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Hello everyone! I am a third year psychiatric nursing student in Vancouver, Canada. I have a school project to do that I am working on with my classmates. The topic we were given was 'The Psychiatric Nursing Role". We are supposed to select a specific topic related to our role and my group decided to pick vicarious trauma and burnout. When we split up the work, I decided to take on the media aspect of it. Meaning, I will share to my class the role of media in psychiatric nursing. I wanted to invite you all to share any thoughts, articles, links or opinions on this matter. Do you feel the media actively educates the world on our side of things or events that we have witnessed? Do you feel the stress or trauma we go through is often ignored by the news or media?Do you feel we are blamed for things? Do you ever feel media belittles our role or gives the public the wrong idea through television shows? (grey's anatomy, etc). I have spoken to a a group of individuals who do not work in healthcare and when I explained the aspect of vicarious trauma, they seemed rather surprised that they hadn't ever considered how these events affect us. Therefore, it lead me to here. I would love your thoughts on this. Or if anyone has any media links for or against what I have posted that would be great!

Hello everyone! I am a third year psychiatric nursing student in Vancouver, Canada. I have a school project to do that I am working on with my classmates. The topic we were given was 'The Psychiatric Nursing Role". We are supposed to select a specific topic related to our role and my group decided to pick vicarious trauma and burnout. When we split up the work, I decided to take on the media aspect of it. Meaning, I will share to my class the role of media in psychiatric nursing. I wanted to invite you all to share any thoughts, articles, links or opinions on this matter. Do you feel the media actively educates the world on our side of things or events that we have witnessed? Do you feel the stress or trauma we go through is often ignored by the news or media?Do you feel we are blamed for things? Do you ever feel media belittles our role or gives the public the wrong idea through television shows? (grey's anatomy, etc). I have spoken to a a group of individuals who do not work in healthcare and when I explained the aspect of vicarious trauma, they seemed rather surprised that they hadn't ever considered how these events affect us. Therefore, it lead me to here. I would love your thoughts on this. Or if anyone has any media links for or against what I have posted that would be great!

I am a Deaf third year nursing student in Vancouver, Canada. I have two sign language interpreters with me full-time. I have run into many problems with nursing faculty and the health authorities questioning my skill just because I am Deaf. However, I continue to prove them wrong by consistently being one of the strongest students. When I graduate I know I want to work with the Deaf population as they are a rather neglected community. There are programs for Deaf people in Vancouver to receive health care and I hope to work for one of those programs. You will always find your place in the system. Don't let anyone tell you you can't. However, I am a realist and I understand every setting is different and not every setting is accessible. But the Deaf community needs more Deaf healthcare workers. I am one of the first Deaf nurses in Canada and we have only 3 Deaf doctors. However, we can provide a unique kind of care for our community because we understand them. I'm very excited to start working!

I am a third year nursing student in Vancouver, Canada. I am Deaf and I have two sign language interpreters with me full-time. We've had to work very hard as a team, but so far we have done really well together.