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My grandmother does not have the intuitive feeling about death gene! She has been working on dying for about a decade - unsuccessfully. Every few months she thinks or feels that it is her time...nope! It's become a running joke..every year she says ...

Not my grandma! Background, she is 94, in a LTC, has major medical problems, severe chronic pain and to top it off she fell last week and cracked ribs. I was in visiting her last night and our conversation went... Me: So what do you want for Christm...

She is more than ready...and has been for years. Unfortunately she is also incredible stubborn and can't seem to make it happen, as morbid as that sounds. She gets jealous when others in the nursing home pass away and asks why it is never her turn. S...

While that is great that you have a fantastic immune system, if you are working in health care you are frequently interacting with people who do not. Young children, elderly, immuno-compromised...even just being sick and worn down makes you more susc...

Here is a thread on this topic from a couple years ago that you may find helpful. https://allnurses.com/psychiatric-nursing/psychiatric-nursing-mental-437135.html

I worked with quite a few kids who have parents with mental illness so here are a few suggestions from my experience that you would need to tailor to the specific situation... I completely agree with telling. Kids are intuitive and get a feel that s...

maybe you could use the textbook you have and try your best to figure out the answers with your classmates. If you are still really stuck - post your answers and I don't mind letting you know if you are on the right track? I am wondering if part of t...

I am curious about how you conceptualize mental illness and if those beliefs have changed over time. I was reading an article while preparing for a lecture on the beliefs of health professionals about mental illness and it made me think of my own. I ...

You come at this from a very neurobiological perspective. I agree that neurobiology plays a role but maybe not to the degree that you do. For example PTSD develops after a traumatic event - not necessarily due to structural changes in the brain. The ...

Thanks Davey Do for sharing your perspective. You are right that there are no easy or short answers! Just pontificating on life! We still in many ways know so little about neurotransmitters as they exist in such minute quantities in the brain. We kn...

The term developmental disability isn't synonymous with intellectual disability. While many people with developmental disabilities do have intellectual disabilities some do not. For example someone with cerebral palsy has a developmental disability b...

OP - stick with it. You are almost done and having the degree under your belt will help you no matter what you decide to do next. remember too that nursing school only exposes you to a sliver of types of nursing. There are many community based jobs, ...

I agree with you that no one should work impaired and you will see I said that in my last sentence. That of course isn't the point, I'm sure we all agree no one should work impaired by substances. Pain medication and alcohol are also impairing. Do yo...

I don't really understand this attitude so perhaps you can expand. Marijuana is less impairing than most narcotics and definitely alcohol. It isn't cocaine or heroine. For some people with chronic pain / illness - it is a much more effective pain med...

Sometimes people who have schizophrenia have psychotic episodes where their entire reality is altered. Both the content of their thinking and their thinking process is altered and they are in a whole different reality where something like digging out...

I would never ever lie to a patient about why they are taking a medication. Patient's have a right to know what medication they are taking and why. If there are results back that say pneumonia and they should know that is what they have and that is w...

I too do interviewing and I agree I am not looking for a perfect answer. Especially from a new grad I don't expect the answer that I would from a nurse with years of experience. What I am looking for is critical thinking. How do you approach answerin...

Just a question for those of you who say you check to make sure treatments were done. Does this mean you go in and remove the brief to see that the barrier cream was put on? Do you visually check each treatment? Or by checking do you mean you ask the...

I am not sure why you left your old job and moved without a job contract? Is it yet to be signed? Does the form you did sign also have a staff nurse rate on it or is the only position / rate that of a charge nurse? If you signed a form that includes ...

You are a nurse working for $14/hr? Relocate!! I have never heard of nursing wages that low. I make about $45 an hour - decent money. No complaints about the money in nursing here.

You are allowed to copy the patient's chart for your own personal use?? Where do you keep copies of the chart? That in my hospital would in itself be reason for a write-up, possible HIPAA violation and possible termination. Report to the BON through ...

On our unit we would ask you to sign release of information forms for the people that you want to be involved in your healthcare. once we have the signed forms we do not ask the patient each time, can i say this or that. However if patient says lease...

It has taken decades even begin to understand the course of schizophrenia and there is now a much better undersntadin than there was even 10 years ago about the illness. Some people do decompensate and have severe impairment but there is another grou...

Do you have an undergrad degree yet? If so why not stay in Canada and do one of the 2 yr accelerated BSN programs or the RN/MSN program. It will be a fraction of the price, approved in Canada and one one yr longer than the Texas one you found. $80,00...

i've worked psych for 12 years and i would say that very few are just going through a rough patch. people go through rough patches all the time without being admitted to a hospital. most people who are admitted to a psych unit are there because they ...