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Or the poor senior (or auld biddy in Scots) who insisted that her pain med of Distalgesic was in fact "Crystal Jesus" Still makes me smile all these years later.

Now that they are bringing infected cases to the US, is it time to ask that those physicians who believe that they are immune to infection by virtue of the letters MD after their name will start taking proper precautions to protect themselves and others? We all know the ones, those who go from patient to patient in the ER and elsewhere without going anywhere near a sink. If they are in charge we may as well shut up shop now and just accept that Ebola, among other things is here to stay.

Just read this post as I am new to this site, not new to nursing though, being a 30 year vet, in both UK and Canada. Psych nursing easy? Not if your commitment to guiding your clients through change is genuine. As a psych nurse we need to be on top of medical skills (much needed in acute care psych) and we need to be sure that our "chat" is; if not therapeutic, at least not liable to cause increased emotional distress, e.g. the patient takes off and self harms or harms another person. Chat isn't chat in psych,it is treatment.