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My turn to delve into the delights of world of blogs. As part of my continuing attempt to be awesomely Cool for Cats ™ I intend to make little Tweet like comments describing the minutiae of my life as I compile That Was The Week That Was This Week In Mentalists. (TWTWTWTWIM).
Thanks Lorna for summarising my earlier post into a pithy one liner.
“… failure to recognise that correctly identifying the problem does not make it magically go away …” It is just this kind of thing that really annoys nurses you know! You take something we have lovingly created, slaved over, researched thoroughly *cough* cast [...] Came very close to calling this one ‘Why nurses hate their patients’ but felt that would be an overstatement. Sometimes, as I may have suggested before, nurses are not full of unconditional positive regard towards their patients.
Their are many reasons nurses often feel negative towards their patients; being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, not [...] I can not find the link but I am sure I posted about this before but the NMC, those hard working fellows, have moved on to the second stage of their consultation on standards for pre-registration nursing education. Here is the blurb:
This consultation seeks your views on new standards for pre-registration nursing education [...] Came across this at Nursingtimes.net (a far funnier site than I remember it being last time I looked at it properly):
Student nurses should quit smoking as part of training Student nurses who smoke should be encouraged to quite as part of their training, say researchers. They found nursing students were twice as likely to smoke [...] Really I have no idea what I am about to write. I was intending to do a whole what is mental illness type post, then thought frankly life is too short. So I am going to discuss a couple of things I came across recently and try to link them together for no [...]
As always I am gutted that html does not have a satire tag. I have been very lucky in that I have met very few patients that I could call Slapheads; yes that includes people with a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder. Their families on the other hand …
All the following should be [...] 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 [...] Got a phone call on my mobile today from an 0800 number. Popped up on my missed calls list.
Hmmm I wondered. Is it Jo Brand’s TV company finally phoning me back to offer a cameo appearance on her new TV show. No. Jess did an excellent post recently (or a long time ago depending on when I finish this).
What happens to well-meaning professionals? She says; “What happens to turn people who went into this profession with the genuine intention of helping people into people who harm their patients egregiously without noticing or caring? I haven’t really figured [...] (Guest post by A Mental)
I must apologise for this first introduction as not only are there my normal levels of confusion to deal with, but I have also taken my sleepers, which add all sorts of exciting confusion such as voices and people running around fast etc etc. So this may actually make [...] A question from Richie over at Doc Crippen’s on who is best to drive MH care:
I guess my question is, do you think the nurses could do it better? Or would it be hard to actually do it any worse? Do you think that _all_ mental illness is amenable to psychological manipulation (even [...] It’s all been rather interesting lately.
Smoking, gay parents, praying nurses and now foster mums who ‘convert’ their wards to their own values. I could pick anyone of these – but they’re all a little contentious – because we all have varying vested interests or opinions in them. So I’ll pick something that’s hopefully a [...] It’s been almost 3 weeks of 2009 and not a bad word exchanged. Time to get contentious.
I was drawn to this article on a young man, Andre Thomas, who whilst incarcerated for the alleged and later convicted slaying of his estranged wife, daughter and step-son did remove his eyes – once pending the [...] |
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