Category: Community mental nursing
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The state of play you are paying for Part 1c
NB Did you know that when psych patients are admitted, there’s a policy (yes, yet another one) obliging staff – this means nurses – to screen them for all the physical illnesses and conditions that the psychiatric population (well, a subsection of it if we’re being honest) suffers disproportionally. And to be treated for anything…
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The state of play you are paying for Part 1b
3. A patient from an extended family of mental patients, you might call them a clan, (if you made sure you remained anonymous) comprising far too many siblings, cousins and assorted relatives, who’d been rejected, neglected, abused and farked up by their useless, feckless parents and aunties and uncles – who themselves had been rejected, neglected,…
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Cockeyed complaints system
At a regular community team morning meeting, where the day’s jobs are assigned, a female patient’s name came up. She was on a downward slide and thus needed a visit to check her mental state. NB there are heaven knows how many patients ‘under’ a community team but don’t have an assigned CPN or CCO.…
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Baselines
If you’re going to last in this job, you have to accept there are some things you cannot change. a) it’s inevitable that some patients will top themselves, b) that some patients have symptoms (both positive and negative) that will never improve, resolve or remit. (*) Which means they are never going to get better…
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Conditionality and responsibilities
Applying the sick role There’s an unfashionable (at least it is until I become Emperor) sociological theory about ‘the sick role.’ In short, Talcott Parsons posited illness was social (as well as biological). Ill people cannot perform their normal social roles, e.g. work, family. Parsons argued that if too many people claimed to be ill…