Psych nursing blog
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The first and foremost duty of mhs is to treat the ill patient so he gets better. (*a) What does ‘better’ mean, though? Good question. Because doctors, nurses and psychotherapists should be able to justify the treatment they’re offering (or forcing on) the patient. They should know what it is intended to achieve, what the…
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Aha, gotcha. If you were a bone idle reporter, looking for a cheap headline for your even more bone idle editor such as ‘Shock horror CPN says all mental patients are ….’ But for my other readers, honest, inquiring people that you are, I’ve got to tell you that the length, breadth, height and width…
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In the same way as community and response police have been forced to pick up the work/people/patients/chaos/offences that were once our remit, so has..
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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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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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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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