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Being a former patient and being on medication would surely be a great advantage, like the best diabetes nurses have Diabetes in the family etc.
"Psychotics,Anti Deppresants and the effects of mixing them with different diseases and such is really interesting. "
You remind me of meself, i was like that too and was determined to give psych a go sometime or other. My first job happened to be at a detox clinic with a lot of double diagnoses etc and id be surprised if i ever ended up in somatic again.
FutureRNMichael
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For all of you wonderful Psych RN's..
18 yo guy here just searching for his path...
I would like to know what it takes to be an RN in a Psychiatric setting. I am esp. interested in working in a Adolescent Psych unit. Mostly because I have dealt with them before although who knows, I might become interested in adults as well once I begin volunteering at a homeless shelter.
The whole concept of all drugs which affect the brain really intruige me greatly. Anti Psychotics,Anti Deppresants and the effects of mixing them with different diseases and such is really interesting.
I have experience being a patient on a few Psych units thus I know what it is like there. Lastly, would being on medication myself and having past experience inside a Psych unit as a patient prevent me from working in one myself?