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I seriouly need advice. I accepted a job a few weeks ago after quitting another one due to stress and anxiety. Though it might be less stressfull I realise all my anxiety is coming back and actually ended up calling in sick after just a few weeks of ...

Thanks everyone. You all gave some usefull advice. I am seeing an MD but don´t think I will be able to go back. Just needed some advice on how to explain to my new employer why I am leaving so soon without burning my brigdes but seems like I just nee...

I quit after five years in nursing AND no other job instore GRHHH..Please tell me someone else did this and became happy and succesfull in another field:-)

Just really really had enough!

I get the..well what does a nurse do there? The patients are not sick, not complicated.. do you have doctor rounds? I.v´s ? Isn´t it boring? Maybe you are not able to handle a real med/surgfloor..GRRRGHH. My patients are complex, I am a damn good nu...

I could have written that post! You are not alone ! Don´t know what else to say, sorry

Hi if a patient in a state of hypomania/ anxiety (?) is experiencing thoughts racing so fast it feels like he is in the backseat of a car accelerating so fast he is almost hanging is the air whats that a symptom of?? thanks

female, 38 and no headtrauma,family history or physical illness. Just wonder if that would be anxiety/hypomania or what the medicalterm for that would be?

could it be dissociation ?? depersonalisation(sp)?

Hey psychnurses:-) Okey so I guess this is all pretty basic but I am wondering if the loss of a parent ( the mother ) within the first year of living brings on certain personality traits. I have been discussing this with a colleage of mine and she sa...

Ok I am going to let it all out, and please correct me if I am wrong.. English is not my first language but I am trying to explain it anyways;-) I work as a the only nurse some evenings on a floor with 40 patients and 3 nurseassistants. I have a majo...

Thank you sooo much I feel better already after reading your responses!! Still feel like quitting though.. why does´nt my management take any action, I am not the only one complaining thats what horrifies me the most!!? Think I have lost some respec...

Thanks for your replies. I am almost thinking about quitting do to this. Nothing is worth a bad working enviroment just hate the thought that I am been driving to thinking this way argghh..

Hey am I the only one thinking that maybe the doctors takes it too far sometimes? Use to work at a surgical ward where discussing dnr where part of care. Know work in geriatrics and it seems doctors are so afraid to presciebe a dnr. Have a 84 year ol...

I have this patient we have been treating with highdose ad´s for about a month(ltc) ..do to depression. Now a familymember said this patient was diagnosed bp years ago ( didnt want treament for years though).. but aren´t all bipolar patients suppose ...

thanks for letting me know it´s okey for me to " let him hand out the flowers" by the way...;-) It´s difficult when you can see the " tell tell signs" and the doctor doesn´t ( cause the are counting on me to fill them in) think my pdoc is doing the s...

allways crashed around January/Febuary for the last ten years..I should pretty much just book an appointment with pdoc in advance;-) Going hyper in the spring ...love it and never get to book it ...cause I am neeever going to get depressed again ...d...

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thanks "inthesky" and u too;-) Of course I will may sure this patient is looked after during treament and after!! Just thought that it is difficult to bring up Lithium ( my psych lets me be hypomanic to a degree but only the good one;.-) then I am (s...

thanks "Inthesky"....were u put on a moodstabilizer?? I know hypomania is bad, but lets say the patient is bipolar 2, would u stop the hypomania or just let the pt. have a "good" time, and then intervene, ...meaning let the pt. enjoy himself when ot...

hey yet again mish56;.) sorry! You wrote somethng about soft biplar??? Did you mean the "official" bipolar 2 diagnosis??? and thanks again 30 years in the field allways amasesses me med/surg or psych..

Hey Mish56!! Thanks .. what a great answer!! Considering me being impatient and foolish for asking and thinking of why the family gave the information and not the patient. Love it!;-) The patient was not speaking/ eating and suicidal just sooo depres...

okey;-) maybe it´s just like daahh we see this all day...but I don´t;-) /...;-)?

OK here goes .. English is not my first language so bare with me;-) I had this old lady come up to my ward the other day. less than fourty pounds with pneumia. Shes been fine and taking care of herself until five weeks ago. She´s 96 can´t swallow at ...

thanks for your replies I can tell that u all feel the same ..I should speak up for my patient! I work in geriatrics and we deal with this all the time. Sometimes I even feel it´s unethical with tube feeding or a centralline...it all depends as you ...