MickeyTong

MickeyTong

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  1. Hello from Scotland

    MickeyTong posted a topic in Psychiatric

    Hi folks As is my wont, I'd been aimlessly surfing cyberspace when I stumbled across allnurses and made a beeline for this subforum. After reading the first 4 pages I was so...

  2. Would you be insulted if.....

    MickeyTong replied to MomRN0913's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Not insulted at all. Hospitals are a public health hazard. They are deadly! 100,000 people die (and a lot more become ill, sometimes long-term) every year from infections they pick up in US...

  3. Hello from Scotland

    MickeyTong replied to MickeyTong's topic in Psychiatric

    Hi Carol Here's a link to NHS Sotland's recruitment page. http://www.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/list.aspx Currently only 74 vacancies for nurses of all specialties and levels throughout Scotland. Not very...

  4. Religion in the Room

    MickeyTong replied to SeeTheMoon's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    It's not what I believe: I just answered the question about why some people believe Catholicism is not

  5. Religion in the Room

    MickeyTong replied to SeeTheMoon's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Eastern

  6. Religion in the Room

    MickeyTong replied to SeeTheMoon's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Who may tell you that Christianity is a pagan

  7. British Nurse moving to Germany

    MickeyTong replied to BoboKerr1's topic in General World

    Vielleicht ist Bobo ein

  8. What do you see?

    MickeyTong replied to Mrs. SnowStormRN's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes, a single poster fits all those

  9. It could be coming another round of medicaid/medicare cuts

    MickeyTong replied to drmorton2b's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    And this guy wasn't even a

  10. Job is worse, aarrrrgg

    MickeyTong replied to elprup's topic in General Nursing

    Your concerns are laudable, and an example of what a good nurse should feel and think in such a situation. Your patients, their families and your colleagues are lucky to have you. But...... Heroes...

  11. Speeding tickets and employment

    MickeyTong replied to loveishope's topic in Texas Nursing

    That is absurd. Leave

  12. It could be coming another round of medicaid/medicare cuts

    MickeyTong replied to drmorton2b's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Well, no......Government of the People, by the Top 1%, for the Top 1%. Remember this

  13. It could be coming another round of medicaid/medicare cuts

    MickeyTong replied to drmorton2b's topic in Activism, Healthcare

  14. TSA asks a 95 y/o women to remove brief

    MickeyTong replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, folks, I think a lot of airport security measures are just window dressing to make you feel safe, that the government is protecting you. Granted, terrorists are devious and unscrupulous - they...

  15. Psych Nurses

    MickeyTong replied to sameyjaney's topic in Psychiatric

    Thanks Janey! Different strokes for different

  16. Electroconvulsive Therapy

    MickeyTong replied to Mashira's topic in Psychiatric

    Jenin One of the most difficult things about depression is that people judge you for it, as if it is some sort of personal failure. There is an unjustified stigma attached to it, and to its...

  17. Electroconvulsive Therapy

    MickeyTong replied to Mashira's topic in Psychiatric

    StartingOver These things are very helpful measures against mild to moderate depression and chronic dysthymia, but when someone has a severe depression they are either not possible or...

  18. Electroconvulsive Therapy

    MickeyTong replied to Mashira's topic in Psychiatric

    It's much the same in the UK, with ECT clinics in a limited number of places. And I think this is why ECT is not performed as much as it was 15-20 years ago, when guidelines were not as stringent and...

  19. On Becoming a Nurse

    MickeyTong replied to ColdChief's topic in General Nursing

    (Sorry, Commuter....I thought I was discreet, and decent folks wouldn't be able to decipher what I

  20. Violence in Psychiatric Nursing

    MickeyTong replied to Mashira's topic in Psychiatric

    I think there's an international conspiracy to screw nurses over......short staffed? Over-worked? Unappreciated by management? Not just in my

  21. On Becoming a Nurse

    MickeyTong replied to ColdChief's topic in General Nursing

    Yo, Chief. I'm not a 'Merckan, so I can't advise on the hoops you have to jump through. But if you have 8 years' military service and half a brain and the desire to be a nurse - you've got more than...

  22. Electroconvulsive Therapy

    MickeyTong replied to Mashira's topic in Psychiatric

    "Ghost Busters" - the definitive guide to cutting edge psychiatric

  23. Electroconvulsive Therapy

    MickeyTong replied to Mashira's topic in Psychiatric

    I haven't met a single patient in the past 9 or 10 years who has been prescribed ECT. It really is a treatment of last

  24. Electroconvulsive Therapy

    MickeyTong replied to Mashira's topic in Psychiatric

    The word "barbaric" implies "insensitive, unnecessary brutality". Unfortunately, psychiatry has a history of "treatments" that were ...... less than humane and grotesquely inconsiderate. And we...

  25. Not a real nurse?

    MickeyTong replied to Iris34's topic in Psychiatric

    I think you've hit the nail on the head, Chaser. There is still a huge stigma attached to mental illness, and lots of ignorance and