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Within the commentary of this discourse, I believe it was firmly and established that this offer of…
I will bet you all a virtual pint that more than 75% of newly qualified nurses are under 25.
…was irrefutably and evidentially proven to be in err by Gallowgate and seconded by Zarathustra with this:
- Gallowgate said…
According to the now defunct NMAS (Nursing and Midwifery Admissions Service) website: In 2007, 15226 of accepted applicants were 25 and under and 10260 were 26 and over.
Why have nurses in mental health?
Really, stop and think for a moment. Maybe on in-patient units, where arguably nursing may still have a role for some patients some of the time (but is it RMN stuff?), some nurses may be needed some of the time. But not necessarily.
In the community, shouldn’t they all be banned?
So it is somewhat shocking and revealing to find this article that provides a new and significant departure from what might be considered traditional medicine.
In this article it is clearly stated:
People who have more birthdays live longer
What implications is this astonishing fact going to have on healthcare for now and the future?
QUI ME AMAT, AMAT ET CANEM MEAM
Love me, love my dog.
LUKE SUM IPSE PATREM TE
Luke, I am your father.
POTESTATEM OBSCURI LATERIS NESCIS
You don’t know the power of the dark side.
I will be spending time with 3 different CPN’s based in the same office. I will mainly be with the primary under 65 however.
Having gained almost all of my knowledge about CPN’s from this site (ha), I was expecting even better treatment that I have previously had in ward based placements, the truth, however, was not comparable.
In the entire week I have been there……prepare yourself, the following story is not nice.
I’ve become somewhat (and perhaps momentarily) drawn into the world of ‘blogging’ and ‘posting’. Sat here at 4am, it’s possibly become something of an obsession (although I’m only awake cos some mozzie decided to take a banquet out of on my back) .
So in my ponderings, I began to wonder … what attracts me to this new-age techno forum?
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.
You might be quite surprised to be receiving a letter from yourself. I remember that I was.Or do I ? Do you remember that Italian patient, Chris Agliostro ? Said he was immortal. Well that turned out not to be the case. But it turned out his claim of having invented a time machine was a bit more accurate. So I thought I would post me this letter on my way back in time to assassinate Margaret Thatcher, hopefully she will not turn out to have been my grandfather !
The future holds some surprises. Oldschoolbaby as head of the NMC was a shocker. Zarathustra as RCN spokesperson not so much. We get outed by one too many Guardian articles and fired from work. It causes a flurry on the Interweb but nobody pays any attention. Luckily we use our new found fame to publish a line of Mills and Boon Stories. The ECT: Doctors and Nurses series was a best seller. The first book is to be called The Atmosphere Was Electric ™.
On to the future.
Or roughly the next ten years. I forget. Turns out Alzheimer’s disease was viral. No one saw that coming.
On the wards among the nurses, there is a similar gift economy in action. However, instead of circulating necklaces made of seashells, the commodity is pens.
I was thinking about superstition.



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