Recs for board games for mental health unit

Nurses General Nursing

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As listed in the title,  I'm looking for any recommendations for board games I could donate to the mental health hospital unit where I'm doing clinicals soon. They said they already have 5 Jengas so not that one. And nothing with sharp pieces, obviously. TIA

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Specializes in ER.

Catan

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Geriatrics, Wound Care.

Stuff like King of Tokyo can be fun. It has some board parts. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/70323/king-tokyo

Also enjoy card games. Card games are good as long as they don't need to be "complete" because most or all games will end up with missing pieces.

Maybe not Cards Against Humanity, but perhaps Exploding Kittens or something. 

Never tried it.. But this looks fun: Unstable Unicorns - Build a Unicorn Army. Betray Your Friends. Unicorns are Your Friends Now.

Looking on Amazon, there's a variety under Azul. It is a tiles game, with a few different themes. 

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Specializes in Addictions, psych, corrections, transfers.

Not a board game but Pictionary is always a huge hit on my unit. Yahtzee, Uno, Skip-boa are also good. Just try to pic a game with limited pieces because they will get lost or used to harm themselves. That's why card games are good. 

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).

Many of my adolescent patients play chess. We use paper game pieces and a cloth board that can be washed/sanitizer. They also like checkers, connect 4 and trivia games. We also have stump the nurses day where they get to ask the nurses questions.

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apples 2 apples

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Specializes in nursing ethics.

Games should be easy not complicated rules and short  Chess can be long to finish. Scrabble? Old family games are fun and less competitive without animosity between players. Or card games like gin and war. I invented a version of it once

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