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Ok, sorry for the delay in cross posting this, but my head has been up my bum for the last month. Anyway, I finally got round to removing the bits where I whinge about my life, so here is G to I, [...]
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My guide to mental health nursing in secure services. Originally posted here.
D to F in my somewhat tongue-in-cheek guide to secure MH services…
Originally posted here. I’ve started a series of posts over on my blog. It’s a tongue-in-cheek (i.e. not actually intended to offend) ABC guide to secure mental health services, although many of the points will apply to other services I’m sure. Anyway, Z has bullied asked me to cross-post them here, so I am.
BTW: My language, [...] Sunday, I had one of those odd conversations that only ever happen at 4am on a night shift. I thought I’d share the result.
If you have ever wondered whereabouts in the pecking order your job role sits, there’s a fairly easy game you can play to figure it out. It’s called ‘how many [...] I’m almost certain something like this has been done before, but I can’t be bothered to trawl through the archives to check. So, here are a few of my thoughts on coming to the end of a placement on an acute ward.
Well it’s been forever since I posted anything. Now, I have two essays due and posting seems like a fantastic idea. As does housework and the gym. Strange that.
Anyway, I’ve now had three ‘community’ placements ranging from primary [...] Hot on the heels of Z’s post below comes the news that applicants for nursing jobs are to face ‘compassion tests’ in some Trusts (Nursing Times 17-23rd March). Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is apparently designing a tool to test applicants “on their compassion as well as their reasons for [...]
My mind was wandering during a session today (my mentor can be very waffly) and the following little scenario drifted into my mind. So I thought I’d share….
In the interests of research for MN, I asked 100 Staff Nurses* what the worst things some of their students had said were. These were the commonest complaints, in no particular order….
Possibly opening a political can of worms, but here goes.
“Thousands of NHS workers, including mental health nurses, paramedics and ambulance staff, have voted to strike in protest at a “derisory” pay deal. Unite, which balloted 77,000 workers, said there was a 3-1 vote in favour of industrial action, with just over half backing walkouts. The [...] Having considered the types of student the novice nurse will encounter at university, I thought it might also be helpful to examine the various types of lecturer that will attempt to teach you nursing type stuff during your course. Or at least the ones you’ll have to contend with [...] (I’m not sure if this has already been featured on MN, so apologies if you now have a strong sense of déjà vu). Whilst doing some studying (don’t look at me like that, it has been known) I came across this article (which I hope [...] Last week’s Nursing Times had a super-duper special ‘Student Guide’ that billed itself as “the essential survival tool for all nursing students”. I would have thought some useful survival tools may have been this, this, this and these. However, it actually covered areas such as dealing with debt (“find [...] So, nursing is set to become an all-graduate profession by 2015.
Technically, I am a graduate; just not a nursing one (yes, I did psychology, but let’s not talk about that). Somehow I don’t think this will wash with future employers anyway. So, since I’m currently doing the diploma, I have a decision to [...] A slightly simpler vignette, but one that happens quite often where I work… You are a staff nurse on a locked ward. After supper, Bill the patient comes up to you, appearing agitated. He says he’s feeling stressed (or words to that effect) and needs a [...] |
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