MickeyTong

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 excited/entertained/curious that I just had to register. I'm a Registered M...

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 hospitals. A similar proportion anywhere in the industria...

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 encouraging, I'm sorry to say. I know people who qu...

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

Eastern Orthodoxy?

Who may tell you that Christianity is a pagan religion.

Vielleicht ist Bobo ein Krankenbruder.......

Sometimes, a single poster fits all those descriptions.

And this guy wasn't even a socialist!

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 usually become casualties, and none of your patients...

That is absurd. Leave Texas.

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

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 will use women, kids, babies, grannies and the di...

Thanks Janey! Different strokes for different folks

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 treatment. You're doing the right things

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 counterproductive. Staying busy is not an option for someone expe...

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 any psyche nurse could assist. (Mind you, my pati...

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

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

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 what it takes, and we need you in our business. A...

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

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 resort.

The word "barbaric" implies "insensitive, unnecessary brutality". Unfortunately, psychiatry has a history of "treatments" that were ...... less than humane and grotesquely inconsiderate. And we still, sometimes, actually inject people with powerful...

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 fear.