"Philosophical rhetoric when not grounded in reality is nowt but sophistry of the most facile variety." - DeeDee Ramona
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Safe clothes & blankets for suicidal inmates in jails and prisons.
Link found on Mental Illness Casually.
Though looking again it makes some of my ideas look a bit more palatable. I was considering special velcro soled shoes and velcro carpets at the exits ?
This makes me happy.
I thought this would be a good point to review how the site has progressed and try to explain what the blog is about. If I feel like I want to punish you all I may try to explain some of my personal philosophy.
Before I start with the waffle I would just like to thank everyone who reads the site; especially those that have gone to the trouble of registering and posting or commenting. If it wasn’t for you I would have let the domain name lapse and deleted the site months ago.
Thank you very much,
Mental Nurse
I’ll just post this. Hope that is what you wanted
Hi Mental Nurse,
Just wanted to say I really like your site & it has answered a few questions for me, as I am considering being a mental health nurse myself ( I won’t bore you with my reasons for wanting to do this though!).
I had my application form through the post last week & I’m just thinking about what to put in my personal statement. I’m going to a school of nursing talk at the hospital where I’m working on Wednesday to get some more info & decide if this is really what I want to do.
I asked at the school of nursing if there was a system in place to allow those interested in nursing to visit a ward or department, but there isn’t since (as I expected) the wards are so busy. I have been to a mental health ward a few times before when I visited my friend who was/is schizophrenic; it wasn’t how I expected at all & made me see that the preconceived ideas I had about a mental health ward were completely wrong!! Obviously there was a lot I didn’t see since I was only a visitor & this was just one ward of many.
Is there anything else you would suggest I do or consider before I fill in my form & send it off? Did you have any previous experience before you applied? (sorry I can’t remember if you said you had in the before nursing section).
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks.
It’s not that I am very stupid, as mentioned before, I want to help someone but am not sure how to go about it.
We have a student who most of the time is very confident and far better then the normal riff raff they seem to let into college university. He is fine almost all the time.
The student, who we will call Stu made one mistake.
He forgot the golden rule.
He tempted fate.
Friend: Hello, Mental. You’re a nurse aren’t you ?
Mental: Hello. Yes, I’ve been a nurse for many years, what stupid question do you have now ?
Friend: Not So Friendly: No need to be like that !
Mental: Just get on with it !
Friend: Huffy: Well I have a headache and the sniffles. I also have a budgie. My teeth are turning yellow and my breath smells. What is wrong with me ?
Mental: You have bird flu and you smoke !
Actually that does not normally happen. Normally:
Huffy: I am suffering from [random list of physical symptoms]
Mental: I’m not a proper nurse, if you have anything that concerns you just go to your GP.
Most of my idiot friends do not speak to me any more.
Our tutors at college spent years trying to tell us we were all proper nurses, well apart from the midwives. At the time I accepted this. I wanted to be a proper nurse.
Now I am not so sure.
Views on life from a bog standard NHS nurse. Nothing special just the usual overworked, stressed and constantly questioning kind of nurse that the NHS is full of and losing at a great rate of knots if statistics are to be believed!
Another NHS nurse blog. Not mental health sadly. But if they get stressed out enough at work I am sure that will come
I never used this during the best part of two years of busy acute nursing. Everybody I asked to stop … stopped.
The Nurses holding power.
Section 5(4)
Under section 5(4) you can also be detained by some suitably qualified nurses (first level ones) for up to 6 hours. This is to give time for the doctor to see you to consider applying section 5(2). This time limit cannot be extended.
The criteria are -
that it appears to the nurse:
that you are suffering from mental disorder to such a degree that it is necessary for your health or safety or for the protection of others for you to be immediately restrained from leaving the hospital; and that it is not practicable to secure the immediate attendance of a medical practitioner for the purpose of furnishing a report under Section 5(2) [Doctors Holding Power].
A written record of this must be made by the nurse and given to the hospital managers, or someone appointed to act on their behalf, as soon as possible.
Nurses’ holding power
Nurses can detain patients for urgent medical examination for up to two hours under Section 299 of the Act. Once the doctor arrives, a further hour of detention is allowed. It is not good practice to immediately institute a second period of nurses’ holding power once the initial two hours has elapsed.
I kept my head down, squeaked as quietly as possible and waited. Waited for a deserved telling off.
And what happened ?
Nothing!
So not only am I an idiot, I am a lucky idiot.
I am a 28 year old Mental Health Student Nurse studying for a degree. I refuse to use the term “mature student” as I do not feel very mature! In fact I am amongst the youngest in my group - so there!
Not much there yet, I look forward to learning about what everyone else is teaching our nurses to be. I just tell them a load of rubbish Welcome to the wonderful world of blogs Rosey. I can’t seem to comment on your blog for some reason ?
If you do get sectioned you may want to know what hospital is going to be like.
Hopefully not like this.
Some of the treatments are quite stunning. Apparently hydrotherapy could last for days.
Really.
Here is a very selective look at the ways you can be detained for being very mad.
I’m in my final 6 months of training and I have been allocated for my management placement a crisis team. I could possibly handle this if it weren’t for the attitude of the acting manager (read as twat) and the fact that I have no child care or support (I am single parent).
My goal is almost within reach now, but I am emotionally and physically exhausted with juggling time/children/work. I have explained my situation to the ‘acting manager’ that I’m struggling to be on time for shifts due to lack of child care, but he is not flexible or willing to negotiate.
Should I pack it all in and buy a velour leisure suit to sit in at the DHSS, or should I get assertive and tell the pot bellied w*nker that I’ll tell my tutor what he says about clients when he puts them on hold?
The first thing:
I, Mental Nurse, am an idiot.
Shocking I think you agree. At least it shows insight. Must do a post about insight sometime soon.
Sometimes I feel my management were born as a result of cousins who loved too much.
This post though has nothing to do with that. Just thought I would plug a couple of interesting Internet media resources while working on my next post.
The above two pictures are taken from a photoset of vintage drug ads on flickr.
Hello again. I believe the American equivalent of sectioning is being certified. Or at least that’s what television teaches me. Being sectioned allows for a mixture of the following:
I will only be touching upon the basic sections. I have very limited experience with community orders or criminal sections. The choices between sectioned and not sectioned lead to three types of patient.
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