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Perhaps, like me, you experience nighttime dreams of being in a hospital or healthcare setting accompanied by feelings of anxiety.
Despite being away from the bedside for many years, I still have dreams and occasional flashbacks related to dista...
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is usually associated with active and retired military members, and although they may consist of the majority of those suffering from PTSD, they're not the only group at risk. PTSD can develop after someone has e...
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When the wind howls during a particularly bad thunderstorm, I can feel stressed and anxious. I sometimes find myself starting to relive a day nearly five years ago when I hunkered down with my elderly parents in their Florida Panhandle farmhouse as H...
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These are her words of what she is experiencing. Waking up in the middle of the night worryingThere’s a heavinessPeriods throughout this quarantine where I just have felt too low to exerciseEmotional highs and lows where you just don't feel yourselfN...
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I was a great nurse. With more than 2 decades under my belt, almost all in hospice. The rest ICU, ER and oncology.. I never had heard of this. It affected me over several years, I went from being the best nurse there, to someone trying to make it thr...
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Has anyone experienced trauma with patient death? How did you recover? Did you return to your job? Any tips on dealing with patient death? Hoping anyone might be able to relate and can share their journey or have some advice. Short story I had been a...
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Every time there is some horrible mass casualty that happens anywhere in the world, we see immediate and intense video, usually raw footage, streamed live to our computers, TVs, and smartphones. All at once we are not only processing that something h...
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Never would I have thought as a nurse having PTSD until you experience that one patient or event you will never forget. Mine happened three years ago. Totally thought I had caused the demise of my patient. Did I also mention I have severe anxiety?
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This article is the last in a 3-part series on the connection between mind and body with childhood trauma
#1: Why Is This Patient Smelling Music? #2: Does Childhood Abuse Prevent Weight Loss?
Magic Mushrooms
As a former oncology nurse, ...
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Hey all,
I've been working on an A&E assignment lately. I was supposed to come up with the three most important nursing diagnosis for the trauma patient I've taken care in Red Zone. Here are some of the significant findings from primary and ...
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I always had a soft spot for Anna and knew her for the past three years. She came off and on for BP check and diet counseling. The last time I saw her was over a year ago for a BP check before Covid started. She looked very happy to see me!
"Eve...
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As a survivor of childhood trauma, and a mother of 3 children who survived childhood trauma before we adopted them, I am on a quest for healing. Childhood trauma has been linked to long lasting psychological and/or physiological effects. The Adverse ...
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I've been crying all morning coming from a pain so deeply repressed and locked inside me. I watched my last patient die three days ago and leave in his wake a broken family truly taken to the depths of misery and suffering. It was unexpected as most ...
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Nurse SuicideReports of nurse suicide are largely anecdotal. Sometimes nurses die by suicide after they’ve made a fatal mistake. Kim Hiatt was one such nurse. Kim was a critical care RN who worked at Seattle Children’s Hospital for 24 years before th...
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If you ask me how it feels like to be a Registered Nurse at the emergency department for these four and a half years, here you go: Think of a place where phones are going off, you hear voices all around and every room is stuffed with people. Once you...
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Trauma is a major public health concern with significant impact to patients and providers. Failure to understand and address the impact of traumatic events has detrimental effects on health and well-being. In the United States, nearly 90% of adults h...