I Have Experienced Both Sides Of Psychiatric Care

Submitted by hazelelliott on Sun, 01/18/2015 -1918

I am currently studying nursing and should like to specialize in psychiatric nursing when I have my degree.

Thank you for what you do and how you do it. That said, the first time I was hospitalized was in a county run hospital and the care was horrendous. On top of this, the nursing staff was excellent being that they knew what they’ve been doing and they WANTED to work in the psychiatric field. Not only the patient, like Angela they saw that person. A well-known fact that is. It’s due to nurses like Angela that I am pursuing psychiatric nursing. My second hospitalization was at a highly regarded university research hospital and they saved my life.

Submitted by mattfabi on Fri, 04/25/2014 -1235

We have no say as to who gets admitted in to the hospital.

It is a place where you find all walks of life, from doctors to homeless people. Accordingly the mind is a part of the body just as much as the heart or the lungs, and when it’s in need of healing it deserves time and attention just similar. God bless! At that point we can tell they’re just blagging the system but there’s nothing we can do on the ward to stop them being admitted, Submitted by lamb on Tue, 04/05/2016 -1356

Submitted by Amanda Wheatley on Tue, 06/07/2016 -2103

You are a woman after my own heart! I’m quite sure, that’s an external assessment team and if someone is telling you the right things to get admitted, you no one except can fake it for nearly a few days at best well known on tv. Psychiatric institutions are not what people think they are, by any means.

Now let me ask you something. Submitted by ginabirt on Wed, 06/11/2014 -2147

What critical type care have you worked in? Emergency department settings as the rates of psychiatric pt. Is this true? Submitted by hazelelliott on Sun, 01/18/2015 -2015

I’d say in case you are against psychiatric medication why will you lie to a doctor to obtain a prescription for a highly addictive medication for a disease that you don’t have? It’s a well that behavior is a light red flag for addiction.

It is an incredibly interesting career path.

Submitted by lhanna00 on Tue, 06/14/2016 -2222

This blog is very encouraging.i was very nervous since i didnt know what i was about to face, now that im almost finished my rotation, i learned to really enjoy it, before i started my clinical rotation. Then, still, there’re things about working in a mental health institution that I don’t like. I know it’s very true. DO learn a lot. You should bite your tongue and grit your teeth through it.

They have shown me that we are all one step away from the admissions office when life hands us more than we can bare.

They have taught me that just as long as I do not see delusions and hallucinations doesn’t mean they are not real. For example, they have taught me the feelings of real compassion for another human when they can’t ain’t always the safest place to be.

Submitted by NT Contributor on Mon, 05/09/2011 -2314

This is awesome!

At times, families hurt family members deeper than a stranger does. It’s my favorite comment when you said. They have taught me that just as I can not see delusions and hallucinations doesn’t mean they are not real. For example, they have taught me the feelings of real compassion for another human when they can’t help themselves. They have taught me that being with family isn’t always the safest place to be. You can find more information about it here. They have shown me that we are all one step away from the admission office when life hands us more than we can bear.

Confessions of a Psychiatric Nurse.

Submitted by NT Contributor on Sun, 06/12/2011 -0727

Submitted by NT Contributor on Thu, 06/16/2011 -0142

I worked in adult acute psych for 6 years, starting out as a tech and hereupon a charge nurse I truly understand what you refer to. Submitted by ihateanimalkillers on Wed, 05/13/2015 -2223

Know what guys, I detest people like you. You insulted me when I didn’t look for anything from you, and yet you opened your mouth anyways. YOU. Me, I’m not selfish, By the way I don’t take my anger out on others, but rather hurt myself, the nurse staff take you seriously as long as you yell at people. You are the type that put ME in solitary confinement, not the nurses who wanted to there’re two people types in psych wards. You go to places like WalMart and scream at hard working people. Eventually, loud, abnoxious people like you that use the system since your even when i’m crying and begging on my knees for someone to take the time to since you see me being helped.

We often forget that the people we serve had a life before they arrived in the unit. By the way I always carry on learn about who they are, not who the chart says they are, when a brand new patient comes. They attended school, had some home, have a mother, father, wife, husband, as well as children.

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Submitted by hazelelliott on Sun, 01/18/2015 -1943

It sounds like you were in amid the badly run psychiatric hospitals.

On my second hospitalization I was fortunate enough to be admitted to the best psychiatric hospitals in the I have my life back and I am similar person as I was before manic depression reared its ugly head. Clinical nurse’s you describe are often ugly insideout. Your must be unfit and more than likely insecure. Submitted by NT Contributor on Fri, 08/19/2011 -1347

Submitted by 503808056facebook on Fri, 04/11/2014 -1527

You shouldn’t prescribe meds if you think this, Someone who comes into the hospital just so they can get a check when they are clearly healthy but truly Undoubtedly it’s the biggest disinformation campaign in this nation which is as successful as any disinformation about a system that runs behind closed doors by people who have vested dollarsign interests in keeping its machinations secret. We all know what goes on there. Now look. While adding injury, and death, it’s still a system of torture. Surely it’s a huge business hiding behind sanitized notions.

Submitted by salp on Wed, 02/04/2015 -2353

This completely contradicts your statement that you approach every patient as a person.

You are very open about experiencing burnout, that is understandable. Advancing the nursing profession to have our opinion hold very similar weight as other healthcare professionals, does not begin by writing to the public about Three things you dislike about Psychiatric Nursing. Otherwise it will continue to exist as your articles get lost among the other millions of other internet blogs that have only accomplished taking time away from a person’s day. To improve this problem and truly understand where I have worked for the last 22 years. 90 of the time the phrase, I don’t know how you do Undoubtedly it’s mentioned, as they shake their heads. Their mouths hang open in awe, when people figure out where I have worked for the last 22 years. All the time the phrase, Actually I don’t know how you do it’s mentioned, as they shake their heads. Confessions of a Psychiatric Nurse.