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  1. A case of ?Borderline Personality Disorder-pl help!!!

    lucianne replied to sans's topic in Psychiatric

    Perhaps I should have asked this before: What exactly is your involvement in this case? I assumed it was something you read about in a newspaper or something and were just curious about. If you have...

  2. A case of ?Borderline Personality Disorder-pl help!!!

    lucianne replied to sans's topic in Psychiatric

    That thought crossed my mind too, Spazzy Nurse, but people with BPD can be dissociative too and with DID there is usually pretty horrific childhood abuse. Now it's possible that there was abuse going...

  3. Question about animal cruelty

    lucianne replied to MrsWampthang's topic in Psychiatric

    Oh my. I'm surprised someone else hasn't laid into you on this yet: just because a dog is mixed breed is no excuse not to train it. Mixed breeds are often (some will say ALWAYS) more intelligent than...

  4. Question about animal cruelty

    lucianne replied to MrsWampthang's topic in Psychiatric

    I agree with elkpark, but would like to know how old your son is. Have a number of your pets ever disappeared? Do they ever have unexplained limps or

  5. Reccomend Bay Area, CA home visiting psych nurse agency to dispense meds?

    lucianne replied to exhausted mom's topic in Psychiatric

    Contact your local chapter of NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) and ask for

  6. Hit upside the head with a brick..........How did this happen???????

    lucianne replied to NurseKratchet's topic in Psychiatric

    It sounds good to me, but find out what new grads in other settings nearby start at. I think most of your state is similar to mine economically and those wages are comparable to here, but if you're in...

  7. Hit upside the head with a brick..........How did this happen???????

    lucianne replied to NurseKratchet's topic in Psychiatric

    I was 40 when I graduated from nursing school and I also fell in love with psych during that rotation (before that I thought I wanted to work in peds or L & D). I also got the "you'd make a great...

  8. Weirnike-Korsakoff Syndrome

    lucianne replied to my2sons's topic in Psychiatric

    I was assigned to a patient with Wernecke-Korsakoff syndrome during my psych clinical and I will never forget her. We spent a lovely day together while she spun one wild story after another about her...

  9. Question about "cutting" i.e. self mutulation.

    lucianne replied to MrsWampthang's topic in Psychiatric

    Here's a link to another thread about cutting: https://allnurses.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51911 I think z's playa gives a good general explanation, but from what I've read and witnessed, I believe...

  10. Can you hire a private psych nurse to give meds?

    lucianne replied to exhausted mom's topic in Psychiatric

    Let me see if I understand this: are you asking about hiring someone to risk his or her license and face possible criminal prosecution to give your son medication against his will? Or are you just...

  11. HELP PLEASE!!! Former diagnosis of bipolar/personality disorder

    lucianne replied to finness's topic in Psychiatric

    You're 23 now. Your mother should no longer be involved in your decisions about your health care. If you have concerns about the treatment you are receiving, you should ask around for referrals to...

  12. Psychosomatic seizures

    lucianne replied to keeper's topic in Psychiatric

    I can understand your frustration with your sister and your concerns that she is manipulative and drug-seeking. At the very least she seems intent on self-destruction. I have had two adolescent...

  13. State Mental Hospitals

    lucianne replied to NurseDixie's topic in Psychiatric

    Everyone has the right to refuse treatment, even patients on psych units. If you want to force an IM med on someone who is not actively posing a threat to self or others, you have to go to court to...

  14. Frustrated and exhausted

    lucianne replied to shorty0201's topic in Psychiatric

    Every medication affects people differently. Prednisone makes me homicidal, other people can take it without any problem. Some people have trouble with SSRIs, others don't. A recent theory about...

  15. Do i need Med Surg experience to be a psychiatric nurse?

    lucianne replied to krisssy's topic in Psychiatric

    Chris, I didn't mean to imply that you should be embarassed. Actually, I never came across orthostatic blood pressure measurements until I started working on the inpatient unit and had to do them on...

  16. Do i need Med Surg experience to be a psychiatric nurse?

    lucianne replied to krisssy's topic in Psychiatric

    Chris, you're going to be embarassed.... Orthostatic hypotension occurs when a person moves from either lying to sitting, lying to standing, or sitting to standing positions. Sitting to standing is...

  17. Your typical day as a psych nurse

    lucianne replied to Louisepug's topic in Psychiatric

    I'm sorry you haven't gotten more responses. It could be because there have been several threads about this in the past. I'll find a couple and bump them up for

  18. Need advise from experienced psych nurses

    lucianne replied to BadBird's topic in Psychiatric

    I would definitely talk to a lawyer. I doubt you can have her declared an emancipated minor at 15 and some states are no longer doing this anyway. As for kicking her out and moving away, that's not...

  19. making the switch to psych nursing?

    lucianne replied to RosieGlow's topic in Psychiatric

    Inpatient psych is a totally different situation than outpatient. I don't have time this morning to get into it, but you might look back at some of the older threads describing psych nursing. I feel...

  20. 4yo bipolar???

    lucianne replied to TinyNurse's topic in Psychiatric

    Did you see the replies to your other thread? Just wonderin' since you never posted on it again.

  21. 4yo bipolar???

    lucianne replied to TinyNurse's topic in Psychiatric

    I think you're absolutely right, elkpark, and I've said the very same thing about psych professionals treating physical illnesses. As I wrote on the other thread, I don't think 4 is necessarily too...

  22. Child Fear

    lucianne replied to jess1998's topic in Psychiatric

    No, this is not ordinary fear and night terrors. You have to go to sleep to have night terrors. He isn't sleeping, he show signs of developing secondary eneuresis, he tells you he is seeing things:...

  23. Applying for CNA Position: Adolescent or Adult?

    lucianne replied to CarVsTree's topic in Psychiatric

    Unless you have some experience with adolescents you might like adults better, especially for your first psych job. I like kids and adolescents better, but before I started working in psych I spent...

  24. Med/surg nurses not identifying mental health issues

    lucianne replied to jam0601's topic in Psychiatric

    Have you tried "dual diagnosis?" Here are some references you might find useful, but I don't know if this is the direction you're interested in. Sharma, T., & Antonova, L. (2003). Cognitive...

  25. 4 year old bipolar????????

    lucianne replied to TinyNurse's topic in Psychiatric

    I'm sorry your feelings were hurt Michelle. It's all a matter of educating people and trying to erase the stigma of illnesses that are expressed via behavioral problems, mood problems, hallucinations,...