Dogen

Dogen

Behavioral Health

Member

  • Content

    897

  • Visitors

    13,059

  • Followers

    1

  • Likes

    51

All Content by Dogen

  1. 3/12: what I learned this week: ALWAYS taper your SSRI

    Dogen replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    It's widely available as tea. Supposedly the method of preparation has an effect on its toxicity, as does the particular cultivar. Again, though, I'm not an

  2. 3/12: what I learned this week: ALWAYS taper your SSRI

    Dogen replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    It is! I have genes that I don't want to pass on, so while I wasn't looking for someone with a kid it's kind of appealing to help raise one that I don't worry so much about becoming

  3. Words You Hate

    Dogen replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in General Nursing

    You can't really worry about colloquial speech. Speech is constantly changing, because it's essentially arbitrary anyway. Since the beginning of language it's been evolving through use. Your use of...

  4. 3/12: what I learned this week: ALWAYS taper your SSRI

    Dogen replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    It's as much a thing as it ever was - rare, isolated accounts of liver damage and conflicting, inconclusive research evidence. I don't tell people to take herbs, though, because I'm not an expert. I...

  5. 3/12: what I learned this week: ALWAYS taper your SSRI

    Dogen replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    That sounds terrifying, for both of you. I hope things are better for you guys

  6. 3/12: what I learned this week: ALWAYS taper your SSRI

    Dogen replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Like all medications, they should be stopped and started in consultation with a qualified medical provider. The issue of side effects can be mitigated if tapered appropriately. I start and stop...

  7. 3/12: what I learned this week: ALWAYS taper your SSRI

    Dogen replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I learned that I like my partner's kid, which is good. I also learned that my partner's kid likes me, which is also not bad. I learned that a friend of a friend who I hung out with a few times has...

  8. Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    Dogen replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    If I folded my diploma over three or four times I could probably make a pressure dressing out of it and save a life with it. So, in answer to OP's question, yes, but only if you get a bad cut in the...

  9. How do you sign your credentials?

    Dogen replied to heather717's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    How to sign things. If you sign your checks and birthday cards "heather717, BSN, RN," people will think you're pretentious. I never include my BSN unless it's indicated. For instance, a physician...

  10. Why do you wear a white coat? (if you indeed do)

    Dogen replied to RNdynamic's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Yes! It shouldn't surprise me that we have similar fake

  11. Why do you wear a white coat? (if you indeed do)

    Dogen replied to RNdynamic's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Only because the filter removed my first attempt at some non-traditional

  12. Why do you wear a white coat? (if you indeed do)

    Dogen replied to RNdynamic's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I like this trend of writing credentials on our posts. It's like the text version of a lab coat, and just as useful. Dogen, BA, BSN, RN-BC, CMHFA, BLS, BBQ,

  13. Why do you wear a white coat? (if you indeed do)

    Dogen replied to RNdynamic's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I had a psychiatrist tell me not two months ago that his favorite part of his job is physical exams on attractive women. That conversation didn't go well for him, which is the real sign of the times....

  14. Words You Hate

    Dogen replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in General Nursing

    Someone should write a short story and include as many of the words from this thread as possible. The Most Uncomfortable Story Ever, or, "the moist meatus and the purulent pus of the

  15. Words You Hate

    Dogen replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in General Nursing

    I have a preceptor who says prazosin "praise oh sin," when everyone else says "prazz uh sin." Has anyone mentioned metropolol? Or buproprion? People have a hard time with where to put

  16. ixchel's 3/7/16 What Have I Learned This Week, with A Lil' Help From My Friends!

    Dogen replied to Farawyn's topic in General Nursing

    Ditto. I tell people that deep inside I'm an electrician. I love hearts and brains. Oh sure, the heart is a pump, but it's the electricity that moves it. I went as far as applying to and interviewing...

  17. ixchel's 3/7/16 What Have I Learned This Week, with A Lil' Help From My Friends!

    Dogen replied to Farawyn's topic in General Nursing

    I went to a lecture on marijuana and the brain tonight and learned: 1. Smoking MJ heavily under age 16 is linked to lower IQ. Light use under 16, or any use above 16, is not. 2. Chronic use does cause...

  18. Entitlement/ superiority attitude of some nurses?

    Dogen replied to Infofreak411's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    So, random side note... It seems every hospital has the same graham crackers. My last hospital had the little blue pack of two, and after 5 years I moved to Portland and started at a new hospital with...

  19. Why do you wear a white coat? (if you indeed do)

    Dogen replied to RNdynamic's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    That sucks. I'm sorry. You know, William Gibson wrote about a character (I think it was in All Tomorrow's Parties) who paints his dress shirt white everyday to hide that it's worn and fraying. I...

  20. Why do you wear a white coat? (if you indeed do)

    Dogen replied to RNdynamic's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    That's why I love psych. White coats are discouraged as looking too institutional, and anything that has the appearance of significantly elevating us above our patients is frowned upon. When I'm in my...

  21. Why do you wear a white coat? (if you indeed do)

    Dogen replied to RNdynamic's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I think you may be a patient of

  22. School based health center

    Dogen replied to SchoolNursey's topic in School

    I don't know about physical health, but out here we have school-based mental health. The agency finds it's better able to treat kids because they're more likely to appear at a school-based clinic than...

  23. Entitlement/ superiority attitude of some nurses?

    Dogen replied to Infofreak411's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My opinion is that I am the best thing since sliced bread, so I should be paid more. I don't have anything against the techs or the physicians, though. They're all okay. Physicians can be a little......

  24. Should I stay or should I go now?

    Dogen replied to cschul06's topic in General Nursing

    If you go there will be trouble, and if you stay it will be double. You knew someone was going to say this, I

  25. Dress Codes for School

    Dogen replied to kidzcare's topic in School

    I tend to agree with babyNP. If kids aren't taught to control themselves, and to not expect a woman to take responsibility for our behavior, in junior high and high school they're not suddenly going...