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tough stuff. I am on a forum for Schizoaffective and I have the same disorder. I've been on so many of the meds. I know people on them. It's certainly doable. I would feel okay with it, but I've had P-docs for quite some time now. Treat symptoms not diagnoses. Use the least possible dose. Trust you pt. even if you don't want to. Try to avoid drugs that make things worse or grow tolerance over time. Be realistic regarding results; stable may be the best outcome, not some kind of cure. Read, read, and read some more. There is a lot of stuff in our local library about mental illness. Take a few surveys about mental illness so you know symptoms. Realize that your job is to pick drugs you think will work and replace them until they do work. Compliance is a huge issue. Be sure if you tell someone they can't drink, have normal sex, or get out of bed because they are too drowsy at some point they'll give up on you. That and regularly weigh your pt., far too many of us are getting off for getting fat. There is a fine line between delusion and religiosity. Our forum works well to mediate that line by ensuring that medicine works with praying, but praying alone isn't going to cover all the aspects of the problem. There is a lot of fringe research that can be beneficial. You could take Lamictal for sleep if you aren't getting good quality sleep but rather sleep too much. On the other hand, if you are bored to tears from moderate depressive symptoms; sleep might be a benefit and you could go with Depakote. I take effexor, mostly to avoid sexual side effects, but it ups NE in the prefrontal cortex and therefore? dopamine so I have less negative symptoms. I also take abilify which act like a speed limit enforcer in the brain, neither too slow, nor too fast. I've also tried heavy doses of stuff to stop the voices. Never going to work and the side effects were luckily temporary. Work closely with therapists. They are going to talk to the pt. far longer than you will and get a ton done for them. Your grades are very impressive. With any luck you'll do just fine. Clinical should guide you through the rest. Keep an open mind about drug use, street professions, and other comorbidities and your pts. will love you. Best of luck, hope this helps you in your career.

I've been a patient. I've had people laughing at other patients as nurses, I've been told my diagnosis and stormed out of the room, and I've been rudely moved to another section early in the morning while trying to sleep. Modern P docs don't like to give out labels or diagnosis. It's far more important to treat the person not the label. I liked my last experience, but I went voluntarily. I knew I wanted to get better. I had nice nurses that brought me meds; may be the only time you see them right? I hear that you are supposed to invite people to smoke breaks, I suppose that won't apply at your new job, but if their is a rec time allotment, I would try to invite people one on one and then announce it. It can be extremely boring in there as a pt. You don't get to see your favorite cable TV if you even watch TV and well, the people there are usually there recovering and may not be so much fun to talk to. I had a nurse come take my BP the first night I got there. He was so cool. He asked if I worked out. Didn't see much of him but I like him. There are great community resources where I live. We have a Recovery Learning Center where you can do WRAP. Wrap is a Wellness, Recovery, Action, Plan. Basically, you find your triggers and what you do to recover, so when you have a break down you have a plan. You won't be in a bad state trying to figure out what to do next. It's kinda like perioperative care where you tell them about post op before they are snowed out on painkillers. Hope this helps. Sounds like a great job.

I was ready to transfer in Business and took some time off. Then I went back to school for nursing. I have about 3 classes left so I think I am going to go for a minor. Might as well right? My best assumption is that it's for your own personal pride. It might help you get a job by giving you an edge. The classes are fun to me. Having done the business transfer stuff, I am prepared to do an MBA in healthcare adm. or the like. Honestly, I want to move to Oregon and get a PMHNP and start a business. I think any extra classes in business would be a plus for that.

Wrong way to solve the problem, get a Careplan book and you will permanently know from here on out. Next if you can get an old Manual of Nursing Practice that would help. If you need to work at clinical, get a small pathophysiology book. about 100 dollars all together.

True, there is however a bill on the state congress agenda that would initiate a pilot program of allowing community colleges to grant Bachelor degrees. The CSUF program is great and happens on Thurs. for a couple of years. Some classes will need to be completed online or on Fullerton Campus to fulfill their 12(?) credit minimum upper division req. Study the ATI book for the TEAS, they make the test and when you are done they'll refer you to whatever page in the review book that you missed. What is in the book will be on the test and vice versa. I took about a page of notes and got that stuff down. Best of luck!

Care plans are a thing of the past. Lecture on everything is a thing of the past. "No one would fear the dread pirate Wesley, it would be nothing but work, work, work all the time." Sounds like nursing school. Expect about 8-10 chapters of reading with notes, getting an Nclex study book or two and studying it like mad, and going to a better school if you pick RCC. We might even be a pilot for a BSN program by then, who knows. I would go to RCC if I could get in.

