Help for those with multiple personalities
Posted 8/6/2010 11:40:38 AM
I met a woman in college who apparently had “multiple personalities.” At the woman’s request, my friends and I met with her therapist so he could tell us about her disorder....
Completing the cycle
Posted 8/6/2010 11:35:49 AM
This is an exciting follow up to the patient I took care of two weeks ago. (Read experiences in psychiatry.) In case you need a refresher, she is a paranoid schizophrenic. She was telling me she heard Satan’s voice and...
Experiences in psychiatry
Posted 7/8/2010 3:58:24 PM
“Satan’s voice and the Exorcism theme. People in cyberspace are telling me what to do.” This was my patient this weekend. “I hear Satan’s voice,” she muttered quietly. I didn’t understand why until she told me she was afraid......
Students in the cath lab
Posted 7/7/2010 11:38:21 AM
As the title of the blog will tell you I am a student nurse. I have been a student for what seems like for my whole life....
A new arrival
Posted 6/22/2010 4:54:13 PM
We had a baby this week!
Another little boy. That makes three boys and two girls for us. In
addition to
being excited about watching the birth of my son, I also took the
opportunity
to watch the staff from a student nurses point of view. Here’s what I
saw....
A person, not an illness: Adventures in psychiatry
Posted 6/10/2010 3:14:55 PM
A person, not an illness: adventures in psychiatry....
Nurse as interpreter-Being a patient advocate
Posted 6/3/2010 11:58:48 AM
A patient with an acute MI
(myocardial infarction) comes to the (cardiac interventional) lab. Not
an
altogether uncommon event. We all know our places and do our jobs in an
organized chaos. ...