MikeyMul replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency
Not a nurse or anything like that but my friend's father once had her put on a psych ward when she was 16 because he and his wife read her diary and found out she had sex with her
Hi ya Tookie! :) Thank you for your post, I really enjoyed it! I think your story is a great example of not needing to do a whole lot at all to put a smile on someone's face and make their life...
I am glad to hear that your hospital made an effort to address the issue and I agree about now having an entire floor of acting out psychotic patients which obviously isn't safe for anyone either,...
Good post. I agree about the more severe patients actually helping others to want to get better faster, lol. Although I think they can also deter others from seeking help knowing of the environment...
Yeah, that is really scary to say the very, very, least and I agree totally with the rest of your post. I just think that situations like these have the potential to have devastating effects and at...
I see your point, just think that in the other areas, you don't have to be concerned with the way patients act and what they do to each other like in a Psych
From my personal experiences and also from my general opinion, I feel that the many varying degrees of mental illness in a psych ward can be extremely harmful and interfere with the treatment of...
being nosy can lots of times be good. :) i struggle with major depression that stems from having a very traumatic childhood, being exposed to domestic violence for the majority of my childhood, being...
I would be happy to get a friend request on any site or forum that is not a spammer or a scammer, been getting way too many of the latter two for awhile
Thanks for the welcome! I totally understand about nurses needing to vent, I think we all need to vent, we are all living in the same world and are exposed to it in one fashion or
MikeyMul replied to inthesky's topic in Psychiatric
I know this thread is an old thread but IntheSky, I think what you did was very brave and the right thing, lots of people don't take stands like you did and just follow the same routine over and over...
First off, I am not sure if this forum is exclusive to nurses or not so I apologize for the intrusion if if is as I am not a nurse or anything similar. But if it is not, than I think I would like to...