees our doctor

MSPB is a psychiatric problem >>Why would anyone do such a thing? That question haunts everyone who encounters MSBP, since few other behaviors so sharply challenge our concept of what "motherhood" is supposed to be all about. Typically, it seem...

I work in a small mental health center the program started in 1975 with a 15 bed house and has grown to 80 clients most clients started by coming out of the state hospital progressing from the boarding house to apartments or houses mainly owned or ...

after many years working inpatient involuntary psych I applied for and obtained a new job last year [next week is my one year anniversary!] I made a mental inventory of my abilities, strengths and goals, finding to my delight some areas of former wea...

I had a BS in psychology and was working at a community mental health center as a Vista volunteer when I realized I liked the nurses' style [this was back during Nixon times] so off to nursing school I went bodies and fluids make nursing more real to...

we assigned times for each staff to cover checking on all patients while staying out in the hall most of that 1.5-2 hour period. documentation was done realtime at the site walking the hallway on a night shift I could sometimes feel the friendly 'g...

this is an area of healthcare where we spend too many of our resources on medications and too little on staffing

>> According to Barbara Haskins, M.D.--an expert in the field of deafness and psychiatric disorders--"Deaf patients can hear voices, even if they have been deaf from birth and have never heard sound...there is ongoing debate about the neural me...

thank you for this and for the links lamictal is being used for a mood stabilizer and I am on the lookout for this rash I hope never to see

we need to figure out if there is any type of social pact in this country right today nearby a hotel is housing foreign nurses cramming to take the nsg board what wages/benefits/conditions will these workers accept? if we want decent jobs left for ou...

Apparently the person asking the orginal question, 'how do you do mental health nursing' is in CHINA and an assumption they are not qualified is unqualified! I am interested in comparing sx, dg and tx between the US and China why jump into a nursi...

on the one hand it seems like waiting 12 more months after 7 years of dating is not too much to ask on the other hand he has wanted marriage for two years already and 45 is getting up there to start a family he may believe after nursing school you ...

don't get sick don't lose your job don't be in an accident don't birth to defective children don't get old don't make any mistakes,ever don't be born into the wrong family in America we are individuals all waiting to hit it big [maybe those looto num...

I have switched jobs in the last two weeks moving from an involuntary acute hospital unit to a residential/vocational community mental health center I am their first staff nurse I know 3/4 of the clients from years of working and plan to stay with th...

*Axis I: The acute diagnosis such as Major Depression, Schizoaffective Disorder, Paranoid State, etc. Psychiatric Diagnosis *Axis II: A personality disorder such as Paranoid Personality, Antisocial Personality, Dependent Personality, etc. *Axis III:...

please have your son be evaluated for drug reaction stiff neck could indicate EPS this sounds serious since you say he couldn't stay at school

invitations to two DRUG company sponsored dinners >>_ Two drug company sponsored dinners are coming up for Health Care Professionals only (no guests): _ 1. Dr. J P on controlling manic symptoms at Fire & Ice Restaurant on Dec. 9 at 6:30pm _...

we have terrible traffic problems if you work pms/nocs travel into the city can be okay otherwise the big hospitals encourage using buses since you haven't been here I'd recommend a trip to check out city neighborhoods many are lovely and you can get...

>>it is my opinion that it may just be the Pharmaceutical companies that are keeping America alive as a free market Nation. no way! a free market would mean people could buy drugs from Canada a free market would not hand corporate welfare to t...

thank you for this topic and link to NFLunch with the passage of a two trillion $$$ Medicare 'reform' more and more people will be looking into the issue of drug companies advertising and profit it is shameful and nurses have a role to play in making...