What do i need to know or to expect coz im still a newbie.

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Hi guys i just landed a job at a hospital-based drug rehab center i just wanna know what do i need to know much and what do i need to expect? I know this is a place for people got some drug issues but what are the other stuff?...plaese help me out

nurse.Esteve

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Review your job description .

You will be using psychiatric interventions along with your observational skills of withdrawal and relapse.

Good luck, let us know how it's going.

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Specializes in psych, addictions, hospice, education.

Patients in rehab can also have any other medical or psychiatric problem too.

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Specializes in None yet..

Remember that you have the power to change lives in an amazing way! Not just your patient's life, but that one and every life connected to it.

My father got sober because a nurse in a VA rehab asked him, "What's a nice person like you doing here?" He said the total love and acceptance in her voice gave him hope that he could be a better person.

You are signing up for some very hard and discouraging work. Addiction, oncology... the odds are not good. Don't get discouraged by any one apparent failure. You don't know what the seeds you are planting will do. Keep planting the acorns and trust that an oak will grow.

Keep planting seeds of love and hope.

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I will try to remember and keep reading this

nurse.Esteve

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Just got home from the orientation and it was awesome... we tour around the hospital and tomorrow will be tackling on alcoholism and commonly abused drug... So happy and a bit xcited

nurse.Esteve

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Specializes in Psychiatry.
Remember that you have the power to change lives in an amazing way! Not just your patient's life, but that one and every life connected to it.

My father got sober because a nurse in a VA rehab asked him, "What's a nice person like you doing here?" He said the total love and acceptance in her voice gave him hope that he could be a better person.

You are signing up for some very hard and discouraging work. Addiction, oncology... the odds are not good. Don't get discouraged by any one apparent failure. You don't know what the seeds you are planting will do. Keep planting the acorns and trust that an oak will grow.

Keep planting seeds of love and hope.

SO very true. I work on a detox floor and any and all words of hope are seeds. You never know who you will help by offering support and encouragement. Try to never become discouraged.

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Its been four days since i got hired and its pretty amazing other my favorite part is the daily goal setting where the patient shares their problems encountered for that day

nurse.Esteve

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