Psychiatric and Psychosocial Nursing

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Geriatric, Behavioral Health.

Hello to everyone! Thanks for checking out my blog on psychiatric nursing. I do hope that many find it helpful. As a current medical/med surg nurse, one gets to realize very quickly that nursing care of the psychiatric patient truly has no walls and is not limited to the psych floor or unit. In my blog, I hope to share some topics of interest as well as information to broaden one's own knowledge base as a nurse. Also at times, I will share some insights or explore some topics that have come to my own attention and mind as a professional, as a person.

The field of psychiatric nursing is just as broad as the field of nursing itself...so a little organization is in order. The purpose of some structure here serves two purposes. First, as an author, it helps me to focus and to cover various topics of interest better. Second, it may also help you as a reader to navigate thru my postings. Let me share how I imagine this via my use of topic headers.

My posts will be organized into the following areas:

1. Psychiatric Pearl: clinical/personal insights and information as it applies to various patients with psychiatric issues

2. Into The Looking Glass: a personal invite to explore oneself as a nurse who has/had psychiatric concerns him/herself and how this may impact you/myself as a person, as a professional

3. The Winds of Change: the presentation of various news and/or articles of late that explore issues relevant to psychiatric nursing

4. Mentor, Mentor...Where Art Thou?: exploring issues of the newbie psychiatric nurse

5. Let Us DSM Together: exploring the world of the psychiatric condition via the lens of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

6. The Struggle: remembrances of past patients, their insights, their own personal struggles

7. The Safe Place: discussing topics, issues and the impact of individual counseling/therapy

8. Let's Come Together: discussing topics, issues and the impact of group therapy

9. The Community Chest: discussing topics, issues and the impact of community health nursing

10. Med-Psych and You: exploring psychiatric topics, issues found on the medical/med-surg floor

11.Plans of Care: issues related to putting together a plan of care for patients, if not for oneself.

Again, I welcome you to my blog. I hope you as a nurse find it helpful.

Peace

Wolfie

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Specializes in psych nursing/certified Parish Nurse.

Wolfie, I see no blog entries except the first--did you give up on it?

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Specializes in Mental health.

Hi There,

Your message came through to my email by mistake, but you might like to visit my psychiatric nursing blog http//:leovineknight.wordpress.com

Cheers,

Leo:)

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I think there is a need for some version of a DSM specifically for nursing diagnoses. This could be a specifically psychiatric NANDA list of various diagnosis types. This would solve the problem of having a DSM that nurses are not well versed in and a NANDA list that doesn't differentiate between physical illnesses and mental illnesses. Any thoughts?

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Specializes in Emergency Department, House Supervisor.

Do any of you psych or other kinds of nurses practice Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to treatment...or have you heard of it. I will do my doctoral dissertation on willingness to perform this motivational interview type intervention for substance abusers. I'd like to hear from you.

SyckRN

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Hi everyone,

I am a psychiatric wanna be actually in a Psych NP program. I am a member of American Psychiatric Nurses Association and received a scholarship to go to their conference in 2009. I had two poster presentations there. I just wanted to introduce myself and get involved in this forum.

Stephrodz1

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Hi I've been working as a nurse in progressive care unit and would like to do psych nursing. When I did psych rotation in nursing school, i totally liked it. I like the fact wherein you can spend quality time with patients in psych nursing. Where I work, it's always a routine, no flexibility and you always think of finishing up on time. I would like to ask for your advice on how to transition to psych nursing. I like to know why you chose psych nursing. please email me back. THANKS.

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I just have a question I work in an ltc psych facility where the nurse to patient ratios are insane 65 to 1 and thats only if there wasnt a call off then its 90 to 1 , what is the safe suggested ratios for this type of a place in il

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Specializes in ER.

What are your guys thoughts on psych.... are you happy with it?

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