HypnoKitten

I sort of did the same thing. I graduated about 4 years ago and really wanted to get into the CCU at the hospital I had been a tech at - but they had no day shift for me. They asked me to go to med-surg until they had a spot and I HATED med-surg. I always had liked my psych clinicals and have interests in other psych-related stuff (like hypnosis and EFT) and so I tried psych. I've been here 2 years now and I love it. There are even a lot of different jobs within the psych specialty that nurses can perform. Sometimes you get tired of the Borderline Personality Disorder pts - very needy and many of them try to get a lot of meds from you. This is part of their problem, they have no coping skills. I find these people the most difficult to deal with because its like they've spent their entire life perfecting ways to manipulate people and I really hate to be manipulated personally. That for me is the difficult part - to understand that this is their illness and not something personal. The people I most like to work with are schizophrenics, because they come in completely in outer space and with medication and stabilization become some of the neatest people who really need and benefit from your help. I work in an acute-care psych hospital that is like a psych ER. We are there most of the time just to stabilize people and get them out of a crisis. Then we can discharge them to other facilities that handle long-term pts or hopefully back to the community to a supportive place. Anyway, do psych if you think you'd like it! I plan to continue my education and become a psych nurse practitioner so that I can have my own practice and my own patients. I'd like to be able to help people on more of a long-term relationship than is offered in the acute-care setting I'm in not. HK :welcome: