"Philosophical rhetoric when not grounded in reality is nowt but sophistry of the most facile variety." - DeeDee Ramona
I am Mental Nurse. About myself is this blog. Sorry :)
You may want to join a well known new religious movement. By new religious movement I mean cult. Then you will be told what to think and how to argue very badly. You will also probably become very poor very rapidly.
There you go, you have nothing to lose but your mind itself the one step plan to becoming an antipsychiatrist.
The themes have been updated to the most recent versions which means the cruft I have added has been removed. When a favourite theme has been picked I will update the colours and tweak the appearance as currently they all look a bit garish on the eyes. For the love of Cthulhu do not just pick the plain unadorned Sandbox theme from the theme switcher.
Comments on themes, appearance, breaks and anything else technical and site related please leave a comment or discuss in the forums.
Thanks for your time and patience during this time of hideous ugliness.
Mental Nurse.
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on this post - (2) Posts Hopefully no one is reading this on the day itself. Just thought I would write a quick message to try and sum up the last year and some news on upcoming changes.
I announce I am having a break from Mental Nurse.
Mental
They just come into my room without knocking. It is time to get up. They lower the cot sides on my bed, removing the duvet cover wrapped around it first. Assisted to my feet I am taken to tiny toilet in my room. They stand beside me talking about their plan of action for the morning and how the night shift yet again have obviously sat about all night and done nothing at all.
I notice in recent comments both Bloo and Zarathustra have foreshadowed what I intended. I intend to totally steal their ideas.
Intervention: Building A Therapeutic Relationship - One
Action: Ignoring Clients With Challenging Behaviour
“Just ignore him nurse, he is only banging his head off the wall to get attention”
All time classic this one. Generally used with ars people with a diagnosis of personality disorder, or just those who decide to be loudly unwell when it is time for a tea break. The theory is that time spent with nursing staff is such a wonderful experience that clients will do anything to repeat it. If they do something loud and messy (slash wrists, kick doors, take a tiny overdose) they will get time from staff. The untaught response to a client in distress, like this, is to ignore them. Otherwise they will just do it again when they want something. Ignoring them reduces the reward leading to a cessation of the disturbing behaviour. Fabulous lack of intervention. Very person centred and never ever leads to increasingly bad behaviour leading to an admission to IPCU or even more fun discharge ! If nothing else makes the nurses look like a bunch of … to the rest of the ward.
I managed to get myself into a fight on my Livejournal last night, which started with my saying I didn’t like wearing my sleeves up (obvious reasons) and ended with abuse being thrown at me, variously calling me a slut and a prostitute and saying I wasn’t bipolar- you can look for yourself if you’re interested.
Go read it. Go read it now.
I only clicked when I read it on beakie’s site. I should have actually read this article which did point out the new bill had actually passed, i thought it was still being debated in the Lords.
Mental Health Coalition Welcomes the New Mental Health Bill
The Mental Health Coalition today applauded the new Mental Health Bill which was agreed by the Commons today. The Bill which came under close scrutiny in parliament and had significant amendments tabled in the Lords this week has now been passed for Royal Assent.
The Coalition welcomes the significant improvements that the Bill will deliver for mental health services and service users. The Bill as amended will deliver modern, patient centred, multidisciplinary care fit for the 21st century and ensure that treatment must have a clear therapeutic benefit to the patient.
I can already hear OldSchoolBaby revving up. I have highlighted a bit.
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- A new scheme hopes to boost standards in psychiatric wards. Adam James investigates.
But will you be able to choose to go to a four star ward when sectioned ? Well … Difficult to implement with the slash and burn approach to mental health budgets by the Trusts.
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To summarise my previous articles. Mental Illness exists, if for no other reason than society (legal, medical, general public [pdf]) says that it does. The term mental illness covers such a wide variety of problems and issues that it is effectively meaningless.
Another classic is a client being medicated without being admitted. A gentlemen came onto the ward and required to be held down by the seven police men with him, he was that unwell. The doctor present said to give him some medication for his own comfort and safety. This was duly done. The nurse asked which ward the man was to be admitted to. The doctor said he was not to be admitted. The nurse pointed out that legally he had to be admitted as he had been given medication. The doctor said he had given no instruction for medication to be given. When it was pointed out that the SHO (Senior House Officer) had written in the notes that medication had been given on instruction of the doctor he flustered and refused to discuss it.
I have a vague memory of someone sending me this story. Anyone want to own up ? Sorry it took me so long.
Questions I get asked quite a lot about Mental Health Nursing. None of which are actually from people that have had any involvement.
Yes. Every day is like a trip to a war zone. We keep riot shields, helmets and big batons in our lockers. If our clients are feeling too timid we bait them until they become violent; then we fight them.
The following is not a professional statement nor should be taken as any kind of representative view of mental health staff in general. In fact as I am going to be writing it with no plan, off the top of my oddly shaped head I might not even agree with it all.
With five minutes of mild Googling I found only a little mention of Alan Johnson and mental health issues. Mention of helping people get back to work.
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