Wow, what a tough question as well. "Is this typical of nursing schools?" I think that we can only add our two cents on what happened to us. Part of the problem with the debate is that we couldn't possible know something like that. I only know the school I will be attending next Tuesday. There is a large male population. We have been recommended/ award an honor by http://aamn.org; if I have the organization right. There have been teacher in the past that have terrible reviews on ratemyprofessor.com and I am relieved they no longer work there. What is your schools reputation like? Ours is excellent. I remember something I saw on health care administration on youtube.com. They interviewed a CEO and she said that no one really knew what she did and they happily admitted it. They were also happy to admit that when they had a bad one they hated working there and now that they have a good one they love it. Same thing is true of nursing schools. There are policies, there are hirings, there are curriculums, etc. and they all get figured out on a school to school basis. I can say as a former business major that there are definitely some duds out there. I have had a few teachers that I needed to drop because they weren't into lecture. Lately, my teachers have all been people that I would fight for, I love them so much.

I would like to simply say that I am sorry for what happened to you. There is an association for male nurses; American Assembly for Men in Nursing - AAMN. I would recommend contacting someone like them, for what to do next. I would speak to a school counselor. This is a scary, rough, thing to go through. What now? How do I continue my life? If things don't go your way in the near future, I would consider going to a therapist. I don't think you are losing it, so to say, but you have gone through a traumatic experience. It can affect your ability to deal with future student teacher relationships and that a lot of trust has been lost. I suppose I am more eager to relate as a male nursing student who has struggle with classes before. I was sad that a lot of my close friends didn't get accepted to nursing school, and curious and at the same time disheartened as to what they are going to do next. Sounds like you are in a similar boat, and again I am sorry that you had this happen.

I had a business transfer before I went to nursing school so I thought about getting into management. CRNA appealed to me so I started doing some prereqs for that. I love psychiatric stuff. I was supper stoked to get a new psychiatric book from the local library. I've done a personality test from one of the free Myers Briggs tests online and found I was an INTJ. So it says don't get into nursing... but go ahead a be a doctor, psychiatrist, etc. So nice of them. But if you go into doctor specialties by personality type apparently anyone can be a doctor. I figure anyone can be a nurse and I used their picks, which were anesthesia, psychiatry, pathology, etc. I found that I was indeed going in the right direction. I'm not so eager to do CRNA. I don't like the meds vs. psychiatric meds in my nursing pharm book. I'm 31 so at my age I would be shafting the ICU just to get back into extremely expensive school. I don't know. I know more when I am a nurse. I want to keep my options open. In short, try your personality type against the doctor personality type, don't have that on hand you'll have to google it, and keep you options open.

You can look at it from the patient perspective. What are my drug options? Can I drink with that medication? This medication isn't working what else can I take. It's working, but I've gotten really tired. Then there is the psychology, think about what might have triggered things like schizophrenia type disorders, BPD, bi polar etc. Was this person a victim of rape, trauma, poverty, etc.? Maybe they even want to talk about it. What does a delusion offer someone? Is it a warm teddy bear kinda delusion or is it the demons are going to take me straight to hell kinda of delusion? Most importantly, and here in lies the rub, nobody wants to be crazy and few enjoy admitting it. How do you propose to get someone to stay on their medication? Sure they'll eventually get discharged one way or another, but if you want to, and I expect you should, care about the patients, try to win them over in the long run. So for a run down.... let's say you've got a schizoaffective patient with diabetes. He wants to take medication x but can't because of the possible blood sugar effects. Why should he take what he's on? Sell them on the drug. Say something to the effect, oh don't worry, I see a lot of patients really like being on Abilify. Be careful not to say something like "make a lot of progress". Chances are they aren't in a psych ward because they want to make progress. Let's say Mr. Schizoaffective thinks they are the best inventor of all time. No need to burst their bubble on that one, let them figure it out on their own. They might think that people are outside trying to get in to make a TV news program about them. That's the kind of delusion of persecution that you'd want to attempt to correct. There are also subtle differences between shivering and uncontrollable movements, some drugs make it hard to keep your body temperature constant. The list goes on and on. It doesn't have to be difficult, try getting into wiki and drugs. Learn to count to ten if you're getting flustered because being calm yourself is important for calming someone else down. At any rate I hope that helps a little. I'm not a true wealth of knowledge and sadly am only a student to be, but I love psych. I think of comparing psych drugs as a hobby. Something about it turns me on. Maybe it's all the people I know with a psychiatric condition. Good luck!

You know, I am an intj, look at doctor specialties. That should help a lot. Honestly, I don't see the difference. We are going to analyze the hell out of it, might as well be thinking about the next step up the chain.

It's all about SSD at that level of performance. I know you aren't working for Disney or you wouldn't be asking on here so we can rule out the desktop pro. The mac book pro is a step down from that for the photography world. Personally I don't like the retina at all because I think it makes everything smaller unless you turn down the res. You can hardly see it when it's on your lap. I would go with the Air. I would carefully consider how much space you need and maybe buy an older version with more ram. Lots' of love for picking Mac by the way!

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