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  1. MD's Professional Behavior?

    Stitchie, I don't get
  2. Facility Soap Opera

    Chad, nursing entails big risks, we do not need crime from the outside coming in! Please speak to your nurse supervisor, DON, NM, safetey commitee or whomever to keep this nurse and her criminal...
  3. 1950s nursing

    i'm curious, nursbee04, how does this charge nurse treat the nurses under
  4. Emotional Day

    I too agree with Franemtnurse and Jnette, Weblarsk. When I was grieving, it was the presence of a friend that made things better. Speaking words was sometimes too much to bear. Just be there for her...
  5. what makes a good clinical (student) ?

    Wow, Laurlaur! It sounds as if you have hosted some horrendous
  6. meds over obj/consent for tx-BIG DIfferece??

    Hukilau, I don't understand how an "advanced directive for psych patients" would be used to do whatever they want to the patient. I mean, if the advanced directive states exactly what medications are...
  7. nurses who self injure

    sax, i must agree with everyone. it is just plain w-r-o-n-g! this other nurse doesn't just need to be disciplined, she also needs a serious course in ethics. i wonder how she managed psyc rotation...
  8. nurses who self injure

    sax, i must agree with everyone. it is just plain w-r-o-n-g! this other nurse doesn't just need to be disciplined, she also needs a serious course in ethics. i wonder how she managed psyc rotation...
  9. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Hi, notsure Maybe this is not the time to start your nursing career. It sounds like it's time to take the best possible care of yourself. Your safety and that of your patients, this is what you will...
  10. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Alisha, please don't let them do this to you. Have you also tried the Access Program representative in your school? They work under a federal law that requires equal access- and reasonable...
  11. need help for severe depression

    Hi Rhonda, just saw this thread. Been there. What the others have said is true, progress is slow. Major clinical depression can be set off by events but the underlying tendency to depression is...
  12. Reorganized, downsized, and out the door!

    Get out in 24 hours?! Over one thousand
  13. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Michaela, good for you! Hang on and do try to find that position which you would do so well. Rehab could use more nurses who empathise. Keep your chin up. Better days are around the
  14. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Hey zoeboboey, GUMs are the "general undiagnosed
  15. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    *** The MIs in this thread are a great bunch! *** In clinicals most students think I'm kinda off the wall but they do show respect because while they're busy gagging, staring that the stage IV...
  16. Psych BSN

    Okay, CharlieRN, now I understand. That makes
  17. Scrubs and T-shirts

    Although in South Florida the climate is usually hot and humid, almost all of my fellow nursing students wear a white t-shirt under our top (which is made of the same see-through materials as most...
  18. Psych BSN

    Oh, my
  19. What does it take to be a psych nurse?

    I knew I wanted to work in mental health and thought I wanted to be a pyschologist. Fortunately, Christina, after much back-and-forth, I was taken in as a volunteer at the county hospital's mental...
  20. Psych BSN

    CharlieRN, maybe I'm too tired, but I don't get what you
  21. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    Amen to that, nancynurse05! I also gained alot of weight. But the alternative doesn't even compare. And there is a very good side to this: You learn to really work on your spirit and develop deep...
  22. llg, most nurses tell you to get good at M-S before any specialy area, so I find your point of view refreshing. Does your opinion also go for psych?
  23. Signs

    your jokes are cute,
  24. Triage Nightmare!

    You are the kind of nurse I yearn to become. Thank you. ADN in Dec. '05 career
  25. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    jnette, severina and all others with did who are doing something in life are hard fighters who deserve respect. shame on those who portray did-ers in a ridiculous, demeaning or untrue