LethaChristina

For so many years I was highly-supportive of a universal healthcare with a single party payer... After 2 1/2 million dollars in care for myself... I have learned some incredibly difficult lessons: 1) having one's medical records, as well as all other...

Believe me, the field is full of "wounded warriers" (most can not deal with the amount of abuse happening to them as nurses in this field when they don't "understand")... spread yourself out in your reading (as suggested); not only have Freud and (no...

By the way, if a patient on a "voluntary" unit is declared detainable--they are transferred to one of the "involuntary" units--often quite a distance from the original hospital.

There is a tendency in Seattle to isolate those who have been civilly-committed through the court system... while Northwest Medical Center's patients on both units are both voluntary (admitted through their own request) and involuntary... the ones wh...

Oh, I'm sorry if I offended you--that was never intended. I do know that much of what is "presented" (even seeing on these threads the comments about "frequent fliers", and people with "insignificant" reasons for being in the ER) is simply that: "wh...

No kidding! The "stigma" is complete and damning--even when a person is not sick at all! The old notion that one cannot heal from these things has gotten so out-of-control it is unreal. As long as society continues to "pigeonhole" people--this hap...

The word "myth" is understood as to mean "made up" in this society... unaware of its real implications, in spite of Joseph Campbell. I said in the post clearly: words are very limited--and we, especially as communication nurses, need to be wary of be...

There are also mental health units (a voluntary adult unit) at Swedish Cherry Hill... two gero-psych units at Northwest Medical Center in Shoreline (voluntary and involuntary) I'm pretty sure a unit at Steven's in Edmonds (I think involuntary) a unit...

Hi moogie, I want to thank you for the Star Trek quote--I love it!

I was listening to a long-time neighbor's story about her husband's dying process not long ago. Neither of them were even told the husband had aggressive and all-over cancer--not at all until after he had died; he was subjected to frequent paracente...

Hi, Since I can't address hospital nursing at this point--not being there, I offer some reflections: Perhaps we forget the role of the nurse is "total assessment"; and includes the appropriate spiritual nursing diagnoses, too. So many are "fearful' d...

No kidding it's REAL nursing--politics and all! It takes the guts of Judas Maccabees to do--the reason our training is so tough! But that's what we LOVE, isn't it!

hello, I wanted to comment on the "quote" on your blog--about the wounds and faults of the mind leaving scars... I want to refer you to the research on "neuroplasicity"... which basically says that we are NOT bound by past life experiences, brain ami...

Hi, I've worked at Swedish and Harborview... and also been a patient in both facilities. I do not think Seattle is a very good place for healthcare generally...especially having worked/been a serious visitor in other parts of the country. The amoun...

Hi, I have education both in music therapy (and plain music) and art (visual)... I worked as a professional artist as well as psych nurse for several years. I have also worked in many different modalities and treatment facilities. The best place to...

a humble thank you for these "real life" experiences and sharing... to remember that each patient dying is someone's loved one... even though we know not who that is. my Catholic faith has been so helpful with my own experiences of death--the "Commun...

Dear Chaxanmom, do you work at Ohio State University Medical Center? I was so impressed after being there with my critical uncle (in the ICU at East Campus)... believe me, it takes a lot to impress this forty-plus year career nurse! I've never seen...

Oh, my dear! Don't try to evaluate how you like nursing until you have some experience under your belt... and feel competent at what you are doing... it really makes a very big difference in own's attitutude! Being a rank beginner is simply one of t...

You that do in-home nursing: my goodness! That is a job "above and beyond the call of duty!" I remember some of the stories my great-aunt (died at age 104 just a couple of months ago) tells about being an industrial nurse for General Electric, then...

Hi, after just having come back from being with my uncle's family in Columbus, OH, while my uncle was hospitalized in the Ohio State University Medical Center in critical condition in the "medically-indigent" section called "East Campus" ICU (my uncl...

i'd like to point out that we are ALWAYS learners, or we will never be effective human-beings. So often people who are actively working in the field do not take time to do research on the new information/research being done... this has led to horren...

Exactly so! What we often don't expect from "psych patients" is often the cause of anger (even on-going anger) are problems within the very system expected "to heal." Had we only listened (so adroitly and expressively explained here), these issues ...

Wolfie, I see no blog entries except the first--did you give up on it?

That's for sure! Medicine is so often based on "quick fixes" that hardly anything gets "fixed"... as a Parish Nurse, I just have to say, "if one-by-one is good enough for God, it is good enough for me!" (meaning, the time spent comes back in innume...

Yes, a Parish Nurse needs a great deal of rich experience... one should not try to do it as a new nurse. Please see the posting I made on another site for my particular experience as a Certified Parish Nurse in a Cathedral setting... certainly not a...