LethaChristina

LethaChristina

psych nursing/certified Parish Nurse

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  1. Sickle cell

    LethaChristina replied to inteRN's topic in Emergency

    My stint on a medical unit (a long time ago) where all the SC-sufferers were admitted, was high-lighted by this gorgeous, young, and amazingly sweet woman... who taught me so much about pain control I...

  2. Behavioral Unit anyone?

    LethaChristina replied to Smitty08's topic in Psychiatric

    Why not "life experience recovery" units? Since psychiatric "disorder" is mostly related to life issues (or the effects of poor diagnosis of physical disorder; or an inability to cope with one's...

  3. Anyone Work with Juvenile Corrections? Looks like I have a job there!

    LethaChristina replied to ScrappinSpidey's topic in Correctional

    Hi Lynn/BW, I spent two years occasionally working at our city's juvenile detention (I was a psych agency nurse at the time)... and had an eyeful of what seemed to me to be quite an over-reliance on...

  4. Too Smart for Rehab Nursing

    LethaChristina replied to Lola77's topic in Rehabilitation

    you dear Rehab nurses, it was gratifying reading your posts--you have everything to be proud of... and nothing to feel "you are too smart" about... (excuse the dangling participles). by not having...

  5. Vicodin causes MORE pain??

    LethaChristina replied to CharleeJo.RN's topic in Pain Management

    TCash, you are correct; besides "allodynia" it is called "rebound pain"; not the problem with "the body wanting the pain med" for everyone. If everyone felt well--there would be no drug addiction....

  6. prospects for a chronic narcotics patient.

    LethaChristina replied to Guest219794's topic in Pain Management

    General E, this is so true--patients well-managed on chronic narcotics are often not in the ED... but when they are, they are often mis-assessed, called "substance abusers", or if admitted are...

  7. Sleep Hygiene

    LethaChristina replied to BSN_DEC_2006's topic in Psychiatric

    We often "tell people" in hopes of education--but do not do the work of finding out why the maladaptive behaviors continue, when we see it happening. A good bit of "listening" here, is helpful. Many...

  8. How do you deal with residents who only want to take a fraction of a med ordered?

    LethaChristina replied to GLORIAmunchkin72's topic in Patient Medications

    Yes, the responses that you can "waste" it are correct. There is this strange idea in Western medicine that "the doctor knows best" and "we have to do it this way"... when most of the time the...

  9. ED Resources for Psych Patients

    LethaChristina replied to Lunah's topic in Emergency

    I am responding to a personal message asking for response--and due to the constraints of this website, do not know how/there seems to be no avenue for responding... to nebrgirl: I'd be honored to...

  10. Assessment - seriously what are you supposed to do?

    LethaChristina replied to SparkleRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Be fearless-the ones who are not... don't learn, don't progress, can't take adequate care of their patients (too frightened to ask questions, too frightened to become "personally-involved", don't...

  11. Life just sucks sometimes.

    LethaChristina replied to Thanet's topic in Psychiatric

    this lovely thread is so right--a positive approach can be taken to even "life sucks"--of course it does! We are supposed to learn to make ourselves better people (stronger, more resilient, more...

  12. I cried at work today

    LethaChristina replied to algebra_demystified's topic in Psychiatric

    Bless you, dear nurse... simply know there is no way for you to understand all that is within the soul of another--you did the best you could: you recognize that man as a human and you responded as a...

  13. Borderline Personality Disorder on the Behavioral Unit

    LethaChristina replied to Thunderwolf's topic in Psychiatric

    So often we like to "categorize"... because we think it helps us understand (and because of current trends)... and sometimes it does--but more often it is limiting us terribly. Why aren't we...

  14. ED Resources for Psych Patients

    LethaChristina replied to Lunah's topic in Emergency

    hello, nurse administrator... please note my post below... using the word "threat" sounds provocative... please be very careful about using these kinds of words... I thank you for hearing my concern....

  15. ED Resources for Psych Patients

    LethaChristina replied to Lunah's topic in Emergency

    :redbeathei am a veteran forty-year psych nurse (graduate education in clinical psychology)--now retired, basically out of distress of current trends in treatment. ER contact is so gravely important...